I was 17 in 70 We were so into the music, this was a popular song along with so many others, it was a fabulous time for most of us, I am glad i grew up during that time and wish i would have continued my music lessons...:)
"Sweet days of summer, the jasmine's in bloom; July is dressed, and playing her tune." Such simple but profound lyrics. For me, Summer Breeze is the ultimate summer song. No other song I know of so intimately captures the feel of warm, fragrant summer evenings like this one does.
@piper131313 - I grew up in Sarnia (an hour's drive west of London for anyone not familiar with the area), and Summer Breeze was frequently played by the radio stations there, too... and yes, I remember all the hot evenings we had in that summer of 1973, listening to that same song. So your experience mirrors mine pretty closely. I don't think anyone could ever really 'get' a song like Summer Breeze unless they lived in the time when it was popular.
Wow...this song gives me great flashbacks of the late 70's. Life just seemed so much simpler in the world. It wasn't perfect by any means, but more simple than today's society issues. Seemed like everyone was poor and OK with it...
Music today is missing that spiritual ingredient that a lot of music like this had. It's just so packaged today. These guys are awesome. Who writes like that now?
This is the music of my summers.....reminds me of riding in the car with my mom and singing along with the radio. Years later, watching this video with someone who appreciates music just as much as I do, it just makes everything alright......these guys sound great.
I was born in 1988 , but I love the 70's music!!!! My mom raised me around John Denver , Harry Chapin , Gordon Lightfoot , Bread , Glenn Cambell & James Taylor. I heard this song when I was 19 and instantly loved it! I'm so glad that I was exposed to this kind of music , there is so much variety , great writing , wonderful vocals , & amazing talent!
como explicar como esse som mexe com as minhas emoções? Eu tenho um lp, vinil, 12 polegadas, do ano de 1973(?), e Summer Breeze e Castle in the sand lão estão. Grandes momentos, grandes recordações que ainda vibram em minhas memórias mais gratas... Impossível voltar no tempo, mas as lembranças não deixam que um passado fliz se transforme em poeira no tempo...
@pappysmp But people seemed nicer back then maybe it was the weed and qualudes but now days everyone seems so judgmental narrow-minded and mean spirited, what a terrible trade off. People use to read books, play their instruments, kids were not dying of being fat, we played outside and knew our neighbors, we only had three channels on the television the list goes on and on...
Love this song! and this is a great live performance of them! Listen to that reverb from the acoustics at 0:58! It makes the song so soft and relaxing. It's literally heaven!
What we have today is nothing more than electronically enhanced music with worthless talent. How many remakes or covers are out there? The reason being that there is no talent. They are incapable of creating great songs. Today we have American Idol, back then bands played clubs and the ones with talent made it. I'm so gald that I grew up in the late 60's and 70's.
I was born in '74 and I agree that the music of today is generally a manufactured pile of dung, but man, if you're into metal (I still am) there are some killer metal bands that have popped up over the last couple of years. I think metal is alive and well, where everything else is dead.
When ever I hear the tunes of the Summer Breeze the adjustment happen not only in the mind but also in my spirit. Now, that they are no playing anymore, we still have their legacy of their great music to keep us in touch with the goodness of their unique music.
It's always amusing to see comments like "Jason Mraz's" or "Type o negative's" version is better. For this song, or any classic song from the '60s and '70s--this ain't a "version." It's the real McCoy! And the main reason modern bands cover all these classics is because they're incapable of creating a classic song themselves. Yes folks that's the hardest part of all-- WRITING a classic song like Seals&Crofts did. Sadly, today's artists all seem incapable of it. (If I'm wrong, play me some).
@MrEasyLife Unfortunately, you are right. And it's hard to see it changing any time soon. Just glad I grew up in the '60s and '70s, because in addition to being great in-and-of itself, the music also carries nostalgia. I'm not sure how good reminiscing will be about 50-Cent, Eminem and Lady Gaga.
There is no reminiscing in American music anymore. It is about here and now, and what some big corp exec pushes. It's time to move onto other cultures to take from and admire if you have not already. :) PS Great song here.
@PositivelyBored YEAH...THAT IS TRUE......Yes, well said. And unfortunately the recording industry is VERY METALLIZED AND IS NOT GIVING GOOD MUSIC CULTURE FOR THE NEW GENERATIONS. AND THE AMERICAN MUSIC GOES AROUD AND THE WORLD . SO SOON, MY CHILDREN TAUGHT MUSIC OF MY TIME ...........LIKE THIS ... IT IS BEATUTIFUL... RELAXING
Great song, thanks for posting, I play all these great classics at my channel
TOMA'S TIMELESS TUNES. Over 1500 tunes. I'd love you to stop by and give a listen I subscribed to your channel, hope you'll do the same for me. see you soon. Tommy Toma.
To the 29 who registered a dislike to this song: Most certainly you need to have your psychotropic medicine adjusted, more than likely increased to an industrial strength.
You are living proof that a village somewhere in the world is missing 29 IDIOTS.
@whoosh1965 -- Agree 100% on your comment here ...
To the 29 who registered a dislike to this song: Most certainly you need to have your psychotropic medicine adjusted, more than likely increased to an industrial strength.
You are living proof that a village somewhere in the world is missing 29 IDIOTS.
When I was four, my mom and I moved from Portland, Oregon to Gasquet, California. At night we could get AM stations from Portland, so my mom would put the radio on KEX 1190 to help me sleep. This song was being played a lot on the radio at the time so that's what this song always reminded me of.
Then, years later, I made a tape of slow, mellow 70's songs to help MY kids go to sleep at night and now the song brings me back to that time too.
It was great to be a teen back then. Cigarettes, weed, qualudes, free love....shit, we were happy. We weren't killing ourselves at the gym and counting calories and being miserable like everyone seems today.
@johnex3303 This was the period when we were about to lose the war in Vietnam and we did not care that we did; of course, the minions of the military-industrial-intelligence-congressional-academic-financial complex were not going to take that loss lying down. . . . ..and come the age of Reagan, the age of Aquarius, ended with a bang, not a whimper.
@brownmajic48 I'm sure the Isley Brothers' version sounded fine, but there's no way anybody besides Seals and Crofts "owns" this song.
I mean, look ... other people have sung "Bridge Over Troubled Water," too, but unless you enjoy getting laughed at, don't suggest that anybody besides Simon and Garfunkel owns it.
I love this song. I tried to capture it's spirit in a song I wrote for my little girl before she was born. I put it up here on Youtube - called Kiley's Song.
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Music hasnt gotten better. Rap sucks theres nothing really original. there are some small groups out there though. I miss the 60's and 70's. Im hoping music will revert back to the real music we grew up to. I sing these songs w/ my 13 yr old so he knows real music.
Reminds me of my summers as a young girl, my Dad always had Seals & Croft playing, awesome! Wish I had a clearer version of the acoustic version, the others are too over produced.
Check out Cecilio & Kapono better known as C&K! They are Hawaii's Seal's and Croft or Loggin's Messina. Well known in California as well where they played and recorded. Also, the great Leland Sklar plays bass on two of their 3 albums back in the early to mid 70's.
Very Nostalgic.... Listening on my laptops tiny 1/2 inch speakers sound just like my old AM radio from the mid 70s. Songs like these are American treasures
Well I guess I will put me 2 cents in. I saw them at the Forum in Los Angeles along with several others including Sonny and Cher. Those are lost days of innocence and ignorance. What some kind of special music we had back then. Before that day there was great music, Today there is still great music. TURN YOUR RADIO ON - FIND A KNEW FAVORITE - LISTEN TO A NEW SONG - AND ENJOY.
Beautiful, I don't think Simon Cowell etc would put these guys forward as stars. The early 70s was the last time music was made for the sake of making music.
@konked Humminingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards or such. I heard that it was about a new prophet that God sent. Like Christ had returned. That is what they sang about
The Isley Brothers did a cover of this that kicks ass, adds a funk vibe to it. I normally don't like covers of good songs but that's one case where the cover nearly equals the original.
@neamers What's funny is that, when I was a kid in the 70's, I remember old folks saying similar comments about the light pop music such as this song (although they did seem to groove on the Captain & Tennille ;)
@jpowell180 You're right I remember it too. "Bring back Perry Como!" But looking back objectively, music from the '60s and '70s was probably better all around than the '30s-'40s. I mean, you had Porter, Gershwin, and those standards will be always be immortal. But think of all the great songs of the '60s-'70s-- I doubt there was a richer era in modern music. It was the perfect white-black synthesis. Melody, harmony, rhythm, lyrics, feeling. But one thing's sure-- today's music sure sucks.
@neamers Well said. Plus bear in mind, they got these machines that can actually change the pitch of the bums who are singing today. They can sing off-key and the machine will change the sound so they are on-key. What talent! What we are left with is talentless bums who have no morals and will dress as provocatively as possible to make up for their shortcomings as an artist. I'm glad I grew up in the late 60's and early 70's when talent was required.
@neamers AMEN! Yes, much better than modern music. For example what awefully really totally crappy music Black Eyed Peas and Arcade Fire have, no talent and no quality!
Man I miss music like this. I was talking to my 15 yr. old son and I was listening to oldies radio. I was trying to explain to him that the 70's music was mostly about feeling good, telling a story, and being with friends. He didn't get it. Two days ago I was waching that 70s' show thinking about those days, I have to admit I had some tears in my eyes. I would love to return to this time. This song has one of the greatest hooks ever.
Its' a musical term in reference to the portion of a song that catches the ear, or 'hook", the portion here is is the mandolins intro, it makes this song immediately recognizeable. Studio wise I think the mandolin melody was also backed/doubled by an electric guitar.
You never have to leave the 70's summer breeze frame of mind.... Just put on these old songs and you are there again :) Never Loose that. I'm sorry this generation doesnt have the opportunity to feel these easy and free vibes as a part of thier culture. This world has sped up way to fast.. Needs to slow down and get easy man. lol
@Fitzhugh1975 "this generation" will be just fine without old fools telling them the same old crap about the "good ol days"....now that u have become ur own parents why not fade away quietly?
"i'm left very uplifted by it's warm positivity "
That sums it up what much of the music of that time was about. An intelligent observation by 4578a. Like "Groovin" "Hot Fun in the Summer Time," and many others that are uplifting
He gave the property back to Panama. Until he signed it into law the Panama Canal was United States property. From the time we started work on it in May 1904 til completion in August 1914 ove 5600 workers died. Carter and Panamanian President Omar Torrijos signed the treaty Sept 7, 1977 and the canal was handed over to the Panamanians Dec. 31 1999. Many people gave Carter bad marks for signing the treaty but it was becoming more difficult to move our largest warships through the canal.
I grew up in the Canal Zone. My father was an instructor at the School of the Americas. After Torrijos signed the treaty he was involved in a "Helicopter Accident" that resulted in his death. After that the road was paved for Noriega to take control. Having friends in both the military and local establishments. All agreed they were better off before Carter signed it over. After Noriega was ousted life has started to return to somewhat normal, but it's still not stable for the lower-class locals.
to capture this master peice live , all time capsules should have this recording even if the video is grainy its honest recorded during the 70's decade. check out to micheal martin murphy's wild fire on here- seventies music the time of story telling and song writers jim croche also comes to mind gordon lightfoot so many more.
This is when the middle class was doing good. If some of the boomers don't think the kids today don't "get it" it might be because you guys left them with a drepression to grow up in when you voted for Reagan. :P
This Song has the Power of LOVE. With the simple Beauty of it's truth, listening to it indeed makes me feel fine, even now in 2010, as we fly onward through space and time, all together on the long journey home. Love one another and keep heading for the light. Peace Koz07.
those of us who grew up in this magical era are fortunate. it was genuine real not posed or supposed a whole generation now growing old and fading away, who knows if it will ever happen again. todays youth just dont have it.
Was Dan Folgeberg with them mates back in them days too? This song reminds me of doing a little picnic champagne love on a grassy field so some woman i a private area of the park.
DId Jim Seals play with Eddie Cochran in the 50s? I saw a picture of Eddie with a sax player in the studio and the caption said it was a guy named Jimmy Seals and I was wondering if they were one and the same.
Honestly I must say, look at the world then when that song was made. Now look at the world today, that's how songs were depicted around the eras of the world today.
The best Seals &Crofts version of Summer Breeze is from the british rock tv Old Grey Whistle test. do somebody knows where can i find it? thanks a lot per advance.
Yes they are, Jim Seals brother was also a famous musician. Check out his brother in "England Dan & John Ford Coley" the song name is "I'd Really Love To See You Tonight" equally magical I'm sure its here on youtube as well. Check it.
10-17-2009. He's in Heaven 'cause he's 67. Happy Birthday, Jim. I want you two to know that I saw you in July 1978 at The Carowinds Palladium near Charlotte, NC on the NC/SC border. You put on an excellent show. Thanks. Peace out.
I have 2 shows at The Palladium: Seals & Crofts and also Tommy James in May 1980. They can't seem to get anyone there anymore since the Verizon Wireless Am
Great stuff!!!
cheesegwis 1 week ago
Outstanding post! A credit to YouTube!
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I was 17 in 70 We were so into the music, this was a popular song along with so many others, it was a fabulous time for most of us, I am glad i grew up during that time and wish i would have continued my music lessons...:)
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What is his mandolin tuning??? I have mine tuned to standard but it sounds off
Virtuoso1996 2 months ago
What is his mandolin tuning??? I have mine tuned to standard but it sounds off
Virtuoso1996 2 months ago
"Sweet days of summer, the jasmine's in bloom; July is dressed, and playing her tune." Such simple but profound lyrics. For me, Summer Breeze is the ultimate summer song. No other song I know of so intimately captures the feel of warm, fragrant summer evenings like this one does.
SuperTekZone 2 months ago 2
@piper131313 - I grew up in Sarnia (an hour's drive west of London for anyone not familiar with the area), and Summer Breeze was frequently played by the radio stations there, too... and yes, I remember all the hot evenings we had in that summer of 1973, listening to that same song. So your experience mirrors mine pretty closely. I don't think anyone could ever really 'get' a song like Summer Breeze unless they lived in the time when it was popular.
SuperTekZone 2 months ago
ehm I'm a true expert of causing pleasure to people
KeniaDarlaho957 2 months ago
This song and version is frickin awesome !!! This is back when even pop music had substance !!! Enjoy !!!
JohnBindon 2 months ago
cool sensual and artistic!
132tomcalligy547 2 months ago
Wow...this song gives me great flashbacks of the late 70's. Life just seemed so much simpler in the world. It wasn't perfect by any means, but more simple than today's society issues. Seemed like everyone was poor and OK with it...
Mrepifany 3 months ago
Music today is missing that spiritual ingredient that a lot of music like this had. It's just so packaged today. These guys are awesome. Who writes like that now?
chayamusic 3 months ago 3
In 1974 in my college dorm at Troy State University, this was on almost constantly. I miss those easy days. Love ya Laurie (my roomate)
Crazinanny 3 months ago
hmz If u're looking for a hot cutey, don't look further, Im here 4u
WendiEladiawr768 4 months ago
This is the music of my summers.....reminds me of riding in the car with my mom and singing along with the radio. Years later, watching this video with someone who appreciates music just as much as I do, it just makes everything alright......these guys sound great.
0810bluedog 4 months ago
This song make me want to put a screen door on my main entry and sleep with the front door open.
gnarlywv 4 months ago
I was born in 1988 , but I love the 70's music!!!! My mom raised me around John Denver , Harry Chapin , Gordon Lightfoot , Bread , Glenn Cambell & James Taylor. I heard this song when I was 19 and instantly loved it! I'm so glad that I was exposed to this kind of music , there is so much variety , great writing , wonderful vocals , & amazing talent!
Retrofanatic10 5 months ago
como explicar como esse som mexe com as minhas emoções? Eu tenho um lp, vinil, 12 polegadas, do ano de 1973(?), e Summer Breeze e Castle in the sand lão estão. Grandes momentos, grandes recordações que ainda vibram em minhas memórias mais gratas... Impossível voltar no tempo, mas as lembranças não deixam que um passado fliz se transforme em poeira no tempo...
cesargiometti 5 months ago
UMM HMM Kick back with a doob an feel magic..
pekoe 5 months ago
Wasn't life so much dam simpler?
gianna1able 5 months ago
How I miss the 70's. It was the greatest decade with the greatest music.
Doral4720 5 months ago 2
Who also like the great sound of the Fender Bass??
WellMefisto 6 months ago
Cigarettes, weed, qualudes.....oh my! what a terrible era was that
pappysmp 6 months ago
@pappysmp But people seemed nicer back then maybe it was the weed and qualudes but now days everyone seems so judgmental narrow-minded and mean spirited, what a terrible trade off. People use to read books, play their instruments, kids were not dying of being fat, we played outside and knew our neighbors, we only had three channels on the television the list goes on and on...
kimrabb 6 months ago 8
them were some of the best times back then
vaderman50 7 months ago
this a nice song
Ninelifs 7 months ago
we grew up in the best of times there's none better
crazy4myhubby31 7 months ago
@crazy4myhubby31 agree totally, music now makes me cringe 1958 model!!!
clayballs007 6 months ago
@crazy4myhubby31 I agree with you 100% I am so happy I grew up in the 70's.
kimrabb 6 months ago 3
i love marybeth
1hanamoon 7 months ago
Wow....this brings back memories. Good stuff!
lynnmichael1 7 months ago
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They don't need auto tune...
RSethTV 7 months ago
Yep....everything is plastic these days - even the music - sad ):
ajudeit1 7 months ago 3
If I would born in the 70's I am totally sure I would be a hippie. A hippie or a cientifics, or maybe both, but now I can't. SO Im going to work
christianfalek 7 months ago
@christianfalek Good for you :-)
lisalumi 6 months ago
whatever happened to them did they go off on some religious deal?
phildirt3 8 months ago
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29 people don't know what real music is, you just don't hear great songs like this anymore.
sgaumer1 8 months ago
Love this song! and this is a great live performance of them! Listen to that reverb from the acoustics at 0:58! It makes the song so soft and relaxing. It's literally heaven!
Retrofanatic10 8 months ago
beautiful music, beautiful text !
janina7240 8 months ago
What we have today is nothing more than electronically enhanced music with worthless talent. How many remakes or covers are out there? The reason being that there is no talent. They are incapable of creating great songs. Today we have American Idol, back then bands played clubs and the ones with talent made it. I'm so gald that I grew up in the late 60's and 70's.
Doral4720 9 months ago 5
I was born in '74 and I agree that the music of today is generally a manufactured pile of dung, but man, if you're into metal (I still am) there are some killer metal bands that have popped up over the last couple of years. I think metal is alive and well, where everything else is dead.
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When ever I hear the tunes of the Summer Breeze the adjustment happen not only in the mind but also in my spirit. Now, that they are no playing anymore, we still have their legacy of their great music to keep us in touch with the goodness of their unique music.
TheRoxburghCastle 9 months ago
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TheRoxburghCastle 9 months ago
It's always amusing to see comments like "Jason Mraz's" or "Type o negative's" version is better. For this song, or any classic song from the '60s and '70s--this ain't a "version." It's the real McCoy! And the main reason modern bands cover all these classics is because they're incapable of creating a classic song themselves. Yes folks that's the hardest part of all-- WRITING a classic song like Seals&Crofts did. Sadly, today's artists all seem incapable of it. (If I'm wrong, play me some).
takfam07 10 months ago 2
@takfam07 That is because today the only requirement is to look hot. Talent is irrelevant.
MrEasyLife 10 months ago 4
@MrEasyLife Unfortunately, you are right. And it's hard to see it changing any time soon. Just glad I grew up in the '60s and '70s, because in addition to being great in-and-of itself, the music also carries nostalgia. I'm not sure how good reminiscing will be about 50-Cent, Eminem and Lady Gaga.
takfam07 10 months ago
@takfam07
There is no reminiscing in American music anymore. It is about here and now, and what some big corp exec pushes. It's time to move onto other cultures to take from and admire if you have not already. :) PS Great song here.
PositivelyBored 9 months ago
@PositivelyBored YEAH...THAT IS TRUE......Yes, well said. And unfortunately the recording industry is VERY METALLIZED AND IS NOT GIVING GOOD MUSIC CULTURE FOR THE NEW GENERATIONS. AND THE AMERICAN MUSIC GOES AROUD AND THE WORLD . SO SOON, MY CHILDREN TAUGHT MUSIC OF MY TIME ...........LIKE THIS ... IT IS BEATUTIFUL... RELAXING
juanpablo59 8 months ago
@takfam07 WELL SAID!!
DavelovesRealMusic 9 months ago
Great song, thanks for posting, I play all these great classics at my channel
TOMA'S TIMELESS TUNES. Over 1500 tunes. I'd love you to stop by and give a listen I subscribed to your channel, hope you'll do the same for me. see you soon. Tommy Toma.
TOMMYTOMA4 10 months ago
I miss the toy piano from the studio version, but the mandolin almost makes up for it. ;-)
macsnafu 10 months ago
LOVE SUMMER BREEZE !
MarshaR100 11 months ago
Can't believe I was only 14 when I saw these guys in concert. Reminds of my high school girl friend. I wonder where she is now?
rowdi907 11 months ago
To the 29 who registered a dislike to this song: Most certainly you need to have your psychotropic medicine adjusted, more than likely increased to an industrial strength.
You are living proof that a village somewhere in the world is missing 29 IDIOTS.
whoosh1965 1 year ago 23
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@whoosh1965 -- Agree 100% on your comment here ...
To the 29 who registered a dislike to this song: Most certainly you need to have your psychotropic medicine adjusted, more than likely increased to an industrial strength.
You are living proof that a village somewhere in the world is missing 29 IDIOTS.
RadiateTruth 3 weeks ago
just 2 words
Polly Rankin
98gsoup 1 year ago
hello MID LIFE CRISIS shrewsbury,
ShrewsAde 1 year ago
Real music!
chocolateman85006 1 year ago
great, great stuff....
hanzabass 1 year ago
Wow! where has the time gone? just want to go back! Man I miss it!
jmmangas2000 1 year ago 4
incredible harmonies !!!!!!!!!!!!!
scooter1161 1 year ago
amazing song.
TheBrown55 1 year ago
the best!
181rafaelyu 1 year ago
What a masterpiece.
dobb673 1 year ago 2
This is just such a timeless hit. It is perfect no matter when you listen to it.
sweetsoul46 1 year ago 3
Just perfect!
ballisticbliss 1 year ago
One of the best things about the 70s was muscle cars and 36 cent a gallon gas. well at lest the first half of the 70s. Oh yea drive inns .
oldspam 1 year ago 2
When I was four, my mom and I moved from Portland, Oregon to Gasquet, California. At night we could get AM stations from Portland, so my mom would put the radio on KEX 1190 to help me sleep. This song was being played a lot on the radio at the time so that's what this song always reminded me of.
Then, years later, I made a tape of slow, mellow 70's songs to help MY kids go to sleep at night and now the song brings me back to that time too.
GoinCreekin 1 year ago 4
How do you not feel warm and fuzzy listening to these guys?
Kranny09 1 year ago 3
so beautiful
mrsgutts 1 year ago
It was great to be a teen back then. Cigarettes, weed, qualudes, free love....shit, we were happy. We weren't killing ourselves at the gym and counting calories and being miserable like everyone seems today.
johnex3303 1 year ago 33
@johnex3303 This was the period when we were about to lose the war in Vietnam and we did not care that we did; of course, the minions of the military-industrial-intelligence-congressional-academic-financial complex were not going to take that loss lying down. . . . ..and come the age of Reagan, the age of Aquarius, ended with a bang, not a whimper.
RPenta 3 months ago
This and Pink Floyd's "Grantchester Meadows" make me want to just smoke a bowl and marvel at the green of summer.
<3
anomalousclouds 1 year ago 2
LA! yayyyy I were there!!!
shieldwolf49 1 year ago
There's? What are you talking about? Get a grip. Seals and Croft own this. It is theirs!
euchrewacko 1 year ago 2
THE ISLEY BROTHERS DID A COVER OF THIS SONG AND OWNED IT, SO WE WILL NOW SAY IT IS THERE'S.
brownmajic48 1 year ago
@brownmajic48 It's not, and it's "theirs," not "there's," knucklehead.
Animalco 1 year ago
@brownmajic48 I'm sure the Isley Brothers' version sounded fine, but there's no way anybody besides Seals and Crofts "owns" this song.
I mean, look ... other people have sung "Bridge Over Troubled Water," too, but unless you enjoy getting laughed at, don't suggest that anybody besides Simon and Garfunkel owns it.
FurtherReview 1 year ago 2
timeless. never die the music.
randyboyromero 1 year ago 3
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I love this song. I tried to capture it's spirit in a song I wrote for my little girl before she was born. I put it up here on Youtube - called Kiley's Song.
ejb103 1 year ago
Is it just me or does Summer Breeze sound like the name of a douche?
Jefgg 1 year ago
Chaka! Fruit Me! Lol....
doodskie999 1 year ago
..you know TATGemini, you have said it very well for me, that is exactly what I think too!
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mrman33443 1 year ago
yawn
gerrythetruth 1 year ago
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Blow yourself! If you can't criticize constructively, don't!!
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leonardo1995ization 1 year ago
Music hasnt gotten better. Rap sucks theres nothing really original. there are some small groups out there though. I miss the 60's and 70's. Im hoping music will revert back to the real music we grew up to. I sing these songs w/ my 13 yr old so he knows real music.
Raiderusmaximus 1 year ago 5
Reminds me of my summers as a young girl, my Dad always had Seals & Croft playing, awesome! Wish I had a clearer version of the acoustic version, the others are too over produced.
wynnellye 1 year ago
Red hot man......
MrAmbos007 1 year ago
So good!!!
emmtampa 1 year ago
Check out Cecilio & Kapono better known as C&K! They are Hawaii's Seal's and Croft or Loggin's Messina. Well known in California as well where they played and recorded. Also, the great Leland Sklar plays bass on two of their 3 albums back in the early to mid 70's.
popnutty 1 year ago
Para una persona muy especial!
10271663 1 year ago
now this is music, oh yeah, seals and crofts sweet music...
Rodrigo2838 1 year ago 3
It was daylight when they played at Cal Jam 1 in 1974, third band i think.
this is not Cal Jam
RimRoad 1 year ago
Very Nostalgic.... Listening on my laptops tiny 1/2 inch speakers sound just like my old AM radio from the mid 70s. Songs like these are American treasures
Childrenofthecornsno 1 year ago 6
Well I guess I will put me 2 cents in. I saw them at the Forum in Los Angeles along with several others including Sonny and Cher. Those are lost days of innocence and ignorance. What some kind of special music we had back then. Before that day there was great music, Today there is still great music. TURN YOUR RADIO ON - FIND A KNEW FAVORITE - LISTEN TO A NEW SONG - AND ENJOY.
utgraddad56 1 year ago 2
I hear that
Rcfuss 1 year ago
Beautiful, I don't think Simon Cowell etc would put these guys forward as stars. The early 70s was the last time music was made for the sake of making music.
Blokkhedtwo 1 year ago 3
please can someone tell from which album is this song..please! :)
soldier312 1 year ago
The album is also called Summer Breeze. I believe this was their best-selling album.
hellocarnatic 1 year ago
@soldier312 The song "Hummingbird" is also from this album :)
konked 1 year ago
@konked Humminingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards or such. I heard that it was about a new prophet that God sent. Like Christ had returned. That is what they sang about
okterlox0 1 year ago
-I- was informed that when-I- born right about the this tune aired = 9/7/72
DJSLIMER1 1 year ago 2
The Isley Brothers did a cover of this that kicks ass, adds a funk vibe to it. I normally don't like covers of good songs but that's one case where the cover nearly equals the original.
Punchkicker88 1 year ago 2
what a masterpiece. fit for this hot summer tropic weather! hail seals and crofts. old music still lives on....
MrGugoy 1 year ago 2
I'm 17 again and a beach baby in Australia!! and they played on the radio! Those were the days! And when I hear this music, they're BACK!
lyfft 1 year ago
yes
hector476 1 year ago
This is vastly musically superior to the drivel being written and crooned off key in these dark years.
neamers 1 year ago 35
@neamers What's funny is that, when I was a kid in the 70's, I remember old folks saying similar comments about the light pop music such as this song (although they did seem to groove on the Captain & Tennille ;)
jpowell180 10 months ago
@jpowell180 You're right I remember it too. "Bring back Perry Como!" But looking back objectively, music from the '60s and '70s was probably better all around than the '30s-'40s. I mean, you had Porter, Gershwin, and those standards will be always be immortal. But think of all the great songs of the '60s-'70s-- I doubt there was a richer era in modern music. It was the perfect white-black synthesis. Melody, harmony, rhythm, lyrics, feeling. But one thing's sure-- today's music sure sucks.
takfam07 10 months ago 2
@neamers Well said. Plus bear in mind, they got these machines that can actually change the pitch of the bums who are singing today. They can sing off-key and the machine will change the sound so they are on-key. What talent! What we are left with is talentless bums who have no morals and will dress as provocatively as possible to make up for their shortcomings as an artist. I'm glad I grew up in the late 60's and early 70's when talent was required.
MrEasyLife 10 months ago 2
@neamers AMEN! Yes, much better than modern music. For example what awefully really totally crappy music Black Eyed Peas and Arcade Fire have, no talent and no quality!
BeerHits 8 months ago
love typeo
donszydel 2 years ago
Type O negitive covered this back in about 92, there version is pretty good, you should check it out.
corm1000 2 years ago
This music is peaceful.
This music makes me feel fine!
Nowadays the false image is everything.
MikePadram3 2 years ago 8
You said it myway43, a much better place in time. Peace my friend.
jenben3 2 years ago
Man I miss music like this. I was talking to my 15 yr. old son and I was listening to oldies radio. I was trying to explain to him that the 70's music was mostly about feeling good, telling a story, and being with friends. He didn't get it. Two days ago I was waching that 70s' show thinking about those days, I have to admit I had some tears in my eyes. I would love to return to this time. This song has one of the greatest hooks ever.
myway43 2 years ago 11
I agree "myway43", good times. I was a pre-teen then 10 - 12 years old, but I remember it and the music like yesterday...
SACCopE7 2 years ago
Waht do you regard as the hook?
Credo1958 2 years ago
Its' a musical term in reference to the portion of a song that catches the ear, or 'hook", the portion here is is the mandolins intro, it makes this song immediately recognizeable. Studio wise I think the mandolin melody was also backed/doubled by an electric guitar.
myway43 2 years ago 3
You never have to leave the 70's summer breeze frame of mind.... Just put on these old songs and you are there again :) Never Loose that. I'm sorry this generation doesnt have the opportunity to feel these easy and free vibes as a part of thier culture. This world has sped up way to fast.. Needs to slow down and get easy man. lol
Fitzhugh1975 2 years ago 51
Well said my friend! :o) Rock on!
KnightOfYourHeart007 1 year ago
@Fitzhugh1975 im 14. my father liked these guy's music and i do to. he likes a buch of old songs that are gold. im lucky lol
xxxfealerxxx 7 months ago
@Fitzhugh1975 "this generation" will be just fine without old fools telling them the same old crap about the "good ol days"....now that u have become ur own parents why not fade away quietly?
sixsixxsixxxx 7 months ago
@sixsixxsixxxx LOL !!!! Just you wait for your turn !!!!!
lisalumi 6 months ago
Tell your son that all major generas begain in the 70s punk, metal, glam all this is of 1970s orgian.
corm1000 2 years ago
nice pot head music lol
Chiken1012 2 years ago
I was five when this came out, I use to crank it up when it came on the raido.
DirtyMagic 2 years ago
"i'm left very uplifted by it's warm positivity "
That sums it up what much of the music of that time was about. An intelligent observation by 4578a. Like "Groovin" "Hot Fun in the Summer Time," and many others that are uplifting
000266617 2 years ago 2
What? Jimmy Carter sucked. If fact Obama will end up being called the "Black Jimmy Carter"
fpinon5150 2 years ago
@fpinon5150 Carter did alot of great things while he was president. You my friend are not very well informed.
Inspector711 2 years ago
Like give away the Panama canal?????
TheGunslinger5854 2 years ago
gundinger so who did he give to???.
myleftnutts 2 years ago
He gave the property back to Panama. Until he signed it into law the Panama Canal was United States property. From the time we started work on it in May 1904 til completion in August 1914 ove 5600 workers died. Carter and Panamanian President Omar Torrijos signed the treaty Sept 7, 1977 and the canal was handed over to the Panamanians Dec. 31 1999. Many people gave Carter bad marks for signing the treaty but it was becoming more difficult to move our largest warships through the canal.
TheGunslinger5854 2 years ago
I grew up in the Canal Zone. My father was an instructor at the School of the Americas. After Torrijos signed the treaty he was involved in a "Helicopter Accident" that resulted in his death. After that the road was paved for Noriega to take control. Having friends in both the military and local establishments. All agreed they were better off before Carter signed it over. After Noriega was ousted life has started to return to somewhat normal, but it's still not stable for the lower-class locals.
ScooterandSparky 1 year ago
@fpinon5150 correction you mean "colored Jimmy Carter" Or Negro jimmy Carter" or "African American Jimmy Carter"....we must be respectful....
KeiichiTsuchiyadrift 2 years ago
FREAKIN LOVE THIS SONG 4 EVA!
prettyeyes1438 2 years ago
freakin love this song
duhb0ojaink 2 years ago
Adorei .lembrei dos dias na faculdade.Linda musica
rosarego1 2 years ago
Sweet days of summer..perfect...Thank you :)
irishbelle65 2 years ago
to capture this master peice live , all time capsules should have this recording even if the video is grainy its honest recorded during the 70's decade. check out to micheal martin murphy's wild fire on here- seventies music the time of story telling and song writers jim croche also comes to mind gordon lightfoot so many more.
azzorroww 2 years ago
I was in high school. A flood of memories.
kenhetz 2 years ago
ORGANIC SOFT ROCK! LUV IT!
lovell123456789 2 years ago
simply beautiful.
heavymetalgary 2 years ago
This is when the middle class was doing good. If some of the boomers don't think the kids today don't "get it" it might be because you guys left them with a drepression to grow up in when you voted for Reagan. :P
atripa645 2 years ago
haha! More like Jimmy Carter
krishnalite 2 years ago
This Song has the Power of LOVE. With the simple Beauty of it's truth, listening to it indeed makes me feel fine, even now in 2010, as we fly onward through space and time, all together on the long journey home. Love one another and keep heading for the light. Peace Koz07.
Koz07 2 years ago 3
slow dancin in the 70's-now those were the days
trishtall9240 2 years ago 5
those of us who grew up in this magical era are fortunate. it was genuine real not posed or supposed a whole generation now growing old and fading away, who knows if it will ever happen again. todays youth just dont have it.
THESOULbornold 2 years ago 11
'right on' Loved this song as much then as I still do now.
char4him99 2 years ago
i wish i lived back then. i was born about 35 years too late.
adamnitson 2 years ago 5
I was gonna watch this as a joke but i'm left very uplifted by it's warm positivity
4578a 2 years ago 6
II always liked the lyric of blowin through the jasmine in my mind, epic song. sounds peaceful. God bless you.
racesity 2 years ago 6
*timeless*
katsandroses 2 years ago 42
and classic! That's music....
09DotDot 2 years ago 7
@katsandroses
Can't say if the world was better way back then, but music certainly was !!!!!
progduke 1 year ago 2
@progduke OH so true !
shieldwolf49 1 year ago
Was Dan Folgeberg with them mates back in them days too? This song reminds me of doing a little picnic champagne love on a grassy field so some woman i a private area of the park.
busterbone 2 years ago 3
i love this songg, one of my favorites
iTzShakenJoE 2 years ago 3
DId Jim Seals play with Eddie Cochran in the 50s? I saw a picture of Eddie with a sax player in the studio and the caption said it was a guy named Jimmy Seals and I was wondering if they were one and the same.
Bopalena 2 years ago
holy shit thats some good music right there! I dare any musician today try to write something as beautiful as that.
joesmith64 2 years ago 8
wouldnt even attempt it... they just steal or SAMPLE the song to make THEIR POS song something decent....
Arkhangel67 2 years ago
agreeeeeed
lalisamarie 2 years ago
Honestly I must say, look at the world then when that song was made. Now look at the world today, that's how songs were depicted around the eras of the world today.
TATGemini 2 years ago 28
@TATGemini You had the Vietnam war back then. A lot of Americans died.
noninous 1 year ago
love it. takes me back.
xzibit752 2 years ago 3
The best Seals &Crofts version of Summer Breeze is from the british rock tv Old Grey Whistle test. do somebody knows where can i find it? thanks a lot per advance.
MyRickyz 2 years ago
are they the original of this song? I love it.. ty
R0CKGURL 2 years ago
Yes they are, Jim Seals brother was also a famous musician. Check out his brother in "England Dan & John Ford Coley" the song name is "I'd Really Love To See You Tonight" equally magical I'm sure its here on youtube as well. Check it.
bigmartin3000 2 years ago 2
I didn't know they are brothers... thank you BigMartin3000
R0CKGURL 2 years ago
yes, this is the ORIGINAL. The remake is good too, but not NEAR this at all.
Arkhangel67 2 years ago 4
ah I c.. thanks
Arkangel67... I love this song.
R0CKGURL 2 years ago
They sound great
ndhudecz 2 years ago
10-17-2009. He's in Heaven 'cause he's 67. Happy Birthday, Jim. I want you two to know that I saw you in July 1978 at The Carowinds Palladium near Charlotte, NC on the NC/SC border. You put on an excellent show. Thanks. Peace out.
mkl62 2 years ago
Wish I had known! I'm not far from there and I would have loved to be there!
LeslieWilliamson80 2 years ago
I have 2 shows at The Palladium: Seals & Crofts and also Tommy James in May 1980. They can't seem to get anyone there anymore since the Verizon Wireless Am