Blood, Sweat & Tears hit the top of the charts, winning Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards over the Beatles' "Abbey Road", among other nominees. Three hit singles were released from "Blood, Sweat & Tears:" a cover of Berry Gordy and Brenda Holloway's "You've Made Me So Very Happy", Clayton-Thomas' "Spinning Wheel", and a version of Nyro's "And When I Die". Each of these three #2 singles was on "Billboard Magazine" 's Hot 100 chart for 13 weeks. The commercial and critical acclaim enjoyed by the band in 1969 culminated in an appearance at Woodstock, in which the band enjoyed headliner status.
Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole 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 together in the army in 1955. They were stationed with the 101th Airborne division. The Goldman brothers had received