CHILD IS FATHER TO THE MAN
Child Is Father to the Man is the debut album by Blood, Sweat & Tears, released in February 1968. It reached number 47 on Billboard’s (North America) Pop Albums chart. Widely regarded as a classic fusion of jazz, rock and roll, psychedelia, and classical music, Child Is Father to the Man is one of bandleader Al Kooper’s most enduring works. The album introduced the idea of the big band to rock and roll and paved the way for such groups as Chicago. Kooper left the band after this album, changing the nature of the group. (More from Wikipedia)
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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But I likely will keep putting out what I call the “Story of the Month” (I have my web pages broken down into short “Items” and longer “Stories” on whomever or whatever I am talking about) that I uncover as I load up the web site. These Stories are on well known (well, better known anyway) songs and albums and rock bands and other topics that are not of the Under Appreciated variety. I started those last year and meant to list the ones in my year-end post last time but forgot, so here is that list from the past two years:
December 2013 – The Standells
January 2014 – (skipped)
February 2014 – Hasil Adkins
March 2014 – Bobby Darin
April 2014 – Nuggets
May 2014 – The Nerves
June 2014 – The Outsiders (American band)
July 2014 – The Million Dollar Quartet
August 2014 – Scientific Proof of the Existence of God
October 2014 – Walter/Wendy Carlos
November 2014 – The Trashmen
December 2014 – John Birch Society Blues
January 2015 – John Mellencamp
February 2015 – Child Is Father to the Man
March 2015 – Dion DiMucci
July 2015 – “Lola”
August 2015 – Bob Dylan the Protest Singer
(Year 6 Review)
