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Released
  
August 1971

If 3(1971)
  
If 4(1972)

Release date
  
August 1971

Producer
  
Jon ChildIf

Artists
  
If, I.F.

Label
  
Capitol Records

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Genres
  
Jazz fusion, Progressive rock

Similar
  
If 2, If 4, Forgotten Roads: The Best of If, Double Diamond, Tea Break Over–Back on Your

If 3 is the third release by the English jazz rock band If. It was released in 1971 and reached #171 on the Billboard Pop Albums Chart. It was reissued in CD in 2006 by Bodyheat with 2 bonus tracks, then by Repertoire in 2007 with 2 different bonus tracks.

Contents

The track "Forgotten Roads" featured on the band's live appearance on German TV's Beat-Club in September 1971.

The track "Here Comes Mr. Time" was included on the United Artists Records promotional sampler All Good Clean Fun (1971).

Side one

  1. "Fibonacci's Number" (Quincy) – 7:38
  2. "Forgotten Roads" (Quincy/Preston) – 4:23
  3. "Sweet January" (Quincy/Preston) – 4:30
  4. "Child of Storm" (Quincy/Hodkinson) – 3:39

Side two

  1. "Far Beyond" (Mealing/Preston) – 4:57
  2. "Seldom Seen Sam" (Smith/Hodkinson) – 4:50
  3. "Upstairs" (B. Morrissey/D. Morrissey) – 4:52
  4. "Here Comes Mr. Time" (Mealing/Preston) – 4:43

Bonus tracks on 2006 CD release

  1. "What Did I Say About The Box Jack?" (studio version) (D. Morrissey) – 8:24
  2. "What Did I Say About The Box Jack?" (live version) (D. Morrissey) – 20:23

(live version recorded during a European Tour in 1972 and reissued also in "If Europe '72" (Repertoire, 1997)

Bonus tracks on 2007 CD release

  1. "Forgotten Roads" (single version) (Preston, Quincy) – 4:03
  2. "Far Beyond" (single version) (Mealing, Preston) – 3:53

("Forgotten Roads" reissued also in "More Live If" (Repertoire, 2010)

Credits

  • J.W. Hodkinson – lead vocals, percussion
  • Dick Morrissey – tenor and soprano saxophones, backing vocals, flute
  • Dave Quincy – tenor and alto saxophones, flute
  • Terry Smith – guitar
  • John Mealing – organ, backing vocals, electric piano
  • Jim Richardson – bass
  • Dennis Elliott – drums

    • Songs

    1Fibonacci's Number
    2Forgotten Roads
    3Sweet January

    References

    If 3 Wikipedia
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