Blood, Sweat & Tears - Found Treasures

This is an unusually generous and attractive release from Sony Music Special Products' budget-priced catalog, and also unusually generous at over 38-minutes' running time. Some of the material, such as "Go Down Gamblin'" and "You're the One," is readily available elsewhere, while other tracks are not. What makes this disc especially attractive to the casual fan of the band -- and unique among Sony's CD issues on Blood, Sweat & Tears -- however, is the presence of the single-edits of "And When I Die," "You've Made Me So Very Happy," and "Spinning Wheel." Even on the CD version of the group's greatest-hits album, which originally contained the single versions; those songs have been replaced by their album versions, which are distinctly longer and more discursive, and the latter attributes were fine, for their album incarnations, but the single-edits had their own virtues, and also are how generations of listeners remember those songs from AM radio. Read More...