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Felix Albert Pappalardi Jr. (December 30, 1939 – April 17, 1983) [1] was an American music producer, songwriter, vocalist, and bassist. He is best known as the bassist and co-lead vocalist of the band Mountain , whose song " Mississippi Queen " peaked at number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became a classic rock radio staple.
Mountain was an American rock band formed on Long Island, New York, in 1969. [1] [2] Originally consisting of vocalist-guitarist Leslie West, bassist-vocalist Felix Pappalardi, keyboardist Steve Knight, and drummer N. D. Smart (soon replaced by Corky Laing), the group disbanded in 1972, but reunited on several occasions prior to West's death in 2020. [3]
Two line-ups of Mountain in 1970 and 2016. Mountain was an American hard rock band from Long Island, New York. Formed in July 1969, the group originally consisted of guitarist and lead vocalist Leslie West, bassist and second vocalist Felix Pappalardi, drummer Norman "N. D." Smart and keyboardist Steve Knight. Pappalardi and Smart had performed on West's debut album Mountain earlier in the ...
She came to prominence (as 'Miss Gail Collins') co-producing, with Pappalardi, the self-titled debut album by Energy, a group featuring Corky Laing. [2] She also co-produced, with Pappalardi, the Felix Pappalardi and Creation album in 1976. Collins co-wrote Cream's "World of Pain" with her husband and "Strange Brew" with Pappalardi and Eric ...
Record producer Felix Pappalardi, who would later work with Cream, The Youngbloods, and Jack Bruce, worked to sign the group to Atco Records, then a subsidiary label of the Atlantic Recording Corporation, and their cover of Otis Redding's "Respect" became a hit on the East Coast in 1967.
"Long Red" (Leslie West, Felix Pappalardi, John Ventura, Norman Landsberg) – 3:17 "Dreams of Milk and Honey" (Leslie West, Felix Pappalardi, John Ventura, Norman Landsberg) – 3:36 "Silver Paper" (Leslie West, Felix Pappalardi, Gail Collins, George Gardos, Steve Knight, Corky Laing) – 3:19
Felix Pappalardi – viola "Passing the Time" Recorded at Atlantic Studios, 13–22 February and 12–13 June 1968. Eric Clapton – backing vocals, lead and rhythm guitars; Jack Bruce – lead vocals, bass, cello, calliope; Ginger Baker – backing vocals, drums, glockenspiel; Felix Pappalardi – organ pedals
The trio agreed to work together in London in January 1972 [1] near the end of Mountain’s 1971–72 European tour supporting their album Flowers of Evil (1971), after Mountain’s bassist/vocalist/producer Felix Pappalardi announced he would leave the band at the tour’s end. (Pappalardi had, by late 1971, become addicted to heroin.) Jack ...