What The Hell Happened To Blood Sweat & Tears?

1.Somethin’ Comin’ On (4:50)

2.God Bless the Child (7:44)

3. Spinning Wheel (4:22)

4. Something Goin’ On/Blues, Pt. II (15:34)

5. Hi-De-Ho (6:56)

6. And When I Die (5:17)

7. Sometimes in Winter (4:06)

8. Smiling Phases (4:20)

9. You’ve Made Me So Very Happy (5:50)

10. I Can’t Quit Her (4:36)

Personnel

David Clayton-Thomas (lead vocals).

Lew Soloff (Lead trumpet)

Chuck Winfield (trumpet)

Jerry Hyman (trombone)

Dick Halligan (organ/trombone)

Fred Lipsius (sax/electric piano)

Steve Katz (guitar/harmonica/vocal “Sometimes In Winter”)

Jim Fielder (bass)

Bobby Colomby (drums)

Produced: 2023

Produced by: Bobby Colomby

Review

This is an absolutely sensational live archive album by Blood, Sweat & Tears, recorded in June / July 1970 during their Eastern European tour behind the Iron

Curtain, organized and sponsored by the State Department, which included shows in Zagreb, Yugoslavia / Bucharest, Romania and Warsaw, Poland. The shows were

filmed and recorded for a documentary, and remained lost for over fifty years, finally to be re-discovered and now released This CD is the soundtrack of the documentary.

The audio quality sounds like it might have been recently recorded. The album presents ten tracks, most of which were recorded during the final concert in Warsaw,

including their biggest hits (“Spinning Wheel,” “And When I Die,” and more) and music from their upcoming not-yet-released third album (Blood, Sweat & Tears 3),

This concert shows the band in top form. The instrumentations in the solos shows virtuosos at their best. It's interesting to hear the extended instrumental trade-offs

on "Somethin' Goin' On"/"Blues Part II," especially those of saxophonist Fred Lipsius and organist/trombonist Dick Halligan.

What The Hell Happened To Blood Sweat & Tears?

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