BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS
New Blood
(1972)
1. Down In The Flood 4'21 (Bob Dylan)
2. Touch Me 3'32 (Teddy Randazzo / Victoria Pike)
3. Alone 5'29 (Lou Marini Jr.)
4. Velvet 3'33 (Jeff Kent)
5. I Can't Move No Mountains 2'58 (Michael Gately / Robert John)
6. Over The Hill 4'21 (Dave Bargeron)
7. So Long Dixie 4'28 (Barry Mann / Cynthia Weil)
8. Snow Queen 5'21 (Gerry Goffin / Carole King)
9. Maiden Voyage 6'19 (Herbie Hancock)
Total Time: 40:22
Engineer - Tim Geelan **
Recordist - Lou Waxman
Mixer - Tim Geelan
* Except "Velvet" and "Touch Me"
Produced by Bill Schnee, Bobby Colomby and Joel Sill
** Execpt "Velvet" and "Touch Me"
Engineered by Bill Schnee and Tim Geelan
Album Dedicated To The Memory of Leo Katz
Chart History:
New Blood was BS&T's last top 40 album.
While the band was first regrouping, following the departure of David Clayton-Thomas, COLUMBIA released BS&T's Greatest Hits.
The new BS&T led by blind singer Bobby Doyle and featuring legendary Sax-man Joe Henderson, was not getting along very well.
Doyle was dropped in favor of Jerry Fisher, delaying the album even further.
Finally, COLUMBIA released the single, "So Long Dixie / "Alone" which peaked at #44 on the singles chart.
Two months later, in October, the album was released (COLUMBIA CK-31780), eventually hitting #32 before dropping off of the charts.
A second single, "I Can't Move No Mountains" / "Velvet" was also released but failed to chart.
New Blood isn't in print in the U.S., but there's a Japanese Import CD in print. Numerous importers carry it.
Scant few of the tracks appear on the What Goes Up! compilation and on the European compilations.
Billboard's Oct. 21, 1972 review read:
New Blood is the well chosen title for this entry in that the package highlights some change in the personnel with lead singer Jerry Fisher,
new to the group, showing first-rate quality throughout. The BS&T style is strong on "I Can't Move No Mountains", and "Snow Queen", while "Down In The Flood", "Alone",
and "Touch Me", showcase the sound of the new blood. New hit "So Long Dixie" included.
Ross Boissoneau of the All Music Guide writes:
The first BS&T disc following the departure of lead singer David Clayton-Thomas and chief arrangers Dick Halligan and Fred Lipsius has its moments.
The band vocals on "Touch Me" and the arrangement of Herbie Hancock's "Maiden Voyage" are among the highlights, but then there's Bob Dylan's "Down In the Flood"
and Steve Katz's "Velvet", about a horse, for Pete's sake. Gerry Goffin and Carole King's "Snow Queen" almost makes up for it, with sensational solos from Dave Bargeron on trombone and Lou Marini Jr. on sax.
© 1996 All Music Guide
Jeremiah Rickert Writes:
The guy who wrote the above review just must not get it. He trashed "Down In The Flood" ?
That's one of the best tracks on the disc. He makes fun of "Velvet", because it's about a horse ?
I mean, tell me that folk singers haven't written about stranger things, water barrels, outhouses, and long johns, for example ?
Sheesh! The rock press really can have no clue sometimes, can't it ?
1. Down In The Flood
1. Down In The Flood
Crash on the levee, mama,
Water's gonna overflow,
Swamp's gonna rise,
No boat's gonna row.
Now, you can train on down
To Williams Point,
You can bust your feet,
You can rock this joint.
But oh mama, ain't you gonna miss your best friend now?
You're gonna have to find yourself
Another best friend, somehow.
Now, don't you try an' move me,
You're just gonna lose.
There's a crash on the levee
And, mama, you've been refused.
Well, it's sugar for sugar
And salt for salt,
If you go down in the flood,
It's gonna be your own fault.
Oh mama, ain't you gonna miss your best friend now?
You're gonna have to find yourself
Another best friend, somehow.
Well, that high tide's risin',
Mama, don't you let me down.
Pack up your suitcase,
Mama, don't you make a sound.
Now, it's king for king,
Queen for queen,
It's gonna be the meanest flood
That anybody's seen.
Oh mama, ain't you gonna miss your best friend now?
Yes, you're gonna have to find yourself
Another best friend, somehow.
2. Touch Me
When I met you in the meadow
You were walking like in a dream
Your head blowing just like the flowers
Deep within me my heart did weep
Oh come on and touch me
Feel the pleasure that I am
Can't you see I'm only human
Oh touch me
Then I know you'll understand
I was born to be your one and only man
Ah, we just stayed there for so many hours
Like the river, you know time moved on
And we lingered amongst the flowers
Then I knew my heart was gone
Oh come on and touch me
Feel the pleasure that I am
Can't you see I'm only human
Oh touch me
Then I'll know you'll understand
That I was born to be your one and only man
You lay softly, yes in the cradle
But my arms, I'd shield the mourn'
And I held you just like a baby, little girl
I could feel my soul reborn
Oh come on and touch me
Give me all the love you can
We were born to be together
Come on and touch me
Then I know you'll understand
That I was born to be your one and only man
3. Alone
I'm so alone
I'm on my own now
I'm going home
You've gone away
Hung up my day now
I just can't stay
When I tell you that I love you
I love you much more
Than you will ever realize
I do
I'm by myself
Up on the shelf now
I'm getting off
When you tell me that you need me
How can I believe you
When you're never home to talk
With me
4. Velvet
Velvet was a very handsome mother-mare-to-be
Grazing by a country road and tied to a very young tree
We were walking to see her
Velvet gazed upon me
Indian Summer - turning colors on me
Couldn't she have stayed until the first September day
To foal in the autumn shades
The family would have shared her pain
Snake bite deep in the night
Velvet lost her life twice
Indian Summer - turning colors on me
Velvet, now you're gone
Family carries on
Children love you so
They don't even know
Malamute's howl and seem to know
Velvet's old friend Tony cried in the morning sun
She was reaching for someone
And she broke down to a new friend
Indian Summer - turning colors on me
Indian Summer - turning colors on me
5. I Can't Move No Mountains
Can't stop the rain or keep the night from falling
Sometimes I just don't hear you when you're calling
I'm not a one man band, can't write no songs about you
Can't even tell you I'd be lost without you
But I can do things that will keep you smiling
Keep your face warm baby, make you feel like flying
Without to have trying
I can't move no mountain
No I never said I could
I can't make you love me
But I'll make you feel so good
Or I could now
Can't cool the sun or make a rock give water
Sometimes I treat you like a rich man's daughter
But I can make your heart pound with desire
Make wonder, baby, how I keep the fire
Taking you higher
I can't move no mountain
No I never said I could
I can't make you love me
But I'll make you feel so good
I can't move no mountain
I can't move no mountain
6. Over The Hill
29 years and it's over the hill at 30
They got your wheelchair ready
And your hiking boots are not even dirty
Lady luck, a-stepping up beside you greet her
You'll do some climbing together
But then she runs out for somebody younger
There's a shining prize from a carefree day
When the world round was cheering to win
Now daddy who's chairless lets out his belt
And music plays and peace is made for someone else
Over the hill and the bread of the times is yours now
And most deciding
A lot of work and little enjoying
Some along the line get a feeling they have been cheated
Spirit defeated
Young is best is always conceded
There's a shining prize from a carefree day
When the world round was cheering to win
Now daddy who's chairless lets out his belt
And music plays and peace is made for someone else
39 years and the chair is hard to wheel at 40
How would you feel
If you would sit down to roll around at 20
I submit to you my many friends
Better out of tune for there to lend
Good time, everybody in the fold
Got sunshine for everybody young and old
Good time for everybody in the fold
Got sunshine, everybody young and old
Sunshine for everybody in the fold
Got good times for everybody in the fold
7. So Long Dixie
Lazy moon
Magnolia bloom perfume
And Dixie would receive
A lady fading fast
Still clinging to the past
But she had you hating to leave
So long, Dixie
Sweet Dixie girl
You sure had style
Recalling times we've had
With all your good and bad
I'm glad I had you for awhile
When we get the blues
We just shine up our shoes
And head for Dixie's place
We sit ourselves right down
And pass the bourbon round
Let Dixie on the case
[CHORUS]
Years go by
Some memories fade and die
But, Dixie, you still shine
Now up here where it's cold
Folks don't understand your soul
Dixie, you're still part of mine
[repeat CHORUS 3x]
So long, Dixie
Oh, you sure had style
Recalling times we've had
With all your good and bad
I'm glad I had you for awhile
8. Snow Queen
High on a snow covered mountain
From her throne she looks down at the clowns
Who think youth can be found in a fountain
High on the wings of her rhythm
She will smile at the guys who come on with their eyes
But she'll never dance with them.
And in smoke filled rooms of electric sound
A legend is built around the snow queen
You may believe you're a winner
But with her you will soon bite the dust
And discover you're just a beginner
You may not think you're a loser, but in midair
You'll be hung while you trip on your tongue
And it'll only amuse her
In the morning haze you are frozen there
Caught in the icy stare of the snow queen
No my friend, she doesn't want what you're selling
Go my friend, there must be a place you can hide
And into the night you'll fade, knowing
You lost the game and just how she got
Her name the snow queen
9. Maiden Voyage
(Instrumental)
Water's gonna overflow,
Swamp's gonna rise,
No boat's gonna row.
Now, you can train on down
To Williams Point,
You can bust your feet,
You can rock this joint.
But oh mama, ain't you gonna miss your best friend now?
You're gonna have to find yourself
Another best friend, somehow.
Now, don't you try an' move me,
You're just gonna lose.
There's a crash on the levee
And, mama, you've been refused.
Well, it's sugar for sugar
And salt for salt,
If you go down in the flood,
It's gonna be your own fault.
Oh mama, ain't you gonna miss your best friend now?
You're gonna have to find yourself
Another best friend, somehow.
Well, that high tide's risin',
Mama, don't you let me down.
Pack up your suitcase,
Mama, don't you make a sound.
Now, it's king for king,
Queen for queen,
It's gonna be the meanest flood
That anybody's seen.
Oh mama, ain't you gonna miss your best friend now?
Yes, you're gonna have to find yourself
Another best friend, somehow.
-
When I met you in the meadow
You were walking like in a dream
Your head blowing just like the flowers
Deep within me my heart did weep
Oh come on and touch me
Feel the pleasure that I am
Can't you see I'm only human
Oh touch me
Then I know you'll understand
I was born to be your one and only man
Ah, we just stayed there for so many hours
Like the river, you know time moved on
And we lingered amongst the flowers
Then I knew my heart was gone
Oh come on and touch me
Feel the pleasure that I am
Can't you see I'm only human
Oh touch me
Then I'll know you'll understand
That I was born to be your one and only man
You lay softly, yes in the cradle
But my arms, I'd shield the mourn'
And I held you just like a baby, little girl
I could feel my soul reborn
Oh come on and touch me
Give me all the love you can
We were born to be together
Come on and touch me
Then I know you'll understand
That I was born to be your one and only man
3. Alone
I'm so alone
I'm on my own now
I'm going home
You've gone away
Hung up my day now
I just can't stay
When I tell you that I love you
I love you much more
Than you will ever realize
I do
I'm by myself
Up on the shelf now
I'm getting off
When you tell me that you need me
How can I believe you
When you're never home to talk
With me
4. Velvet
Velvet was a very handsome mother-mare-to-be
Grazing by a country road and tied to a very young tree
We were walking to see her
Velvet gazed upon me
Indian Summer - turning colors on me
Couldn't she have stayed until the first September day
To foal in the autumn shades
The family would have shared her pain
Snake bite deep in the night
Velvet lost her life twice
Indian Summer - turning colors on me
Velvet, now you're gone
Family carries on
Children love you so
They don't even know
Malamute's howl and seem to know
Velvet's old friend Tony cried in the morning sun
She was reaching for someone
And she broke down to a new friend
Indian Summer - turning colors on me
Indian Summer - turning colors on me
5. I Can't Move No Mountains
Can't stop the rain or keep the night from falling
Sometimes I just don't hear you when you're calling
I'm not a one man band, can't write no songs about you
Can't even tell you I'd be lost without you
But I can do things that will keep you smiling
Keep your face warm baby, make you feel like flying
Without to have trying
I can't move no mountain
No I never said I could
I can't make you love me
But I'll make you feel so good
Or I could now
Can't cool the sun or make a rock give water
Sometimes I treat you like a rich man's daughter
But I can make your heart pound with desire
Make wonder, baby, how I keep the fire
Taking you higher
I can't move no mountain
No I never said I could
I can't make you love me
But I'll make you feel so good
I can't move no mountain
I can't move no mountain
6. Over The Hill
29 years and it's over the hill at 30
They got your wheelchair ready
And your hiking boots are not even dirty
Lady luck, a-stepping up beside you greet her
You'll do some climbing together
But then she runs out for somebody younger
There's a shining prize from a carefree day
When the world round was cheering to win
Now daddy who's chairless lets out his belt
And music plays and peace is made for someone else
Over the hill and the bread of the times is yours now
And most deciding
A lot of work and little enjoying
Some along the line get a feeling they have been cheated
Spirit defeated
Young is best is always conceded
There's a shining prize from a carefree day
When the world round was cheering to win
Now daddy who's chairless lets out his belt
And music plays and peace is made for someone else
39 years and the chair is hard to wheel at 40
How would you feel
If you would sit down to roll around at 20
I submit to you my many friends
Better out of tune for there to lend
Good time, everybody in the fold
Got sunshine for everybody young and old
Good time for everybody in the fold
Got sunshine, everybody young and old
Sunshine for everybody in the fold
Got good times for everybody in the fold
7. So Long Dixie
Lazy moon
Magnolia bloom perfume
And Dixie would receive
A lady fading fast
Still clinging to the past
But she had you hating to leave
So long, Dixie
Sweet Dixie girl
You sure had style
Recalling times we've had
With all your good and bad
I'm glad I had you for awhile
When we get the blues
We just shine up our shoes
And head for Dixie's place
We sit ourselves right down
And pass the bourbon round
Let Dixie on the case
[CHORUS]
Years go by
Some memories fade and die
But, Dixie, you still shine
Now up here where it's cold
Folks don't understand your soul
Dixie, you're still part of mine
[repeat CHORUS 3x]
So long, Dixie
Oh, you sure had style
Recalling times we've had
With all your good and bad
I'm glad I had you for awhile
8. Snow Queen
High on a snow covered mountain
From her throne she looks down at the clowns
Who think youth can be found in a fountain
High on the wings of her rhythm
She will smile at the guys who come on with their eyes
But she'll never dance with them.
And in smoke filled rooms of electric sound
A legend is built around the snow queen
You may believe you're a winner
But with her you will soon bite the dust
And discover you're just a beginner
You may not think you're a loser, but in midair
You'll be hung while you trip on your tongue
And it'll only amuse her
In the morning haze you are frozen there
Caught in the icy stare of the snow queen
No my friend, she doesn't want what you're selling
Go my friend, there must be a place you can hide
And into the night you'll fade, knowing
You lost the game and just how she got
Her name the snow queen
9. Maiden Voyage
(Instrumental)
I'm on my own now
I'm going home
You've gone away
Hung up my day now
I just can't stay
When I tell you that I love you
I love you much more
Than you will ever realize
I do
I'm by myself
Up on the shelf now
I'm getting off
When you tell me that you need me
How can I believe you
When you're never home to talk
With me
-
Velvet was a very handsome mother-mare-to-be
Grazing by a country road and tied to a very young tree
We were walking to see her
Velvet gazed upon me
Indian Summer - turning colors on me
Couldn't she have stayed until the first September day
To foal in the autumn shades
The family would have shared her pain
Snake bite deep in the night
Velvet lost her life twice
Indian Summer - turning colors on me
Velvet, now you're gone
Family carries on
Children love you so
They don't even know
Malamute's howl and seem to know
Velvet's old friend Tony cried in the morning sun
She was reaching for someone
And she broke down to a new friend
Indian Summer - turning colors on me
Indian Summer - turning colors on me
5. I Can't Move No Mountains
Can't stop the rain or keep the night from falling
Sometimes I just don't hear you when you're calling
I'm not a one man band, can't write no songs about you
Can't even tell you I'd be lost without you
But I can do things that will keep you smiling
Keep your face warm baby, make you feel like flying
Without to have trying
I can't move no mountain
No I never said I could
I can't make you love me
But I'll make you feel so good
Or I could now
Can't cool the sun or make a rock give water
Sometimes I treat you like a rich man's daughter
But I can make your heart pound with desire
Make wonder, baby, how I keep the fire
Taking you higher
I can't move no mountain
No I never said I could
I can't make you love me
But I'll make you feel so good
I can't move no mountain
I can't move no mountain
6. Over The Hill
29 years and it's over the hill at 30
They got your wheelchair ready
And your hiking boots are not even dirty
Lady luck, a-stepping up beside you greet her
You'll do some climbing together
But then she runs out for somebody younger
There's a shining prize from a carefree day
When the world round was cheering to win
Now daddy who's chairless lets out his belt
And music plays and peace is made for someone else
Over the hill and the bread of the times is yours now
And most deciding
A lot of work and little enjoying
Some along the line get a feeling they have been cheated
Spirit defeated
Young is best is always conceded
There's a shining prize from a carefree day
When the world round was cheering to win
Now daddy who's chairless lets out his belt
And music plays and peace is made for someone else
39 years and the chair is hard to wheel at 40
How would you feel
If you would sit down to roll around at 20
I submit to you my many friends
Better out of tune for there to lend
Good time, everybody in the fold
Got sunshine for everybody young and old
Good time for everybody in the fold
Got sunshine, everybody young and old
Sunshine for everybody in the fold
Got good times for everybody in the fold
7. So Long Dixie
Lazy moon
Magnolia bloom perfume
And Dixie would receive
A lady fading fast
Still clinging to the past
But she had you hating to leave
So long, Dixie
Sweet Dixie girl
You sure had style
Recalling times we've had
With all your good and bad
I'm glad I had you for awhile
When we get the blues
We just shine up our shoes
And head for Dixie's place
We sit ourselves right down
And pass the bourbon round
Let Dixie on the case
[CHORUS]
Years go by
Some memories fade and die
But, Dixie, you still shine
Now up here where it's cold
Folks don't understand your soul
Dixie, you're still part of mine
[repeat CHORUS 3x]
So long, Dixie
Oh, you sure had style
Recalling times we've had
With all your good and bad
I'm glad I had you for awhile
8. Snow Queen
High on a snow covered mountain
From her throne she looks down at the clowns
Who think youth can be found in a fountain
High on the wings of her rhythm
She will smile at the guys who come on with their eyes
But she'll never dance with them.
And in smoke filled rooms of electric sound
A legend is built around the snow queen
You may believe you're a winner
But with her you will soon bite the dust
And discover you're just a beginner
You may not think you're a loser, but in midair
You'll be hung while you trip on your tongue
And it'll only amuse her
In the morning haze you are frozen there
Caught in the icy stare of the snow queen
No my friend, she doesn't want what you're selling
Go my friend, there must be a place you can hide
And into the night you'll fade, knowing
You lost the game and just how she got
Her name the snow queen
9. Maiden Voyage
(Instrumental)
Sometimes I just don't hear you when you're calling
I'm not a one man band, can't write no songs about you
Can't even tell you I'd be lost without you
But I can do things that will keep you smiling
Keep your face warm baby, make you feel like flying
Without to have trying
I can't move no mountain
No I never said I could
I can't make you love me
But I'll make you feel so good
Or I could now
Can't cool the sun or make a rock give water
Sometimes I treat you like a rich man's daughter
But I can make your heart pound with desire
Make wonder, baby, how I keep the fire
Taking you higher
I can't move no mountain
No I never said I could
I can't make you love me
But I'll make you feel so good
I can't move no mountain
I can't move no mountain
29 years and it's over the hill at 30
They got your wheelchair ready
And your hiking boots are not even dirty
Lady luck, a-stepping up beside you greet her
You'll do some climbing together
But then she runs out for somebody younger
There's a shining prize from a carefree day
When the world round was cheering to win
Now daddy who's chairless lets out his belt
And music plays and peace is made for someone else
Over the hill and the bread of the times is yours now
And most deciding
A lot of work and little enjoying
Some along the line get a feeling they have been cheated
Spirit defeated
Young is best is always conceded
There's a shining prize from a carefree day
When the world round was cheering to win
Now daddy who's chairless lets out his belt
And music plays and peace is made for someone else
39 years and the chair is hard to wheel at 40
How would you feel
If you would sit down to roll around at 20
I submit to you my many friends
Better out of tune for there to lend
Good time, everybody in the fold
Got sunshine for everybody young and old
Good time for everybody in the fold
Got sunshine, everybody young and old
Sunshine for everybody in the fold
Got good times for everybody in the fold
7. So Long Dixie
Lazy moon
Magnolia bloom perfume
And Dixie would receive
A lady fading fast
Still clinging to the past
But she had you hating to leave
So long, Dixie
Sweet Dixie girl
You sure had style
Recalling times we've had
With all your good and bad
I'm glad I had you for awhile
When we get the blues
We just shine up our shoes
And head for Dixie's place
We sit ourselves right down
And pass the bourbon round
Let Dixie on the case
[CHORUS]
Years go by
Some memories fade and die
But, Dixie, you still shine
Now up here where it's cold
Folks don't understand your soul
Dixie, you're still part of mine
[repeat CHORUS 3x]
So long, Dixie
Oh, you sure had style
Recalling times we've had
With all your good and bad
I'm glad I had you for awhile
8. Snow Queen
High on a snow covered mountain
From her throne she looks down at the clowns
Who think youth can be found in a fountain
High on the wings of her rhythm
She will smile at the guys who come on with their eyes
But she'll never dance with them.
And in smoke filled rooms of electric sound
A legend is built around the snow queen
You may believe you're a winner
But with her you will soon bite the dust
And discover you're just a beginner
You may not think you're a loser, but in midair
You'll be hung while you trip on your tongue
And it'll only amuse her
In the morning haze you are frozen there
Caught in the icy stare of the snow queen
No my friend, she doesn't want what you're selling
Go my friend, there must be a place you can hide
And into the night you'll fade, knowing
You lost the game and just how she got
Her name the snow queen
9. Maiden Voyage
(Instrumental)
Magnolia bloom perfume
And Dixie would receive
A lady fading fast
Still clinging to the past
But she had you hating to leave
So long, Dixie
Sweet Dixie girl
You sure had style
Recalling times we've had
With all your good and bad
I'm glad I had you for awhile
When we get the blues
We just shine up our shoes
And head for Dixie's place
We sit ourselves right down
And pass the bourbon round
Let Dixie on the case
[CHORUS]
Years go by
Some memories fade and die
But, Dixie, you still shine
Now up here where it's cold
Folks don't understand your soul
Dixie, you're still part of mine
[repeat CHORUS 3x] So long, Dixie Oh, you sure had style Recalling times we've had With all your good and bad I'm glad I had you for awhile
-
High on a snow covered mountain
From her throne she looks down at the clowns
Who think youth can be found in a fountain
High on the wings of her rhythm
She will smile at the guys who come on with their eyes
But she'll never dance with them.
And in smoke filled rooms of electric sound
A legend is built around the snow queen
You may believe you're a winner
But with her you will soon bite the dust
And discover you're just a beginner
You may not think you're a loser, but in midair
You'll be hung while you trip on your tongue
And it'll only amuse her
In the morning haze you are frozen there
Caught in the icy stare of the snow queen
No my friend, she doesn't want what you're selling
Go my friend, there must be a place you can hide
And into the night you'll fade, knowing
You lost the game and just how she got
Her name the snow queen