Cream

Songwriter: Tony Colton Ray Smith

Producer: Robert Stigwood

There's a full-time reservation
Made in a bar at the railway station
And there's a story, a kind of fable
On a card at the corner table
On it is a message, been there some time
It starts off, "The coffee tasted so fine..."

It says, "One day this may find you;
These few words may just remind you
We sat here together just to pass time;
You said how the coffee tasted so fine."

It goes on to say, "I love you
If you should find this, I must hear from you."
It gives a number, but the name has faded away
All that is left are just the words, "Maybe someday..."

That's the story and the fable
Never leave alone from a corner table
Doo-doo-doo, doo, doo-doo-doo, doo
Doo-doo-doo-doo, doo-doo, doo-doo-doo, doo
Doo-doo-doo-doo...

The members of this power trio, formed in the autumn of 1966, were all veterans of the blues revival. Guitarist Eric Clapton was the same prodigy who revealed himself with the Yardbirds, and who had contributed to the legendary recording of Bluesbreakers with John Mayall. Drummer Peter “Ginger” Baker, skilled at many forms of percussion, had already played, in 1960, with the Nigerian musician Fela Anikulapo Kuti, and in 1962 with Alexis Korner and the Graham Bond Organisation. Scottish bassist Jack Bruce had traveled some of the same roads as Baker, before joining Manfred Mann. Bruce and Clapton had met each other in the Powerhouse, a short-lived lineup put together by John Mayall, that also included Steve Winwood at the keyboard. With Cream these three virtuosos simply brought to fruition the experience that they developed in the London clubs, bringing to the rock concert stage long, electric, high volume improvisations.

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