SPEAKERS CORNER LP TEST PRESSING 30090: Blood Sweat and Tears - 3 - 2011 NEW
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$ 75
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Sep 10, 2016
Sold Date
Nov 12, 2015
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Background -
- This is a Speakers Corner LP TEST PRESSING!
- It comes in a plain jacket with no artwork.
- It has NEVER BEEN PLAYED, in mint condition.
- Inside the jacket there is an insert with information about the LP.
- The record labels are WHITE with "ONLY FOR PROMOTION" written on them.
- The dead wax around the record labels has the correct stamper information for this issue.
- Please note that the picture we have included with this listing is of a generic white jacket test pressing title. The actual item for sale is in a BLACK jacket.
- We have also included pictures of what the LP artwork looks like, for reference only.
Blood, Sweat & Tears (also known as "BS&T") is a contemporary jazz-rock American music group. They are noted for their combination of brass and rock band instrumentation. The group recorded songs by rock/folk songwriters such as Laura Nyro, James Taylor, the Band, the Rolling Stones, as well as Billie Holiday and Erik Satie. They also incorporated music from Thelonious Monk and Sergei Prokofiev into their arrangements.
They were originally formed in 1967 in New York City. Since their beginnings, the band has gone through numerous iterations with varying personnel and has encompassed a multitude of musical styles. The band is most notable for fusing of rock, blues, pop music, horn arrangements and jazz improvisation into a hybrid that came to be known as "jazz-rock". Unlike "jazz fusion" bands, which tend toward virtuosic displays of instrumental facility and some experimentation with electric instruments, the songs of Blood, Sweat & Tears merged the stylings of rock, pop and R&B/soul music with big band, while also adding elements of 20th Century Classical and small combo jazz traditions.
Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 is the third album by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears, released in 1970. After the huge success of their previous album, Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 was highly anticipated and it rose quickly to the top of the US album chart. It also yielded two hit singles: a cover of Carole King's "Hi-De-Ho," and "Lucretia MacEvil." However, the album relied heavily on cover material and it received lukewarm reviews (this may also have been influenced by the band's participation in an unpopular U.S. government-sponsored tour of Eastern Europe).
1970 was a really good year for Blood, Sweat & Tears. The colorful, distinguished group was awarded a Grammy in the categories “Album of the Year”, “Best Contemporary Instrumental Performance”, and “Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)”.
The concept of merging jazz, blues and arrangements of classical themes worked well, with music journalist Leonard Feather commenting that “it brought music into rock”. Everything seemed to be allowed - as long as it sounded good: almost spontaneously, it seems, the musicians develop a somewhat boozy, cheery “Hi-De-Ho” happening out of synthetically created chivalric fanfares, or conjure up a medieval scenario (“The Battle”) with the archaic sound of a harpsichord and solo voice. That caustic big-band soul (“Lucrezia MacEvil”) and seemingly familiar rock songs (“Fire And Rain”) find their niche here fits in with the free spirit of this third album, which boasts no otherwise specified title. One listens to this disc, wondering what surprise is in store in the next beat, the next phrase, the next number. And there is a wonderfully liberating feeling in knowing that nothing is a ‘must’ but all is allowed.
After the runaway success of Blood, Sweat & Tears' self-titled 1968 album, the band returned with the appropriately titled 3 in 1970. As its predecessor, 3 also rose to the top of the charts, yielding the two hit singles "Lucretia MacEvil" and Carole King's "Hi-De-Ho." In addition, the free flowing affair also includes sparkling renditions of Laura Nyro’s "He's a Runner," Traffic’s "40,000 Headmen," a grandiose version of the Rolling Stone’s "Sympathy for the Devil" and a compelling take on James Taylor's "Fire and Rain."
This TEST PRESSING LP was made by SPEAKERS CORNER (Germany) // Columbia Records - this is a highly collectible title from their catalog, featuring -
Blood, Sweat & Tears
LP title -
3
Performers on this title include -- David Clayton-Thomas - lead vocals (all but 2)
Fred Lipsius - alto saxophone, piano, backing vocals, electric piano, music box
Lew Soloff - trumpet, flugelhorn, piccolo trumpet
Chuck Winfield - trumpet, flugelhorn
Jerry Hyman - trombone, bass trombone, recorder
Steve Katz - guitar, lead vocals (2), harmonica
Dick Halligan - organ, backing vocals, piano, electric piano, harpsichord, celeste, trombone, flute, alto flute, baritone horn
Jim Fielder - bass
Bobby Colomby - drums, backing vocals, percussion
Track Listing -
1. "Hi-De-Ho" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) – 4:272. "The Battle" (Dick Halligan, Steve Katz) – 2:41
3. "Lucretia MacEvil" (David Clayton-Thomas) – 3:04
4. "Lucretia's Reprise" (Blood, Sweat & Tears) – 2:35
5. "Fire and Rain" (James Taylor) – 4:03
6. "Lonesome Suzie" (Richard Manuel) – 4:36
7. "Symphony for the Devil" (Dick Halligan) / "Sympathy for the Devil" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) – 7:49
8. " He's a Runner" (Laura Nyro) – 4:14
9. "Somethin' Comin' On" (Joe Cocker, Chris Stainton) – 4:33
10. "40,000 Headmen" (Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi) – 4:44
For best results, always properly clean your LPs before playing them - even brand new ones!
The LP is an audiophile quality pressing (any collector of fine MFSL, half speeds, direct to discs, Japanese/UK pressings etc., can attest to the difference a quality pressing can make to an audio system).
Don't let this rarity slip by!!!
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