AMD-AM "Special Dedication" posted 10/29/2007 1:04:34 AM | 3 kudos what's this?     report abuse

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Today’s offering is for someone very special. I won’t name names because this person knows it’s for them and them alone. It’s by a group that had numerous hits in the late 60’s and early 70’s. So without further adieu I give you;

Blood, Sweat & Tears (BS&T) an American music group, formed in 1967 in New York City. Blood, Sweat & Tears' sound merged the varied stylings of rock, pop and R&B/soul music with big band coupled with "combo" jazz. Al Kooper, Jim Fielder, Fred Lipsius, Randy Brecker, Jerry Weiss, Dick Halligan, Steve Katz, and Bobby Colomby formed the original incarnation of the band. The creation of the group was fueled by the "brass-rock" ideas of The Buckinghams and its producer, James William Guercio, as well as the early 1960s Roulette-era Maynard Ferguson Orchestra.
Blood, Sweat & Tears was purportedly a name chosen by Al Kooper after seeing a 1963 album of this title by Johnny Cash. Kooper was bandleader. Jim Fielder was from Frank Zappa's Mothers Of Invention and had played briefly with Buffalo Springfield. The group's first live introduction was at Cafe Au Go Go in New York City in 1967, opening for Moby Grape; the band was a hit with the audience, who liked the innovative fusion of jazz with acid-rock and psychedelia.
After signing to Columbia Records, the group released perhaps one of the most critically acclaimed albums of the late 1960s, Child Is Father to the Man that featured the Harry Nilsson song, "Without Her" and perhaps Kooper's most memorable blues number, "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know".
As Blood, Sweat & Tears' musical genre slowly achieved critical mass alongside similarly configured ensembles such as Chicago Transit Authority and the Electric Flag, Kooper left the group. The group's trumpeters, Randy Brecker and Jerry Weiss, also left after the album was released, and were replaced by Lew Soloff and Chuck Winfield. Colomby and Katz started recruiting singers, considering Stephen Stills and Laura Nyro before settling on David Clayton-Thomas, a Canadian singer. Reportedly, folk singer Judy Collins had seen him perform at a New York City club and was so taken and moved by his performance that she told her friends Colomby and Katz about him. With her prodding, Clayton-Thomas was offered to be lead singer of a re-constituted Blood Sweat & Tears.
Blood, Sweat & Tears, the group's second, self-titled album, was produced by James William Guercio and released in 1969. It quickly hit the top of the charts and won Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards. It spawned the hit single, a cover of Brenda Holloway's "You've Made Me So Very Happy",
Arguably, as a result of Al Kooper's exodus, Blood, Sweat & Tears had difficulty maintaining a hippie cachet at a time when this was deemed very important in the youth market. This was compounded by a United States Department of State-sponsored tour of Eastern Europe. Any voluntary association with the government was extremely unpopular at the time, and the band was ridiculed for it.
After returning to the U.S., the group released Blood, Sweat & Tears 3; which was a popular success, spawning hit singles with a cover of Carole King's "Hi-De-Ho" and another Clayton-Thomas composition, "Lucretia MacEvil". Compounding the image problems was a decision to play at Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip, an unhip place in an unhip city.
Blood, Sweat & Tears 4. For the first time since the 1st album, Blood, Sweat & Tears presented a repertoire of songs composed mostly from within the group. One track includes a cover of Al Kooper's "Holy John (John The Baptist)". Loaded with a wide variety of moods ("Go Down Gamblin'", "Lisa Listen To Me", "High on a Mountain", "Redemption"), "4" broke through the album and singles charts and bagged a gold record. It is generally regarded that this stands as the conclusion of the peak of Blood, Sweat & Tears' commercial heyday.

Blood, Sweat & Tears

“You’ve Made Me So Very Happy”


I lost at love before
Got mad and closed the door
But you said "Try, just once more"
I chose you for the one
Now we're having so much fun
You treated me so kind
I'm about to lose my mind
You made me so very happy

The others were untrue
But when it came to loving you
I'd spend my whole life with you
Cause you came and you took control
You touched my very soul
You always showed me that
Loving you was where it's at
You made me so very happy
I'm so glad you came into my life yeah

I love you so much you see
You're even in my dreams
I can hear you, I can hear you callin me
I'm so in love with you
All I ever want to do is
Thank you baby, thank you baby

You made me so very happy
I'm so glad you came into my life
You made me so very happy
You made me so so very happy baby
I'm so glad you came
Into my life
I want to thank you girl
Every day of my life
I want to thank you
You made me so very happy

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