Blood, Sweat & Tears was an Canadian-American rock and roll group formed in New York City in 1967. Al Kooper, Jim Fielder, Fred Lipsius, Randy Brecker, Jerry Weiss, Dick Halligan, Steve Katz, and Bobby Colomby formed the original incarnation of the band, which was named after a 1963 album by Johnny Cash. Kooper was bandleader, having insisted on that position based on his experiences with Blues Project, his previous band, which had been organized as an egalitarian collective and fallen apart. Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York and abbreviated NYC) is the most populous city in the United States, and is at the center of international finance, politics, communications, music, fashion, and culture. ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Al Kooper (born February 5, American songwriter and musician, probably best known for organizing the group Blood, Sweat & Tears. ... Bobby Colomby was a leader as well as one of the founders of Blood, Sweat & Tears. ... Johnny Cash (February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American country music singer and songwriter, known to his fans as The Man in Black, and a member of the outlaw country movement. ... Egalitarianism is the moral doctrine that equality ought to prevail throughout society. ... Collectivism, in general, is a term used to describe a theoretical or practical emphasis on the group, as opposed to (and seen by many of its opponents to be at the expense of) the individual. ...

The group debuted at Cafe Au Go Go in New York City in 1967, opening for Moby Grape; the band was a hit with the audience, who liked the innovative fusion of jazz with psychedelic rock and roll. After signing to Columbia Records, the group released one of the most critically acclaimed albums of the 1960s, Child is Father to the Man. Without any pop-oriented hit singles, though, the album's sales were sluggish. While sales slowly picked up, personality conflicts started tearing apart the band. Colomby and Katz wanted to move Kooper to the organ exclusively and hire a vocalist for the group. With the debut album slowly achieving critical mass, Kooper left the group to become a record producer for Columbia. Randy Brecker and Jerry Weiss also quit, joining Horace Silver's band and Ambergris, respectively. Cafe Au Go Go is a night club in Greenwich Village. ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Moby Grape was a rock music group of the 1960s, formed by manager Matthew Katz (of Jefferson Airplane) in San Francisco. ... Jazz is a musical art form characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms, and improvisation. ... Psychedelic music is a musical genre which is not rigorously defined, and is sometimes interpreted to include everything from Flower Power music to Hard Rock and Acid Rock. ... Columbia Records is the oldest continually used brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888. ... This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1960s. ... Child Is Father to the Man is the debut album by a Blood, Sweat & Tears, released in February of 1968 (see 1968 in music). ... Depending on context, pop music is either an abbreviation of popular music or, more recently, a term for a sub-genre of it. ... In the music industry, record producer designates a person responsible for completing a master recording so that it is fit for release. ... Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver (born September 2, 1928) is a famous jazz pianist and composer. ... Ambergris (Ambra grisea, Ambre gris, or grey amber), a solid, fatty, flammable substance of a dull grey or blackish colour, the shades being variegated like marble, possessing a peculiar sweet, earthy odour. ...

Colomby and Katz started recruiting singers, considering the still unknown Stephen Stills and Laura Nyro before settling on David Clayton-Thomas, a Canadian singer. Chuck Winfield, Lew Soloff and Jerry Hyman joined soon after to bring the band up to nine total members. Blood, Sweat & Tears, the group's second, self-titled album, was released in 1969. The album was much more pop-oriented and soon hit the top of the charts and won Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards. It spawned three major hit singles: a cover of Brenda Holloway's "You've Made Me So Very Happy", Clayton-Thomas' "Spinning Wheel", and a version of Nyro's "And When I Die". Stephen Stills album cover Stephen Stills is an American guitarist and singer/songwriter best known for his work with the Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (at first it was Crosby, Stills and Nash; Young joined the group after their first album). ... Laura Nyro (born Laura Nigro on October 18, 1947 in The Bronx, New York, died April 8, 1997) was an American songwriter and singer. ... David Clayton-Thomas (born September 13, 1941 in London ( UK)) is a musician and singer. ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... The Grammy Award for Album of the Year has been awarded since 1959. ... The Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music Awards, and the... Brenda Holloway (born June 21, 1946 in Atascadero, California) is an African-American singer and songwriter best known for her period as a recording artist for the Motown label during the 1960s. ...

Because of the presence of horns and the lack of Al Kooper, Blood, Sweat & Tears had trouble holding onto any sort of countercultural hipness at a time when this was very important. This was compounded by a United States Department of State-sponsored tour of Eastern Europe. Any voluntary association with the government was extremely unpopular at the time, and the band was ridiculed for it. In retrospect, it is now known that the State Department subtly requested the tour in exchange for more amicability on the issue of Clayton-Thomas' visa. The United States Department of State, often referred to as the State Department, is the Cabinet-level foreign affairs agency of the United States government, equivalent to foreign ministries in other countries. ...

After returning Stateside, the group released Blood, Sweat & Tears 3; it was a critical and popular failure compared to the prior two albums. Compounding the image problems was a decision to play at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada, a notoriously unhip place in an unhip city. Their fourth album sold poorly too and Jerry Hyman was replaced by Dave Bargeron. Personality difficulties had split the group in rock and jazz factions with Clayton-Thomas in the middle; he chose to quit to pursue a solo career. He was replaced by Bob Doyle, then Jerry Fisher. Fred Lipsius quit and was replaced by Joe Henderson, then Lou Marini Jr.. Dick Halligan was replaced by Larry Willis while George Wadenius joined as a second guitarist. Amidst the personnel changes, a Greatest Hits album was released. The main entrance. ... Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign just to the south of the Las Vegas Strip welcoming visitors to the city City nickname: The Entertainment Capital of the World Location of Las Vegas in Nevada County Clark Mayor Oscar B. Goodman Area   â€“Land   â€“Water 293. ... Joe Henderson (April 24, 1937 - June 30, 2001) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. ... Lawrence Elliott Willis (born in 1940) is an American jazz pianist and composer. ...

The new group released New Blood but this album did not reestablish an audience. Jim Fielder and Steve Katz quit as the group moved more towards jazz. No Sweat and Mirror Image followed and sold miserably. Personnel changes continued at a breakneck pace, culminating in the return of David Calyton-Thomas and the release of a successful comeback album called New City. Though this reestablished an audience, Columbia Records dropped the group. After this, the group was effectively disbanded, though there was a brief resurgence in popularity once the old albums came out on CD. Vince Russo & Eric Bischoff The New Blood masterminds The New Blood was a professional wrestling stable in World Championship Wrestling in 2000. ... No Sweat is a campaigning organisation based in London, England, which fights for the rights of sweatshop labourers, not only in LEDCs but also in Britain - for example in Londons East End, in the borough of Tower Hamlets. ... In geometry, the mirror image of an object or two-dimensional figure is the virtual image formed by a plane mirror; it is of the same size as the original object, yet different, unless the object or figure has mirror-image symmetry (also known in the terminology of modern physics... New City is the name of several towns in the United States: New City in New York, New City Township in North Dakota. ...