Blood, Sweat & Tears - Blood, Sweat & Tears (1968) {1985, Japan 1st Press}

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Title: Blood, Sweat & Tears
Year Of Release: 1968 / 1985
Label: CBS/Sony #30DP 304
Genre: Jazz Rock
Quality: EAC Rip -> FLAC (Tracks+Cue+m3u, Log) / MP3 CBR320
Total Time: 00:45:28
Total Size: 244 / 144 Mb (Full Scans)
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Blood, Sweat & Tears is the second album by the American band Blood, Sweat & Tears, released on December 11, 1968. It was the most commercially successful album for the group, rising to the top of the U.S. charts for a collective seven weeks and yielding three successive Top 5 singles. It received a Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1970. The album has been certified quadruple platinum, with sales of more than four million units in the U.S. In Canada, the album enjoyed a total of eight weeks at number 1 on the RPM national album chart.

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.

~ William Ruhlmann, All Music

Track List:

01. Variations On A Theme By Erik Satie (1st And 2nd Movements) (Adapted From 'Trois Gymnopedies' [2:29]
02. Smiling Phases [5:09]
03. Sometimes In Winter [3:08]
04. More And More [3:03]
05. And When I Die [4:04]
06. God Bless The Child [5:53]
07. Spinning Wheel [4:07]
08. You've Made Me So Very Happy [4:17]
09. Blues, Part II [11:43]
10. Variations On A Theme By Erik Satie (1st Movement) (Adapted From Trois Gymnopedies' [1:41]

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