Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | June 1970 | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 42:46 | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Producer | Bobby Colomby, Roy Halee | |||
Blood, Sweat & Tears chronology | ||||
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Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 is the third album by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears, released in June 1970.
After the huge success of the previous album, Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 was highly anticipated and it rose quickly to the top of the US album chart. It contained two hit singles: an arrangement of Carole King's "Hi-De-Ho", and "Lucretia MacEvil", written by singer David Clayton-Thomas. As with their previous album, this one relied mostly on songs borrowed from outside writers. However, It received fewer favorable reviews.[ citation needed]
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [1] |
Christgau's Record Guide | C− [2] |
The Village Voice | C [3] |
Village Voice critic Robert Christgau panned David Clayton-Thomas's singing as "belching", while calling "Symphony for the Devil" a "pretty good rock and roll song revealed as a pseudohistorical middlebrow muddle when suite-ened." [2] Allmusic's William Ruhlman called the album "a convincing, if not quite as impressive, companion to their previous hit. David Clayton-Thomas remained an enthusiastic blues shouter, and the band still managed to put together lively arrangements... although their pretentiousness, on the extended "Symphony/Sympathy for the Devil," and their tendency to borrow other artists' better-known material rather than generating more of their own, were warning signs for the future." [1]
Album - Billboard (United States)
Year | Chart | Position |
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1970 | Pop Albums | 1 |
Singles - Billboard (United States)
Year | Single | Chart | Position |
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1970 | "Hi-De-Ho" | Pop Singles | 14 |
1970 | "Lucretia MacEvil" | Pop Singles | 29 |
Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | June 1970 | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 42:46 | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Producer | Bobby Colomby, Roy Halee | |||
Blood, Sweat & Tears chronology | ||||
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Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 is the third album by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears, released in June 1970.
After the huge success of the previous album, Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 was highly anticipated and it rose quickly to the top of the US album chart. It contained two hit singles: an arrangement of Carole King's "Hi-De-Ho", and "Lucretia MacEvil", written by singer David Clayton-Thomas. As with their previous album, this one relied mostly on songs borrowed from outside writers. However, It received fewer favorable reviews.[ citation needed]
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [1] |
Christgau's Record Guide | C− [2] |
The Village Voice | C [3] |
Village Voice critic Robert Christgau panned David Clayton-Thomas's singing as "belching", while calling "Symphony for the Devil" a "pretty good rock and roll song revealed as a pseudohistorical middlebrow muddle when suite-ened." [2] Allmusic's William Ruhlman called the album "a convincing, if not quite as impressive, companion to their previous hit. David Clayton-Thomas remained an enthusiastic blues shouter, and the band still managed to put together lively arrangements... although their pretentiousness, on the extended "Symphony/Sympathy for the Devil," and their tendency to borrow other artists' better-known material rather than generating more of their own, were warning signs for the future." [1]
Album - Billboard (United States)
Year | Chart | Position |
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1970 | Pop Albums | 1 |
Singles - Billboard (United States)
Year | Single | Chart | Position |
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1970 | "Hi-De-Ho" | Pop Singles | 14 |
1970 | "Lucretia MacEvil" | Pop Singles | 29 |