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Blood, Sweat and Tears with Janis Ian - PBS Soundstage, Park West, Chicago, IL, 8-12-1975

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Here's another episode of the "PBS Soundstage" TV show. This one is headlined by the band Blood, Sweat and Tears. But they also performed some songs with singer-songwriter Janis Ian on lead vocals.

As I've said before, one of the things I like most about this TV show is how it often encouraged collaborations by having the main musical act supplemented by a guest act. Let me explain why I think Ian was chosen.

Blood, Sweat and Tears was extremely popular around 1970. But their popularity soon declined. One problem was the lead singer with a distinctive voice, David Clayton-Thomas, left the band for a solo career in 1972. But his solo career didn't have much success, and the band's popularity went further down without him. So, in 1975, he rejoined the band. The first album with him back in the band was called "New City," released in April 1975. One of the songs on that was "Applause," written by Ian. So I think that's why Ian was chosen.

Meanwhile, Ian had a big hit in 1966 with "Society's Child," when she was still a teenager. But she didn't have much success for quite a few years after that. But that changed in July 1975, when she released "At Seventeen" as a single. It caught fire, and made it all the way to Number Three in the U.S. charts. 

I don't know the exact timing of this concert. It's possible the August 1975 date in the title is the broadcast date, not the date the concert was recorded. It would be interesting to find out, due to Ian's popularity surging in the middle of 1975. It would also be interesting if Blood, Sweat and Tears helped her with the guest spot before her resurgence began.  

This concert began with several songs just performed by Blood, Sweat and Tears. The heavily relied on songs from their new album at the time, "New City." Tracks 1, 4, 5, and 7 are from that album. But for tracks 5, 6, 7, and 8, they were joined by Ian on vocals.  

The last song, "At Seventeen," isn't from this concert. Or at least this version isn't. I strongly suspect there are a couple more songs from this concert that I don't have, because these episodes were an hour long (without commercial breaks), and this one is more than ten minutes short of that. If anyone has more of this concert, or at least just knows the songs played, please let me know. But I thought it was kind of weird to have Ian in concert in 1975 and not include her big hit from that year. So I added in an unreleased performance of "At Seventeen" done on the "Saturday Night Live" TV show in September of that year.

This album is 48 minutes long. 

01 Got to Get You into My Life (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
02 Yesterday's Music (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
03 And When I Die (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
04 Ride Captain Ride (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
05 Applause (Blood, Sweat & Tears & Janis Ian)
06 In the Winter (Blood, Sweat & Tears & Janis Ian)
07 I Was a Witness to a War (Blood, Sweat & Tears & Janis Ian)
08 Hallelujah (Blood, Sweat & Tears & Janis Ian)
09 At Seventeen (Janis Ian)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/rPWqF6Zg

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/caOBVkVtix43iAB/file

The cover is a screenshot of Blood, Sweat and Tears lead singer David Clayton-Thomas, from this exact concert.



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