![]() 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. ![]() 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. 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. And even when Clayton-Thomas returned, the band would continue to decline commercially. 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. At that point, Blood, Sweat & Tears had released four albums and scored six Top 40 hits, each of which is heard here. ![]() ![]() That was the case when Columbia Records assembled this compilation for release in early 1972. 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. ![]()
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