BLOOD SWEAT & TEARS AL KOOPER CHILD IS FATHER MONO WLP White Label PROMO 1968

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Here is the ultra rare MONO White Label PROMO First pressing of Blood, Sweat, & Tears debut album from 1968 Child Is Father To The Man. This record was NEVER played on the air at the radio station it came from. How do I know this? I was a DJ at radio station from 1971-1973. I "liberated" this album from the radio station shortly after I started working there in May of 1971. The B,S, & T was kept in a storage room with some other records that our music director felt were not worthy of air play. Ok ,here is the situation. The record in VG++ on the vinyl and VG+ on the cover. I have kept the record stored upright with my other records. I burned myself a Mono CDR of it circa 2003 with no problems or editing of the disc.. The cover someone(not me!) took the timing strip off the front. Someone(not me) Stamped the front and back cover with the radio station name and address KBZB Radio, 511 North Lincoln, Odessa, Texas. The seams are all tight and firm. There is cover wear as is shown in the photos of the front and back cover. I'm cutting loose of this and a lot of other records as I need to downsize. Child Is Father to the Man is keyboard player/singer/arranger Al Kooper's finest work, an album on which he moves the folk-blues-rock amalgamation of the Blues Project into even wider pastures, taking in classical and jazz elements (including strings and horns), all without losing the pop essence that makes the hybrid work. This is one of the great albums of the eclectic post-Sgt. Pepper era of the late '60s, a time when you could borrow styles from Greenwich Village contemporary folk to San Francisco acid rock and mix them into what seemed to have the potential to become a new American musical form. It's Kooper's bluesy songs, such as "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know" and "I Can't Quit Her," and his singing that are the primary focus, but the album is an aural delight; listen to the way the bass guitar interacts with the horns on "My Days Are Numbered" or the charming arrangement and Steve Katz's vocal on Tim Buckley's "Morning Glory." Then Kooper sings Harry Nilsson's "Without Her" over a delicate, jazzy backing with flügelhorn/alto saxophone interplay by Randy Brecker and Fred Lipsius. This is the sound of a group of virtuosos enjoying itself in the newly open possibilities of pop music. Maybe it couldn't have lasted; anyway, it didn't. (EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY WILLIAM RUHLMAN, ALL MUSIC GUIDE /ALLMUSIC.COM/) This is the album which - for many people - introduced Rock to Jazz and vice versa (and Blood, Sweat and Tears to the world public as a potent force to be reckoned with). Unlike the subsequent BS+T albums, Al Kooper plays a critical role on this one, and what a role it is: you haven't heard a blues ballad unless and until you hear "I love you more than you'll ever know", a paean to a lost love, and the finest blues number EVER penned by the white man. The sound quality will leave you begging for more. The material on this album aged more gracefully than most of the other so-called jazz-rock albums (Chicago; Chase, etc). The most intriguing aspect of the album is its sequencing; namely, the songs, which range from BS&T’s version of Tim Buckley's "Morning Glory" (Later covered by Linda Ronstadt as "Hobo"), Randy Newman's "Just one smile" and Carole King's "So much love" mingle with a variety of other, vigorous and rocking B,S & T originals, to shape an album which flows seamlessly and effortlessly and operates like a conceptual album, in which each part plays its own, specific, unique role. This may be your last chance to own this classic album in its clearest, original, most coveted form. Track listing: Overture - I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know - Morning Glory - My Days Are Numbered - Without Her - Just One Smile - I Can't Quit Her - Meagan's Gypsy Eyes - Somethin' Goin' On - House In The Country - Modern Adventures Of Plato, Diogenes & Freud, The - So Much Love / Underture