BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS
Blood, Sweat and Tears is an American musical group. A pioneer in the field of jazz
rock, the group topped the charts in the late 1960s with their fresh sound.
The idea for the group was conceived by Al Kooper, a keyboard player and vocalist who
had previously been a member of the Royal Teens and the Blues Project, as well as playing
organ for Bob Dylan. He wanted to form a band that would expand the scope of rock to
include elements of jazz, blues, classical and folk music. The core of the original group
included Kooper, Blues Project guitarist Steve Katz, drummer Bobby Colomby and bassist Jim
Fielder.
Blood, Sweat and Tears added numerous horn players from New York jazz and studio
bands before releasing the moderately successful debut album
Child is Father to the Man, in
1968. It included various Kooper compositions as well as songs by Randy Newman, Carole
King and others.
Several members, including Kooper, left to pursue other interests after the first album.
The band regrouped with David Clayton-Thomas, formerly of the Canadian blues band The
Bossmen, as the lead vocalist. The 1969 Grammy-winning album
Blood, Sweat and Tears
spent more than two years on the United States charts, including seven successive weeks at
number one. The group also achieved worldwide recognition, and the US State Department
asked the band to do a good will tour abroad.
In the early 1970s, the band had hits with "Hi-De-Ho", "Lucretia MacEvil" and "Go Down
Gamblin'". A series of singers replaced Clayton-Thomas when he left to pursue a solo career,
but he rejoined the group in 1974. With the emergence of other rock bands with a similar
emphasis on brass, the group had trouble duplicating its recording success but became
popular on the nightclub circuit. Through the years, more than forty musicians filled the
positions of the eight-to-ten-member band.
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