Canada’s David Clayton-Thomas was blessed with a big, booming baritone, one of the most recognizable voices in pop music, a gift that took him from the clubs and coffeehouses of Toronto’s Yonge Street and Yorkville all the way to Woodstock, Hollywood and beyond. As the frontman of jazz-rock pioneers Blood, Sweat & Tears, which topped the charts in 1969 with horn-driven hits like “And When I Die,” “You’ve Made Me So Very Happy” and his own “Spinning Wheel,” the singer lived a charmed life, winning awards, adulation and a king’s ransom of earnings that allowed him to indulge his taste for luxury cars and sprawling, palatial homes in coveted locations like the Catskill Mountains. But C...
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