Blood, Sweat & Tears (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Blood, Sweat & Tears
Type = Album
Artist = Blood, Sweat & Tears


Released = December 11, 1968
Recorded = August 2, 1968 - October 22, 1968
Genre = Rock Jazz fusion
Length = 45:36 (original)
Label = Columbia
Producer = James William Guercio
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:n9q8b5p4tsqe link]
*"Rolling Stone" (unfavorable) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/bloodsweatandtears/albums/album/304116/review/19064493/blood_sweat__tears link]
Last album = "Child Is Father to the Man" (1968)
This album = "Blood, Sweat & Tears" (1969)
Next album = "Blood, Sweat & Tears 3" (1970)

*For the 1963 album by Johnny Cash, see Blood, Sweat and Tears (album)

"Blood, Sweat & Tears" is the 1969 self-titled second album by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears.

After the critical success of the first album, bandleader Al Kooper and two other members left the group. Bobby Colomby and Steve Katz searched for a replacement singer, settling on David Clayton-Thomas; three more musicians joined to bring the band to nine members. Columbia assigned James William Guercio (who was simultaneously working with new band Chicago) to produce a new album.

The song selection was much more pop-oriented than the first album, with more compositions from outside the band; as a result, the album was a huge commercial success, rising to the top of the U.S. charts and yielding three successive Top 5 singles. It also received favorable reviews from the music critics, and received a Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1970.

Track listing

The original LP release included the following tracks:
#"Variations on a Theme By Erik Satie" (1st and 2nd Movements) – 2:35
#*"Adapted from "Trois Gymnopédies"
#"Smiling Phases" (Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, C. Wood) – 5:11
#"Sometimes in Winter" (Steve Katz) – 3:09
#"More and More" (P. Vee, D. Juan) – 3:04
#"And When I Die" (Laura Nyro) – 4:06
#"God Bless the Child" (Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog Jr.) – 5:55
#"Spinning Wheel" (David Clayton-Thomas) – 4:08
#"You've Made Me So Very Happy" (Berry Gordy Jr., Brenda Holloway, Patrice Holloway, Frank Wilson) – 4:19
#"Blues - Part II" (Blood, Sweat & Tears) – 11:44
#"Variations on a Theme By Erik Satie" (1st Movement) – 1:49

A remastered CD which added live bonus tracks of "More and More" and "Smiling Phases" was released in 2000.

Musicians

*David Clayton-Thomas - lead vocals except as noted
*Lew Soloff - trumpet, flugelhorn
*Bobby Colomby - drums, percussion, vocals
*Jim Fielder - bass
*Dick Halligan - organ, piano, flute, trombone, vocals
*Steve Katz - guitar, harmonica, vocals (lead vocals on "Sometimes In Winter")
*Fred Lipsius - alto saxophone, piano
*Chuck Winfield - trumpet, flugelhorn
*Jerry Hyman - trombone, recorder

Production

*Producer: James William Guercio
*Engineers: Fred Catero, Roy Halee
*Arrangers: Dick Halligan, Fred Lipsius, Al Kooper
*Cover art: Timothy Quay, Bob Cato
*Photography: Harrie George
*Design: John Berg

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Singles - Billboard (North America)

succession box
before = "TCB" by Diana Ross & The Supremes and The Temptations
title = "Billboard" 200 number-one album
years = March 29 - April 4 1969 April 12 - April 25 1969 July 26 - August 22 1969
after = "Hair" by Original Cast