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''Mr. Fantasy'' is the debut studio album by English rock band Traffic. It was released in 1967. The recording included group members Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood, Chris Wood, and Dave Mason; however, Mason left the band before the album was released. The album reached the number 16 position in the UK albums chart,〔(Chart Stats )〕 and number 88 in the American ''Billboard'' charts.〔(Traffic in the USA Charts ), Allmusic. Retrieved 9 August 2011.〕 ==Overview== The sitar, widely associated with this era of Traffic due to its use on the singles "Paper Sun" and "Hole in My Shoe," is only used on one track on the UK version of the album, "Utterly Simple". The first US version of the album on United Artists Records was titled ''Heaven Is in Your Mind'' and had a cover that featured all members of the group except Dave Mason. The title was quickly changed back to ''Mr. Fantasy'', but the new cover remained until Island Records reissued the UK version in the late 1970s. Both the US and UK editions were released in substantially different stereo and mono mixes. One song in particular, "Giving to You", was released in 3 different versions, including similar mono and stereo versions from the UK album, plus a very different mono UK b-side mix, which also was later included on the US mono LP. The special UK b-side mix includes lyrics sung by Winwood during the introduction which are not heard on any other version. The soundtrack album for ''Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush'' also contains a recording of "Utterly Simple" which is a different take than the one used on this album. For the original US edition, a short looping snippet of the group's single "Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush" was added between most of the songs. The LP also added three songs from the group's UK singles ("Paper Sun", "Hole in My Shoe", and "Smiling Phases") while deleting two Dave Mason songs "Hope I Never Find Me There" and "Utterly Simple." The final track on the US album, "We're A Fade, You Missed This", is actually the ending of the full length version of "Paper Sun." The album was engineered by Phil Brown, who, when asked what was his favourite memory of engineering, responded: "Recording Dear Mr Fantasy, one o'clock in the morning, November 1967."〔McGee, Alan (9 April 2008). (Wherefore Art Thou Mark Hollis? ), Guardian.co.uk.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mr. Fantasy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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