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Blood, Sweat & Tears is the second album by the American band Blood, Sweat & Tears, released on December 11, 1968. It was the most commercially successful album for the group, 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.

Reception

AllMusic review by William Ruhlmann awarded the album 4.5 stars. The album was voted number 660 in the third edition of Colin Larkin’s All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000). It was selected for the 2006 book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

Track listing

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
Spinning Wheel
You’ve Made Me So Very Happy
Blues – Part II
Variation On A Theme By Erik Satie (1st Movement)

Personnel
David Clayton-Thomas – lead vocals except as noted
Steve Katz – guitar, harmonica, vocals, lead vocals on “Sometimes in Winter”
Jim Fielder – bass
Dick Halligan – organ, piano, flute, trombone, vocals
Fred Lipsius – alto saxophone, piano
Lew Soloff – trumpet, flugelhorn
Chuck Winfield – trumpet, flugelhorn
Alan Rubin – trumpet on “Spinning Wheel”
Jerry Hyman – trombone, recorder
Bobby Colomby – drums, percussion, vocals

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Released: December 11, 1968
Recorded: October 7–22, 1968
Studio: Columbia 30th Street, New York City
Length: 45:36 (Original)
Label: Columbia
Producer: James William Guercio