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  Type Album
  Artist Blood, Sweat & Tears
  Cover Blood,Sweat&TearsChildIsFathertotheManjpg
  Background orange
  Released February 1968
  Recorded November 11 - December 20 , 1967
  Genre Rock
  Length 49 Min 18 Sec
  Label Columbia
  Producer Bob Irwin , John Simon
  This Album ''Child Is Father to the Man''<br/>(1968)
  Next Album '' Blood, Sweat & Tears ''<br/>( 1969 )


''Child Is Father to the Man'' is the debut album by a Blood, Sweat & Tears , released in February of 1968 (see 1968 In Music ).

Widely regarded as a classic fusion of Jazz , Rock And Roll , Psychedelia and Classical Music , ''Child Is Father to the Man'' is one of bandleader Al Kooper 's most enduring works. The album introduced the idea of the Big Band to rock and roll and paved the way for such groups as Chicago . Kooper left the band after this album, changing the nature of the group.

''Child Is Father to the Man'' peaked at #47 on Billboard 's (North America) Pop Albums chart. It failed to generate any Top 40 singles in the United States, although "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know" and "I Can't Quit Her" found some play on Progressive Rock Radio .

The title is a quotation from a poem by William Wordsworth called "The Rainbow".


TRACK LISTING

#"Overture" (Kooper) - 1:32
#"I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know" (Kooper) - 5:57
#"Morning Glory" (Beckett, Buckley) - 4:16
#"My Days Are Numbered" (Kooper) - 3:19
#"Without Her" ( Harry Nilsson ) - 2:41
#"Just One Smile" ( Randy Newman ) - 4:38
#"I Can't Quit Her" (Kooper, Levine) - 3:38
#"Meagan's Gypsy Eyes" ( Steve Katz ) - 3:24
#"Somethin' Goin' On" (Kooper) - 8:00
#"House in the Country" (Kooper) - 3:04
#"The Modern Adventures of Plato, Diogenes and Freud" (Kooper) - 4:12
#"So Much Love/Underture" ( Gerry Goffin , Carole King ) - 4:47


PERSONNEL



PRODUCTION

  • Producers: Bob Irwin, John Simon

  • Engineer: Fred Catero

  • Mixing: John Simon

  • Mastering: Vic Anesini

  • Arrangers: Fred Catero, Al Gorgoni, Fred Lipsius, Alan Schulman, John Simon

  • Art direction: Howard Fritzson

  • Photography: Bob Cato, Don Hunstein

  • Packaging: Michael Cimicata



CHARTS

Album - Billboard (North America)