BLOOD SWEAT AND TEARS ORIG. `68 SEALED COLUMBIA GATEFOLD LP
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BLOOD SWEAT AND TEARS
SELF TITLED 68`ALBUM
Blood, Sweat & Tears is the second album by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears, released in 1968. It was a huge commercial success, rising to the top of the U.S. charts for a collective seven weeks and yielding three successive Top 5 singles. It received a Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1970 and has been certified quadruple platinum by the RIAA with sales of more than four million units in the U.S. In Canada, it enjoyed four runs and altogether eight weeks at No. 1 on the RPM national album chart.
This was Blood, Sweat & Tears' apex, and a testimony to the best of the jazz/rock movement. Created by the legendary Al Kooper, the band was one of the major movers in the late-1960s rock scene. Though Kooper had departed after the debut album, this follow-up is bold, brassy, and adventurous, and the arrival of David Clayton-Thomas gave the band a strong singer and focal point. Eclecticism abounds, as an interpretation of an Eric Satie composition is followed by a version of Traffic's "Smiling Phases." Hit singles galore were culled from this record--"Spinning Wheel," "You've Made Me So Very Happy," and "And When I Die,"--not to mention a superb rendition of Billie Holiday's "God Bless The Child."
BEAUTIFUL ORIGINAL `68 FIRST ISSUE (CS 9720) STEREO FACTORY SEALED MINT, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING ON THE COLUMBIA 2 EYE LABEL WITH RED SONG STICKER ATTACHED TO THE OUTER WRAP. THIS IS ONE THAT YOU JUST NEVER SEE, PERIOD! MOST PEOPLE WHO BOUGHT THIS QUICKLY TORE THE SHRINKWRAP OFF TO SEE THE INSIDE GATEFOLD, AND GONE WAS THE STICKER. YOU DON'T EVEN SEE ANY OPENED COPIES WITH IT ANYMORE! HEAVY CARDBOARD COVER WITH ZERO WEAR, SO IMMACULATE IT LOOKS LIKE IT WAS PRESSED RECENTLY, BUT THERE IS NO DOUBT THIS IS A FIRST ISSUE, AND NOT A 180 GRAM OR LATER 70`S PRESSING. NO SHRINKWRAP TEARS WITH PRICE STICKER (2.99) AT UPPER RIGHT CORNER. 4 PERFECTLY SQUARED CORNERS, WIDE SPINE- MUSEUM QUALITY THAT CANNOT BE MATCHED. YOU WON'T SEE ANOTHER ONE ANYTIME SOON, IF EVER! RELEASED ON DECEMBER 11TH, OF 1968
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