Heavy Cream

Heavy Cream is a compilation album of material recorded by the British rock band Cream from 1966 to 1969.

Heavy Cream
Compilation album by
Released9 October 1972
Recorded1966–69
Genre
Length83:08
LabelPolydor
ProducerFelix Pappalardi/Robert Stigwood
Cream chronology
Live Cream Volume II
(1972)
Heavy Cream
(1972)
Strange Brew
(1983)

Although available in other territories as well, the album was largely released to address the North American market, in order for Polydor Records to leverage Cream's back catalogue; prior to 1972, Polydor had licensed Cream's recordings to Atco/Atlantic Records for North American distribution. Now out of print, Heavy Cream was available as a double album during the years 1972–76, and was briefly reissued by Polydor's affiliated label RSO Records in 1983.

This double album was also issued simultaneously with 3 other double albums of solo material by Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker all titled: "... At His Best"

With 22 tracks, Heavy Cream is one of the more comprehensive collections of Cream's work, containing over two-thirds of the band's studio recordings.

Writing for Newsday in 1972, Robert Christgau regarded the album as the best of the Cream compilations up to that point.

The album reached No.135 on the Billboard 200.

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