Blood Sweat & Tears - Blood Sweat & Tears (Friday Music)
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Lead Vocals – David Clayton-Thomas (A1, A2, A4 to B4)
Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals – Steve Katz
Alto Saxophone, Piano – Fred Lipsius
Bass – Jim Fielder
Chorus [BS&T Chorus] – Bobby Colomby, Dick Halligan
Drums, Percussion, Vocals – Bobby Colomby
Organ, Piano, Flute, Trombone, Vocals – Dick Halligan
Trombone, Recorder – Jerry Hyman
Trumpet, Flugelhorn [Flügelhorn] – Chuck Winfield, Lew Soloff
Arranged by Al Kooper (A2, A4, B2), Blood, Sweat And Tears, Dick Halligan (A1 to A3, A5, A6, B4), Fred Lipsius (A2, A4, B1, B2)
1 LP, gatefold sleeve
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 33 RPM
Size : 12'’
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : RTI
Label : Friday Music
Original Label : Columbia
Engineered & mixed by : Fred Catero, Roy Halee
Produced by James William Guercio
Remastered by Joe Reagoso
Originally released in 1968
Reissued in 2015
Tracks:
Side A :
- Variations On A Theme By Erik Satie
- Smiling Phases
- Sometimes in Winter
- More and More
- And When I Die
- God Bless The Child
Side B :
- Spinning Wheel
- You've Made Me So Very Happy
- Blues - Part II
- Variations On A Theme By Erik Satie
Awards:
Winner of three Grammy Awards in 1970 : "Album of the Year", Best Arrangment for "Spinning Wheel" and Best Contemporary Instrumental Perfomance for "Variations on a Theme by Erik Satie"
1000 Recordings you must hear before you die - Ranked 140
Reviews :
"The difference between Blood, Sweat & Tears and the group's preceding long-player, Child Is Father to the Man, is the difference between a monumental seller and a record that was "merely" a huge critical success. Arguably, the Blood, Sweat & Tears that made this self-titled second album -- consisting of five of the eight original members and four newcomers, including singer David Clayton-Thomas -- was really a different group from the one that made Child Is Father to the Man, which was done largely under the direction of singer/songwriter/keyboard player/arranger Al Kooper. They had certain similarities to the original: the musical mixture of classical, jazz, and rock elements was still apparent, and the interplay between the horns and the keyboards was still occurring, even if those instruments were being played by different people. Kooper was even still present as an arranger on two tracks, notably the initial hit "You've Made Me So Very Happy." But the second BS&T, under the aegis of producer James William Guercio, was a less adventurous unit, and, as fronted by Clayton-Thomas, a far more commercial one. Not only did the album contain three songs that neared the top of the charts as singles -- "Happy," "Spinning Wheel," and "And When I Die" -- but the whole album, including an arrangement of "God Bless the Child" and the radical rewrite of Traffic's "Smiling Phases," was wonderfully accessible. It was a repertoire to build a career on, and Blood, Sweat & Tears did exactly that, although they never came close to equaling this album." AllMusic Review by William Ruhlmann
Ratings :
AllMusic : 4,5 / 5 , Discogs : 4,06 / 5