Blood, Sweat & Tears "Smiling Phases" on The Ed Sullivan Show
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David Clayton Thomas! What a voice! Bobby Columby! What a drummer!
And Lew Soloff a genius trumpeter, playing afterwards with Thad Jones/Mel Lewis and Gil Evans big bands on seminal jazz records, along with BS&T mate trombonist, the amazing Dave Bargeron.
OK, OK, let's not forget the great Fred Lipsius on tenor sax - and piano!!
@@RubyBandUSA Also Dick Halligan on keyboards,trombone and flute and the under rated fine trumpeter Chuck Winfield as well as trombonist Jerry Hyman who became a dentist in the following years.
I just met Bobby
@@RubyBandUSAYeah the Great "Fred Lipsius"!!!
Their first 4 albums are wonderful, the second one is a pure masterpiece...up there with the best Chicago records if not even better...and their drummer was astonishing.
This was their best line-up ever, shown on 2nd,3rd and 4th albums, switching on the 4th the great Dave Bargeron for Jerry Hyman on trombone.
Bobby Colomby
The 5th album kicked ass also
Wasn't Guercio (SP?) the producer for the 2nd album and also Chicago's first few? Check out Jim Fiedler on that Fender bass....Dick Halligan...and all the others everyone mentions...Yowsa!
Their second album was their best.
Fabulous band, all accomplished musicians, especially Lew Soloff. These guys broke a mould, barriers and got many younger people into jazz etc......... Mr Fielder was also superb on bass.
Man look here, I'm a black man who loves music and I can truly say that this group got screwed tremendously. Their musicianship, showmanship, vocal, and sound unmatched. 😢 It's a shame how they were blackballed from the music industry for being outspoken.
What did they say that was outspoken?
Was it their trip to Eastern Europe? New documentary covers that tour.
How were they blackballed?
They were never blackballed
What a great Band.David Clayton Thomas is one on of the Greatest Vocalist Front Men ever!
Bobby Columby on drums. He and Danny Seraphine (Chicago) were 2 drummers who helped me realize how important it is to merge jazz music and rock music.
Yes, yet Dino Danelli of Rascals was First ,by a longshot.
Both bands brought out the great jazz-rock sound of the '60s. Danny was greatly influential to me as a drummer. Then Chicago went and started doing sappy ballads and he was left playing quarter notes on the high hat. What a waste.
WOW this guy is undoubtedly one of the greatest vocalist I'd ever heard in all my life ❤️😍❤️
His side gig on triangle was less successful.
Really one of the best! No mistaking that voice and that band!
The best brass section in Rock & Roll!
B, S, & T had such wonderful, distinctive arrangements!
I'm thinking maybe Tower of Power Or Chicago They were good But the competition was strong
@@cliffwilleford9970 Definitely two worthy contenders for the crown...
the always under appreciated horn band was early Sons of Champlain. from 1968- 1970
Don’t forget the band The Ides of March which also came out of a Chicago suburb. Their giant hit Vehicle shot up the charts in 1970.
Gone was the concept of a 4 player rock or pop group when these guys introduced a jazz element into popular music, leading the way for groups like Chicago. "Smiling Phases" was an LP cut from an album that had three top 5 singles, sold millions of units, and won the Grammy for Album Of The Year. Hearing this performance, you can understand why the album was a giant.
Yup. Produced by Chicago's manager James William Guercio. Long story behind that!
An inspiration for a lot of us school band kids at the time!
This was February, 1969 and the album Chicago Transit Authority would come out in April. That band would shorten its name to Chicago.
The second album was definitely slicker than its predecessor, though I like them both a lot. And it's interesting that the blueprint for that second album was set forth by Kooper ("Smiling Phases" being one of his song choices), while the production was overseen by Guercio. They kind of self-produced the next few albums, with varying results, and by '74, only the drummer remained.
👍👏👏👏👏
Dude’s exuberance is wonderful!
I saw them in concert in Paris 1972. What a show ! Top group underated.
Bobby Colomby - best of the jazz-rock horn band drummers!!
Spectacular!
On a humorous note, it looks like David Clayton Thomas pre-saged Ed Grimley.
I met trumpeter Phil Driscoll a few years ago. He respected his bandmates for their sheer raw talent. He still amazes me.
As a kid I never missed the bands on Ed, I remember this and nice to see great musicians having fun.
I love being able to watch these again, some I remember so well, I can remember who I watched with and what was going on at the time. Miriam Makebe was unforgettable. My mother was a very good singer, and we both fell in love with Miriam singing "Pata Pata" on Ed Sullivan.
As a child, I expected that my mother would one day perform on Ed Sullivan because she sang better than many famous people. She thought that was cute. I was blessed to have her as my mom. I wish I could hear her sing today.
From CUBA.
Just one word to identify something that doesn't exist anymore at that level MUSIC.
What capacity of creation. A mix of the simple and the complex.
Blood Sweat and Tears and All Kooper, something unrepeatable.
BST is in my top 5 bands of all time.. this is the best footage of the classic lineup I have ever seen and heard ... BRAVO!
😂watch out for that big triangle bit!!
Don’t mess it up Dave. !!
If not the first they were the Best band to fuse Jazz, Pop and Rock into a musical force that was greater than the sum of its parts. DCT's powerhouse vocals assured chart success so they could get gigs like Ed Sullivan.
I was just a dumb fifth grader when all this happened but I was knowledgeable enough to make BS&T second album the very first LP I purchased with my own money!
In 1972 I saw them in concert in Abilene Texas. Besides liking the music what stood out to this day is David Clayton Thomas's voice. He was so loud you could hear him above the sound system. I was 5 rows back and I couldn't believe the power in his voice.
Just found out about them recently and Clayton's voice is CRAZY INCREDIBLY AMAZING 😮
great bassist in Jim Fielder.The Al Kooper led BSand T with Child is Father To The Man is still their classic album from start to finish. Well conceived.
How epic is his guitar strap? He can use that thing for a hammock when he wants to take a nap! He is very talented, handsome too
@@LazyIRanch LOL good observation
Fielder stands among the best. Very under appreciated.
@@DominusOminous had already played on sessions with buffalo Springfield and Zappa and the Mothers
Phenomenal player. Monster!
What a time it was back then.
Indeed. Real music performed by real musicians. David Clayton-Thomas is brilliant as lead singer.
I remember several of their songs ('Spinning Wheel', 'And When I Die', You've Made Me So Very Happy', 'Go Down Gamblin', 'God Bless The Child') but must admit I had never heard this one before.
@@hanno-erdmanntietz8424 this song was from an early Traffic album.
@@hanno-erdmanntietz8424 I know, right? Instrumentalists that could write actual arrangements with actual chord progressions. Go back and listen to some of those old Chicago albums - very adventurous music.
@@ciscokid516 They wrote it....
@@hanno-erdmanntietz8424
I always thought it was _Smiling Faces._
How come a man and his band like this isn't in the rock and roll hall of fame ❓❓ THIS man's vocals were incredibly astonishing 🔥🔥🔥 WOW he's a beast on that microphone WOW i am incredibly impressed how come the academy hasn't acknowledged the band blood sweat and tears❓❓❓
I was born the last day of '68 and I still remember rockin' out to their music growing up.
Man he sings live superbly
WOW! Forgot just how great these guys were! Bobby Colomby was amazing! Even Buddy liked him!
They had big hits in 1969. The band appeared at Woodstock but they went on stage at night and much of the footage was unusable.
Wow what a shame!
You can see them doing More & More from Woodstock on CZcams. Pretty kick ass.
Great rendition of the Traffic song, great lyrics written by Jim Capaldi and Chris Wood.
I love BST and I also love Traffic!
Was 4 in '75 when i first heard BST. Was in a white Connie with BST playing on the 8 track! always wondered what the band looked like, what David looked like. He looks as I imagined him to be 💯
I believe the 69'-70' version of Blood,Sweat, and Tears was the best, with David Clayton Thomas doing the lead vocals and a magnificent horn section with Fred Lipsius,
Dick Halligan, Lew Soloff,Chuck Winfield, and Jerry Heyman.
I never knew the band also features the most virtuosic triangle performance in rock.
LOL
Major goose bumps! What a performance!!!
Holy shit!! This is the best thing ever!!
Great band, I'll be playing them later today in my DJ set.
Great that they performed live and did not lip-sync.
Wow. Their second album was only in stores for a couple of months when they appeared on Sullivan. Amazing performance
Sounds so Great Live!!! Fantastic group...my very favorite horn band and I love covering their tunes the most when I can...
So many elements to this wonderful band, it typified the era,
Just watched this on ES. Wow never heard this! Imo David had the best voice of that era and genre!😍
I think they are actually playing live. Awesome for TV at that time.
Of course they are. The bass alone shows that. Amazing live vocals
Don't forget Jim Fielder on electric bass. One of the best -- pre BS&T, he "sat in" briefly for Bruce Palmer when the latter was unable to record with Buffalo Springfield. That's his bass on "Pretty Girl Why" and he did a couple more songs with "The Herd" before Bruce returned.
Absolutely. When I was a teen in the 1980s, I happened to pick-up the second BS&T album at a garage sale. At the time, I was just starting on the bass myself, and that album/Jim Fielder blew me away. I consider it a major influence. Jim is right up there with James Jamerson, for me.
One word: ELECTRIFYING.
Billy Joel mentioned that "missed triangle hit" on his Sirius XM channel, so I had to come here and find it -- swing and a miss, but he rebounded nicely!
Greatest band!
David-Clayton Thomas the lead singer in this band is from Willowdale in Toronto.
Jeeez love this. Put a huge smile on my face bst. The best
Fantastic music and performance.
Outta sight! David Clayton Thomas was so far out✌🏻
loved the piano solo!
That's Fred Lipsius, who is also the arranger and tenor sax player.
Hey WOW man, one of YOUR comments led me here, Traffic also did this song, I can't decide which is my favorite, I LOVE YOU ALL ❤!!!
I love this show.
Fantastic!
I remember when I was a kid, that I would be coming in from playing most of the day. And hearing this band playing on my moms console turntable/8 track/radio deluxe
I just learned about the triangle solo when listening to @billyjoel 's BJ the DJ segment on SXM.
Amazing how they switched instruments in mid-song.
Awesome, epic, and this song is older than me!
An amazing arrangement of a Winwood, Capaldi, Wood, song.
More cowbell!
I saw them at the Alexandria Roller Rink, 1/26/1969. The opening band was 'Spirit'...Still like the Al Kooper led ensemble better...
Hey WOW, I guess that the roller rink is gone or I would know about it, that must be a cherished memory, as a tire tech I love your logo..remember the airport at Baileys X roads...before my time but some of the buildings are still there.
I bet Spirit was great, saw them a year later, and also totally agree about the Al Kooper led edition
Once classic band covering a song by another great band, Traffic!!
Everyone of them is damn good!
Even a conductor. Cool!!
AMAZING
Wow! What a group of good looking and talented guys. How about that pianist/saxophonist/conductor? And the lead singer is definitely sexy. Very cool sideburns, and I really liked seeing his smiling face, especially after he goofed on the triangle. 🙂🙂
Good eye.. apparently they had a whole lotta fun doing this, it shows 👍👍👍👍
It's an old story, the kid who only has to play the triangle once, and fluffs it.....!!!!!
That's Fred Lipsius
This guy's face matches his voice, for once. Lol.
Lew Soloff, the most uncomfortable-looking cowbell player in rock history. Darn good trumpeter, though! RIP, Lew (and Dick Halligan).
I remember reading his NY Times obituary that the high pitch trumpet at the conclusion of "More and More" was his. It really stood out, topping even Doc Severinsen.
Seen ,thes guys in N.Y.C. along w/ Santana .... Incredible by both Bands...
Santana was my first rock concert, held at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds in San Jose, California, in 1969.
Schwer zu toppen 😮👍👍👍😮
I think during their appearances on Ed Sullivan they never played any of their top hits, only the album tracks. I wonder why
maybe cause the hits got boring for them i mean the hits they were so well known.. but im probably wrong ..lol
clayton loved life
how sweet. no lip sync there...
Or Autotune.
How young DCT was then!
BL & T, "rock jazz" at it's finest.
Gnice
My time this was called blue-eyed soul just like the Righteous Brothers
Funky!
Nice band
Hi
C'mon man..I just gottta have more triangle ! "Who said it was White Boy Daze ?"
Loud! His voice didn't need volume
Autotune wasn't going to help him. 🤣
Cool band. Terry Kath era Chicago are on another level though.
I agree!…these guys were good but Chicago a step above👍
I guess the bass player needed such a wide strap, some great finger plucking
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i don't think Lew liked playing the cowbell
Was that Bobby Doyle on piano (and conducting)?
They were blackballed. Didn't they have lots of hits?
Is this the lineup from the 2nd album with Al Kooper still there? If so not sure they ever recorded with that lineup.
No, Al K. left after the first album due to creative differences. That opened the door to David Clayton Thomas on lead vocals, and trombonist Dick Halligan moving to the Hammond B3 organ
@@RubyBandUSA Dick is playing organ and trombone but who is playing the piano solo and directing the horns later on?
Needs more cowbell!
It's faces. Good grief.
faces phases not pronounced the same...
@@LazyIRanch It's not an error! That's the name of the song: Smiling Phases. It was originally performed by Traffic and written by Steve Winwood.
@@JoyneFreedom You're right! I never knew this. I had this confused with a different song done by the Temptations that is called "Smiling Faces" but was recorded a few years after BS&T. Thanks for the correction!
There's another song that mentions "smiling faces" called "Backstabbers" (I think?)
I often got lyrics wrong. When I was a kid, I didn't hear that there's a "bad moon on the rise", I heard that there was a "baboon on the right"! lol
@@LazyIRanch better than there’s a bathroom on the right!
It's not "Smiling Faces?"
No it's not
PHASES
Maybe you're thinking of "Smiling Faces Sometimes" by the Undisputed Truth.
@@momluvssisi Traffic -Winwood ,etc. wrote it.
First w
Nineteenth🤣
Great performance, but I have to chuckle at Lew Soloff, who looks like he'd rather be doing ANYTHING other than playing that cowbell.
Needs more cowbell.
Even Arthur Bremer liked them. He took some ugly girl with glasses to a BS&T concert.
All he had to do besides sing was ring the triangle and he missed.
Give the guy due credit -- he also hit the gong! LOL 🤣
@@juliao1255 Oh yeah. It was a much bigger target so he did good. btw, I've heard this guy's voice on the radio going back to when I was a little kid and didn't see him until recently on this Ed Sullivan re-run and he looks exactly like he sounds.
We need more cowbell! 1:37
Exhibit A: Boomers were never cool.
What a complete and total trainwreck. Poor hippies...they thought they had some kickass music back in those days...tragic.
A great song, too bad they had to mime it here.
Horrible! A cacophony, thrashing around to try and find a melody.