Product Description
Hard To Find Actual 1968 Japanese First Pressing! Includes 4-Page Insert With Lyrics In English & Notes In Japanese. An Audiophile Delight, The Self-Titled Second Blood, Sweat And Tears LP Features “Spinning Wheel”, “And When I Die”, “You’ve Made Me So Very Happy”, “God Bless The Child” & More!
Condition – Vinyl: VERY GOOD PLUS! Side 1 is VG+ (surface mark briefly audible on “Sometimes In Winter”). Side 2 is EX! Superb sound!!
Condition – Cover: EXCELLENT! Cover is still in great condition. Insert is VG.
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Nice condition original Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer ~ and therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Side 1:
Variations On A Theme By Erik Satie (1st And 2nd Movements)
Smiling Phases
Sometimes In Winter
More And More
And When I Die
God Bless The Child
Side 2:
Spinning Wheel
You’ve Made Me So Very Happy
Blues – Part II
Variation On A Theme By Erik Satie (1st Movement)
AMG –
A repertoire to build a career on, and Blood, Sweat & Tears did exactly that, although they never came close to equaling this album. 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.