Blood Sweat & Tears went on to receive 10 GRAMMY nominations and won three. That album went on to earn quadruple Platinum status with sales well over four million. The album received the GRAMMY Award for Album of the Year beating out the Beatles’ Abby Road. Their second, self-named album was a success, rising to the top of the charts for seven weeks, yielding three top five singles. Fifty years ago, founding member and drummer Bobby Colomby knew they were on the right course and since then, the band has never stopped touring. From the first ensemble in the late sixties practicing in New York’s Greenwich Village while crowds clapped on the street below between songs. Blood, Sweat & Tears is not the first band to ever use a horn section, but they are the first to fuse it with rock, jazz, and some blues thrown in for good measure. None can argue BS&T invented a new style of music.
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