Blood, Sweat and Tears - Self Titled (1968) and 50 similar items

Catalog Number: CS-9720 Condition Details: TIME Magazine article from 1969 included. Vinyl plays with occasional light-crackles (play-graded). Gate-fold cover has moderate scuffing, discoloration spots, tiny surface abrasions, and surface impressions (front/back/inner-gate). Inner-sleeve is original (Columbia ads); one seam partially split. Spine is mostly readable with some wear. Shelf-wear along top/bottom-edge and corners; top has a few developing splits. Opening is crisp with signs of light use. 1970 pressing with red 2-eye label. (Not a cut-out.) Tracks: Variations On A Theme By Erik Satie (1st And 2nd Movements) Smiling Phases Sometimes In Winter More And More And When I Die God Bless The Child Spinning Wheel You've Made Me So Very Happy Blues - Part II Variation On A Theme By Erik Satie (1st Movement) About The Record: Blood, Sweat Tears, by Blood, Sweat Tears, was a huge commercial success, 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 and has been certified quadruple platinum by the RIAA with sales of more than four million units in the U.S. In Canada, it enjoyed four runs and altogether eight weeks at No. 1 on the RPM national album chart. Three singles that reached #2 on Billboard's Pop Singles are: You've Made Me So very Happy, And when I Die, and Spinning Wheel (which also reached #1 on Adult Contemporary) Bandleader Al Kooper and two other members, Randy Brecker and Jerry Weiss, 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. The song selection was much more pop-oriented than the first album, with more compositions from outside the band. 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.