Seals & Crofts Ruby Jean and Billie Lee

Forgotten gem from the great duo of Seals & Crofts. The beautiful "Ruby Jean and Billie Lee".

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Music

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• Seals
• Crofts

[suzzpal]

I appreciate people like you who put wonderful songs on youtube. So often I have words and tunes from my childhood running through my head. With beautiful people like you it takes minutes on youtube to find the song I can't get out of my head. Because of this, I have shared your videos with many friends, and purchased several songs on amazon. Thank you for your help. Without it I would definitely go crazy singing ten second sections of unknown songs to myself.

[boswell69]

@suzzpal You're quite welcome.

[tubellarbells]

Not forgotten at allBoswell69. Not at all. I've carried this song in my heart and all my cassette and now CD / MP3 compilations forever. True beauty as you don't usually fins in music these days. Well, hasn't thr world changed ? Thumbs Up.

[boswell69]

@tubellarbells I couldn't agree more. Glad you enjoyed. Thank you.

[RaveDreamer]

Wow, just gorgeous. Thank you Boswell69. You brought beauty into my day.

[boswell69]

@RaveDreamer you're quite welcome.

[restydpogi]

this song is heartily dedicated to a cousin Ruby Jean Catubig of Panabo City, Phil..

[thespotteddog]

Two wonderful men who LIVED their faith through song. And they took alot of crap from the "entertainment" community for recording an anti-abortion song. Cost them alot, maybe even their careers.  But then, faith is really all there is. We own nothing. We are all just renting life for a little while.

[jimraw1]

This song still amazes me after 35 years; I can understand how the cynical record execs cried after hearing them perform it. I also read one time that Jim Seals started writing the song about Ruby and nearly had the first verse completed - when Dash Crofts heard the song he said there's no way you can write this song without letting me write about Billie. The middle part of the song is about their kids, Joshua and Lin - to keep the song a secret they called it R&B waltz!

[Plhmel561]

I live in south Florida, but when I hear this song, and others like it, I'm back in the north country woods where I grew up. And where my spirit still lives. I don't remember this one from my childhood, but there is something familiar to it. I must have heard it when I was young and it must have stayed with me. I have been playing it over and over today, becoming emotional each time. Thanks for posting this.

[2ne007]

this classic songs from this wonderful duo really are like clouds that will make ur day clear and relaxing...i enjoy listening to them...

[jayhop1]

my poetry teacher in 78 gave me a test on this song-------then they showed up in johnson city---you've no idea what a great song this is --- for so many reasons---

[dual506]

Thanks for uploading this. It's really nice.

[50lovey]

@avengermedia37 Yes.... Very well put my friend. Haunting yet hopeful.....that you wrote that, made me cry. Guess I'm not too happy right now. Beautiful song

[kathygeoff1]

SEALS AND CROFT AR4E GREAY\\\\\\

[avengermedia37]

i heard this a few times when i was little. Now that i have grown many years later, the melody stayed with me still. Haunting yet hopeful, reassuring, playful and bright, this song and a few others like it have become treasured companions in my long solitary days, and for whom a need for constant nearness shall long endure into my old age.