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B,S,&T doing their version of the Billie Holiday Classic...










..

Man, there's nothing that will whip me back to The 60's quicker than listening to this album (...okay-okay, MAYBE The 5th Dimension, or Three Dog Night, lol). Talk about ARRANGEMENTS! And to think: This is the kind of music they used to play on the radio everyday. The 60's and early 70's radio sure spoiled me!

PDogz said:

especially "Lucretia Macevil" that is a bonafied cut there

PDogz said:

Yeah, really!! I was just out of diapers when this stuff was being played, so it made a big impression in my formative years.....just a wide variety of music that was easily accessible - parents were playin it, it was on the radio, bands were on TV --

It's also interesting that there was a lot of musical mixing going on at the time - Pop, Soul and Classical, Pop and Jazz, Funk and Rock---

Miles was checking out Hendrix, Sly and Joni, and vice-versa..... Rotary Connection, Blood Sweat and Tears, Chicago, Santana, The Free Design, Mahavishnu, Stevie Wonder, Frank Zappa, Three Dog Night, Marvin Gaye, Weather Report, Earth Wind and Fire, Tower of Power, War, Mandrill.....Hell, I thought it was always gonna be like that....little did I know, .....there's still a lotta good stuff around, but boy, do they make you dig for it...Clear Channel is doing their damndest to make sure you don't hear much of anything.


that should be the company slogan--"Clear Channel: Clearing out the music, so you can hear what's left"







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Nina Simone was LIVID when they sang that song she thought they butchered it.

I like it,,,nothing can beat the original and Aretha Franklin's versions but I dig it

Harlepolis said:

I love her, but Nina Simone was Always livid,

That's Kool, though--I'm sure there's a lotta folks who probably thought it was blasphemous for BS&T to even attempt it...like you said, it's not the original, but I really love the arrangement...







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[Edited 3/5/09 8:18am]

Very interesting to follow the history of this band.

From the initial album of the group that Al Kooper started in 1967...



...Child Is The Father To Man

BS&T was one of the first "Rock" bands to include a horn section as a part of the group.
Electric Flag (Mike Bloomfield/Buddy Miles) might be a consideration but they weren't really a "Rock" group.


Through the first tenure of...



...David Clayton Thomas.

And so on and so forth.


In more recent history, the band (whoever the musicians happened to be) started using Chuck Negron (Three Dog Night) as the lead singer.


An interesting thing to note is the number of musicians that have been associated with the group over the years...

Al Kooper : keyboards, vocals (1967-1968)
Randy Brecker : trumpet, flugelhorn (1967-1968)
Jerry Weiss : trumpet, flugelhorn, backing vocals (1967-1968)
Fred Lipsius : alto sax, keyboards (1967-1972)
Dick Halligan : keyboards, trombone, horns, flute, backing vocals (1967-1972)
Steve Katz : guitar, harmonica, lute, mandolin, vocals (1967-1973, 2008-)
Jim Fielder : bass, guitar, backing vocals (1967-1974)
Bobby Colomby : drums, percussion, backing vocals (1967-1977)
David Clayton-Thomas : vocals, guitar (1968-1972, 1974-1981, 1984-2004)
Lew Soloff : trumpet, flugelhorn (1968-1974)
Chuck Winfield : trumpet, flugelhorn, backing vocals (1968-1973)
Jerry Hyman : trombones, recorder (1968-1970)
Dave Bargeron : trombone, tuba, horns, bass, backing vocals (1970-1978)
Bobby Doyle : vocals, piano (1972)
Joe Henderson : tenor sax (1972)
Lou Marini Jr. : tenor & soprano sax, flute (1972-1974)
Larry Willis : keyboards (1972-1978)
Georg Wadenius : guitar, vocals (1972-1975)
Jerry Fisher : vocals (1972-1974)
Tom Malone : trombone, trumpet, flugelhorn, alto sax, bass (1973-1974)
Jerry LaCroix : vocals, alto sax, flute, harmonica (1974)
Ron McClure : bass (1974-1975, 1976)
Tony Klatka : trumpet, horns (1974-1978)
Bill Tillman : alto sax, flute, clarinet, backing vocals (1974-1977)
Luther Kent : vocals (1974)
Joe Giorgianni : trumpet, flugelhorn (1974-1975)
Jaco Pastorius : bass (1975-1976)
Steve Khan : guitar (1975)
Mike Stern : guitar (1975-1977)
Keith Jones : bass (1976)
Danny Trifan : bass (1976-1977)
Forrest Buchtell : trumpet (1975-1977)
Don Alias : percussion (1975-1976)
Roy McCurdy : drums (1976-1977)
Jeff Richman : guitar (1976 fill in for Stern)
Randy Bernsen : guitar (1977)
Barry Finnerty : guitar (1977-1978)
Neil Stubenhaus : bass (1977-1978)
Gregory Herbert : saxophone (1977-1978)
Michael Lawrence ; trumpet (1977)
Chris Albert : trumpet (1977-1978)
Bobby Economou : drums (1977-1978, 1979-1981, 1994-1995)
Kenny Marco : guitar (1979)
David Piltch : bass (1979-1980)
Joe Sealy : keyboards (1979)
Bruce Cassidy : trumpet, flugelhorn (1979-1980)
Earl Seymour : sax, flute (1979-1981)
Steve Kennedy : sax, flute (1979)
Sally Chappis : drums (1979)
Harvey Kogan : sax, flute (1979)
Jack Scarangella : drums (1979)
Vernon Dorge : sax, flute (1979-1981)
Robert Piltch : guitar (1979-1980)
Richard Martinez : keyboards (1979-1980)
Wayne Pedziwiatr : bass (1980-1981)
Peter Harris : guitar (1980-1981)
Lou Pomanti : keyboards (1980-1981)
Mic Gillette : trumpet (1980-1981)
James Kidwell : guitar (1984-1985)
Jeff Andrews : bass (1984-1985)
Taras Kovayl : keyboards (1984-1985)
Tim Ouimette : trumpet, horns (1984-1985)
Mario Cruz : sax, flute (1984-1985)
Ricky Sebastian : drums (1984-1985)
Steve Guttman : trumpet (1985-2004)
Dave Gellis : guitar (1985-1990, 1996, 1998 fill in, 2005- )
Ray Peterson : bass (1985-1986)
Scott Kreitzer : sax, flute (1985-1986)
Teddy Mulet : trombone (1985-1986), trumpet (2005- )
Barry Danielian : trumpet (1985-1986)
Richard Sussman : keyboards (1985-1987)
Randy Andos : trombone (1986)
Tom Timko : sax, flute (1986-1987, 1995, 1998-2001, 2005-2008)
Tom DeFaria : drums (1985-1986)
John Conte : bass (1986-1987)
Steve Conte : guitar (1986 fill in)
Jeff Gellis : bass (1987-1990)
Dave Panichi : trombone (1987-1988, 1997-1998)
Glenn McClelland : keyboards (1987-1993, 1998, 2005- )
David Riekenberg : sax, flute (1987- 1990, 1995-1998)
Jerry Sokolov : trumpet (1987-1994)
Graham Hawthorne : drums (1987-1988, 1989-1991)
Van Romaine : drums (1988-1989)
Neil Capolongo : drums (1991-1993)
Peter Abbott : drums (fill in early 90s)
Charley Gordon : trombone (1987-1994, 2001)
Wayne Schuster : sax, flute (1990-1991)
Larry DeBari : guitar, vocals (1990-1997)
Gary Foote : bass (1990-1994, 1996-2004, 2005- )
Chuck Fisher : sax, flute (1991)
Jack Bashcow : sax, flute (1992)
Tim Ries : sax, flute (1992-1993, 1993-1995)
Charlie Cole : sax, flute (1993)
Matt King : keyboards (1994-1998)
Mike Mancini : keyboards (fill in 80s/90s)
Franck Amsallem keyboards (fill in mid 90s)
Henry Hey : keyboards (fill in mid 90s)
Ted Kooshian keyboards (fill in mid 90s)
Cliff Korman keyboards (fill in mid 90s)
Mike DuClos bass : (1994-1996)
Jonathan Peretz : drums (1995-1997)
Craig Johnson : trumpet ((1994-1998)
Matt Milmerstadt drums : (1995 , 1998)
Tom Guarna : guitar (1997-1998)
Jon Owens : trumpet (1998-2000)
Chuck Pillow : sax, flute (fill in 1998)
Brian Delaney : drums (1998, 2001)
Dave Stahl : trumpet (fill in 1995-1998)
Dave Pietro : sax, flute (fill in 1998)
Dale Kirkland : trombone (1995-1996, 1998, 1999-2001, 2002-2006
Pat Hallaran : trombone (1998-1999)
James Fox : guitar (1998-2000)
Dan Zank : keyboards (1998-2000)
Zach Danziger : drums (1998-2001)
Joe Mosello : trumpet (2000-2002)
Phil Magallanes : keyboards (2000-2001)
Andrea Valentini : drums (2001- )
Darcy Hepner : sax, flute (1999 fill in, 2001-2004)
John Samorian : keyboards (2001-2003)
Nick Marchione : trumpet (2002-2004)
Eric Cortright : keyboards (2003-2004)
Leo Huppert: bass (2004)
Steve Jankowski: trumpet (2005- )
Rob Paparozzi: vocals, harmonica (2005- )
Scottie Wallace: vocals (alternating with Rob P. 2005-2006)
Thomas Conner : vocals (fill in 2006)
Jens Wendelboe: trombone (2006- )
Chris Tedesco : trumpet (fill in for Mulet 2006-2007)
Brian Steel : trumpet (fill in for Mulet 2008)
Bill Churchill : sax (2008- )

...Some of the more recognizable names have been highlighted.


And I always liked their God Bless The Child arrangement.


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

theAudience said:

Break it on Down!!!

I was only familiar with the David Clayton Thomas years....and I knew about Jaco, but I didn't realize that Mike Stern, Jeff Richman, Gorge Wadenius, Randy Bernsen, Steve Khan, Barry Finnerty, Nel Stubenhaus, Don Alias and Larry Willis all had a cup of coffee at BS&T!







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paligap said:

Dude, you need to put a patent on that bad boy!

Minor adjustment:
"Clear Channel: Clearing out the music, so you can hear what's left...DEAD AIR!"



tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

theAudience said:

For Real!!!!!




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