Blood, Sweat & Tears 2LP 45rpm 180g Vinyl Original Recordings Group Numbered Limited Edition ORG USA
Title: Blood, Sweat & Tears
Catalog Number: ORG 133
Label: Columbia
Reissued by: ORG Original Recordings Group
Original release year: 1969
Reissue year: 2012
Number of discs: 2
Revolutions per minute: 45 rpm
Disc size: 12"
Vinyl Weight Grade: 180gr
Limited Edition: Yes
Numbered Edition: Yes
Total Item Weight: 680gr
Pressing country: USA
For Market Release in: USA
Added to catalog on: April 28, 2014
Vinyl Gourmet Audiophile TOP 100: Yes
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Blood, Sweat & Tears stormed the charts in 1969 with their own brand of jazz-rock fusion! This memorable album now given proper audiophile treatment mastered at 45rpm from the Original Master Tapes by Bernie Grundman and pressed on 180gr high quality virgin vinyl at RTI presented in a Deluxe laminated heavy card stock gatefold cover. Bold, brassy and adventurous, B,S&T finest moment!
Winner of three Grammy Awards in 1970, this album peaked at No. 1 on the U.S. charts, staying there for seven weeks and going double platinum in 1969, then stayed on the Top 40 for 66 weeks!
Rated 10/10 for Sound by Michael Fremer (Analog Planet)
Featured in Vinyl Gourmet Audiophile TOP 100
- Limited Edition (2500 Units Worldwide)
- Numbered Edition
- Deluxe Laminated Gatefold Covers
- 45rpm Audiophile 180gr Vinyl
- Double LP Pressed at RTI USA
- Mastered by Bernie Grundman
- Cut from Original Analog Master Tapes
For a brief period at the end of the '60s and the start of the '70s, Blood, Sweat & Tears, which fused a rock & roll rhythm section to a horn section, held out the promise of a jazz-rock fusion that could storm the pop charts. The band was organized in New York in 1967 out of the remnants of the Blues Project by keyboard player/singer Al Kooper and guitarist Steve Katz) of that group and saxophonist Fred Lipsius. The rhythm section consisted of bassist Jim Fielder and drummer Bobby Colomby, and the horn section was filled out by trumpeters Randy Brecker and Jerry Weiss and trombonist Dick Halligan.
This eight-piece band signed to Columbia Records and recorded BS&T's debut album, Child Is Father to the Man, which was released in February 1968. Cofounder Kooper then departed, and the group was reorganized. Singer David Clayton-Thomas was added, Halligan moved to the keyboards, and trumpeters Chuck Winfield and Lew Soloff replaced Brecker and Weiss, with Jerry Hyman being added on trombone. This nine-piece unit, working with producer James William Guercio, made BS&T's self-titled second album, released in January 1969.
"Blood, Sweat & Tears" was a runaway hit, spawning three gold-selling Top Ten singles, "You've Made Me So Very Happy," "Spinning Wheel," and "And When I Die," selling three million copies and winning the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. It was also BS&T's highwater mark. Guercio left to work on a similar concept with Chicago Transit Authority, and BS&T increasingly became a backup group for Clayton-Thomas. Nevertheless, the third album, Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 (1970), and the fourth, Blood, Sweat & Tears 4 (1971), were substantial hits.
"ORG amazes me with its ability to capture everything from the minutest minutiae to the rich blend of brass and/or flutes. Pressed at RTI and mastered by Bernie Grundman from the original analog master tapes, this is the definitive version of a memorable record." - Jeff Wilson, The Absolute Sound
"Everyone's taken a swing at reissuing this... And in my opinion the ORG double 45 is the best sounding of the lot (and well-pressed by RTI)." - Michael Fremer, Analog Planet
Musicians:
Fred Lipsius, alto sax, piano
Chuck Winfield, trumpet, flugelhorn
Lew Soloff, trumpet, flugelhorn
Jerry Hyman, trombone
David Clayton-Thomas, lead vocals
Dick Halligan, organ, piano, flute, trombone, vocals
Steve Katz, guitar, harmonica, vocals
Bobby Colomby, drums, percussion, vocals
Jim Fielder, bass
Track Listing:
01. Variations On A Theme By Erik Satie
02. Smiling Phases
03. Sometimes in Winter
04. More and More
05. And When I Die
06. God Bless The Child
07. Spinning Wheel
08. You've Made Me So Very Happy
09. Blues - Part II
10. Variations On A Theme By Erik Satie
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