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Blood, Sweat & Tears (also known as "BS&T") is an American jazz rock music group founded in New York City in 1967, noted for a combination of brass with rock instrumentation. BS&T has gone through numerous iterations with varying personnel and has encompassed a wide range of musical styles.
Brenda Holloway's "You've Made Me So Very Happy" received a boost when the jazz-rock group Blood, Sweat & Tears recorded a new arrangement in 1969. [7] Included on the group's eponymous second album, it became one of Blood, Sweat & Tears' biggest hits, reaching number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States in April 1969. [8]
In 1980 Blood, Sweat & Tears issued the MCA album Nuclear Blues, which also included Thomas. Later in the decade Columbia issued the double live Blood, Sweat & Tears album Live And Improvised again with Thomas. In 2004, Clayton-Thomas left New York for Toronto and launched an All-Star 10-piece band.
John Scheinfeld's documentary, part exposé, part concert film, probes a controversial 1970 Iron Curtain tour and its impact on the horn-driven jazz-rock band's demise.
Blood, Sweat & Tears was a successful band, having beat out the Beatles, Crosby, Stills and Nash and Johnny Cash for Album of the Year at the 1970 Grammy Awards.
Blood Sweat & Tears" was the sixth best-performing song in October 2016 on the Gaon Monthly Digital Chart, based on digital sales, streaming, and background music (instrumental track) downloads. [51] As of May 2019, "Blood Sweat & Tears" has sold over 2.5 million digital copies in South Korea. [ 52 ]
Blood, Sweat & Tears is the second album by the American band Blood, Sweat & Tears, released on December 11, 1968.It was the most commercially successful album for the group, rising to the top of the U.S. charts for a collective seven weeks and yielding three successive Top 5 singles.
In Clayton-Thomas's 2010 autobiography, Blood, Sweat and Tears, he wrote that the Joni Mitchell song "The Circle Game" inspired some of the lyrics. They lived across the hall from one another in Yorkville, the bohemian rock music epicenter of Toronto similar to Greenwich Village in Manhattan at the same time. He claimed a long-unrequited crush ...