The Cake

by The Cake

The Cake cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: October 1967
  • Label: Decca
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 33:25
  • Community rating: 3.21/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Richie Frost, Melvin Moore, John Simmons, John De Voogdt, Isiah Williams, Ike Williams, Leroy Cooper, Mike Deasy, Plas Johnson, Bobby Bruce, Jerry Williams, Arnold Belnick, Emil Briano, Charles Greene, John Boudreaux, Harold Battiste, Leonard Malarsky, Brian Stone, Leslie Milton, Charles Wright, Dave Dixson, Gene Estes, Mac Rebennack, Michel Rubini, John Ewing, Don Peake, Mike Melvoin, The Cake, Carol Kaye, Bob West, John Neufeld, Jim Horn, David Cohen, Darrel Terwilliger, David Sherr, Mike Post, Melvin Brown, Lonnie Bolden, Jon Keliehor, Cliff Hils, Jessie Hill

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The self-titled debut from the New York vocal trio offers a uniquely dramatic, baroque re-imagining of the classic girl group aesthetic. Featuring dense, heavily orchestrated production intertwined with robust rhythm and blues vocal performances, the record pushes contemporary pop boundaries into theatrical territory. It remains a critically revered, though historically overlooked, gem of late-60s conceptual pop music.

Genres

Descriptors: Vocal, wall-of-sound, lo-fi

Tracklist

  1. Baby That's Me (2:49)
  2. World Of Dreams (2:24)
  3. You Can Have Him (3:07)
  4. Medieval Love (3:21)
  5. Fire Fly (2:07)
  6. Rainbow Wood (2:19)
  7. I Know (2:24)
  8. Mocking Bird (2:09)
  9. Ooh Poo Pah Doo (2:58)
  10. Stand By Me (2:39)
  11. What'd I Say (4:14)
  12. Baby That's Me (2:47)

Credits

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