Posted on 01/08/2016 8:48:54 AM PST by WhiskeyX
Blood, Sweat & Tears Greatest Hits
Blood, Sweat & Tears
Track Listings
1. You've Made Me So Very Happy 00:00
2. I Can't Quit Her 03:33
3. Go Down Gamblin' 07:13
4. Hi-De-Ho (That Old Sweet Roll) 10:00
5. Sometimes in Winter 14:00
6. And When I Die 17:08
7. Spinning Wheel 20:35
8. Lisa, Listen to Me 23:15
9. I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know 26:14
10. Lucretia MacEvil 32:11
11. God Bless the Child 35:16
12. So Long Dixie 41:09
13. More and More 45:36
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Blood, Sweat & Tears (also known as "BS&T") is a contemporary jazz-rock American music group. They are noted for their combination of brass and rock band instrumentation. The group recorded songs by rock/folk songwriters such as Laura Nyro, James Taylor, the Band, the Rolling Stones, as well as Billie Holiday and Erik Satie. They also incorporated music from Thelonious Monk and Sergei Prokofiev into their arrangements.
They were originally formed in 1967 in New York City. Since their beginnings, the band has gone through numerous iterations with varying personnel and has encompassed a multitude of musical styles. The band is most notable for fusing of rock, blues, pop music, horn arrangements and jazz improvisation into a hybrid that came to be known as "jazz-rock". Unlike "jazz fusion" bands, which tend toward virtuosic displays of instrumental facility and some experimentation with electric instruments, the songs of Blood, Sweat & Tears merged the stylings of rock, pop and R&B/soul music with big band, while also adding elements of 20th Century Classical and small combo jazz traditions.
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Greatest Hits (Blood, Sweat & Tears album)
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Greatest Hits is a compilation album by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears, initially released in 1972.
Although Blood, Sweat & Tears continued to record and tour for several more years, the band's lineup changed dramatically after Blood, Sweat & Tears 4. This compilation album includes all of the group's best-known material, and it was their last album to go gold. Columbia initially chose to incorporate the single edits of the radio hits, a decision which was poorly received by some fans; later CD releases extended the singles to full-length album versions.
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I always liked: “I Was a Witness to a War”
Ping
My favorite is ‘Sometimes in Winter’. Never got the exposure of the big tunes, but so lovely. Also made an appearance in the movie Fargo. Really.
“You’ve Made Me So Very Happy”
In high school, that was “our” song...then the %®¿! dumped me for another guy.
“Vehicle” by Jim Peterik was a hit in 1970 for his group Ides of March. (”I’m your vehicle baby, I’ll take you anywhere you want to go... Great God in heaven you know I love you.”)
It was exacly in the David Clayton-Thomas/ Blood Sweat & Tears style. In fact, if you hear it on oldies radio, you’d think it is BS&T.
Before he recorded it himself, Peterik went backstage one night at a BS&T concert and offered it to David Clayton-Thomas, but Clayton-Thomas was such an arrogant jerk, Peterik decided to record it himself and had a hit.
Their integration of the horns was what struck me the most as it was quite a change in rock.
‘Go Down Gamblin’ and Seeger’s ‘Hollywood Nights’ two great driving songs
FYI (you probably know) Peterik went on to form "Survivor."
IMHO early Chicago was better, mainly due to the presence of Terry Kath.
I’ve always liked this Greatest Hits album.
Them too. Chicago was my first live popular concert. Creativity comes in so many different forms and as I have gotten old and grey I have learned to appreciate real talent. These guys had it in spades.
I never liked them or Chicago
Horn bands
And I grew up on it and was friends with Jim Tweedale of Chicago in the 90s
25 or 6 to 4.....I liked that
But shoot that’s ok
Nobody likes everything
“They don’t give a damn, about any trumpet-playin’ band, it ain’t what they call ‘Rock and Roll’”
Another fan of “Sometimes In Winter” - very jazzy and 2nd only to “God Bless the Child”
LoL
Major hit 1978
I did like some horns.....Bobby Keys made the best stones in the Taylor era....no question
The Floyd and Bowie and Roxy Music all employed horns properly
“IMHO early Chicago was better, mainly due to the presence of Terry Kath.”
IMHO Chicago had the best guitarist by far, but their horns were gutless compared to BS&T’s.
Some of the early horn arrangements for Chicago were very complex, especially parts of “Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon” (Make Me Smile)
“You Made Me So Very Happy” I’m so glad you came intooo, myyy, life, Thank You Girl.
After having two sons I had my baby girl. I sang this song to her all the time . At her wedding she had them play this and we both stood there in tears. Actually crying as I type.
Beautiful!
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