| Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Blood, Sweat & Tears |
| Cover: | BS&T3_cover.jpg |
| Released: | June 1970 |
| Genre: | Rock |
| Length: | 42:46 |
| Label: | Columbia |
| Producer: | Bobby Colomby, Roy Halee |
| Prev Title: | Blood, Sweat & Tears |
| Prev Year: | 1968 |
| Next Title: | B, S & T; 4 |
| Next Year: | 1971 |
Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 is the third album by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears. It was released in June 1970.
After the huge success of the previous album, Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 was highly anticipated and it rose quickly to the top of the US album chart. It contained two hit singles: an arrangement of Carole King's "Hi-De-Ho", and "Lucretia MacEvil", written by singer David Clayton-Thomas. As with their previous album, this one relied mostly on songs borrowed from outside writers. However, It received fewer favorable reviews.
Village Voice critic Robert Christgau panned David Clayton-Thomas's singing as "belching", while calling "Symphony for the Devil" a "pretty good rock and roll song revealed as a pseudohistorical middlebrow muddle when suite-ened."[1] Allmusic's William Ruhlman called the album "a convincing, if not quite as impressive, companion to their previous hit. David Clayton-Thomas remained an enthusiastic blues shouter, and the band still managed to put together lively arrangements... although their pretentiousness, on the extended "Symphony/Sympathy for the Devil," and their tendency to borrow other artists' better-known material rather than generating more of their own, were warning signs for the future."
Album - Billboard (United States)
Singles - Billboard (United States)
| Year | Single | Chart | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | "Hi-De-Ho" | Pop Singles | 14 |
| 1970 | "Lucretia MacEvil" | Pop Singles | 29 |