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Summer Breeze (album)

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Released
  
31 August 1972

Summer Breeze (1972)
  
Diamond Girl (1973)

Release date
  
August 1972

Label
  
Warner Bros. Records

Length
  
39:11

Artist
  
Seals and Crofts

Producer
  
Louis Shelton

Genre
  
Soft rock

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Recorded
  
Sound Factory, Hollywood, California

Similar
  
I'll Play for You, Year of Sunday, Seals and Crofts ‑ Greatest, The Longest Road, Down Home

Seals and crofts hummingbird album version


Summer Breeze is the fourth album by the American soft rock band Seals and Crofts, released in 1972 through Warner Bros. Records. It was a major commercial breakthrough for the group, and peaked at #7 on the Billboard album chart. The title cut was released as a single on September 9, 1972, peaking at #4 on the Adult Contemporary chart, and #6 Pop. "Hummingbird" was the second single, climbing to #12 AC, #20 Pop, and #40 on the Canadian RPM Magazine charts.

Contents

Seals and crofts summer breeze with lyrics


Track listing

Side One

  1. "Hummingbird" – 4:35
  2. "Funny Little Man" – 3:12
  3. "Say" – 2:41
  4. "Summer Breeze" – 3:24
  5. "East of Ginger Trees" – 3:49

Side Two

  1. "Fiddle in the Sky" – 3:32
  2. "The Boy Down the Road" – 4:31
  3. "The Euphrates" – 4:18
  4. "Advance Guards" – 4:12
  5. "Yellow Dirt" – 5:14
  1. "Summer Breeze (2004 Philip Steir Remix)" – 4:30 (2004 remastered bonus track)
  • All lyrics by Jim Seals, music by Jim Seals and Dash Crofts, except "Say", music and lyrics by Seals and Crofts.

    • Personnel

  • Jim Seals – vocals, fiddle, acoustic guitar, saxophone
  • Dash Crofts – vocals (except on "The Euphrates"), mandolin, electric guitar, piano
  • Louie Shelton – electric guitar, bass, background vocals, production
  • Red Rhodes – steel guitar
  • John Hartford – banjo
  • Robert Lichtig – flute, clarinet, bass guitar
  • Jim Horn – flute
  • John Ford Coley – piano
  • Larry Knechtel – piano
  • Mike Lang – piano
  • Clarence McDonald – piano
  • Michael Omartian – piano
  • Harvey Brooks – bass
  • Wilton Felder – bass
  • Joe Osborn – bass
  • Jim Gordon – drums
  • John Guerin – drums
  • Jim Keltner – drums
  • Russ Kunkel – drums
  • Milt Holland – tambura, tabla
  • King Errisson – congas
  • Dee Higgins – background vocals
  • Don Shelton – background vocals
  • Marty Paich – string arrangement
  • Dave Hassinger – first engineer
  • Val Garay – second engineer
  • Ed Thrasher – art direction
  • Mark English – illustrations
  • Dave Bhang – album design

    • Songs

    1Hummingbird4:40
    2Funny Little Man3:12
    3Say2:41

    References

    Summer Breeze (album) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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