Lucretia Macevil by Blood Sweat and Tears

[xploitdfreek]

thanks for honoring these guys

[Superniceone11]

Trumpet solo by the amazing Lew Soloff

[donnamariemoreno27]

@Superniceone11

Oh your so right...bad-ass trumpet solo-he's gotta be going for atlest a couple of minutes on it!

[pobyd9]

Love the piano breakdown @ 3:00.

[mrceleb2006]

Awesome song! Great music for any Ford Mustang GT!

[pobyd9]

@mrceleb2006 You are so right.

[mrceleb2006]

@pobyd9 Thanks.

[tdelamont]

Starting at 1:21, listen how perfectly "evil" the arrangement becomes during the passage about the Devil. That's some ace musicianship right there.

[tdelamont]

DCT at four seconds in - "Woooo!" He just knows he's gonna tear this up...

[redoak1try]

I forgot how great this band is!!!

[lekocafe]

Damn, have not heard this in so long! It rocks!

[cwilliamsfl]

True rock-n-roll... WOW, where is that kind of talent and power these days? LOVE these guys!!!

[techreviewer27]

we're doing this in the jazz band one of my favorites i play trumpet

[breezey475]

David Allen Cole is one of the best ever!!! Nobody can do these songs like him!!!

[estyle40]

@breezey475 You meant David Clayton Thomas, right?

[scutmorgan52]

I think it's great that just as the trumpet solo fades out you hear him play the theme for "the cat" from Peter and the Wolf. Pretty intellectual reference for such a rockin tune. One of my all time favorites!

[zatch155]

why isnt there an "epic" selection under reactions

[ringle72]

What a great horn section, bands now should have a horn section!!

[nightwind928]

I can't be sure but think I actually married the bitch this song was written about!!!

[cwilliamsfl]

Bad ass... That's all I can say.

[nvet1953]

Used to listen to this tune in my buddy Bobby Lockharts' Mustang on 8 track on the way to high school in the 70s.....

[VTlover01]

Evil thats your name

[YROK]

Thumbs up if you learned about these guys from Adam Carolla.

[patrickshea83]

Aww here she comes... truckin'.

[BackwardsMoney08]

This is MacFunky!

[KishaLorraine]

i just love how the original is so much more raw ... less tight and polished than the recent year versions. the real stuff!!

[1cooljazzfan]

Still cracking it 40 + years later! What genius muscians! LOVE THIS 4EVER!

[themariobros45]

finally after 2 years of hearing this song on the radio i find it for my MP3

[grover9559]

Saw these guys at Concordia College, Moorhead in '69 and they opened with this song. Lew Soloff was on trumpet leading the charge.

[insueciant]

Newberry Jam. A hotlanta band... horns.

[68Phaedrus]

This song is like an attack or something. I'm breathless during and after it. It's almost too much to handle. And you included Lucretia's Reprise. Too funkay. Too Cool. Proper COOL.

Hot damn, that's all I can say. I need to lie down now...

[MiGrm9]

This song kicks so much ass it's unreal.

[1qaz2wsx3edc5753]

You just have to take this band seriously, when you hear the great jazz section on this. Great musicianship!

[mikemurphy23]

I know David Clayton-Thomas (lead singer) is far left. The other members - not necessarily in order - included: Lew Soloff, Chuck Winfield (trumpets), Jerry Hyman (trombone), Fred Lipsius (sax), Dick Halligan (keyboards), Steve Katz (guitar), Bobby Colomby (drums), and Jim Fielder (bass). These guys were pioneers....

[maxman1602]

Can anyone name the band member left from right?

[actormanic]

@maxman1602 L-R: David Clayton-Thomas (lead vocals), Bobby Colomby (drums), Jim Fielder (bass), Jerry Hyman (trombone), Chuck Winfield (trumpet), Fred Lipsius (sax, keyboards), Dick Halligan (keyboards, trombone), Steve Katz (guitar, vocals), Lew Soloff (trumpet)

[maxman1602]

@actormanic

Thanks.

[ArtsPatron2008]

@actormanic Just saw the boys Sunday (9/4/11) in Denver. (They played 3-4 jazz fusion tunes- a nice surprise. Jeff Lorber, Jaco Pastorius, etc.) One guy in the crowd said the only original guy there was Bobby Colomby. Does anyone know who's in the current lineup is? Thanks

[18choirboy]

Great song! Especially the reprise.

[beebee17522]

I worked on the sound crew for their 1972 tour and let me tell you they were much better live than than they were on record.

[mx6lover]

@beebee17522 __ way TOO kool !

[2784035159]

One of the faces:)

[disturbed2916]

It really bugs me that people these days think that playing any kind of wind instrument is stupid. It's not and this song proves it. This is real music.

[whitewitchoz]

These guys got more soul than most of today's hip hop artists.

[thegerrie19561]

Three fools!!!

[Zyklopz9]

BS&T were great!

[jhook239]

And you thought white people couldn't groove :)

[64nashoba]

I just found this song and love it because that's my first name. I never have liked it, but how cool to find it in a song.. = )

[HOLLYWOODHICK]

Rhythm section kills behind all the production. Just sayin'

[singlejeff69]

My God the horns in this are unbelievable !!!!

[Hermunkle]

Loveline from about a dozen years ago brought me here

[anonymous243124]

@Hermunkle Lol adam sang along to it, that was great

[hfield07]

This was a favorite of the band during football games back when I was in high school. I think of them playing it every time I see a game.

[dcbandnerd]

I think almost every man has run into a Lucretia Macevil. Only the strongest were able to resist the trap.

[fairalways]

SLAMMIN'!

[sonmor]

One of the great underrated songs.

[Devsguy]

@sonmor Really? I thought everybody loved Lucretia MacEvil.

[JMarkB1231]

'Preciate it Codroy17!!

[mmccarthy861]

Great stuff by Doug Haight!

[norjop]

Lol. Written about first wife. Lol.



[Chikushou123]

Lovelineeeeeeeeee

[japort02]

bands need to go back to having a great horn section!!!

[themariobros45]

@japort02 I know right

[locomotifx]

This is one of my all-time favourites. They were such a great fusion band.

[JeremyRemixes]

3:04 is when you would turn the 45RPM single over ... if you had it.. LOL... I know because my mom had the single... the b-side was labeled as the "Reprise"... it was a red label... perfectly fitting...

[JeremyRemixes]

Turning it over to hear the rest of the song I mean...

[51362879]

This was written about my first wife!

[hlibby52]

Thank you for the "trip" down memory lane.

[bewilliford]

Bought the album back in the early seventies and played it (alto sax) in a Disco band in the late seventies. Imagine how it felt to open with this then play a set of KC at high school dances.

[thef1ddler]

i can play all BST songs on trombone, i think its the shit when im high

[tyetnic]

We are doing this song in jazz band and our teacher mr saucedo told us to look up more blood sweat and tears music

[solomonderweise]

Funny how music, no matter how long ago you first heard or played something, stays with you. I was driving into work this morning, and the opening of this song popped into my head. At first, all I could do was play the tune through my head a couple of times. I kept trying to remember what the song was and how I knew it. Then the lyrics clicked, and I reminisced on playing this (as a trombonist) with my high school jazz ensemble (Northern Secondary School in Toronto). Awesome! Thnx for posting!

[JaybaTheHutt]

SCHWEET!!!!

[Deadcat069]

Nice job Codroy17 . Lucretia, awesome original version then a cool funky version.

[locokiller2008]

a great song

[smaptey1]

Adam Carolla got me into this song when he had it played on air during Loveline one time

thanks, adam!

[suzabella68]

@chanlately: I was young during the 60's and 70's and got to hear some of the people who were so great during that era, including BS&T. I agree that it was an incredible period for music.

[suzabella68]

@chanlately: Actually, I agree with you; however some people would get offended if I placed BS&T alongside somebody like, say, James Brown and his band. One of my favorite soul singers who happens to be white is Joss Stone, who also got to sing with the fabulous James Brown before his passing. I also love Aretha Franklin, who happens to be black, and you're right, the ability to sing soul music transcends a person's origins.

[chanlately]

wow thanx for uploadng ths from the actual lp! i wish more ppl would upload the

old stuff like this

aaaaaooouuuuuuoooooooo!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!

[WHITESLICK10]

This song is satanic.....i can just feel it.

[nalm2025]

this song would be perfect to overdubb to jet plane fly-bys and huge explosions.

[semajellik]

hi codroy 17 can you post hes a runner from this album please?? love the whole album from years ago so any tracks would be good!!

[NatureGirl62]

I hadn't heard this in about 40 years, at which time my parents (not into rock at all, but loved jazz, and loved this because of the horns) played it on our stereo from Sears. I recently listened to "Supersession", so, thinking of Al Kooper, I was reminded of this. I was instantly transported to that time gone by, and sang along as if time had never passed at all. Music is magic.

[suzabella68]

@manciste91: I still listen to many of the solo musicians and group from the 60s and 70s because I'm an old lady who was young way back then. Thanks for the tip about Colosseum. I'll be sure to check them out!

[suzabella68]

BS&T were one of the greatest bands of the late 60s-early 70s era, and David Clayton-Thomas is right up there with Gregg Allman for great white soul singers! What a voice! And the horns are sizzling!

[manciste91]

@suzabella68 if you liisten to bs&t and allman broth, i've great esteem for you, so go to listen please something about colosseum, like for example "lost angeles/colosseum" (my favourite song)..it's only because bs&t allman bro and colosseum are my three favourite groups..enjoy yourself! ciao!

[chanlately]

@suzabella68 i'm sorry but ths kinda soul has NOTHING

to do with color.the 60's& 70's was a musical rennaisance and

color was irrelevant.DCT is a better soul singer than a lot of black

soul singers btw,i'm a black singer

[suzabella68]

BS&T were one of the greatest bands of the late 60s-early 70s era, and David Clayton-Thomas is right up there with Gregg Allman for great white soul singers! What a voice!

[wolfhearttx]

my marching band won championships with this band <3

[DankMcstankey]

Awesome jam.

[Nicoleisous]

You know when your marching good when the judges start singing the song! XD

[Merlintycoon]

Thanks for loading this incredible good music, have some more of this?

[kingnub93]

this is a song in my marching band show!

[l00gna]

@kingnub93 me too! it's epic :D

[kingnub93]

@l00gna austin? this is phil lol

[l00gna]

@kingnub93 yuppers! lolz

[40REDHED]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS-DAVID'S VOICE JUST THRILLS ME.

[greenmean1]

BS&Tears Man o Man what a great band they were!!

[mx6lover]

The 1 Fool who thumb'd down is just plain McEvil !

[datakaos]

je possedes ce vinyl depuis 40 ans !!! putain! c'a n'a pas vielli; great great voice ! mais ici tout set grand.......

[MiGrm9]

@mx6lover you got that rite honey!

[ptowne73]

Anyone wanting to learn a little about music.. just listen to this!

[Iketurner77]

AWESOME Song. Second onlky to Spinning Wheel as my favorite.

[smokindog]

The Good Stuff!

[kathryn611]

Oh I just love this...this was my favorite song on their record we had at home....I remember playing this over and over as a kid.

[Thejbirdy]

H A P P Y BIRTHDAY DAVID!!! YOU'RE AWESOME MAN!

Sept 13th 2010

[greenmean1]

@Thejbirdy I second that!!

[Thejbirdy]

@greenmean1 Way cool! This is my favorite band right now.

[navet1953]

Used to groove to this tune and other BS&T hits ridin' with my pal in his mustang on the way to High School....

[MiGrm9]

Sweet trumpet solo!!!

[theotherrundgren]

listen to my vids of original DARK music

[jdtarter]

The radio edit version which was released on BST Greatest Hits does not do justice to the long version from the LP! Thanks for posting, This is my all time favorite song! Lovin' the horns!

[manorlit]

I know her...she's married into my family!

[macanfly]

you'd think with a surname like "MacEvil" people would know to stay away from her

[1968RYS]

If "Lucretia MacEvil" shows up on your Caller ID, don't answer it!

[Fetusluxan]

I got several vinyls from these guys including this one, it's my treasure... this band is a legend

[buffetr13c]

Was this the opener of the show?

[untalt]

One of the few B,S, and T songs that David Clayton Thomas wrote himself

[joelperronful]

love this

[fabyo345]

trying so hard to learn the solo. i have to take it down an octave though.

[deathon10legs]

great, crazy... speechless my daughter is 15. She has this band in her ipod. Lukretia is one of her favorites since she was 13.

[deathon10legs]

great, crazy... speechless my daughter is 15. She has this band in her ipod. Lukretia is one of her favorites since she was 13.

[ttam2012]

My marching band played this song along with god bless the child and variations on a theme, just type in mars blood sweat and tears, it should be the first one, message me if you check this out because we won pimba championships and i want to see if any body actualy does check this out.

[irtakann]

I love this song!

[2gambler]

I grew up with this music in late 60's and early 70's, was the first to introduce horns. Then Chicago came on the scene with much the of the same . David Clayton Thomas was quite a story teller with his unique vocals. Much the same as Burton Cummings with The Guess Who. Both could tell a story with vocal mastery, and loving it all.

[stevevandien]

@2gambler I did as well -- only wish that I'd taken up trumpet back then:) --

[drdotislovinlife]

I fucking LOVE this song!!!!!

[Dain5000]

Smoking hot great song

[MosleyDonna]

Thanks for the reprise. The trumpet and the solo at the end is breathtaking!

I love David Clayton Thomas!

[Jazmckay]

David Clayton Thomas was one of the greatest singers of all times!!!!!!!!!

[AnthonyT50]

I bought their greatest hits way back in 1971 but have never heard Lucretia's Reprise! What an incredible ending to this song and it really showcases the talent this group had.

[TWoodspianist]

@AnthonyT50

Hi Anthony - the reprise is the icing on the cake!!!!

[StradMan37]

Thanks for your appreciation of the wildest, and most loved trumpet solo I've ever heard, AnthonyT50!

LEW SOLOFF STILL ROCKS!!! After all these decades, it still brings chills up & down my spine!

So glad that you are enjoying it, too!

[66aviv66]

AWESOME song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Stretchmancando]

No video. Don't waste our time!

[luluasher]

woo hoo my daddy named me lucreatia after this song. I lsuckin love it. ya know ya can call me lulu though.

[ggoodo11]

I just love this! thanks for posting :)

[steefbuis]

Great song. Thank you Johan derksen for putting it to my attention!

[toyotaphil54]

I was the 4th commentator a year ago. Nearly 14,000 views in a year ain't shabby! That's gotta feel good! Thanks again Codroy.

[roarlike]

This is my name. D:

[luluasher]

i am named after this song too. of course my last name isn't Mac Evil. Everything else they say is true ????? thanks dad.

[walkiriamaria]

I love to love

[walkiriamaria]

Fantasia.

[oblio1000]

Played guitar to this kinda stuff in high school stage band - Spinnin Wheel. On the AM radio all day long with Three Dog Night & Guess Who.

Have a great day,

Paul Golden

[milkieways]

could you ever hope for a better opening hook than these wonderful classic horns; my God I reached for the volume button the moment I heard those GD horns back then; not to mention same birthday as DCT/09-13.

[Firebutton]

Love the trumpet solo

[MetalSlugzMaster]

These guys were ahead of their time - very innovative, blending several styles of music with great results. Not to mention killer brass solos. Their greatest hits sound so good on vinyl! Pick one up if you're lucky enough to find one

[yearswasted619]

ha i just bought a used copy of their greatest hits on vinyl yesterday for 4 bucks. the covers a little messed up but the record is in great condition.

[eyeballmonkey]

Awesome song

[felinecarol]

Thank you, you brought back happy memories to a 63 yo....TA!!

[wolfhearttx]

This is the opener for my marching band's show apparently (I wouldn't be surprised if other Mars students are listening to this XD)

[whostolemywaffles]

I am a mars student and I'm listening to this :P :)

[wolfhearttx]

Oh hello...Chelsea? I think haha. Your one of the Funky Pirates people! Lol.

[whostolemywaffles]

why yes i am :)

[drflopolopogus]

cool thats our opener also Thigh here

[schaddsziii]

what a kind of bullshit

[ddttrrb72]

how do you mean this comment?

ON the music or the other comments?

[mswendystorm]

Is'nt this great or what!

[YNCSSW]

In the 60's all my friends thought Chicago's musicians were better than BS&T's, that is, until they heard this song - WOW!!!!

[BOSOX9004]

I believe it's spelled:

Watchu' gon' to do?!

; )

[ronman201]

BS&T Always give me Great Memories of the of theEarly 70's

[od98]

whew! Brings back a lot of memories....Cool song

[Birkebine]

Bought this album when it first came out, just for this song. Soon after, it had paved a new neuropathway in my 15-year-old brain. And to this day, no one gets on that two-lane blacktop, except for Lucy.

[562vert]

yea adam corrola got me hip to these guys get it on yea get it on got to get it on no choice but to get it on yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaa  i played tronbone in highschool at long beach poly high from 96 thru 2000 remind me of my horn playin days

[lsanchez2099]

YEEAH! GET IT ON!!