Formed 1967 by Al Kooper after quitting The Blues Project, it was intended to be BP+Horns, but the horns would akin to a big band, integral and prevalent, rather than the punctuation or interlocutor of an R'n'B context; a band called CTA also had this idea. This version lasted for one LP, Child Is Father to the Man, before the band mutinied and fired Kooper. With new lead singer David Clayton-Thomas, they became an OK pop band, with hits like "Spinning Wheel".