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Evolution: The Best of Iron Butterfly

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Released
  
November 22, 1971

Length
  
36:23

Artist
  
Iron Butterfly

Label
  
Atco Records

Recorded
  
1967–1970

Evolution The Best Of Iron Butterfly (1971)
  
Star Collection (1973)

Release date
  
22 November 1971

Genre
  
Rock music

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Producer
  
Brian Stone, Charles Greene, Jim Hilton, Richard Podolor

Similar
  
Light & Heavy: The Best of Iro, Star Collection, Sun and Steel, Rare Flight, Scorching Beauty

Evolution: The Best of Iron Butterfly is a greatest hits album released in 1971 by Iron Butterfly. Songs come from four of their albums: Heavy, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Ball, and Metamorphosis.

Contents

Side one

  1. "Iron Butterfly Theme" (Doug Ingle) – 4:34
  2. "Possession" (Ingle) – 2:45
  3. "Unconscious Power" (Ingle, Danny Weis, Ron Bushy) – 2:32
  4. "Flowers and Beads" (Ingle) – 3:05
  5. "Termination" (Erik Brann, Lee Dorman) – 3:00
  6. "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" (45 RPM single edit) (Ingle) – 2:52

Side two

  1. "Soul Experience" (Ingle, Bushy, Brann, Dorman) – 2:53
  2. "Stone Believer" (Ingle, Bushy, Dorman) – 4:25
  3. "Belda-Beast" (Brann) – 5:45
  4. "Easy Rider (Let the Wind Pay the Way)" (Ingle, Bushy, Dorman, Robert Woods Edmonson) – 3:06
  5. "Slower Than Guns" (Ingle, Bushy, Dorman, Edmonson) – 3:22

Band members

  • Doug Ingle – lead vocals (except where indicated), organs
  • Ron Bushy – drums
  • Jerry Penrod – bass on side 1 tracks 1–3
  • Darryl DeLoach – tambourine and backing vocals on side 1 tracks 1–3
  • Danny Weis – guitars on side 1 tracks 1–3
  • Erik Brann – guitars on side 1 tracks 4–6 and side 2 tracks 1 and 3, lead vocals on "Termination" and "Belda-Beast"
  • Lee Dorman – bass and backing vocals on side 1 tracks 4–6 and side 2 all tracks
  • Mike Pinera – guitar on side 2 tracks 2, 4 and 5, additional lead vocal on "Stone Believer"
  • Larry "Rhino" Reinhardt – guitar on side 2 tracks 2, 4 and 5

    • References

    Evolution: The Best of Iron Butterfly Wikipedia
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