Blood, Sweat and Tears, Child Is Father to the Man, 33 1/3 RPM, LP 12", Vintage, 1968, Columbia Records, Stereo, CS- 9619

Blood, Sweat and Tears, Child Is Father to the Man, was released on Feb 21, 1968. It featured a variety of excellent songs, most written by Kooper, but with a few well-selected songs from outside writers such as Randy Newman, Tim Buckley and Harry Nilsson. The LP begins with an overture that, like most good overtures, ties together various themes that appear on the album. Horn band.

In the United States Child Is Father to the Man peaked at #47 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart. It failed to generate any Top 40 singles, although "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know" and "I Can't Quit Her" found some play on progressive rock radio. In 2003, the album was ranked number 264 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Writing for AllMusic, critic William Ruhlman wrote the album was "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.

The title is a quotation from a similarly titled poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins, slightly misquoting a poem by William Wordsworth called "My Heart Leaps Up".

TRACK LISTING
"Overture" (Kooper) – 1:32
"I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know" (Al 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

Columbia Records
CS-9619
1968
33 1/3 RPM
12” Vinyl Record
Stereo
Original Cover and Sleeve

Tested and sound quality is good no skips or repeats. There are a few small scuffs and scratches on the record, but it does not affect the sound quality.
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