Seals & Crofts - Summer Breeze | FIRST TIME HEARING REACTION
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This song is the essence of my memories of growing up in the 1970s...fragrance of the flowers in my mom's backyard, dinners in the kitchen, hanging out with my friends and sisters, riding my bike, walking to the park! SO many sweet smells and sounds of summer saturate my soul! Mom's warm hugs and sweet smells from the kitchen, wafting through the screen door! Carefree days of June, July, August and September! That's the true spirit of Summer Breeze! Classic! 😃💮
James Eugene "Jim" Seals and Darrell George "Dash" Crofts, one of the best soft-rock duos of the 70s. This was probably their best known song (from 1972), but they also had "Hummingbird", "Diamond Girl", "We May Never Pass This Way (Again)", "I'll Play For You", and "Get Closer". All are great songs. The Bee Gees didn't have anything to do with the song, BUT the Isley Brothers did a cool cover of it two years later. Great choice!
I liked “I’ll Play for You!”
George Benson and Al Jarreau collaborated on a cover of this song as well. Very nice....
Seals & Croft (& Glen Campbell) were all members of The Champs, who hit #1 with "Tequila."
Jim Seals's brother "Englad Dan" Seals was half of the duo England Dan & John Ford Coley, another 70s soft/yacht rock success. Their song "Love Is the Answer" is one of my favorites.
@@24sherbear Yes!! I get such a happy feeling when I hear *I'll Play For You* 🙂
This song was released in August 1972. Now fifty years later and it still has such a vibe. 🌞
I was 11 in 72 when this song became a hit ..
Definitely one of the songs of my childhood.
I was born in seventy two 🥰
This song still gives me the feelings. My husband was surprised to hear that I love this song so much.
It always reminds me of walking home (in no great hurry) on a warm Long Island summer evening (I was 15)
Another beautiful Seals & Crofts song, and very underrated is "Hummingbird". You need to do it in honor of Amber's tattoo!
This song and "We May Never Pass This Way Again" remind me of long road trips in the 1969 Country Squire station wagon, when I was a kid.
They had so many incredible songs that were constantly played and loved by everyone, yet they never got the accolades of critics!
The country squire! We had one with the fake wood paneling on the side.
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 "Summer Breeze", "Diamond Girl", "Get Closer", "We May Never Pass This Way (Again)", "Hummingbird", I'll Play For You", "Castles In The Sand", "You're The Love" etc.
They are the most under-rated!!!
"Diamond Girl" is a good choice e! Or "We May Never Pass This Way (Again) is even better!
Thanks for reminding me of all the great songs from S&C!
What is so special about the songs in the 70s? This decade are loaded with artists that create songs that makes you feel relaxed. Bands such as Ambrosia, Bread, Bée Gees and this one are part of the soft rock genre during that decade.
Yes, Amber is right! The instrument you didn't know is a xylophone. lt's a part of the percussion section, which is why you've seen them at football games, Jay! My family, my entire immediate, and extended family have all either played one, or multiple instruments, sing, or both! A bunch of them have gone on to be music teachers! This song was a bit before my time, but my dad always had music playing in the house. So much of the music I love has come from him! I cannot tell you how happy it makes me that you are exploring all of this great music and passing it on to your kids! I randomly ask our son who is singing the song that I have playing ... and 99.99% of the time, he gets it right! I wouldn't be doing my job as a parent if I didn't find some of my husbands and my music on his phone!
for those of us who heard this in 72..it immediately puts you in a summer state of mind.... smells and feels of carefree Summer!
I totally agree with you 🙂
Summer of 72 had some great songs, Long Cool Woman, Garden Party, and Rocket Man to name a few.
The summer of 72 was one of my best summers. Yes, the music was awesome!
I still smell the warm summer days
*This was on the radio as I got out of the car to get married (the first time ;-) - It always brings me right back to that.*
This song really evokes the feelings of Summer BEFORE we all lived in air conditioned homes, offices,and cars! The windows were open to catch those cooling breezes at the end of a typical, hot summer day. This song always transports me back to the late 1950's when I was a preschooler, waiting for my Daddy to come home from work! Beautiful song!
Exactly this! Windows open. Breeze blowing the little kitchen window curtains, the door open but screen door closed to keep the bugs out. Kids playing outside.
Sooo takes me back to my childhood to my summers in the 60s and 70s on Capecod in Ma and carefree funfill times with family and friends that are now gone, wish i so could go back :)))
To me, this song always evoked spending the night at a cabin on the beach, waking up early before anyone else, and watching the sunrise from a hammock...
God I miss those days 🥺
So glad you brought that up. No air con at my Texas school either.
Great song full of good nostalgia for me. My husband and I married on Valentines 73, and drove from snow in Vancouver, down the Pacific Coast highway for our honeymoon, with this song and a few other faves on an 8 track in our car. Seal and Croft, CSNY,
America, the Moody Blues, Joni
Mitchell, Chicago, etc. all chillin'
and a few like the Doors, Pink
Floyd, for louder songs. We did drive down to San Diego,stopping along the way, lived the surf crashing in Oregon, just ran against the wind along the beach, singing along with every tune, and in love with everything is possible feelings. Glad you are enjoying theses tunes from probably the best eras of rock n toll. Enjoy your ride. These sweet songs are eternal.
This is a classic. The Isley Brothers did a fantastic cover of this as well.
The Main Ingredients featuring Cuba Gooding Sr. did a great version also.
I was just about to say
Yes indeed!
I think it’s a better version the Isley brothers harmonies are out of this world
@@jameshollyoak8230 I dig Ernie's guitar solo over the final 2 mins of the track
‘We May never pass this way again’ is also a gem of theirs. Reminds me of back in 73ish and life was easier. America has some super ones too ‘Ventura Highway’, ‘sister Golden Hair’…
bacilakat1 The opening guitar riff from " Ventura Highway " is the ringtone on my phone. I get lots of smiles and nods out in public when my phone blows up, especially from folks you know were in their youth back when the song was new.
@@jaycorby that’d be cool!!!!
great job on this song. I have a recommendation "right time of the night" Jennifer Warnes
Oh my gosh. That was a GREAT sing!!!!!!
It was a decade of harmonies. Seals & Crofts, Hall & Oats, Simon & Garfunkel.
England Dan and John Ford Coley, Chad and Jeremy, Peter and Gordon, CSN.....
my husband and I fell in love to that song. It made us so happy because it's how we felt about our life together. He's gone now but still makes me happy when I hear it
Hi Vicki that is so sweet...Im glad you had that special time with your husband....songs can be so powerful and it created so many special memories for you kind regards from New Zealand.
Rest in peace, Jimmy. So many amazing songs with nothing but truth and inspiration. You'll be missed.
My mom used to work with Dash Croft's sister Dot. Seriously, they were named Dot and Dash. She was super cool.
Lol, maybe their folks just really loved them some Morse code. Or their grandpa used to work the telegraph, lol. That’s kinda mean to do to kids, but also hilarious.
Jim Seals and Dash Crofts could really harmonize great together...they had a few hits in the 70s Dash was a very good mandolin player....underrated.
One of my favorites from the 70’s. They harmonized their 2 voices perfectly.
Thank you, guys for introducing this beautiful song of my youth to a new generation. Sincere thanks.
Jim Seals’ younger brother was “England” Dan Seals, one half of England Dan and John Ford Coley-another popular duo of the 1970s. This is a great song. Crofts often played mandolin. That’s probably the sound you’re hearing.
Wow, I'm a child of the 70's and I didn't know that.
And they were all from the Pleasant Grove section of Dallas, TX.
Yeah, he didn't want yo call it Seals and Coley, because it would sound like his brother Jimmy,with some guy named Coley.
Loved listening to Seals and Crofts as a kid growing up in the 70s. Another song from that era I know both of you will enjoy is "YEAR OF THE CAT" by AL STEWART. This is one of those songs you have to listen to at least once in your life. But then it's like only eating one potato chip, you will listen to it many more times. The song is roughly based on the 1942 movie Casablanca so far as it takes place in a tourist market place somewhere in Northern Africa. The song was released in 1976 but the riff was something that Al heard played by a keyboardist named Peter Wood practicing for a show at Royal Albert Hall in 1975. AL asked if he could use it to write a song and Peter said yes. By the way 1975 was the year of the cat on the Vietnamese zodiac calendar.
Agreed! "Year of the Cat" is an absolute must!!!
Year of the Cat is one of those songs that takes me back to what I was doing in the Spring of '77 when it played on the radio every day. OMG that piano intro. 🥰
I’ve suggested this song and “Time Passages” soooo many times on this channel and they have yet to pick it up 😩
Maybe they’ll hear you this time!
Absolutely "Year Of The Cat" - the full version, not the 3 1/2 minute version. Hold out for the 7 minute one!
That sound you’re wondering about is the Marimba, their laid out the same as a xylophone is and if you really want to hear a song that features the marimbas listen to “moonlight feels right” by Starbuck, you’ll never forget it.
Ahhhh, great song, there. Always loved it! They really should do that one for a major 70s blast from the past.
Michael Adame " Moonlight Feels Right", aside from the signature xylophone solo, references the Chesapeake Bay in my good ol' home state of Maryland! Obviously that's the setting for the song, and yes I have 'popped the top' and driven over the Bay Bridge in the moonlight. What an experience!
They are my first memory of a concert. I stood on the chair and sang at the top of my lungs. I was four. '74. Love them! Do Diamond Girl!
Seals and Croft have a modest catalog but Summer Breeze, Diamond Girl and We May Never Pass this Way Again are 3 of the classiest songs ever recorded.
They also did a controversial but beautiful song called Unborn Child.
Also Hummingbird.
and Hummingbird.
“…modest…”
??!! They have so many other songs that are just as good as those three, though.
Came out in 1972. Some facts about the song: "Blowing through the jasmine in my mind"? Long before it was a Disney princess, jasmine was a kind of flower that blooms in the summer. Also good for tea, Seals & Crofts use it to bring about feelings of contentment and harmony in this song, which is a feel-good classic about enjoying some simple pleasures in life with the ones you love. Jim Seals explained in 1972: "We operate on a different level, we try to create images, impressions and trains of thought in the minds of our listeners."
Seals & Crofts were devoted to the Baha'i faith, and believed that by writing about life itself, many meanings would emerge for the listener. In 1975, Seals told Melody Maker that "Summer Breeze" was "A very simple song about a man coming home from work and hearing the dog barking and things like that, and to a lot of people the song's about looking for security. Our meaning goes further than that, for a prison can be the prison of self and a person can become insecure and paranoid if he doesn't have a direction in his personal life."
Well said
haha! Until now, I thought it was the 'castles of my mind' - never thought to look it up :)
Ha Ha, I did too!
Therea.s one part we may never pass this wa again ...makes me tear up.
The 70s musicians and bands just did it all to perfecttion all through the 70s and into the early 80s.
Thank you, that was informative.
I was born in 1970, this among others is some of the earliest music i can remember hearing. My mom always played the radio in the house and yes we had no AC so the summer breeze, which could be very hot in the mid-missouri summers, was all we had but it was simple and pure.
This was the best album to listen to on Sunday's high at home during the 70's. Our music was fantastic!
We may never pass this way again Seals and croft
Yes that’s another great song🙋🏻♀️
This is a song that I will NEVER skip! It never gets old! So glad you two have discovered this one!
Same here!
Agreed. Such a great song! Def does not get old!
Someone that evokes a story atmosphere and an amazing vocalist is Dan Fogelberg
Perfect title for the season we've just moved into in this part of the world. A band whose music evokes those feeling of summer, cruising down the road with the top down, sun on your face, wind in your hair, stereo turned up. L.A.B & Six60 are the biggest bands in NZ right now because they've gone back to their roots, real musicians playing real instruments, real singers and they're bringing back that old skool music we grew up listening too. L.A.B - In The Air, Six60 - Up There, Sons Of Zion - Love On The Run ft Jackson Owens.
Sunday's playing outside with the neighbors kids, the moms playing cards in someone's kitchen, dads working on each others cars, this whole album is one of those vibes, Diamond Girl, and Hummingbird, Summer Breeze were my favorites.
And “Our House!” With the classic lines “Our house, is a very, very, very fine house, with two cats in the yard, life used to be so hard, but everything is easy cause of you.”😁
This song holds a special place in my heart. I remember staying out late with friends on a summer night and coming home to my parents hanging out in the backyard with their friends having a good time and this was one of the songs playing outside. Hearing that and feeling that warm summer breeze and the fresh night air smell made me feel peaceful. Really makes me appreciate my childhood and my parents whenever I hear it now.
Loved this story! Thank you
What a beautiful & sweet memory attached to this beautiful, original version, of the song.
Im right there with you. Wow the memories from this song, Thank you for sharing your story, really warmed my heart.
YESSS this song brings me right back to late 70s at our community pool and swim team practice. It was always on the radio playing at the pool and reminds me of such fun, carefree times.
Honeysuckle bushes and fireflies, portable 📻 and the darn crickets 🚲
I remember summer afternoons back in the 70’s , laying on a blanket in my back yard listening to this on my transistor radio….beautiful music…simpler times . ❤
My favorite song all time. I grew up in the 70s. I never tire hearing it.
The Bee Gees did not have a hand in this, though they were contemporaries. it was written by Seals and Crofts and was one of their biggest songs, released in 1972.
Old school vibes .. Hummingbird by them in another great song .. Outstanding
Love this song. This this was released in '73, my senior year in high school. Brings back great memories.
I was a six year old kid with a tiny transistor radio when this song came out, and I just lost my mind. This song is just incredible. Wow...
Part of the soundtrack of my childhood. Seals & Crofts Greatest Hits was on constant rotation in the house. 'Hummingbird', 'Diamond Girl' and the instrumental 'Thunderfoot' are must hears. 'Ruby Jean and Billy Lee' is a tribute to their wives and truly touching. Can't think of a bad S&C track.
My personal favorite is 'Ruby Jean and Billy Lee'.....truly on an ethereal, spiritual level
Diamond Girl. YASSS.
'Diamond Girl' should be the next Seals & Crofts reaction
My dad played the HECK out of their Greatest Hits album. Talented musicians.
Takin' It Easy was one of my favorite albums from Seals & Crofts, but very underrated. Two that stand out that I really loved were 'One More Time' and 'Forever Like The Rose.' However, for me, the whole album is just pure awesomeness. And they end it with a tribute to Abdu L-Baha.
You guys really should have a listen to' Al Stewart' ' The Year of The Cat', Audio Version. This song is a 1970s classic with great instrumentation comprising of piano, orchestra, two guitars, spanish and electric, and saxophone solo, a must hear piece of music.
Yes dear Amber! One of the most sweeping saxophone solos in *The Year Of The Cat* !! AND it also contains a mesmerizing piano intro & lush strings throughout!!!
Reminiscent of *Baker Street* 🎷🎷🎷
YESSSSS!!!! I’ve been begging them to do YEAR OF THE CAT for months now. It’s got everything in it that they BOTH like.
Roads to Moscow
Saw Al Stewart in club in Vancouver , Canada several years ago . Another favorite of mine is Nostradamus ruclips.net/video/qa89bt0GZvQ/видео.html
Seals and Crofts, What a great 70s vibe.
I love this song, boy does it bring back happy memories. Thank you for bringing it out and sharing it with a world that so needs to hear beautiful , timeless music like this again.
That says it all….we need beautiful, timeless music blowing thru the jasmine of our minds! Peace, love and harmony and these soft rockers captured .those feelings.
“King Of Nothing” is a rarely heard Seals & Crofts gem! 💯🔥🤙🏽😎
Man this is like one of the most peaceful sounding songs ever too good!
Everything they dang was incredible!
One of the best duos ever..It's a mystery why they are not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.. hello from Anchorage Alaska
They had to make room for Madonna and LL Cool J (🙄)
@@markallen2984 No kidding!
Their Bahai religion preaching is what eventually did them in.
One of my all time favourite songs. Glad to see you guys enjoying it!
This was huge hit in 1972 Rob Squad
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You would probably love the song “Love Is The Answer” it’s originally by Todd Rundgren but Jim Seals brother had a huge hit with it as part of the duo England Dan & John Ford Coley. The message is so true and is really moving.
"Love Is The Answer" is one of my favorite songs! I listen to it every week and I smile when they sing 'We've got to love / We've got to love one another!'
Yes ! That was E.D. & J.F.C.'s best and biggest hit. It was also their last hit single. I saw them in concert. They were excellent.
Dean ( in Syracuse)
This was EVERYBODY'S favorite song when it was popular in the summer of 1972. It stayed number 1 for several weeks in my area.....
My Mom used to play this song all the time when she was still with us!! She was a Big Fan and it brings back so many Saturday morning cleaning house listening to her records memories!!
Thank you!!
One of my Dads favorite songs before he died. His very favorite was In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly. He died in ‘74 in Ponca City, Oklahoma
Your Dad must have been a very intelligent and loving soul. I'm sure you miss him very much. This song probably brings back strong memories for you.
, Dean ( in Syracuse)
@@wayofthinkin he was… I do and Thank you
Amber you sure are loving the hippie vibe!! I just love how you two are so open to listening to beautiful music and sharing it. This is the soundtrack of our teen lives and it transports us back. The harmonies are gorgeous and the sentiment is wonderful in a crazy world! You two are just like a "Summer Breeze"!!
For great harmonies, listen to Crobsy, Stills and Nash... unreal and will send chills up and down your spine!!
Cathedral is one of those “chills down your spine “ CSN songs. I totally agree.
@@Marian-xs3eh Also "Helplessly Hoping" whic Home Free has done an awesome a capella cover of.
Sorry, my bad; not Cathedral, but Southern Cross. Heck any CSN song has great harmonies !
@@Marian-xs3eh I got chills just reading the title!!!
Katie O'Brien Oh yeah, Mama...I have everything CSN ever did! They are the quintessential sound of that genre of music from the time - I mean who can't at least hum along to "Teach Your Children " ? Have seen them live in concert twice.
Perfect Summer song! They use a vibraphone, a percussion instrument. Also I hear electric piano set to percussion as well.
Actually I think there might even be a toy piano on the intro, outro and middle 8.
They used a toy piano 🎹 It sounds similar to a glockenspiel. Vibraphones aren't tinkly-sounding. Vibes are actually an electric instrument mainly found in jazz bands. They sound mellow and have a strong vibrato. They're rarely used in rock or pop. The best example I can come up with is that they are played heavily in Tiki Lounge Music like Quiet Village by Martin Denny.
@@Diva369 Love me some Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman!
Literally takes you back to 72’ a peaceful time. I was 15 best time in my life
Seals and Croft music is just pure poetry!
This was my high school prom theme song. Class of 1974. Thanks for the memories.
Sal Abruscato, the drummer for Seals & Crofts, is playing the glockenspiel which is an instrument that looks like a xylophone but sounds like bells.
I thought that it was called a glockenspiel, so I came to the comments for confirmation. Thanks for the info!
It also sounds like there's a marimba in there, doing another part.
Really, because I thought a glockenspiel sounded more bell like than the muted sound in this song. I read that it was a child's toy piano. Any truth in that?
@@AZambri1 You're correct. It's "toy piano" There's no doubt about it. We had one when we were children.
Gotta be New York tough. This songs reminds me of childhood in the summer of 1972. I was just a boy but I was and still attracted to this track fully. Great feel good song. Something about this songs triggers the Sony and Cher Show
This is a beautiful song from 1972/73.
The lyrics paint a picture.
I love the " Jasmine blowing in my mind "
This song was released at the same time that I connected songs on the Radio with something called a TOP 40 Chart.
This blew my 12 yr old mind.
Simon & Garfunkel would've been in awe of Seals & Crofts.
RIP - Jim Seals 80
The Isley Brothers also did this song and their version is really good, you guys are going to love it.
The first version I ever heard and it absolutely floored me. I can't see how it won't do the same for you.
This song IS summers for me back in the 70's.
The song is simply about a man coming home from a hard day's work and those things that aren't big but are what you really appreciate. Remembering those bygone days when they were growing up in Texas and the scent of jasmine on the air. Beautiful song.
I was but a young 11 year old when this was out, the young and care free early 70’s summers for a kids and young teens, simple life! Cereal for breakfast, playing outside all day( not inside on the computer) , reading the paper, comic books, watching tv with only 4 channels, listening to the radio and playing records, playing board games, brings back memories!
This reminds me so much of my late father. He used to rock this song and I remember loving it as a little girl. I’m glad you enjoyed it!
I remember when this song came out !!! STILL LOVE IT !!! IT'S A FEELING!!! 💗
Thanks !!! Love your reactions- simple ,grateful life and love! How I miss it! THE VIBRAPHONE, or "vibes". I can feel and smell it all! I love you too!
Actually, I think its a wood block (or cowbell) and a muted guitar at the same time. Vibraphone rings out like a xylophone and a marimba sustains longer as well. The wiki doesnt mention any of those either.
@@adamwarlock3530 Cool! You must be a musician!
Oh you sweet babies! You haven't lived until you have to shovel out your car from the snow, just to go to work all day; then find you have to clean it all over again to go home. I love the change of seasons. Without the cold, how can you ever appreciate the warmth you get??? Big fan of watching your reactions. They are always heartfelt.
Their sound is so rich. “Diamond Girl” should be on the short list for reaction.
Another gentle 70's song is "Sentimental Lady" from Bob Welch, who you haven't reacted to yet. He was in the original version of Fleetwood Mac and had written a faster version of Sentimental Lady while with them. He had a relatively brief run as a solo artist, but still put out plenty of other good songs: "Ebony Eyes" "Precious Love" "Carolene" "Three Hearts" "Hot Love Cold World"
I can't believe some one mentioned Bob Welch, Three Hearts and Hot love Cold world were my two favorite songs from him!
Never heard of any of those songs. Maybe if I listen to them.
Bob Welch was not in the original version of Fleetwood Mac. Heck, even John McVie (the "Mac" in Fleetwood Mac) was not in the original version. He was still in the Bluesbreakers. Bob Welch did not join until 1971, replacing Jeremy Spencer.
I remember listening to *Sentimental Lady* on WLS with John "Records" Landecker! I was in 6th grade. 😁
@@j.h.3777 If you are talking about Bob Welch. You tube those two songs. Back in the day I bought the albums because I liked that he was a guitar player. Love those two songs!
Our music is timeless, our lives were simple and our age group really miss this.
Love this song, takes me back to my 8 year old self in the 70s riding in the bed of my dads truck with him blasting this song from his 8 track tape
It was 4 degrees when I woke up this morning... Brrrrr Love Seals and Crofts harmonies. They remind me of my high school days.
You should do Southern Cross by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.
Jim Seals....Rest in Paradise, dear man!!! Thank you for the memories!!🎶🎼🎵😥😥😥
I was 6 years old in 72. I couldn't wait for this song to come on the radio.
So glad to hear Seals and Crofts. Diamond Girl is a wonderful album. One of the songs on the album they wrote for their wives. It's called "Ruby Jean and Billie Lee" and it is so beautiful! Thank you. This came out when I was in grade school and I bought the album and listed to it over and over. I still own it! An important part of the soundtrack of my life.
I loved Diamond Girl!!! Omg I forgot about that song
it is dash crofts' high counter-harmonies that sends shivers through me I LOVE THIS SONG. yep, it is the EPITOME of a relaxing, beautiful summers day 😊
jim seals and dash crofts had several more hits from the early - late '70s but this was their jewel for me ❤. they also did the soundtrack for a robby benson/annette o'toole film in 1977 called ONE ON ONE which i loved.
raeann63 You got to admit, " Diamond Girl " is a beauty as well :o) When that song begins I get the same chills all over feeling as I do when I hear Orleans's " Dance With Me " Damned good stuff from an era in music never to be duplicated. So happy I'm still around to reminisce about the 70s - I'd go back in a heartbeat.
Yes, yes and YES. Lol. Love this one. Such great memories of my childhood. This is the epitome of how I remember it. "Sweet days of summer, the jasmines in bloom. July is dressed up and playing her tune".
14 years old when this song came out. Every weekend Swimming in lake perry missing with the girls. One weekend my older brother drove us there , 1966 k code fastback mustang. Ended up in the ditch . No real damage. I still see what my brothers reaction were . Long buried memories thanks
Two acts worth checking out are The Association and Johnny Rivers, both of the mid to late sixties.
One of my all time favourite songs - just beautiful
Such an awesome summer song. I was about 10 when it became a big hit for them. They had a number of hits, I definitely recommend Diamond Girl next. This song and that one were my faves of theirs. 😊
I grew up in Kentucky and still live here. My daughter grew up and took a job in Madison, WI. And was diagnosed with fibrolamellar liver cancer at age 24. 1 in 5 million. Neither of us like cold weather. I have now seen ever season in Wisconsin including below zero. She is now showing no evidence of disease. This song takes me back to 1972 at Allen's Lake. A swimming hole where life was simple and death seemed like something far away that would never affect me.
Such a smooth and relaxing song. released in 1972. I was in high school.
I love love this song. I am so happy that you are giving it a listen. It’s a vibe. 💕 Some other songs to try “ We May Never Pass This Way” and “ Hummingbird”
Here in Australia, my parents had a load of Jasmine growing all over their back fence. In Summer, obviously, we have a lot of outdoor activity, playing, cooking, eating, drinking and socializing, but that scent on the evening breeze, stays with you forever.
Still remember being a little kid laying on tje roof of the house staring up at the sky listening to this on a transistor radio. Miss how simple the 70's seemed. Maybe it's the bliss of childhood
Two more great songs by them are "Hummingbird" and "Diamond Girl."
Their song "we may never pass this way again" was the theme song for my Senior prom.
Seals and Crofts was my night time unwind music when I was a teenager. I would stick them in my eight track player at bedtime and fall to sleep. Still love them!
As a child I used to sit and watch the stars listening to this song whenever I could . I thought it was beautiful
Jim Seals' younger brother, Dan was part of England Dan and John Ford Coley. I think you'd both really enjoy two of their biggest hits, "I'd Really Love to see You Tonight", and "Nights are Forever Without You".
Wow Tesses, interesting info.
And grew up in the same community I did attending Samuell High and was a very good songwriter. In Dallas Texas.
This song takes me back to the summer of '72. I learned about jasmine incense the year before and we had just moved from New York to Maine so this brought me back to N.Y. summer camps and good friends and Jasmine incense.
Love This Song SO Very Much! Brings Back Such Carefree, Fun Memories From My College Years! Luckily, I Was Able to See Them in Concert, & They Were Fantastic! (R.I.P.- Jim Seals 💔💔)
When I was kid in the early 70’s, I was such a geek on Seals & Crofts . . . drove my older siblings crazy listening to them all the time. 🎶❤️