Blood Sweat & Tears AL KOOPER Child Is Father To The Man NM Shrink Orig.1968 LP

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Blood Sweat & Tears AL KOOPER Child Is Father To The Man NM Shrink Orig.1968 LP

Large Group of RARE 1960's and PSYCH LP Listings this series
                                   ...hopefully more than 150, if I can get them all done
Several FIRST PRESSINGS, PRIVATE ISSUES and PROMOS included.
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A wide variety of vintage Psych, Folk-Rock, Garage, Beat, '60s and British Rock.
A few choice Folk, Surf, Soul and 60's oddities included!
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All opening bids in the auction series begin at only $0.98
Being the middle of summer, I know that many of these will sell way too low, as so many bidders are away now.
So everybody here has a good shot at taking some of these beauties home! GOOD LUCK ALL!!
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Each auction features full, edge-to-edge, High Resolution Photos.
Many with multiple sound-clips taken directly from the LP on auction.
I simply didn't have enough time to create / add sound-clips to ALL of the auctions.
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Most of the vinyl is in EX to NM condition -a few VG+
Condition Details / Specifics for this LP listed below.
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This auction is for:
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BLOOD SWEAT & TEARS

Featuring AL KOOPER
Child is Father to The Man
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COLUMBIA Records CS 9619
Original 1968 issue • Stereo LP
VERY EARLY Original PRESSING (1C / 1C)
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VINYL is NM
Looks and Plays Like New. 1st issue 360 SOUND '2-EYE' labels are pristine both sides.
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COVER is NM
Still in the original shrink wrap, super-clean, sharp-cornered, straight-edged and crisp all around with no dings, creases or marks.

MATRIX NUMBERS
SIDE 1 XSM135785 -1C
SIDE 2 XSM135786 -1C

"P. F. Catero" etched into the dead wax.
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Produced by JOHN SIMON
Engineered by FRED CATERO.

2-EYE "360 SOUND" Labels
.Original COLUMBIA Company inner sleeve included.

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Blood Sweat & Tears' superb debut, in the original incarnation
led by founder AL KOOPER -before he left -and the band veered directly for the
middle-of-the-road with Kooper's replacement David Clayton-Thomas.

"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.
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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.
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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".
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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."
 ~AllMusicGuide REVIEW

"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.
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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, and indeed even the post-Kooper version of BS&T). 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", 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." ~online Review

Please see my other auctions for more
Collectible, Vintage 1960's Psych LPs.

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