Goodbye

Goodbye
Studio album by Cream
Released	March 1969
Recorded	October 1968, live recordings at "The Forum", Inglewood, LA; studio recordings at Wally Heider's Studio, LA and I.B.C. Studios, London
Genre	Blues-rock
Length	33:22
Label	Atco (original U.S. release), Polydor
Producer	Felix Pappalardi
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Cream chronology
Wheels of Fire (1968) Goodbye (1969) Best of Cream (1969)
Eric Clapton chronology
Wheels of Fire (1968) Goodbye (1969) Blind Faith (1969)

Goodbye (also called Goodbye Cream) is the final original album of the rock power trio Cream. Released in 1969, it consisted of three studio recordings and three live performances. It was the band's only album to reach number 1 in the UK Album Chart. It reached number 2 in the US Album Chart.

Track listing

Side 1

1. "I'm So Glad" (Skip James) – 9:13

2. "Politician" (Jack Bruce, Pete Brown) – 6:20

Side 2

3. "Sitting on Top of the World" (Walter Vinson, Lonnie Chatmon; arr. Chester Burnett) – 5:04

4. "Badge" (Eric Clapton, George Harrison) – 2:47

5. "Doing That Scrapyard Thing" (Bruce, Brown) – 3:18

6. "What a Bringdown" (Ginger Baker) – 3:57

7. "Anyone For Tennis" (Eric Clapton, Martin Sharp) - 2:37

Notes:

• [1-3] recorded live at The Forum, Los Angeles, October 19, 1968.
• Original pressings of the album (as well as the single) list composer credit on "Badge" to Clapton alone.
• "Anyone for Tennis" was originally released as a non-album single, as well as by Atco on the soundtrack album to the film The Savage Seven (catalog no. SD 33-245, 1968). The song was subsequently included on later pressings of Goodbye by Polydor.

Personnel

• Jack Bruce – bass guitar, vocals, piano and Hammond organ on "Doing That Scrapyard Thing" and "What a Bringdown"
• Eric Clapton – guitar, vocals
• Ginger Baker – drums, percussion, vocals

Additional personnel

• Felix Pappalardi – piano, Mellotron, bass guitar on "What a Bringdown"
• George Harrison (credited as "L'Angelo Misterioso") – rhythm guitar and backing vocals on "Badge"

Trivia

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• J-pop trio Missile Innovation parodied the cover on their single "Odoro yo Honey".