Im 18 and a drummer in a heavy metal band, I must say BS&T has the most soulful and inspiring music of all time. DCT's voice is the best by far and Bobby Colomby's drums are nearly impossible. GREAT MUSIC
To this day ,They gave the best musical ,live concert experience in my life , Massey Hall T.O. in the 70's , D.C. Thomas still sounds great ,heard him at the hall 2 years ago ,with the tso ...
I love BST on this, but you don't have to rank on Billie Holiday. Her original is great as it is, and BST is great its own way. Jazz isn't a road race. Anybody who does something well, making a song their own, deserves their own props
Sony Music Entertainment: BITE ME. Your restrictions on adding your musical property to playlists is utterly baffling and has the added benefit of making this consumer very hostile toward you. You think I don't already own this song, or in fact the whole BS&T Greatest Hits CD? What I don't own is a freaking expensive iPod. So I make playlists to listen to at work. It keeps the music on my mind, keeps me open to other music, and ready to buy. But hey, if you don't want me buying Sony music ...
When I see 'Dislikes' for some music, I can only assume those are simply 'chronic' dislikers...who just do so, to offset things...
Serioulsy...what's not to like? Either you've never heard this song, or don't know what BS&T is about, therefore it was your mistake for coming here in the first place, so your vote shouldn't count.
So nostalgic...just to think where we would be if we didn't have music to measure the passage of time...this is sensational!!...62 now but still have the same feelings of "what's it all about"....DCT had a voix
@Sports570 aint that the truth...so much music today is such an imitation of what music should be.
There are some great contributions coming up today, they just aren't promoted 'commercially' so we don't get to hear them, other than Indie Stations...
I was fortunate enough during the 70's to play sax and flute 6 nights a week for 2 years in a professional band that covered BS&T and Chicago Transit. It was a highlight of my life. Love it to bits and sad to see the way music in the pop scene has slid into a techy abyss.
@Dionpr1 The techy abyss has no feeling whatsoever for real music like BS&T, or Chicago for that matter. Kinda sucks that the majority of this new generation will know nothing about REAL music! It should be MANDATORY in schools nowadays that R&B be part of Music, or Language Arts, or History, whatever it takes that real music isn't forgotten.
I was really young when BS&T were big.....but I find it hard to understand how they didnt make it bigger and last longer in the minds of people my age (im in my mid 40s. I remember going to my favorite Aunt's house and her always having BS &T playing in her house....so she is always on my mind when i hear them. Great memories and Epic music!!!
In those days of yore, bands weren't afraid to experiment, and radio stations actually played their music! This is pure jazz with some excellent players!
If you are a horn player this has got to be the motherlode bro. These dudes are playin and singin their collective asses off. David C Thomas puts the icing on the cake with some of the best vocals I've ever heard.
No other group, I mean no other group even comes close to BS&T's musicianship on this album. With all the places where there are musical phrases separated by silence, not one has evidence of any players starting too early or stopping too late, and they also display a tremendous dynamic range instead of just loud. And they play in tune, too. There may be individual rock singers who have better voices, or rock musicians who have better technique, but as a group, BS&T has no peer.
where were you in '69? my big brother had this album and let he play it. i loved it. they were one of the first large rock concerts at blossom music center in ohio. i cried- i wasn't old enough to go (i was 11), but i heard it was a sea of young people in bell-bottoms under clouds of pot smoke. talk about mass munchies!
@swimmerB0B I have been to Blossom, too, but in the 90's. You are way cooler than me. My mom used to smoke weed with her friends while listening to this album. Love these guys. There's no one who sounds like this.
haha wow, I didn't expect so many people to be raving about how this is better than the original - I mean I know it is but I'm pleasantly surprised at how many others know too ; )
From the LP with THE BEST DRUM FILLS ever !! If you're a drummer YOU know what I'm talkin about. and Bobby Columby once said in so many words in DOWNBEAT, "I thought I was just average."
My cousin took all of my dad's old Super 8 home movies from when we were kids... All of the family reunions and get togethers. All of my Aunts and Uncles and cousins. Hours of footage from my childhood. Most of those older movies had no sound, this is one of the music tracks he laid down with the video... wow, what vivid memories and great feelings it brings back! Thanx!
@1cooljazzfan: I'm half deaf. Those people aren't deaf - they just don't like real music! These guys were tight...from the vocals to the brass and everything in between. They were just about at the end of the time when - as Don Mclean so aptly put it in American Pie; "the music died". '50s, '60s and '70s were the best of times!
@alainhammond pooor Alain, no strange weed in many moons... and yes, I have seen a dinosaur play harmonica, extreeeemely well oh yes... dinosaurs know how to rock better that the kids today, maybe the dinosaurs comme from Africa ?? Elephants do.. imagine an elephant playing that trumpet, wow, then the sax... and a turtle playing harp.. my imagination going wild.. this video very inspiring !!
@alainhammond ...and like ypou remind me before, God bless the videomaker, (that's got great style).. thank you for this.. I send you many many flowers by the truckload <333333333333333...
Can't beat this song. Right now I'd say it's the BEST SONG of ALL TIME! d:)
Dunno why I faved this I got it on CD. Talk abot sharing, everbody on Facebook might get this ... If they don't then they musta been born rich, or they got a hole in their pockets! Haha!
Roberito, there is a worth while site: "talkbass.com". Also, learn your major and minor scales. They are easy and make all the difference in the world.
Thanks so much for uploading! I saw these guys live at "The Greek Theater" in LA and they were amazing! Ditto all the comments about the general decline in music. We seem to have substituted hype and spectacle for true talent and quality. Great stuff!!
This BS&T CD, along with "Breezin" and Pat Metheny's CD with "San Lorenzo" are my favorite jazz/rock things ever done. Great musicians, great music, every little thing clicked. CLASSICS !!
I remember when my dad brought home our first FM stereo radio / phono...this was the first song I ever heard in stereo..went out as soon as I could and bought this album..glad they mentioned the name of the band on the radio...WSAI out of Cincinnati...and WING in Dayton...Jim Scott....Steve Kirk...good times...Doc Severinson, that's funny...yeah, John Lennon wrote Norwegian Wood in my bath-tub...lol
I saw these guys in an intimate setting while I drank some beer and relaxed.
Doc Severinsen rippin' a trumpet to shreds and directing the band, David Clayton Thomas belting it out, all just ten feet away. One of my best memories.
How far we have fallen as a society now. Nothing, nothing like these anymore.
Back in the day, at The Phoenix Coliseum, David Clayton Thomas performed this with BS&T so emotionally, we were all taken on a sweet ride. Great memories...
Fabulous music - I fell in love with it upon first hearing it. While Creedence, Chicago, the Beatles, Jefferson Airplane, the Jackson Five and Don Mclean dominated the airwaves in 1969 - this is still unforgettable and unique today. God bless Billie Holiday for writing it and for Blood Sweat and Tears for making it timeless.
@Ih8cmh - kudos for recognizing that... no many people do. I remember when they were actually composing this. Fred is a good friend of mine from the Bronx.
@UtzChips2009 - I was way too young to be "tuned into" that sort of thing. I was only 8 or 9 years old. I was just offered to learn an instrument in grade school; Bobby Colomby urged me to take up the drums, Dad and Fred urged me to take Sax..... I initially wanted to learn trombone.
I also remember them making a big deal about using "backwards trumpet sounds on Sympathy for The Devil"...
@avp0713 Oh well.......but thanx for replying. Those were good times. I could listen to BS&T; Chicago; Led Zeppelin; Savoy Brown etc. etc., depending on what mood I was in. Even the Pointer Sisters had an album or 2 in my collection.
Laughter and Jest Everyone’s Place at the table is determined by everyone else who is allowed to be the leader who is allowed to be themselves Families rise or fall because of choices they make they need make them out of love not fighting over rank and grade Perhaps a round table is best along with a little bit of laughter and jest M. S. Morrison
Laughter and Jest Everyone’s Place at the table is determined by everyone else who is allowed to be the leader who is allowed to be themselves Families rise or fall because of choices they make they need make them out of love not fighting over rank and grade Perhaps a round table is best along with a little bit of laughter and jest M. S. Morrison
I used to listen to this album a lot when I was a teen. I've always liked the lovely arrangements of this band. The horns were always very bright and punchy compared to Chicago. But each band was great in their own way. I'm reading David Clayton Thomas's book now. There's an interesting story about this song in his book involving Miles Davis and Nina Simone.
@thatcreepcanroll Mine 2 [bill medley did a nice one on the righteous brothers back to back] after being the secound highest paid act at woodstock bs&t performed at the newport jazz festival with roland kirk jethro tull buddy rich dj scott muni was the mc ,a state department tour and the ed sullivan show bs&t 2 sold 6 million copies.
So much talk about the quality of past music, I also miss the era of Fat horn sections and bands with 12 members, EWF, Chicago, BST. I lived in the house where this was recorded, New City NY, my uncle Tim was engineer. It could hardly be called work being around these guys, such a classy strut they moved along with, really, no joke musicians. Written by Billie Holiday after a fight over money with her mom. Every childs got to have his own.
@daddyoj - as a close friend of Freddy, I too remember many times when the whole gang would come to our apartment in the Bronx, all of them! jamming in a small 2 bedroom apartment in the South Bronx. Who would ever believe me.
@gingervytis ...........amen to that !...These guys were a;; great. They started out in jazz....and I think that's the reason they sound so clean. I saw them live ..long ago. Bass player did a 20 min solo while the rest of the band took a break. It was unreal what he could do on that bass. Great memories.
This is the album that beat out the Beatles for album of the year in '69 over Abbey Road. Although this is a great album, I still think Abbey Road should have won. I've certainly listened to AR more than this album since then.
the person singing the lead on this is the same as on Spinning Wheel, right? i never get the names straight between Kooper and Thomas. which one is this?
the voices are obviously different, i just don't know them well enough to know who is who.
@madamnarf30 David Clayton Thomas. He's the soulful one. Al Cooper was the one on the album Child Is Father To Man. Yes he sang the lead on Spinning Wheel and this one.
Back in 1968, I was a starting rock musician, went to see the Blues Project, with Al Kooper and Steve Katz (both to become BST) before being thrown out of the music department at University of Toledo, I was on the "entertainment board" we booked BST, had to pick them up in Detroit in mom's car, during the ride, refreshments were passed while CKLW previewed a new beatles album and we all sat in awe. I still have this album with the cover signed by all. This music significantly affected me.
@ibrowse I'm a huge Beatle fan but even bigger BS&T fan. Odd that they both hit the big time at the same time. What is CKLW? Know I'll be embarrassed when I find out. BS&T is/were the biggest news in a long time. Even bigger than Chicago. Katz and Cooper were the earliest BS&T. I have that Child Is Father To Man CD. and album. It's amazing. What ever happened to Al Cooper?
@SlimeTron5000 Thanks for the info. I soak it up like a sponge. Anything you can tell me is appreciated. PS>>> what is CKLW? And how did Al Cooper get shafted? Most people don't even remember him as BS&T. But I do. Think he played the Hammond and Dick Halligan played the bone. They all seemed before their time. I guess "progressive" is a good word. They raised the bar to a new height. Only Chicago came close.
lemme share in this love fest....i'm nuts about mozart but this song is every bit as tingle-bringing and almost as genius, in its own genus...talk about perfect, damn even the friggin harmonica is JUST RIGHT!! only th ending lets off a bit, but maybe thats inevitable
The influence of this song at the time it was released was just incredible for me as a drummer. Though my influences were mostly rock, I was taken at how drummer Bobby Colomby was just so articulate. Very cool and jazzy tune, plus the meaning is great of course. Listen to the latin excursions this tune takes, and then it swings and then back to the theme!...Just WOW!
this song takes my breath away- everything is just so right
sicilianese69 1 day ago
Im 18 and a drummer in a heavy metal band, I must say BS&T has the most soulful and inspiring music of all time. DCT's voice is the best by far and Bobby Colomby's drums are nearly impossible. GREAT MUSIC
Gravelgutband 6 days ago
Simply the best this song will ever be, I'd imagine.
skidancin 1 week ago
The uptemp interlude is what makes this version so wonderful! Some of the best soaring brass ever!
fiamike 2 weeks ago
@fiamike BTW, the pure instrumental scream at 4:20 is a thing of beauty. How many mainstream bands turned out music like this during the late 60's?
fiamike 2 weeks ago
To this day ,They gave the best musical ,live concert experience in my life , Massey Hall T.O. in the 70's , D.C. Thomas still sounds great ,heard him at the hall 2 years ago ,with the tso ...
savantleo 3 weeks ago in playlist More videos from musicminor25
I have purchased this album on vinyl, 8 track, yes 8 track, cassette, CD, through the years. It's music is part of my demeanor. I love it.
loupach47 1 month ago
PURE GENIUS... This arrangement is incredible. My fav BS&T song...stands the test of time.
jimmididr 1 month ago
I have this album -- played the heck out of it. Love this song. Thanks for sharing with many others BST devotees.
basicaa 1 month ago
WQW Cant get better THE BEST Where did we go wrong?
daraseo 1 month ago
@daraseo mean't to say WOW THE BEST
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daraseo 1 month ago
I wore out my album playing the drums to it in 69 and up.
timandrew1 1 month ago 2
I love BST on this, but you don't have to rank on Billie Holiday. Her original is great as it is, and BST is great its own way. Jazz isn't a road race. Anybody who does something well, making a song their own, deserves their own props
pindaric 1 month ago 3
Oh, except for the uptime interlude. Nice but not copied or emulated.
4Rachy 1 month ago
My personal favorite version of this piece. In my band experience, most pros play this song this way. Better than the original, IMHO.
4Rachy 1 month ago
Great song and group. One of the few times a cover blows away the original. No disrespect to Billie Holiday.
ThePhil49 2 months ago
3:00 and on, just wow.
Scrappy1138 2 months ago
always a favorite of mine . stunning arrangement and singing make this a timeless classic never to be equaled .
buhbuhray13 2 months ago
I bought this album in 1969. Was one of those albums that was in everyone's collection. I still have mine. Fabulous sound! Thanks for posting!
dongmo1 2 months ago 2
@BecKilgore I know the feeling
TheSteiny69 2 months ago in playlist 1969 HIT PARADE
I LOVE THE HORNS in this version!!! And the lead singers voice just melts my heart!!! Thank you BS&T! You still rock like no other!!!
BestCTPL 2 months ago 3
Sony Music Entertainment: BITE ME. Your restrictions on adding your musical property to playlists is utterly baffling and has the added benefit of making this consumer very hostile toward you. You think I don't already own this song, or in fact the whole BS&T Greatest Hits CD? What I don't own is a freaking expensive iPod. So I make playlists to listen to at work. It keeps the music on my mind, keeps me open to other music, and ready to buy. But hey, if you don't want me buying Sony music ...
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SOULMUSICFX 3 months ago
Another fine choon - thankyou so much Leon :)
soulsupremeful 3 months ago
Five people ain't got their own!
PatPowers1995 3 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Blood, Sweat & Tears
Best rock band ever. Period. Fusion or not. Just DEADLY musicianship.
larryryals44 3 months ago
Linda performance. Perfeitamente executada. Irretocável!
eloisabreu 3 months ago
oh man.this is as incredible now as ever! I am soooo glad I listened to this today...WHY dont we have music as great as this today?
TheVineyarder 3 months ago
Love the brass section!
Psycho9263 3 months ago 3
God bless the hammond B-3
Supermeatloaf66 4 months ago 5
When I see 'Dislikes' for some music, I can only assume those are simply 'chronic' dislikers...who just do so, to offset things...
Serioulsy...what's not to like? Either you've never heard this song, or don't know what BS&T is about, therefore it was your mistake for coming here in the first place, so your vote shouldn't count.
hocuspocusfocusable 4 months ago
DCT had the most recognizable voice of his generation....
UNDERGROUND2000 4 months ago 3
So nostalgic...just to think where we would be if we didn't have music to measure the passage of time...this is sensational!!...62 now but still have the same feelings of "what's it all about"....DCT had a voix
UNDERGROUND2000 4 months ago
David Clayton Thomas - - - God bless that child! If only today's popular music were real music like this.
Sports570 4 months ago 2
@Sports570 aint that the truth...so much music today is such an imitation of what music should be.
There are some great contributions coming up today, they just aren't promoted 'commercially' so we don't get to hear them, other than Indie Stations...
hocuspocusfocusable 4 months ago
lew soloff rocks!
swimmerB0B 4 months ago
I was fortunate enough during the 70's to play sax and flute 6 nights a week for 2 years in a professional band that covered BS&T and Chicago Transit. It was a highlight of my life. Love it to bits and sad to see the way music in the pop scene has slid into a techy abyss.
Dionpr1 4 months ago
@Dionpr1 The techy abyss has no feeling whatsoever for real music like BS&T, or Chicago for that matter. Kinda sucks that the majority of this new generation will know nothing about REAL music! It should be MANDATORY in schools nowadays that R&B be part of Music, or Language Arts, or History, whatever it takes that real music isn't forgotten.
TheBrendadale 4 months ago 3
I was really young when BS&T were big.....but I find it hard to understand how they didnt make it bigger and last longer in the minds of people my age (im in my mid 40s. I remember going to my favorite Aunt's house and her always having BS &T playing in her house....so she is always on my mind when i hear them. Great memories and Epic music!!!
breezey475 4 months ago in playlist More videos from musicminor25
such a great song. And a great version.
In those days of yore, bands weren't afraid to experiment, and radio stations actually played their music! This is pure jazz with some excellent players!
DLJStahl 4 months ago
Always a great tune by the band of my generation.Or any one who ever listened.
jimmylee123able 4 months ago
Even when they came on the scene, their style of music appealed not only the kids, but the parents too. Parents found BS&T's style "safe" listening.
mrbigkell 6 months ago
@mrbigkell My Dad Loved them !
llensart 4 months ago
This is a
GREAT song - SO GREAT!! God Bless the Child that's Got His Own!
Starbackermec 6 months ago
If you are a horn player this has got to be the motherlode bro. These dudes are playin and singin their collective asses off. David C Thomas puts the icing on the cake with some of the best vocals I've ever heard.
pennridgeboy 6 months ago
No other group, I mean no other group even comes close to BS&T's musicianship on this album. With all the places where there are musical phrases separated by silence, not one has evidence of any players starting too early or stopping too late, and they also display a tremendous dynamic range instead of just loud. And they play in tune, too. There may be individual rock singers who have better voices, or rock musicians who have better technique, but as a group, BS&T has no peer.
777cwb 6 months ago in playlist Blood sweat and tears 3
i was never a huge fan of brass music, but i love blood sweat and tears... thats how good they are...
metallicarocks911 6 months ago 3
where were you in '69? my big brother had this album and let he play it. i loved it. they were one of the first large rock concerts at blossom music center in ohio. i cried- i wasn't old enough to go (i was 11), but i heard it was a sea of young people in bell-bottoms under clouds of pot smoke. talk about mass munchies!
swimmerB0B 6 months ago
@swimmerB0B I have been to Blossom, too, but in the 90's. You are way cooler than me. My mom used to smoke weed with her friends while listening to this album. Love these guys. There's no one who sounds like this.
SeanMina 6 months ago
io adoro questa canzone nella versione dei BS&Tears,,,,,,fantastica
Loreley3774 7 months ago
By far the most under-rated band of all time, so few people seem to know much by BS&T. Brilliant band, amazing songs/arrangements.....Love it!!
MrTubateacher 7 months ago 18
BS&T made a very good version of the classic song.
b3yonc3LLLuva 7 months ago
This is just a remix, right? Sonically it's head-and-shoulders better than I remember the LP being.
BigBlueFaninSD 7 months ago
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but wait a minute children !!!!!
daisyroots 7 months ago
haha wow, I didn't expect so many people to be raving about how this is better than the original - I mean I know it is but I'm pleasantly surprised at how many others know too ; )
JoggingOnTheMoon 7 months ago
From the LP with THE BEST DRUM FILLS ever !! If you're a drummer YOU know what I'm talkin about. and Bobby Columby once said in so many words in DOWNBEAT, "I thought I was just average."
gaspo2180 7 months ago
During the Great Recession we've all lost lots of friends.
mrbigkell 8 months ago
I really enjoyed this :)
soulsupremeful 8 months ago
My cousin took all of my dad's old Super 8 home movies from when we were kids... All of the family reunions and get togethers. All of my Aunts and Uncles and cousins. Hours of footage from my childhood. Most of those older movies had no sound, this is one of the music tracks he laid down with the video... wow, what vivid memories and great feelings it brings back! Thanx!
organizedchaos63 8 months ago 3
incredibly good..
ruslitomey 8 months ago
we sure don't make records like that no more. great arrangement here.
Mr7group 8 months ago
I LOVE this song. Way better than the original. Who couldn't love this ?
1cooljazzfan 8 months ago 2
WOW, what a song. Tons better than the original! Great vocal & fantastic arrangements! Deaf people must've hit the dislike button!
1cooljazzfan 8 months ago 20
@1cooljazzfan
I am not sure if it is better than the original, but it's great, very good version, no doubt.
b3yonc3LLLuva 7 months ago
@1cooljazzfan: I'm half deaf. Those people aren't deaf - they just don't like real music! These guys were tight...from the vocals to the brass and everything in between. They were just about at the end of the time when - as Don Mclean so aptly put it in American Pie; "the music died". '50s, '60s and '70s were the best of times!
RandyBful1 6 months ago
ur momma may have, ur poppa may have,,God bless the child who's got his own, no truer words ever spoken!! God Bless BST!!!!
1952FMS 8 months ago
Amazing! :D
TheTromboneFreak 8 months ago
Man, the words are truth!
skalrynd 8 months ago
this song brings back many a party memories!
ozarkfrank 9 months ago
Commendable handling and arrangement!
N2itv2 9 months ago
Just a tremendous piece of Music, Great arrangement, mix of instruments, lyrics and mix in David Clayton Thomas's raspy voice.
nutballgazette 9 months ago
@alainhammond yes.. it is that time, almost for me to.. nice to chat over some sowaycooljazz..
seeya, Mr. Proviste >>>
FinallyunderstandU 10 months ago
@alainhammond pooor Alain, no strange weed in many moons... and yes, I have seen a dinosaur play harmonica, extreeeemely well oh yes... dinosaurs know how to rock better that the kids today, maybe the dinosaurs comme from Africa ?? Elephants do.. imagine an elephant playing that trumpet, wow, then the sax... and a turtle playing harp.. my imagination going wild.. this video very inspiring !!
FinallyunderstandU 10 months ago
@alainhammond ...and like ypou remind me before, God bless the videomaker, (that's got great style).. thank you for this.. I send you many many flowers by the truckload <333333333333333...
FinallyunderstandU 10 months ago
@alainhammond ohmymy it is superb , indeed !!!!!!!!!!!!!! we LOVE this jazzy style.. It gives me chills..
does that mean I am a dinosuar.. God bless the dinosaurs, yes ????
FinallyunderstandU 10 months ago
exquisite.. nice music to grovel in, when I look at my empty door ^^
♫♥AnnA♥♫
FinallyunderstandU 10 months ago
Can't beat this song. Right now I'd say it's the BEST SONG of ALL TIME! d:)
Dunno why I faved this I got it on CD. Talk abot sharing, everbody on Facebook might get this ... If they don't then they musta been born rich, or they got a hole in their pockets! Haha!
EagleMedieval 10 months ago
For me, Blood Sweat & Tears will always remain one of the best jazz band ever !
Their search for creative harmony and rythmn was outstanding.
Every improvisation was well structured with respect to the chords.
Bravo !
Avago99 10 months ago 2
Beautiful & soulful
will30078 10 months ago
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one of the best ever
lovintonal 10 months ago
The bit right after 3:00 SERIOUSLY took me by surprise. I was like 'wat'
Gearsdisraeli 10 months ago
Roberito, there is a worth while site: "talkbass.com". Also, learn your major and minor scales. They are easy and make all the difference in the world.
dvdqun 10 months ago
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Anotherway04 10 months ago
A Superior song arrangement through and through. Its outstanding flair and flavor never gets old or tired.
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Anotherway04 10 months ago
Saw them do this back in '69..Thought it was an original...found out later how much of a classic it was....
astronut49 10 months ago
Actually....some of the best arranging EVER!!! There is no music like this anymore.....
mhenny
25mhenny 10 months ago
Brilliant just brilliant. what a voice and arrangement
eighttrack70 11 months ago
Thanks so much for uploading! I saw these guys live at "The Greek Theater" in LA and they were amazing! Ditto all the comments about the general decline in music. We seem to have substituted hype and spectacle for true talent and quality. Great stuff!!
ezio48 11 months ago
Thanks, man. Bring back. No, not me, compared to some.
spoildn8410 11 months ago
Had this on vinyl. Great band. Anybody know if the CD is a good remaster?
437thx1138 11 months ago
@437thx1138 The cd is good.
richstout 7 months ago
Listen to the deep groove of bass guitarist Jim Fielder
TheStatue1 11 months ago
This BS&T CD, along with "Breezin" and Pat Metheny's CD with "San Lorenzo" are my favorite jazz/rock things ever done. Great musicians, great music, every little thing clicked. CLASSICS !!
gaspo2180 11 months ago
For another great version, ck out Jacob Lusk. Just search his name followed by God Bless
UtzChips2009 1 year ago
I remember when my dad brought home our first FM stereo radio / phono...this was the first song I ever heard in stereo..went out as soon as I could and bought this album..glad they mentioned the name of the band on the radio...WSAI out of Cincinnati...and WING in Dayton...Jim Scott....Steve Kirk...good times...Doc Severinson, that's funny...yeah, John Lennon wrote Norwegian Wood in my bath-tub...lol
celloprofundo 1 year ago
@celloprofundo Kirk???sorry habbit ;-) can i have your bathtubor do you keep fire wood in it xx
Choefoe 1 year ago
Freddie Lipsius & Lew Soloff took this song to amazing heights. Their solos amaze me to this day.
fibes55 1 year ago
Love this version! Love his voice!
54Nefertiti 1 year ago
Doc Severinsen? I'm thinking Doc wasn't anywhere near this recording?
danzbmw 1 year ago
@danzbmw No Doc here...
richstout 7 months ago
I saw these guys in an intimate setting while I drank some beer and relaxed.
Doc Severinsen rippin' a trumpet to shreds and directing the band, David Clayton Thomas belting it out, all just ten feet away. One of my best memories.
How far we have fallen as a society now. Nothing, nothing like these anymore.
beto78722 1 year ago
@beto78722 - Doc Severinsen?.... more like Lew Soloff.....
avp0713 1 year ago
Dick Halligan's brilliant arrangement, classic.
MusicInMyBones 1 year ago
my favourite version! awesome!
thermalsuit 1 year ago
ok, let's list all the rockers with a better voice than david clayton thomas....uhh, can't think of any...
skontch1 1 year ago
This is back when the lyrics and the music were beautiful and meaningful. Poetry put to music. Loved it then and love it even more now.
PostMod64 1 year ago
One person did not like this song.......must got a hole in their soul......
Overeezee1 1 year ago
Back in the day, at The Phoenix Coliseum, David Clayton Thomas performed this with BS&T so emotionally, we were all taken on a sweet ride. Great memories...
fusejockey 1 year ago
Fabulous music - I fell in love with it upon first hearing it. While Creedence, Chicago, the Beatles, Jefferson Airplane, the Jackson Five and Don Mclean dominated the airwaves in 1969 - this is still unforgettable and unique today. God bless Billie Holiday for writing it and for Blood Sweat and Tears for making it timeless.
djsullydavid 1 year ago
classic forever! Love it!
themirror2u 1 year ago
Why did music like this go away?? Will it ever come back??
BIGKELL9614 1 year ago
Jazz, R&B, Latin all in one song, A Great One!
Ih8cmh 1 year ago 2
@Ih8cmh - kudos for recognizing that... no many people do. I remember when they were actually composing this. Fred is a good friend of mine from the Bronx.
avp0713 1 year ago
@avp0713 Do you remember what it was about Billie's song, that gave them reason to want to do their own rendition?
UtzChips2009 1 year ago
@UtzChips2009 - I was way too young to be "tuned into" that sort of thing. I was only 8 or 9 years old. I was just offered to learn an instrument in grade school; Bobby Colomby urged me to take up the drums, Dad and Fred urged me to take Sax..... I initially wanted to learn trombone.
I also remember them making a big deal about using "backwards trumpet sounds on Sympathy for The Devil"...
avp0713 1 year ago
@avp0713 Oh well.......but thanx for replying. Those were good times. I could listen to BS&T; Chicago; Led Zeppelin; Savoy Brown etc. etc., depending on what mood I was in. Even the Pointer Sisters had an album or 2 in my collection.
UtzChips2009 1 year ago
michaelsmorrison 1 year ago
michaelsmorrison 1 year ago
QUAD AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY 1970......THERE ISN"T ANYTHING LIKE THIS NOW...NEW MUSIC SUCKS
mdwlcx 1 year ago
I saw these guys at a free lawn chair concert in Stock Island (just N. of Key West, FL) in 1996 - excellent concert.
TheJwellborn 1 year ago
Great classic !!. Have to start looking for the vinyl again :-)
jhpable 1 year ago
ONE
ONE OF THE MOST TOGATHER BANDS MUSICALY THERE EVER WAS
kenneth3105 1 year ago
Love love love this! Thanks for sharing!
peacefulblonde39 1 year ago
I used to listen to this album a lot when I was a teen. I've always liked the lovely arrangements of this band. The horns were always very bright and punchy compared to Chicago. But each band was great in their own way. I'm reading David Clayton Thomas's book now. There's an interesting story about this song in his book involving Miles Davis and Nina Simone.
ocean4315 1 year ago
BS&T- THE GREATEST. DAVID CLAYTON THOMAS ONE OF THE MOST SOULFUL VOICES. THIS SONG -LOVE IT.
40REDHED 1 year ago
thanks for posting this great version of a great song
innerbanks 1 year ago
beautiful deep in my soul
localguy8 1 year ago
This is my favorite version of this amazing song.
thatcreepcanroll 1 year ago
@thatcreepcanroll Mine 2 [bill medley did a nice one on the righteous brothers back to back] after being the secound highest paid act at woodstock bs&t performed at the newport jazz festival with roland kirk jethro tull buddy rich dj scott muni was the mc ,a state department tour and the ed sullivan show bs&t 2 sold 6 million copies.
spacepatrolman 1 year ago
Love this song. Such a great band and an even greater voice in David Clayton Thomas. He is so soulful that you can feel every word he pours out.
rgsnk9 1 year ago
I really appreciate this posting...strange as I woke up thinking about this tune and what a great rendition BS&T did of it back in the day.
great recording and the sound is superb....
Thanks again for posting. Cheers!
tommiecoughlin 1 year ago
how did i go so long with out hearing this thank you
frankblack357 1 year ago
mama may have..papa may have...god bless the child tha's got his own
henrycavanagh 1 year ago
Excellent, such a freaking amazing band and song. Thanks for posting!
fatstrat06 1 year ago 32
@fatstrat06 You're Welcome!
musicminor25 1 year ago 3
@fatstrat06 They never got their due, these first 4 albums were all amazing. I loved them then and now.
pilesovinyl 1 year ago
David Clayton Thomas!!! What a vocal masterpiece!
dwalk4824 1 year ago
London, Rainbow Theatre, August or Sept 1972 (or 73?). Magical!
mekosazul 1 year ago
When listening to BS&T, I always remember the ROLLIES of Bandung...Gone are the songs of yesterday... not really!
BuayeItem 1 year ago
just too cool to be a song.
albertoclipper 1 year ago
So much talk about the quality of past music, I also miss the era of Fat horn sections and bands with 12 members, EWF, Chicago, BST. I lived in the house where this was recorded, New City NY, my uncle Tim was engineer. It could hardly be called work being around these guys, such a classy strut they moved along with, really, no joke musicians. Written by Billie Holiday after a fight over money with her mom. Every childs got to have his own.
daddyoj 1 year ago
@daddyoj YOU FORGOT THE BEST BAND OF ALL, AND THEY HAD THE MOST MEMBERS 10, THE TOWER OF POWER DUMMY
hifive77777 1 year ago
@daddyoj - as a close friend of Freddy, I too remember many times when the whole gang would come to our apartment in the Bronx, all of them! jamming in a small 2 bedroom apartment in the South Bronx. Who would ever believe me.
avp0713 1 year ago
@avp0713 ME
mrccryder 1 year ago
Each member was A+ musician.
gingervytis 1 year ago 8
@gingervytis SO TRUE!!!
musicminor25 1 year ago 3
@gingervytis ...........amen to that !...These guys were a;; great. They started out in jazz....and I think that's the reason they sound so clean. I saw them live ..long ago. Bass player did a 20 min solo while the rest of the band took a break. It was unreal what he could do on that bass. Great memories.
Kellyr513 1 year ago
MARCHING BAND 09/10 <3 i miss this show so much
wolfhearttx 1 year ago
this is prob the best version of this song thats been done by so many that youll ever hear
fedreserveistreason 1 year ago
Time goes by; great music stays the same. This speaks to that.
BIGKELL9614 1 year ago
As A personal friend of Dick Halligan back in the late 60's, I can only say he is the most talented person I ever knew.
blooperjohn 1 year ago
The trompet soloin this song is the shortest and the greatest trompet solo I've ever heard. many thanks for posting
moniguitar 1 year ago
the trompet solo in this song is the shortest and the greatest trompet solo I've ever heard . Many thanks for posting
moniguitar 1 year ago
This is the album that beat out the Beatles for album of the year in '69 over Abbey Road. Although this is a great album, I still think Abbey Road should have won. I've certainly listened to AR more than this album since then.
jsmyers24151 1 year ago
When the money's gone, and all your spendin ends, they won't be 'round anymore.
But I allways will. I love you Joe, you're my best friend!
foucciano 1 year ago
great combination of blues,rock,& jazz-awesome
bleelac 1 year ago
My absolute favorite group in the 60's & 70's. Few bands use horns anymore. They were the best -- better than Chicago (and I'm from Chicago).
BIGKELL9614 1 year ago
ABSOLUTELY THE DEFINITIVE VERSION.
rayw1974 1 year ago
the person singing the lead on this is the same as on Spinning Wheel, right? i never get the names straight between Kooper and Thomas. which one is this?
the voices are obviously different, i just don't know them well enough to know who is who.
madamnarf30 1 year ago
@madamnarf30 It's David Clayton Thomas!!
musicminor25 1 year ago 2
@musicminor25 thank you :)
madamnarf30 1 year ago
@madamnarf30 David Clayton Thomas. He's the soulful one. Al Cooper was the one on the album Child Is Father To Man. Yes he sang the lead on Spinning Wheel and this one.
drdave25 1 year ago
Back in 1968, I was a starting rock musician, went to see the Blues Project, with Al Kooper and Steve Katz (both to become BST) before being thrown out of the music department at University of Toledo, I was on the "entertainment board" we booked BST, had to pick them up in Detroit in mom's car, during the ride, refreshments were passed while CKLW previewed a new beatles album and we all sat in awe. I still have this album with the cover signed by all. This music significantly affected me.
ibrowse 1 year ago
@ibrowse I'm a huge Beatle fan but even bigger BS&T fan. Odd that they both hit the big time at the same time. What is CKLW? Know I'll be embarrassed when I find out. BS&T is/were the biggest news in a long time. Even bigger than Chicago. Katz and Cooper were the earliest BS&T. I have that Child Is Father To Man CD. and album. It's amazing. What ever happened to Al Cooper?
drdave25 1 year ago
@drdave25 Al Kooper was shafted. Further on, he went to produce with Lynyrd Skynyrd. I am going to upload tracks from this LP soon. Please hold!
SlimeTron5000 1 year ago
@SlimeTron5000 Thanks for the info. I soak it up like a sponge. Anything you can tell me is appreciated. PS>>> what is CKLW? And how did Al Cooper get shafted? Most people don't even remember him as BS&T. But I do. Think he played the Hammond and Dick Halligan played the bone. They all seemed before their time. I guess "progressive" is a good word. They raised the bar to a new height. Only Chicago came close.
drdave25 1 year ago
@drdave25 Actually, he may not have been 'shafted', but he left the group and found a job in the Columbia Records A&R.
SlimeTron5000 1 year ago
lemme share in this love fest....i'm nuts about mozart but this song is every bit as tingle-bringing and almost as genius, in its own genus...talk about perfect, damn even the friggin harmonica is JUST RIGHT!! only th ending lets off a bit, but maybe thats inevitable
fatalfflaw 1 year ago
The influence of this song at the time it was released was just incredible for me as a drummer. Though my influences were mostly rock, I was taken at how drummer Bobby Colomby was just so articulate. Very cool and jazzy tune, plus the meaning is great of course. Listen to the latin excursions this tune takes, and then it swings and then back to the theme!...Just WOW!
MrSigntific 1 year ago