Blood, Sweat & Tears was an American music group, formed in 1967 in New York City. It fused rock, blues, pop music, horn arrangements and jazz improvisation into a hybrid that came to be known as "jazz-rock". Blood, Sweat & Tears' sound merged the varied stylings of rock, psychedelic, funk, and R&B/soul music.
Child Is Father to the Man is the debut album by Blood, Sweat & Tears, released in February of 1968.
Widely regarded as a classic fusion of jazz, rock and roll, psychedelia and classical music, Child Is Father to the Man is one of bandleader Al Kooper's most enduring works. The album introduced the idea of the big band to rock and roll and paved the way for such groups as Chicago. Kooper left the band after this album, changing the nature of the group.
Child Is Father to the Man peaked at #47 on Billboard's (North America) Pop Albums chart. It failed to generate any Top 40 singles in the United States, although "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know" and "I Can't Quit Her" found some play on progressive rock radio. In 2003, the album was ranked number 264 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
Tracklist:
1. "Overture" (Kooper) – 1:32
2. "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know" (Kooper) – 5:57
3. "Morning Glory" (Larry Beckett, Tim Buckley) – 4:16
4. "My Days Are Numbered" (Kooper) – 3:19
5. "Without Her" (Harry Nilsson) – 2:41
6. "Just One Smile" (Randy Newman) – 4:38
7. "I Can't Quit Her" (Kooper, I. Levine) – 3:38
8. "Meagan's Gypsy Eyes" (Steve Katz) – 3:24
9. "Somethin' Goin' On" (Kooper) – 8:00
10. "House in the Country" (Kooper) – 3:04
11. "The Modern Adventures of Plato, Diogenes and Freud" (Kooper) – 4:12
12. "So Much Love/Underture" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) – 4:47
Personnel:
• Randy Brecker – trumpet, flugelhorn
• Bobby Colomby – drums, percussion, vocals
• Jim Fielder – bass guitar, fretless bass guitar
• Dick Halligan – trombone
• Steve Katz – guitar, lute, vocals
• Al Kooper – organ, piano, ondioline, vocals
• Fred Lipsius – piano, alto saxophone
• Jerry Weiss – trumpet, flugelhorn, vocals
Blood, Sweat & Tears is the second album by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears, released in 1968, with several of its cuts released as singles in 1969. It was a huge commercial success, rising to the top of the U.S. charts for seven weeks and yielding three successive Top 5 singles. It received a Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1970 and has been certified quadruple platinum with sales of more than four million units in the U.S.
Bandleader Al Kooper and two other members had left Blood, Sweat & Tears after their first album. Bobby Colomby and Steve Katz searched for a replacement singer and selected 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.
It was recorded at the then state of the art CBS Studios in New York City. The studio had just taken delivery of one of the first of the model MM-1000 16-track tape recorders, built by Ampex. The new technology allowed for far more flexibility in overdubbing and mixing than the 4- and 8-track tape recorders which were standard in 1968. The album was among the very first 16-track recordings released to the public.
The album was selected for the 2006 book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
Tracklist
1. "Variations on a Theme By Erik Satie" (1st and 2nd Movements) – 2:35
2. "Smiling Phases" (Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood) – 5:11
3. "Sometimes in Winter" (Steve Katz) – 3:09
4. "More and More" (Vee Pee Smith, Don Juan) – 3:04
5. "And When I Die" (Laura Nyro) – 4:06
6. "God Bless the Child" (Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog Jr.) – 5:55
7. "Spinning Wheel" (David Clayton-Thomas) – 4:08
8. "You've Made Me So Very Happy" (Berry Gordy Jr., Brenda Holloway, Patrice Holloway, Frank Wilson) – 4:19
9. "Blues - Part II" (Blood, Sweat & Tears) – 11:44
10. "Variations on a Theme By Erik Satie" (1st Movement) – 1:49
Personnel:
• 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
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