Blood Sweat & Tears - Blood Sweat & Tears (2LP, 45RPM, MOFI, 1STEP, SuperVinyl)
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Lead Vocals – David Clayton-Thomas (A1-2, B1 to D2)
Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals – Steve Katz
Alto Saxophone, Piano – Fred Lipsius
Bass – Jim Fielder
Chorus [BS&T Chorus] – Bobby Colomby, Dick Halligan
Drums, Percussion, Vocals – Bobby Colomby
Organ, Piano, Flute, Trombone, Vocals – Dick Halligan
Trombone, Recorder – Jerry Hyman
Trumpet, Flugelhorn [Flügelhorn] – Chuck Winfield, Lew Soloff
Arranged by Al Kooper (A2, B1, C2), Blood, Sweat And Tears, Dick Halligan (A1-3, B2-3, D2), Fred Lipsius (A2, B1, C2)
2 LPs, Box set
Limited numbered edition
Original analog Master tape : YES
UD1S (UltraDisc One-Step)
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 45 RPM
Size : 12'’
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : RTI
Label : MOFI
Original Label : Columbia
Engineered & mixed by : Fred Catero, Roy Halee
Produced by James William Guercio
Mastered by Krieg Wunderlich
Originally released in 1968
Reissued in 2021
Tracks:
Side A :
- Variations On A Theme By Erik Satie
- Smiling Phases
- Sometimes in Winter
Side B:
- More and More
- And When I Die
- God Bless The Child
Side C :
- Spinning Wheel
- You've Made Me So Very Happy
Side D:
- Blues - Part II
- Variations On A Theme By Erik Satie
Awards:
TAS Super LP List! Special Merit: Informal
Winner of three Grammy Awards in 1970 : "Album of the Year", Best Arrangment for "Spinning Wheel" and Best Contemporary Instrumental Perfomance for "Variations on a Theme by Erik Satie"
Reviews :
"A classical feeling is imparted by the opening and closing tracks, which are adapted from one of Erik Saties Trois Gymnopedies by arranger Dick Halligan. They bookend this albumone of the most original in pop music evermost successfully. This has always seemed to me one of the best-designed and performed of all the 60s rock efforts, and its great to have it in the ultimate fidelity of this newly-remastered 45 rpm version... In comparison with the Columbia SACD, the vinyl 45s win out. They have much more deep bass end and a warmer overall feeling than the SACD. On the 45s, there is absolutely no surface noise or distortion, except where intended on some of the instruments... ORG has established itself as the Rolls-Royce of the audiophile vinyl reissue genre." - John Henry, Audiophile Audition
"The difference between Blood, Sweat & Tears and the group's preceding long-player, Child Is Father to the Man, is the difference between a monumental seller and a record that was "merely" a huge critical success. Arguably, the Blood, Sweat & Tears that made this self-titled second album -- consisting of five of the eight original members and four newcomers, including singer David Clayton-Thomas -- was really a different group from the one that made Child Is Father to the Man, which was done largely under the direction of singer/songwriter/keyboard player/arranger Al Kooper. They had certain similarities to the original: the musical mixture of classical, jazz, and rock elements was still apparent, and the interplay between the horns and the keyboards was still occurring, even if those instruments were being played by different people. Kooper was even still present as an arranger on two tracks, notably the initial hit "You've Made Me So Very Happy." But the second BS&T, under the aegis of producer James William Guercio, was a less adventurous unit, and, as fronted by Clayton-Thomas, a far more commercial one. Not only did the album contain three songs that neared the top of the charts as singles -- "Happy," "Spinning Wheel," and "And When I Die" -- but the whole album, including an arrangement of "God Bless the Child" and the radical rewrite of Traffic's "Smiling Phases," was wonderfully accessible. It was a repertoire to build a career on, and Blood, Sweat & Tears did exactly that, although they never came close to equaling this album." AllMusic Review by William Ruhlmann
UltraDisc One-Step : Instead of utilizing the industry-standard three-step lacquer process, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab's new UltraDisc One-Step (UD1S) uses only one step, bypassing two processes of generational loss. While three-step processing is designed for optimum yield and efficiency, UD1S is created for the ultimate in sound quality. Just as Mobile Fidelity pioneered the UHQR (Ultra High-Quality Record) with JVC in the 1980s, UD1S again represents another state-of-the-art advance in the record-manufacturing process. MFSL engineers begin with the original master tapes and meticulously cut a set of lacquers. These lacquers are used to create a very fragile, pristine UD1S stamper called a "convert." Delicate "converts" are then formed into the actual record stampers, producing a final product that literally and figuratively brings you closer to the music. By skipping the additional steps of pulling another positive and an additional negative, as done in the three-step process used in standard pressings, UD1S produces a final LP with the lowest noise floor possible today. The removal of the additional two steps of generational loss in the plating process reveals tremendous amounts of extra musical detail and dynamics, which are otherwise lost due to the standard copying process. The exclusive nature of these very limited pressings guarantees that every UD1S pressing serves as an immaculate replica of the lacquer sourced directly from the original master tape. Every conceivable aspect of vinyl production is optimized to produce the most perfect record album available today.
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Ratings :
AllMusic : 4,5 / 5 , Discogs : 4,06 / 5