If 3 is the third release by the English

England

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 jazz rock band If

If (band)

If was a progressive rock band formed in Britain in 1969.Referred to by Billboard as "unquestionably the best of the so-called jazz-rock bands", in the period spanning 1970-1975, they produced 8 studio-recorded albums and did some 17 tours of Europe, the US and Canada.-History:They toured...

. It was released in 1971 and reached #171 on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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Pop Albums Chart.

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

Beat-Club

Beat-Club was a German music program that ran from September 1965 to December 1972. It was broadcast from Bremen, Germany on Erstes Deutsches Fernsehen, the national public TV channel of the ARD, and produced by one of its members, Radio Bremen, later co-produced by WDR following the 38th episode...

 in September 1971.

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

All Good Clean Fun

All Good Clean Fun was originally a promotional sampler issued by United Artists Records in 1971. This original release was a double album containing 23 tracks by 20 different artists, with three artists; Morning, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Canned Heat, having 2 tracks each.Most of the...

(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 CD release

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

Credits

• Dennis Elliott
  Dennis Elliott
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   – drums
  Drum kit
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• J.W. Hodkinson – vocals
  Singing
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• John Mealing
  John Mealing
  John Mealing is a keyboards player, composer and arranger.After leaving the Don Rendell-Ian Carr Quintet in the late-Sixties, he joined the pioneering British jazz-rock band If until they came off the road in 1972...
  
   – keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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  , vocals
• Dick Morrissey
  Dick Morrissey
  Richard Edwin "Dick" Morrissey was a British jazz musician and composer. He played the tenor sax, soprano sax and flute.- Background :...
  
   – saxophones, flute
  Flute
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• Dave Quincy – saxophones
• Jim Richardson
  Jim Richardson (musician)
  James Anthony Jim "Jimbo" Richardson born 16 February 1941, Tottenham, London, is a British jazz bassist and session musician.An original member of pioneering British jazz-rock band, If , he went on to doing intensive session and studio work...
  
   – bass
  Bass guitar
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• Terry Smith
  Terry Smith (British jazz guitarist)
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   – guitar
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