SEALS AND CROFTS - Diamond Girl REACTION - Did Miles Davis influence this? - First time hearing

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  • Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024

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  • @LouieShelton
    @LouieShelton Год назад +17

    Thanks for featuring my favorite Seals & Crofts track. I produced and played guitar on it. Harvey Mason drums, Wilton Felder bass, David Paich piano (pre Toto). Jim Seals on sax and Dash Crofts had a whole career as members of The Champs before becoming the duo, Seals and Crofts. And in between we were a cover band in the LA clubs> We are all jazz fans and played a lot of it in our club gigs. Crofts was a great jazz drummer and Seals was probably the best sax player I've had the pleasure of playing with and I've played with many. Ironically the tune (So What) was never thought of or mentioned during the writing or production of Diamond Girl. However I agree the vamp is very close to the Miles Davis tune which we've played many times.

    • @Imadrummin
      @Imadrummin Год назад +4

      Louis, it is an honor to have you stop by and listen to Harri's review of Diamond Girl. Your accolades in the music industry are legendary. Thank you for all you have contributed in your career. 👍✌🥁

    • @HarriBestReactions
      @HarriBestReactions  Год назад +3

      Wow! Incredible to have the producer of the track here and give us this great insight.Not surprised at all to hear of the jazz connection of the "players". You can mostly tell when musicians have Jazz influences.They have a different touch.
      Nice to hear your take on the Miles Davis connection as wel Sir.Super track and most of all super production! ✌🏾🖤🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

    • @CryssLuvsMuzik
      @CryssLuvsMuzik Год назад +1

      Brilliant!

    • @megan22004
      @megan22004 Год назад +1

      Omg! This was my favorite album of theirs in the 70's still is.

    • @Dan-dg9pi
      @Dan-dg9pi Месяц назад

      Louie, the guitar on this track is sublime. I remember it was one of the biggest songs in the summer of 1973. And what a summer it was: the Stories, Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney, Dobie Gray, Jim Croce, and Marvin, among many others. You guys were fantastic.

  • @myownchannel247
    @myownchannel247 Год назад +46

    Seals and Crofts have so much great music to discover! Sadly Jim Seals passed recently but still no reactors have heard their great songs like this one, We May Never Pass This Way Again, Hummingbird, Get Closer and so many more ✌️

  • @marybaillie8907
    @marybaillie8907 Год назад +28

    Diamond Girl, their 5th studio album from 1973. This was their follow-up to "Summer Breeze" which had an amazing guitar riff, mandolin and harmonies from heaven.
    For Diamond girl, they brought in future members from Toto to add organs pianos and drums. They wanted to expand their songs to be inclusive of rock. And boy oh boy this song is laden with rock. The instrumentation is mind blowing. Saturated with such powerful and satisfying pleasure, their harmonies are some of the best. Glad you loved it Harri, 💎💎💎, indeed. Thanks Harri and Imadrummin. Beautiful. 👏👏 Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦

    • @Imadrummin
      @Imadrummin Год назад +1

      You are very welcomed Mary. Yes, cream of the crop musicians as well. ✌👍

    • @terrilgeorge7255
      @terrilgeorge7255 Год назад

      Didn't know about the Toto connection, but explains how good all the components are. Have always loved this song, thanks for bringing it to us!

  • @willowthegood9035
    @willowthegood9035 Год назад +17

    Oh, you need to hear their "We May Never Pass This Way Again" - I find it spiritual

  • @dagmar.6954
    @dagmar.6954 Год назад +31

    Love the great harmonies of Seals & Crofts. They were an American soft rock duo who had a lot of great songs in the 70's such as "Get Closer", "We May Never Pass This Way (Again)", "I'll Play For You", "Castles In The Sand", "You're The Love" etc.

    • @mikemiller3069
      @mikemiller3069 Год назад +5

      Don't forget, "Summer Breeze"

    • @ker3917
      @ker3917 Год назад +3

      @@mikemiller3069 plus Hummingbird! Great song

    • @dagmar.6954
      @dagmar.6954 Год назад +2

      @@mikemiller3069 He's already done that one.

    • @dagmar.6954
      @dagmar.6954 Год назад +1

      @@ker3917 He's already done that one.

    • @donnamoskowitz4978
      @donnamoskowitz4978 Год назад

      You are a musical beast!

  • @danielvolk237
    @danielvolk237 Год назад +20

    Great choice Imadrummin. One of my favorite duos ever. Sad that Jim Seals and his brother England Dan Seals have both passed away. Good reaction Harri, 👍🙃🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🤴

    • @Imadrummin
      @Imadrummin Год назад +1

      Thank you my friend and one of the best Besties on this channel. 👍✌😄

    • @michellefarrell9082
      @michellefarrell9082 Год назад +2

      Imadrummin always picks my favs!

    • @Imadrummin
      @Imadrummin Год назад +1

      @@michellefarrell9082 Thank you Michelle. You are very kind. 😀👍✌

    • @brenthowell8883
      @brenthowell8883 Год назад +3

      Loved England Dan and John Ford Coley! They had several great songs to. One of them was Love Is the Answer!♥️✌️

    • @pncombies
      @pncombies Год назад

      @@brenthowell8883 ruclips.net/video/VTJflSZ1wTU/видео.html 👊🏼

  • @markwilliams5606
    @markwilliams5606 Год назад +6

    Seals and Crofts. Very Good 🪴⛱️

  • @donnakubiski5572
    @donnakubiski5572 Год назад +3

    Seals and Crofts were one of my favorite artists back in the day. I had all their albums and saw them in concert three times. Because of them, the mandolin became my favorite string instrument. They have numerous songs that I love and it's very hard to name them all. But three of their lesser known songs that I recommend are "Windflowers", "Follow Me" and "The Boy Down The Road".

  • @bkm2797
    @bkm2797 Год назад +5

    Love Seals & Crofts, wonder where they went after all these decades. Thanks Harri

  • @CB-gr1uk
    @CB-gr1uk Год назад +6

    I love these guys! Love Summer Breeze.

  • @John_Chu
    @John_Chu Год назад +17

    Harri, you evidently recognize the bass line from Miles’ “So What” from Kind of Blue but I doubt S&C had any idea they were quoting Miles Davis or working in a modal scale. The producer for this album was Louis Shelton (prolific session guitarist - he played lead gtr on Boz Scaggs’ “Low Down” and the flamenco guitar on The Monkees’ “Valleri”). Shelton plays the solo on this track too. Two of the members of Toto are in the backing band as well. If anyone was aware of borrowing from Miles, it was probably David Paich who seems to playing Bill Evans’ piano intro to “So What.” In 2012, jazz guitarist John Pizzarelli made this connection explicit when he absolutely grafted “So What’s” chord progression onto his cover of “Diamond Girl.” Critics at the time thought Pizzarelli was too flippant but he did hear the same things we all do. Love the reaction, Harri.

  • @Phoenix85006
    @Phoenix85006 Год назад +10

    You should really check out their song "Hummingbird" it's magical! ✨

  • @dreamweaver8913
    @dreamweaver8913 Год назад +8

    Another amazing song of theirs is "Summer Breeze". Definitely a feel good song!

  • @kimmaedke2763
    @kimmaedke2763 Год назад +1

    I remember this from back in the day. Great song.

  • @timgrady4630
    @timgrady4630 Год назад +1

    Brilliant Harri , yet again .
    This one shimmers & shines like the best sunny Summer Day ...ever .

  • @ThePittsburghToddy
    @ThePittsburghToddy Год назад +5

    My pops used to play along with the flute section. A wonderful song.🖖🏼

  • @robertaccornero7172
    @robertaccornero7172 Год назад +2

    I saw them live in the 70's, they were great, and they both could play many instruments exceedingly well and you had to be there.

  • @salty-tomato
    @salty-tomato Год назад +2

    I knew this would be right up your alley🎶🎸🎹🎤

  • @T.B0ne
    @T.B0ne Год назад +6

    Jeff Porcaro on drums, Wilton Felder on Bass.

  • @pncombies
    @pncombies Год назад +3

    Imadrummin - Diamond Girl, Get Closer, My Fair Share, We May Never Pass This Way (Again), Summer Breeze? I can't remember a day in the 70's and 80's when I didn't hear one of those songs on the radio . Great selection and reaction!

    • @Imadrummin
      @Imadrummin Год назад +1

      Thank you pncombies. I agree. They were a staple on the radio growing up. Peace my brother. ✌✌✌

  • @bethking7348
    @bethking7348 Год назад +1

    Flashback memories. Thank you!

  • @ShibaMomma143
    @ShibaMomma143 Год назад +1

    Takes me back to the 70's, when I was a wee kid, riding in the back seat of the car with my mom and my sisters, listening to this amazing song on the radio and asking my mom to turn it UP! What a gem! 🤩😍🥰

  • @caryriggs5719
    @caryriggs5719 Год назад +1

    Hummingbird! So good.

  • @jimmypadgett1106
    @jimmypadgett1106 Год назад +5

    You'll definitely like summer breeze by them.

  • @alloallie
    @alloallie Год назад +3

    What a great choice, Harri ! This is one of my favourite S&C songs. That harmony is just sublime ! Plus, tasty bass and drums. I highly recommend their song East of Ginger Trees also by Seals and Crofts (my fave from them).

  • @Able-Man
    @Able-Man Год назад +3

    ¿¡FIRST time!? ... WOW, am I "feeling old"; all of a sudden!

  • @ChuckHackney
    @ChuckHackney 9 месяцев назад

    Big hit for them, along with Summer Breeze and We Will Never Pass This Way Again...wonderful harmonies and melodies, another magical duo from the magical 70s.

  • @Imadrummin
    @Imadrummin Год назад +13

    Harri, you may be on to something. Miles Davis' So What? and John Coltrane's Blue Train have some similiar chops. Thank you for reacting to this great song. Diamond Girl = Diamonds in my ears. Went to #6 on Billboard in 1973. 👍👍👍

  • @carollittle1059
    @carollittle1059 Год назад +1

    Loved this song when it came out!

  • @sherigrow6480
    @sherigrow6480 Год назад +1

    I'm often reminded of Van Morrison songs when I listen to this. That jazz element, maybe similar influences.

  • @FUBAR1986
    @FUBAR1986 Год назад +2

    Fell in love with these guys and was totally obsessed with their music… a good song by them closer to you you’ll love it Harri❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ ❤ ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @williamjackson6705
    @williamjackson6705 Год назад +9

    Jim Seals was a saxophonist in his younger days which where he probably got some jazz influence. His brother Dan Seals was part of a group called England Dan & John Ford Coley. You reviewed one of their songs, Love Is the Answer, a few months ago. Both brothers were very talented musicians. Both are now gone I'm afraid.

  • @beverlybrown2673
    @beverlybrown2673 Год назад

    When I graduated back in 1974 their We May Never Pass This Way Again was our class song...

  • @timetravellingone
    @timetravellingone Год назад +1

    Firefall "Just remember I love you" "You are the woman" "Strange way" Sanford Townsend Band "Smoke from a distant fire" Hamilton Joe Frank and Reynolds "Fallin in love"

  • @marygriffiths2950
    @marygriffiths2950 Год назад +1

    Memories 🤗🤗🤗🤗

  • @greenb2888
    @greenb2888 Год назад +1

    Great song it really takes me back

  • @rosmeeker1964
    @rosmeeker1964 Год назад +1

    More please.

  • @phillipharrison7283
    @phillipharrison7283 Год назад

    And another of their well known songs not mentioned already, 'I'll play for you'. Lovely memories. Thanks Harri👌

  • @Cosmo-Kramer
    @Cosmo-Kramer Год назад +1

    What a trip down memory lane this song takes me on! Great choice, once again, Mr. Imadrummin!

    • @Imadrummin
      @Imadrummin Год назад +1

      Thank you Cosmo Sir!!! 😀

  • @kurtyoung6769
    @kurtyoung6769 Год назад

    I'm very happy you discovered Seals and Crofts! "Try Diamond Girl " next please!!!

  • @leahdoerr731
    @leahdoerr731 Год назад +1

    Hello from Cody Wyoming USA! You're awesome, my bestie... I have never been called that before but I 💘 it....please never stop

    • @Imadrummin
      @Imadrummin Год назад

      You are among friends on Harri's channel. Thank you for stopping in and giving this a listen. ✌✌✌

  • @davejob6853
    @davejob6853 Год назад +1

    another excellent choice. Harri, you should review the Miles Davis song.

  • @cls6055
    @cls6055 Год назад +1

    Love ❤️ the flute in this!!

  • @Cynthia...
    @Cynthia... Год назад +1

    Wow I have not heard these guys for ages and almost forgot about them. What a fantastic choice Imadrummin and Harri.

    • @Imadrummin
      @Imadrummin Год назад +1

      My pleasure Cynthia and appreciate ya!!😀

  • @Wordsmyth8
    @Wordsmyth8 Год назад

    Always loved their jazz-folk fusion sound. This one and Summer Breeze are my favorites.

  • @14gilbertst
    @14gilbertst Год назад +1

    One of those songs that takes me right back to the Summer of '73! Paul Simon- Kodachrome. Chicago- Feeling Stronger Every Day. Ramblin' Man- Allman Brothers. The reissue of 'Monster Mash'! George Harrison- Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth.) Doobie Brothers- Long Train Runnin'. Jim Croce- Bad, Bad Leroy Brown....Right Place, Wrong Time- Dr. John.....Will It Go Round in Circles- Billy Preston. Shambala- Three Dog Night!! Transistor Radio on the beach!

  • @summertime_blooz
    @summertime_blooz Год назад +3

    Their music is sophisticated but so easy on the ears. Some of their output is pretty jazzy. I just listened to 'So What' and the influence could not be more obvious.

  • @ptournas
    @ptournas Год назад +2

    I loved this song. I love their song "Summer Breeze" too.
    I'd like to request an Elvis song. It's from one of his romantic comedy B movies. I don't remember which one, I had stopped watching them after the first couple.
    But the song was released as a single and it's a beautiful song, quite jazzy for an Elvis song. Great guitar work by Tommy Tedesco. It's called "All That I Am".

  • @dwainwilder7337
    @dwainwilder7337 Год назад

    You, like me have a very intuitive ear for sound/music. Thanks for sharing!

  • @1939lb
    @1939lb Год назад +3

    Extremely jazzy..Diamonds indeed..So what by Miles also inspired Cold Sweat by James Brown

  • @Calmontheoutside
    @Calmontheoutside Год назад

    Seals and Crofts is driving with your windows all the way down. 😊

  • @dominickferrari8368
    @dominickferrari8368 Год назад +2

    Try "Summer Breeze " :)

  • @debbiechang5781
    @debbiechang5781 Год назад +3

    This song takes me right back to the summer of 1973 when I dated twin brothers. Thankfully they were not identical 😂😂. But it was a great summer from my youth. You are correct Harri. This stayed at the top of the charts for several weeks 😂. Just a great summertime melody. Thanks to Imadrummin for this request. 🌺✌️

    • @rorystorm4284
      @rorystorm4284 Год назад

      You dated them both? Really? Tell us more please, lol!

    • @debbiechang5781
      @debbiechang5781 Год назад +2

      @@rorystorm4284 There’s not much to tell really. They were twins, football stars stuck in their high school glory days and I dated Wayne first and then William. They were more impressed with themselves than I was. 😂😂😂 I was in my early twenties and just having fun. 🌺🌼✌️

    • @rorystorm4284
      @rorystorm4284 Год назад

      @@debbiechang5781 Funny, thx!

    • @Imadrummin
      @Imadrummin Год назад

      What a summer of 73 for you. Wow!! I appreciate you Debbie. Thanks!!!😀👍

  • @CuzKatieSaysSo
    @CuzKatieSaysSo Год назад +1

    This is definitely a song where you just close your your eyes and let the music take you away.

  • @jayrobinson1884
    @jayrobinson1884 Год назад +1

    Always loved Seals and Crofts if you want their jazzy side try out their song Masterpiece

    • @lindaregelean8015
      @lindaregelean8015 Год назад

      Masterpiece? Not heard of this one; there's Wisdom ...

  • @bethking7348
    @bethking7348 Год назад +1

    If you haven't done it already, view "Summer Dreams"

  • @mulatacatachufla
    @mulatacatachufla Год назад +1

    You already played SEALS & CROFTS about one year ego with the song "Summer Breeze," and your reaction was quite positive also....

  • @atombomb31458
    @atombomb31458 Год назад +1

    RIP Mr seals

  • @gaijin5
    @gaijin5 Год назад +1

    🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @troyeyton6229
    @troyeyton6229 Год назад

    I love your reactions 🤘 more Band Maid!

  • @bryanforis1839
    @bryanforis1839 Год назад

    They did so many big songs in the past like taqueria in pee wee movie great music

  • @garyclark9618
    @garyclark9618 Год назад +1

    Every day I am reminded of the fact that I am so glad that I was born in 1975. A time when music was actually music, not the talentless soulless garbage that permeates society today. A time when I didn't have to be bombarded with weirdo ideologies every day,and a time when children could enjoy life being outside playing and using their imagination for entertainment. Now it seems like kids are growing up believing true life exists in a man made fake digital reality. It's quite sad to see what society has become in recent years.

  • @joejones1639
    @joejones1639 Год назад +1

    it feels good don't it. Your comments are right on. Funky bass pocket drums but beat changes . Incredible musicians writing recording production stands up now as well as always.try little River band.keep digging

  • @JAMESMOORE-gq4vv
    @JAMESMOORE-gq4vv Год назад

    I'LL PLAY FOR YOU was my fave in Jr. High, borrowed the album from the library.

  • @SteveInTheOC
    @SteveInTheOC Год назад

    Haven’t heard this in a long time now. 👍

  • @denisemay6807
    @denisemay6807 Год назад

    Imadrummin, you did it again! Great pick!

  • @michaelasay8587
    @michaelasay8587 Год назад +2

    Harri...u must know this!!

  • @rk41gator
    @rk41gator Год назад

    Forgot how much swingin' jazz they got into and was so prevalent back then. Good catch with Miles reference.

  • @rodrigovalenzuela8355
    @rodrigovalenzuela8355 Год назад +6

    Qué estilo tan particular el de SEALS & CROFT..! Elegantes, sutiles..! Los arreglos instrumentales son todo armonía . No hay esfuerzo ni afán de demostrar nada en esas dos voces, simples suaves...maravillosas ...!!
    Una humilde recomendación amigo Harri...si te parece adecuada de seleccionar por tí. Un gran crooner tal vez injustamente subvalorado por ser contemporáneo de los gigantes de este género ( RAT PACK incluido). Una voz que nada tenía que envidiar a los mejores de su tiempo. Tuvo algunos éxitos pero pienso que merecía más.
    BROOK BENTON " IT'S JUST A MATTER OF TIME" .

  • @billwoods9302
    @billwoods9302 Год назад

    The unmistakable vibe of the 70's. Gen X grew up with this genre pouring out of every radio in listening range, and even though many of us veered into hip hop, metal or hardcore, I think almost all of us have a nostalgic soft spot for those clean, polished and melodic anthems of the Easy Rock era.

  • @mga2899
    @mga2899 Год назад

    I have the same reaction after 10,000 plays

  • @paulrt3
    @paulrt3 Год назад

    Seals & Crofts - Summer Breeze is definitely a song you should check out!

  • @fronkykoko
    @fronkykoko Год назад

    Seals and Crofts are a great musical duo, aside from their version of The Isley Brothers song 'Summer Breeze' their music seems well underappreciated. They had a mixture of styles that always has an easy listening vibe. I believe they were credited with creating the soft rock genre. Check out 'Hummingbird', 'Castles In The Sand' and 'Forever Like The Rose'...

  • @dwainwilder7337
    @dwainwilder7337 Год назад

    The song you are thinking of is Miles Davis’ “So What” on did the album “Kind of Blue” the song is; “So What”. I never related “Diamond Girl” to “So What”, but now that you mentioned it, I could hear it.

  • @TheDivayenta
    @TheDivayenta Год назад +4

    Oh, Harri- you’re thinking of So What? by Miles Davis, aren’t you?

    • @no2all
      @no2all Год назад +1

      Well, "So What?" was off of Miles' "Kind of Blue" album...and it had the same time signature.

  • @atombomb31458
    @atombomb31458 Год назад +1

    interesting--the Miles tune SO WHAT and DIAMONG GIRL are similar in the break

  • @tgforty5
    @tgforty5 Год назад

    I never thought of it before, but you're right....this does sound like Miles Davis' "So What."

  • @rayburn2007
    @rayburn2007 Год назад +3

    Louie Sheldon at his best

  • @mwflanagan1
    @mwflanagan1 Год назад

    You’re thinking of ‘So What’ by Miles Davis, from the Kind of Blue album.

  • @martyjansing2675
    @martyjansing2675 Год назад

    Hard to define Seals and Crofts, Humming bird gives you a acoustic sound or We May Never Pass is even different than the first two. All fantastic music.

  • @lindaregelean8015
    @lindaregelean8015 Год назад

    I get what you mean about a touch similar to So What. NOW you must checkout Tierney Sutton's "Driven to Tears" on her CD Sting Variations. Tierney is a Baha'i as well (like Jimmy and Dash) FYI. We're all related😊

  • @donaldakin492
    @donaldakin492 Год назад +3

    Pretty darn sure that this is the Wrecking Crew (cream of the LA studio musicians) on this and probably every song they ever recorded, as well as half of the artists we love from the 60s and 70s. S&C were stunning talents as well, and this is one of my favorites from their catalog. Another fave is Hummingbird, which has nods to eastern spirituality. Ahhh...such Zen music...

  • @rosem2896
    @rosem2896 Год назад

    Next one by seals and crofts …we May never Pass thisWay again ….you’re gonna like this one

  • @marthadigges7436
    @marthadigges7436 Год назад +2

    If you don't mind, please react to a song called QUARTER TO THREE by Gary U.S. Bonds..Fantastic.

  • @josephward6577
    @josephward6577 Год назад

    Thier songs ,rival Steely Dan,& Donald. Fagan! To me they have the same sounds,in fact i hadnt heard the song in yesrs,and was banging it around in my head,who is this? My first thought was Steely Dan,! Donald Fagan has a similar tone in his voice! Of course Seals & Croft does it like it should be done,no one can copy that sound,the lyrics or that feeling, you get when hear it!!

  • @kirkhall2099
    @kirkhall2099 Год назад

    I wish I had a dollor for every song that sounded like another artists song.

  • @lynnieiapichino1121
    @lynnieiapichino1121 Год назад

    ☮️💙💙💙🔥🔥💎

  • @gaijin5
    @gaijin5 Год назад +1

    ☮️❤️🔥🔥🔥🎵🎶🎵...😏

  • @phantomcollector1976
    @phantomcollector1976 Год назад +4

    EASILY ONE OF THE GREATEST SONGS OF ALL TIME

  • @craigwells3655
    @craigwells3655 Год назад

    Honestly, constantly repeated comments turn me off. A little background check would have given you lots to talk about. These guys had a rich history before they recorded together, and their spiritual beliefs add an sweet honesty to their lyrics, music and singing.

  • @helenstravis3834
    @helenstravis3834 Год назад

    Is this one diamonds for your ears?

  • @tomitstube
    @tomitstube Год назад

    love these black reactions to lily white entertainers... where's the money? with white people of course, how do you get that money? lol, tell them how much you love larry bird and folk music...

  • @jhamptonjr
    @jhamptonjr Год назад +3

    Now I feel 13 again!