What The Hell Happened To Blood, Sweat & Tears? is the new documentary produced and directed by acclaimed music documentarian John Scheinfeld (The U.S. vs. John Lennon, Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin’ About Him?), Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary).

The film is a political thriller with a classic rock band at the heart of the action following Blood, Sweat & Tears’ ill-advised 1970 tour of Yugoslavia, Romania and Poland, a tour sponsored by the U.S. State Department.

The film includes 53 minutes of never-before-seen footage that was previously thought to be lost of the biggest band in America’s controversial journey across Yugoslavia, Romania and Poland.

BS&T were clearly at the top of their game in 1970, as their second eponymously titled album hit number one for 7 weeks, sold over 4 million copies in the U.S. and yielded three Top 5 singles…they even won a Grammy® for Album of the Year over The Beatles’ Abbey Road.

Omnivore Recordings is delighted to announce a companion piece to What The Hell Happened To Blood, Sweat & Tears? – Original Soundtrack, with the digital only release of What The Hell Happened To Blood, Sweat & Tears? – Original Score composed by founding member Bobby Colomby and arranger/composer/musician David Mann.

What makes this release incredibly unique is the original score is not only co-written by original member Colomby but performed by the current 2023 lineup of Blood, Sweat & Tears, bringing the musical vibe right up to date.

The film, to be released worldwide by Abramorama, a New York-based film and distribution company, will see a domestic theatrical release on March 31st, 2023. The film will include over 25 songs from the Blood, Sweat & Tears catalog, including the ten songs performed live that appear on Omnivore’s original song soundtrack and the nearly 20 minutes of original score that appear on What The Hell Happened To Blood, Sweat & Tears? – Original Score.

1. Something’s Coming On
2. God Bless The Child
3. Spinning Wheel
4. Something Goin’ On / Blues - Part II
5. Hi-De-Ho
6. And When I Die
7. Sometimes In Winter
8. Smiling Phases
9. You’ve Made Me So Very Happy
10. I Can’t Quit Her

This still highly effective soundtrack recording of a band that were always top of their game, and featuring David Clayton-Thomas’ fantastic vocals, opens on the thunderously melodic rock of Something’s Coming On and the aching yearn within God Bless The Child, and they are followed by the timeless, and with the brass section on point, Spinning Wheel, the incredible musicianship and vocals on the medley of Something Goin’ On / Blues - Part II and then comes one of the most powerful gospel songs known, Hi-De-Ho (although this live version, as announced, doesn’t feature a choir, moreover asks for audience participation).

Along next is the veritably bittersweet, but yet comforting at the same time, the harmonica-driven And When I Die, a song that tugs at the heartstrings, Sometimes In Winter, and they are in turn backed by the thoroughly outstanding drumming within Smiling Phases, the album rounding out on the psychedelic bliss of You’ve Made Me So Very Happy, closing on the fantastically arranged, big horn-imbued, an epic finale of I Can’t Quit Her.

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