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David clayton-thomas - spinning wheel Continue British-Canadian musician This biography of a living person needs additional quotes for verification. Please help by adding reliable resources. Controversial material on living persons who have not been obtained or poorly acquired must be removed immediately, especially if potentially ridiculous or harmful. Find sources: David Clayton-Thomas - news · newspapers · books · Scholar · JSTOR (August 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) David Clayton-ThomasClayton-Thomas performing at Golfstream Park in Hallandale, FloridaBackground information Gun named David Henry ThomsettBorn (1941-09-13) 13 September 1941 (age 79)Kingston on Thames, Surrey, EnglandGenresR&B, rock, funk, pop, jazzOccupation(s)Singer, musician, songwriter, songwriter Record Producer InstrumentsVocals, Guitar Years Active 1960s Presentations Associated Acts Blood, Sweat & TearsWebsitedavidclaytonthomas.com David Clayton-Thomas (born David Henry ThomSett September 13, 1941) is a Grammy award-winning Canadian musician, singer and songwriter, known as the lead singer of american orchescrite Blood, Sweat & Tears. Clayton-Thomas was incorporated into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and in 2007 his jazz/rock composition Spinning Wheel was enshrined in the Canadian Songwriter's Heroes Hall of Fame. In 2010, Clayton-Thomas received his star on Canada's Walk of Fame. Clayton-Thomas started his music career in the early 1960s and worked the clubs on Toronto's Yonge Street, where he discovered his love of singing and playing the blues. Before moved to New York City in 1967, Clayton-Thomas faced some local bands, first The Shays and then The Bossmen, one of the earliest rock bands with significant jazz influences. But the real success came only a few difficult years later when he joined Blood, Sweat & Tears. Clayton-Thomas's first album with the band, Blood, Sweat & Tears (released in December 1968) – despite his economist title, it was actually the group's second album – which sold tens of million copies worldwide. The record on top of the Billboard album chart chart for seven weeks and chartered for 109 weeks. It won five Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year and Best Performance by a Male Singer. It took three hits, You've Made Me So Very Happy, Spinning Wheel, and And When I Die (on the Hot 100, each peaked on No. 2 and lasted 13 weeks) as well as a transition from Billie Holiday's God bless the child. [1] With Clayton-Thomas in front of the orchesman, BS&T continued with a string of hit albums, including Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 that produced Carole King's Hi-De-Ho and Clayton-Thomas's Lucretia MacEvil and Lisa Listen and Lisa Listen and Lisa Listen. In 1972, Thomas released his first Columbia solo album to BS&T, simply titled David Clayton Thomas. In 1973 the album albums only Sunrise was issued by Columbia. In 1974, he released the Harmony Junction album on RCA. In 1975 Thomas returned to the front blood sweat & tears on the Columbia albums New City and in 1976, More Than Ever. In 1977 they became Spnr. In 1978, Thomas released another solo album on ABC, entitled Clayton. In 1980, BS&T released the MCA album Nuclear Blues, which also included Thomas. Later in the decade, Columbia issued the dual live BS&T album Live and re-impesied with Thomas. In 2004, Clayton-Thomas left New York for Toronto and launched an All-Star 10-piece orchesto. Since then, he has toured and recorded nearly a dozen albums under his own name. Life and career This section largely relies on a single source. Relevant discussion can be found on the talking page. Please help improve this article by suggesting quotes to additional sources. Find sources: David Clayton-Thomas - news · newspapers · books · Scholar · JSTOR (August 2015) Clayton-Thomas was born in Kingston on Thames, Surrey, England, the son of Fred Thomsett, a decorated Canadian soldier of World War II. Clayton-Thomas's mother, Freda May (née Smith), played the piano and met Thomsett when she entertained the troops at a London hospital. After the war, the family settled in Willowdale, Toronto. From the beginning, Clayton-Thomas and his father had a troubled relationship. By the time Clayton-Thomas was fourteen, he left the house and slept in parked cars and left buildings and stealing food and clothes to survive. He was arrested several times for vagrancy, small theft and street noise and spent his teenage years in and out of various prisons and reformers, including the Burwash Industrial Farm. [2] He inherited a love of music from his mother, and when an old guitar came into his possession, left behind by an outgoing prisoner, he began to teach himself to play. With his release from detention in 1962, he engraved to the Yonge Street strip in Toronto. Rhythm & blues migrated from Detroit and Chicago was the music of choice on the strip, and Arkansas rockabilly pioneer Ronnie Hawkins admitted the formidable talent of the young 'Sonny' Thomas and took him under his wing. It wasn't long before he was his own bands before. The first is called David Clayton Thomas and The Fabulous Shays. By now, he had changed his van to place a distance between his new life and his difficult teenage years. In 1964, Clayton-Thomas and The Shays recorded a reminder of John Lee Hooker's Tree Tree. This led to a New York involvement in the Shays on NBC TV's Hullabaloo at the invitation of its host Paul Anka. Clayton-Thomas abandoned the bars on the strip and started performing in Yorkville Village's coffee houses. He himself in the local jazz & blues scene dominated by the likes of John Lee Lee Joe Williams, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Lenny Breau, Oscar Peterson and Moe Koffman. Clayton-Thomas made his mark more enormous with his next group, The Bossmen, one of the first rock groups everywhere to include jazz musicians. In 1966, he wrote and interpreted the R&C;A; B-driven anti-war song Brainwashed, which became a major Canadian hit, peaked at No. 11 on the national RPM chart. One night in 1966 after he sat in with Blues singer John Lee Hooker in Yorkville, Clayton-Thomas left with him for New York. They played a Greenwich Village club for a few weeks; Hooker then left for Europe and Clayton-Thomas lived in New York City. He survived by playing basket houses, where artists were given a few minutes of stage time and then passing the basket. Folk singer Judy Collins heard Clayton-Thomas one night at a club centre and told her friend, drummer Bobby Colomby. Bobby's band, Blood Sweat & Tears, impressed four months after the release of his debut Columbia album, Child Is Father to the Man. Colomby, impressed with Clayton-Thomas' voice talent and he invited him to join the group. They have the reformed group in the Cafe Au Go-Go in town. In his 1974 autobiography, Clive: Inside the Record Business, Clive Davis, then President of Columbia Records, described his initial impression of Clayton-Thomas singing at the Café Au Go-Go: He was staggering... a powerful built singer who has ironed out an enormous earthly trust. He jumped right out for you. I worked with a small group of people, and we were electrified. He looked so genuine, so commissioned by the lyric... a perfect combination of fire and emotion to deal with the group's somewhat cerebral appeal. I knew he would be a strong, strong figure. BS&T continued with a string of hit albums, including Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 containing Clayton-Thomas's Lucretia MacEvil and Carole King's Hi-De-Ho and BS&T 4, which struck another Clayton-Thomas stakes single, Go Down Gamblin. Blood Sweat & Tears' biggest Hits album has so far reportedly snapped up more than seven million copies in global sales. [quote required] BS&T heading to great places around the world: the Royal Albert Hall, the Metropolitan Opera House, the Hollywood Bowl, Madison Square Garden, and Caesar's Palace, as well as the Newport Jazz Festival and Woodstock. It was the first contemporary orchestra to break through the Iron Curtain with its historic Department of State-sponsored tour of Eastern Europe in May and June 1970. In the early years, Clayton-Thomas lived on the road and travelled across Europe, Australia, Asia, South America, the US and Canada with BS&T. The constant tour began to take its toll. Clayton-Thomas left the group in 1972, exhausted by life on the By the mid-70s, the founding members began drifting to start families and their own musical Disgraphy Albums Year Album Title Record Label 1969 David Clayton-Thomas! Decca 1972 David Clayton-Thomas Columbia 1972 Tequila Sunrise Columbia 1973 David Clayton-Thomas (Harmony Junction) RCA 1977 Clayton ABC Musiek 1996 Blou Plaat Spesiale DCT 1999 Bloodlines DCT 2001 Die Kersfees Album Fontana Noord / Maplecore 2005 Aurora Justin Time 2006 In Konsert: 'n Musikale Biografie Justin Time 2008 Die Evergreens Fontana Noord / Maplecore 2009 Spectrum 2010 Siel ballads Brandstof 2013 A Blues vir die Nuwe Wêreld Antoinette 2015 Combo Audio & Video Labs, Inc. 2016 Kanadese Antoinette / Ils / Universele 2018 Mobius Ils 2019 Sê Somethin' Antoinette Singles 'Boom' No. 16 Julie 1964 CHUM 'Walk that Walk' No. 3 April 1965 KAN/Nr. 28 CHUM 'Neem my terug' No. 39 Julie 1965 CHUM 'Uit die Sonskyn' No. 32 September 1965 CHUM 'Brainwashed' No. 11 Julie 1966 CAN / No. 6 CHUM Sien ook Musiek portaal Kanada portaal Die David Clayton-Thomas Show Kanadese rockmusiek van Kanada Bronne Clayton-Thomas David (Junie 2010).