Live (Blood, Sweat & Tears album)

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Live
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Live album by
ReleasedFebruary 1995
RecordedOctober 12, 1980
Genre Rock, Jazz
Label Avenue
Producer Jerry Goldstein
Blood, Sweat & Tears chronology
Live and Improvised
(1991)
Live
(1995)

Live is a live album by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears, that was recorded in 1980 and released on compact disc in 1995 by Avenue Records through Rhino Records. This album was recorded at the Street Scene in Downtown Los Angeles on October 12, 1980. This set was recorded five years after the Live In Concert/Live And Improvised album. The band's hit songs included in this collection were compressed into a 15-minute medley instead of the full-length versions that were included on their previous live album. The rest of the songs here are from the Nuclear Blues album they were touring to support at the time of this recording. One exception was an 11 12-minute version of "Gimme That Wine" that was originally released on the Brand New Day album in 1977.

Blood, Sweat & Tears American rock music band

Blood, Sweat & Tears is a jazz-rock Canadian-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 and the Rolling Stones as well as Billie Holiday and Erik Satie. They also incorporated music from Thelonious Monk and Sergei Prokofiev into their arrangements.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Intro" – :25
  2. "Agitato" (Bruce Cassidy) – 6:19
  3. "Nuclear Blues" (David Clayton-Thomas) – 4:08
  4. "Manic Depression" (Jimi Hendrix) – 4:45
  5. Medley:
    1. "God Bless the Child" (Arthur Herzog, Billie Holiday) – 2:57
    2. "Lucretia Mac Evil" (David Clayton-Thomas) – 1:12
    3. "Hi-De-Ho" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) – 5:33
    4. "And When I Die" (Laura Nyro) – 1:36
    5. "Spinning Wheel" (David Clayton-Thomas) – 1:12
    6. "You've Made Me So Very Happy" (Berry Gordy Jr., Brenda Holloway, Frank Wilson, Patrice Holloway) – 2:35
  6. (Suite) Spanish Wine
    1. "Introduction La Cantina" (Rob Piltch) – 2:31
    2. "(Theme) Spanish Wine" (Bruce Cassidy) – 1:03
    3. "Latin Fire" (Bruce Cassidy, Dave Piltch, Vern Dorge, Bobby Economou, Richard Martinez, Earl Seymour) – 3:32
    4. "(Theme) Spanish Wine" (Bruce Cassidy) – 0:15
    5. "The Duel" (Bruce Cassidy, Dave Piltch, Vern Dorge, Bobby Economou, Richard Martinez, Earl Seymour) – 0:20
    6. "The Challenge" (Bruce Cassidy, Dave Piltch, Vern Dorge, Bobby Economou, Richard Martinez, Earl Seymour) – 0:50
    7. "Amor" (Bruce Cassidy, Dave Piltch, Vern Dorge, Bobby Economou, Richard Martinez, Earl Seymour) – 1:24
    8. "(Theme) Spanish Wine" (Bruce Cassidy) – 1:04
  7. "I'll Drown In My Own Tears" (Henry Glover) – 10:18
  8. "Gimme That Wine" (Jon Hendricks) – 11:30
  9. "Trouble in Mind/Shake a Hand" (Richard M. Jones) / (Joe Morris) – 6:38

Personnel

David Clayton-Thomas British-Canadian musician

David Clayton-Thomas is a Grammy Award-winning Canadian musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the American band Blood, Sweat & Tears. Clayton-Thomas has been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and in 2007 his jazz/rock composition "Spinning Wheel" was enshrined in the Canadian Songwriter's Hall of Fame. In 2010 Clayton-Thomas received his star on Canada's Walk of Fame.

The personnel listed on the actual album of this are incorrect. The above is correct.

Production notes

Gerald Goldstein is an American producer, singer-songwriter, talent manager, music executive, musician and entrepreneur. He was one of the members of The Strangeloves, the co-writer of "My Boyfriend's Back" and "Come on Down to My Boat", the producer and songwriter of War, and the former manager of Sly and the Family Stone. Goldstein produced a single with teenage singer, Nancy Baron in 1963 for the Diamond Record label. Goldstein was part of a three-person production team which wrote and produced numerous records which are referred to as "FGG"-Feldman, Goldstein and Gottehrer. The numerous artists and their work in collaboration with FGG are listed in a Discography included in the references below.

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