Dec 14

Blood, Sweat and Tears

BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS
 
 
 
Blood, Sweat & Tears  (also known as “BS&T”) is a contemporary jazz-rock American music group.  The group recorded songs by rock/folk songwriters such as Laura Nyro, James Taylor, The Band, the Rolling Stones, as well as Billie Holiday and Erik Satie.  They also incorporated music from Thelonious Monk and Sergei Prokofiev into their arrangements.  They were originally formed in 1967 in New York City.  What the band is most known for, from its start, is the fusing of rock, blues, pop music, horn arrangements and jazz improvisation into a hybrid that came to be known as “jazz-rock”.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 
The recordings by the Outsiders had judicious use of horns and paved the way for other bands like Blood, Sweat and Tears, the Buckinghams and Chicago that were more heavily dominated by their brass sections.
 
(February 2010)
 
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After Homer’s 45 “I Never Cared for You” started getting extensive radio play and peaked at #2 on KONO’s playlist, the band began opening for national acts that came to the area, including Blood, Sweat and Tears, Vanilla Fudge, and Strawberry Alarm Clock.
 
(September 2011)
 
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To return to the present that Ernie Guyton bought me, one of the albums was a long-time favorite that had not yet surfaced for clean-up from Katrina – Blood, Sweat & Tears’ Child Is Father to the Man – and I almost immediately played it.  I waxed enthusiastically about that album a couple of months back, and that was due in no small part to being reacquainted with that wonderful music.  Two other old friends that hadn’t come up for cleaning either were also included:  Blondie’s Parallel Lines, and Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. 
  
(November 2012)
 
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Like The Archie Show before them, the band from Josie and the Pussycats released an album in December 1970; unlike the Archies though (who are shown only as cartoons), the actual performers are shown on the cover of the Josie and the Pussycats album, Josie and the Pussycats:  Cathy Douglas, Patrice Holloway and Cherie Moor.  Patrice Holloway had previously co-written a song called “You Made Me So Very Happy” with her sister Brenda Holloway along with Motown record producer Frank Wilson and their founder Berry Gordy.  Brenda Holloway released this song on Tamla Records in 1967, and “You Made Me So Very Happy” became a major hit for Blood, Sweat and Tears in 1969.  

 

(November 2013)

 

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Their manager, Huffman & Hathaway lined Homer up as the opening act for several national bands in this time period, including Blood, Sweat and Tears, Vanilla Fudge, and the Strawberry Alarm Clock. 

 

(April 2014)

 

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