White Room - wikipedia White Room For other uses, see White Room ( disambiguation ). `` White Room '' Italian single picture sleeve Single by Cream from the album Wheels of Fire B - side `` Those Were the Days '' Released August 1968 ( 1968 - 08 ) ( album ) September 1968 ( US single ) January 1969 ( UK single ) Recorded July 1967 -- April 1968 Studio Atlantic, New York City Genre Psychedelic rock Length 3 : 04 ( single ) 4 : 58 ( album ) Label Polydor ( UK ) Atco ( US ) Composer ( s ) Jack Bruce Lyricist ( s ) Pete Brown Producer ( s ) Felix Pappalardi Cream US singles chronology `` Anyone for Tennis '' ( 1968 ) `` White Room '' ( 1968 ) `` Crossroads '' ( 1969 ) Cream UK singles chronology `` Sunshine of Your Love '' ( 1967 ) `` White Room '' ( 1969 ) `` Badge '' ( 1969 ) `` White Room '' is a song by British rock band Cream, composed by bassist Jack Bruce with lyrics by poet Pete Brown. They recorded it for the studio half of the 1968 double album Wheels of Fire. In September, a shorter single edit ( without the third verse ) was released for AM radio stations, although album - oriented FM radio stations played the full album version. Contents 1 Recording and composition 2 Chart history 2.1 Weekly charts 2.2 Year - end charts 3 Personnel 4 Recognition and other recordings 5 References 6 External links Recording and composition Recording for `` White Room '' reportedly began in July 1967 in London at the initial session for Cream 's as - yet - unnamed third album. Work continued at Atlantic Studios in New York City in December and was completed during three sessions in February, April and June 1968, also at Atlantic. Jack Bruce sang and played bass on the song, Eric Clapton overdubbed guitar parts, Ginger Baker played drums and timpani, and Felix Pappalardi -- the group 's producer -- contributed violas. Clapton played his guitar through a wah - wah pedal to achieve a `` talking - effect ''. Baker claims to have added the distinctive or quintuple metre opening to what had been a or common time composition. Chart history Weekly charts Chart ( 1968 -- 69 ) Peak position Australian Go - Set Austrian Singles Chart 19 Canadian RPM Top Singles UK Singles Chart 28 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 6 U.S. Cashbox Top Singles 5 Year - end charts Chart ( 1968 ) Rank Canada 39 US Billboard Hot 100 81 US Cash Box 48 Personnel Cream 's `` White Room '' Intro and part of first verse Problems playing this file ? See media help. Cream Jack Bruce -- bass guitar, lead vocals Eric Clapton -- guitars Ginger Baker -- drums, timpani Other personnel Felix Pappalardi -- violas Recognition and other recordings Rolling Stone magazine ranked `` White Room '' at number 376 on the 2004 `` List of Rolling Stone 's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time '' ( as well as its 2010 update ). In 1990, Clapton performed the song at his Royal Albert Hall concert series and in 1999 with Sheryl Crow at Crow 's Sheryl Crow and Friends : Live from Central Park concert. `` White Room '' has been covered by a variety of artists : Jeff Healey, Waylon Jennings, Joel Grey, Ace Frehley, Frank Gambale ( in a jazz fusion style ), Iron Butterfly, jazz guitarist Jimmy Ponder, Flower Travellin ' Band on the album Challenge, Ringo Starr and His All - Starr Band ( with Jack Bruce, Peter Frampton on guitar, Gary Brooker on keyboard, Mark Rivera on saxophone and tambourine and two drummers ( Ringo and Simon Kirke ) doing the triplets in unison ), Helloween, Demons and Wizards ( Iced Earth / Blind Guardian ), Ring of Fire, Jimmy Barnes, The Bobs, The Guess Who, The Vines, The Stranglers, Hugh Cornwell and Robert Williams on the album Nosferatu, Vassar Clements, BBM, Mostly Harmless and Lana Lane on the album Gemini. References Jump up ^ Gilliland, John ( 1969 ). `` Show 53 - String Man. : UNT Digital Library '' ( audio ). Pop Chronicles. University of North Texas Libraries. Jump up ^ `` Spotlight Singles ''. Billboard. Cincinnati, Ohio : Billboard Publications, Inc. 21 September 1968. p. 72. access - date = requires url = ( help ) Jump up ^ Hjort, Christopher ( 2007 ). Strange Brew : Eric Clapton & the British Blues Boom, 1965 - 1970. London, UK : Jawbone Press. pp. g. 126, 148, 159, 181. ISBN 978 - 1 - 906002 - 00 - 8. Jump up ^ Felix Pappalardi interview, Hit Parader # 55, February 1969 Jump up ^ Wheels of Fire ( CD liner ). Cream. Polydor Records. 1997. 531 812 - 2. Jump up ^ Bacon, Tony ( 1990 ). `` Guitar Madness ''. The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated History of Popular Music. 11 ( Reference ed. ). Marshall Cavendish. p. 1079. ISBN 978 - 1 - 8543 - 5015 - 2. Jump up ^ `` Classic Rock Magazine, March 2010 ''. Archived from the original on 13 November 2013. Jump up ^ `` Go - Set Australian charts - 1 January 1969 ''. poparchives.com. Jump up ^ Austrian Charts Jump up ^ `` The RPM 100 '' ( PHP ). RPM Weekly. 10 ( 12 ) : 5. 18 November 1968. Retrieved 9 May 2011. Jump up ^ `` Cream -- Billboard Singles ''. AllMusic. Retrieved 11 December 2010. Jump up ^ Hoffmann, Frank ( 1983 ). The Cash Box Singles Charts, 1950 - 1981. Metuchen, NJ & London : The Scarecrow Press, Inc. p. 135. Jump up ^ `` Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada ''. collectionscanada.gc.ca. Jump up ^ Musicoutfitters.com Jump up ^ Cash Box Year - End Charts : Top 100 Pop Singles, December 28, 1968 External links Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics hide Cream Ginger Baker Jack Bruce Eric Clapton Studio albums Fresh Cream Disraeli Gears Wheels of Fire Goodbye Live albums Live Cream Live Cream Volume II BBC Sessions Royal Albert Hall London May 2 - 3 - 5 - 6, 2005 Compilations Best of Cream Heavy Cream Strange Brew : The Very Best of Cream The Very Best of Cream Those Were the Days Gold Singles `` Wrapping Paper '' `` I Feel Free '' `` Strange Brew '' / `` Tales of Brave Ulysses '' `` Spoonful '' `` Sunshine of Your Love '' / `` SWLABR '' `` Anyone for Tennis '' `` White Room '' `` Crossroads '' `` Badge '' `` Lawdy Mama '' Other songs `` Four Until Late '' `` Rollin ' and Tumblin ' '' `` I 'm So Glad '' `` Toad '' `` We 're Going Wrong '' `` Outside Woman Blues '' `` Sitting on Top of the World '' `` Born Under a Bad Sign '' `` Steppin ' Out '' `` Doing That Scrapyard Thing '' Film Cream 's Farewell Concert Collaborators Pete Brown Felix Pappalardi Martin Sharp Gail Collins Janet Godfrey George Harrison Mike Taylor Robert Stigwood Related articles Discography Songs The Graham Bond Organisation John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers Eric Clapton and the Powerhouse Blind Faith BBM Book Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=White_Room&oldid=841177612 '' Categories : 1968 singles Cream ( band ) songs Songs written by Jack Bruce Number - one singles in Australia Song recordings produced by Felix Pappalardi Atco Records singles Polydor Records singles 1968 songs Hidden categories : Pages using citations with accessdate and no URL Use dmy dates from June 2011 Articles with hAudio microformats Talk Contents About Wikipedia Deutsch Français Italiano Nederlands Norsk nynorsk Português Русский Svenska Edit links This page was last edited on 14 May 2018, at 13 : 45. 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Question: who sings in a white room with black curtains
Answer: British rock band Cream