Blood, Sweat & Tears (Blood, Sweat & Tears album) album chart. Bandleader Al Kooper and two other members, Randy Brecker and Jerry Weiss, had left Blood, Sweat & Tears after their first album. Bobby Colomby and Steve Katz searched for a replacement singer and selected David Clayton-Thomas. Three more musicians joined to bring the band to nine members. Columbia assigned James William Guercio (who was simultaneously working with new band Chicago) to produce a new album. The song selection was much more pop-oriented than the first album, with more compositions from outside the band. It was recorded at the then state of the art CBS Studios in New York
Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole Critic's Circle Award. The production transferred to Los Angeles. The "Los Angeles Times" called it "a routine service comedy." Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole is a 1961 play by William Goldman and James Goldman. Both Goldman brothers had served in the army and the play is about a supply sergeant at an army post in the south. William Goldman later recalled "we had both been in the army at the same time and it seemed like a decent enough idea and magically we got it on." William and James Goldman had been permitted to serve