Blood Sweat & Tears Child Is Father To The Man Mono WL Promo LP Columbia 2-Eye

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Blood Sweat & Tears Child Is Father To The Man VG+ White Label Promo Vinyl LP Columbia 2-Eye - CS9619 MONO First Pressing (1968)
Condition: VG+ Vinyl and VG Cover. White Label Promo. Great fidelity, mono first pressing. Some visual scuffs; no skips. Promo Sticker on front, which is partially torn off. Cover is structurally sound. 
Child Is Father to the Man is the debut album by Blood, Sweat & Tears, released in February 1968. It reached number 47 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart in the United States. In 2012, the album was ranked number 266 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
AllMusic Review by William Ruhlman:
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... 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."
Track listing "Overture" (Al Kooper) – 1:32 "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know" (Kooper)– 5:57 "Morning Glory" (Larry Beckett, Tim Buckley) – 4:16 "My Days Are Numbered" (Kooper) – 3:19 "Without Her" (Harry Nilsson) – 2:41 "Just One Smile" (Randy Newman) – 4:38 "I Can't Quit Her" (Kooper, Irwin Levine) – 3:38 "Meagan's Gypsy Eyes" (Steve Katz) – 3:24 "Somethin' Goin' On" (Kooper) – 8:00 "House in the Country" (Kooper) – 3:04 "The Modern Adventures of Plato, Diogenes and Freud" (Kooper) – 4:12 "So Much Love"/"Underture" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) – 4:47
Blood, Sweat & Tears
Randy Brecker – trumpet, flugelhorn Bobby Colomby – drums, percussion; backing vocals (tracks 4, 10) Jim Fielder – bass guitar, fretless bass guitar Dick Halligan – trombone Steve Katz – guitars; lead vocals (tracks 3, 8); backing vocals (tracks 3); lute (track 6) Al Kooper – organ, piano; lead vocals (tracks 2, 4-7, 9-12); ondioline (track 8) Fred Lipsius – piano, alto saxophone Jerry Weiss – trumpet, flugelhorn; backing vocals (track 4)
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