| Heavy Cream | |
| Type: | compilation |
| Artist: | Cream |
| Cover: | Cream-Heavy-Cream.jpg |
| Released: | 9 October 1972 |
| Recorded: | 1966–69 |
| Length: | 83:08 |
| Label: | Polydor |
| Producer: | Felix Pappalardi/Robert Stigwood |
| Prev Title: | Live Cream Volume II |
| Prev Year: | 1972 |
| Next Title: | Strange Brew |
| Next Year: | 1983 |
Heavy Cream is a compilation album of material recorded by the British rock band Cream from 1966 to 1969.
Although available in other territories as well, the album was largely released to address the North American market, in order for Polydor Records to leverage Cream's back catalogue; prior to 1972, Polydor had licensed Cream's recordings to Atco/Atlantic Records for North American distribution. Now out of print, Heavy Cream was available as a double album during the years 1972–76, and was briefly reissued by Polydor's affiliated label RSO Records in 1983.
This double album was also issued simultaneously with 3 other double albums of solo material by Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker all titled: "... At His Best"
With 22 tracks, Heavy Cream is one of the more comprehensive collections of Cream's work, containing over two-thirds of the band's studio recordings.
Writing for Newsday in 1972, Robert Christgau regarded the album as the best of the Cream compilations up to that point.[1]
The album reached on the Billboard 200.