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Blood, Sweat & Tears' Greatest Hits,Blood, Sweat & Tears

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Blood, Sweat & Tears
Released 1972

Lucretia MacEvil
05:30
7,285 plays

Hi-De-Ho (That Old Sweet Roll)
04:25
7,262 plays

Go Down Gamblin'
04:14
6,304 plays

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songs

- 1
- You've Made Me So Very Happy
- 04:18
- 11,450 plays

- 2
- I Can't Quit Her
- 03:40
- 5,315 plays

- 3
- Go Down Gamblin'
- 04:14
- 6,304 plays

- 4
- Hi-De-Ho (That Old Sweet Roll)
- 04:25
- 7,262 plays

- 5
- Sometimes in Winter
- 03:09
- 3,866 plays

- 6
- And When I Die
- 04:05
- 16,056 plays

- 7
- Spinning Wheel
- 04:06
- 20,433 plays

- 8
- Lisa, Listen to Me
- 02:59
- 4,156 plays

- 9
- I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know
- 05:57
- 4,497 plays

- 10
- Lucretia MacEvil
- 05:30
- 7,285 plays

- 11
- God Bless the Child
- 05:52
- 5,489 plays

album review

Sometimes, a greatest-hits set is timed perfectly to gather together a group's most successful and familiar performances just at the point when that group has passed the point of their maximum exposure to the public, but before the public memory has had a chance to fade. That was the case when Columbia Records assembled this compilation for release in early 1972. At that point, Blood, Sweat & Tears had released four albums and scored six Top 40 hits, each of which is heard here. But lead singer David Clayton-Thomas had just quit the group, so that the unit that recorded songs like "You've Made Me So Very Happy" was not working together anymore. And even when Clayton-Thomas returned, the band would continue to decline commercially. As such, BS&T's Greatest Hits captures the band's peak in 11 selections--seven singles chart entries, plus two album tracks from the celebrated debut album when Al Kooper helmed the group, and two more from the Grammy-winning multi-platinum second album. Using the short singles edits of songs like "And When I Die" emphasizes their radio-ready punch over the more extended suitelike arrangements on the albums, but this selection gains in focus what it lacks in ambition. For the millions who learned to love BS&T in 1969 when they were all over AM radio, this is the ideal selection of their most accessible material. (A later CD reissue of Blood, Sweat & Tears' Greatest Hits replaced each singles edit with the original full-length version.) ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide