Summer Breeze (Seals and Crofts album)
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| Summer Breeze | ||||
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| Released | September 9, 1972 | |||
| Studio | Sound Factory (Hollywood) | |||
| Genre | Folk rock, soft rock | |||
| Length | 39:11 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
| Producer | Louie Shelton | |||
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| Singles from Summer Breeze | ||||
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| Allmusic |   [1] |
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 peaking at No. 7 on the Billboard Top LPs chart, their highest position on the chart. The title track was released as a single on August 31, 1972, peaking at No. 4 on the Easy Listening chart and No. 6 on the Hot 100. "Hummingbird" was the second single, climbing to No. 12 on the Easy Listening chart, No. 20 on the Hot 100, and No. 40 on the Canadian RPM Magazine chart. Summer Breeze finished second on Billboard's Top Pop Albums of 1973 list.[2]
Track listing
[edit]- All lyrics by Jim Seals, music by Jim Seals and Dash Crofts, except "Say", music and lyrics by Seals and Crofts.
Side One
- "Hummingbird" – 4:35
- "Funny Little Man" – 3:12
- "Say" – 2:41
- "Summer Breeze" – 3:24
- "East of Ginger Trees" – 3:49
Side Two
- "Fiddle in the Sky" – 3:32
- "The Boy Down the Road" – 4:31
- "The Euphrates" – 4:18
- "Advance Guards" – 4:12
- "Yellow Dirt" – 5:14
- "Summer Breeze (2004 Philip Steir Remix)" – 4:30 (2004 remastered bonus track)
Charts
[edit]| Chart (1972–73) | Peak position |
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| Australia (Kent Music Report)[3] | 70 |
| Canada[4] | 6 |
| US Top LPs & Tape (Billboard) | 7 |
Personnel
[edit]- Guitar: Dash Crofts, Jim Seals, Louis Shelton. Steel Guitar: Red Rhodes.
Mandolin: Dash Crofts. Banjo: John Hartford. Tambura: Milt Holland - Fiddle: Jim Seals
- Bass: Harvey Brooks, Robert Lichtig, Joe Osborn
- Keyboards: John Ford Coley, Dash Crofts, Larry Knechtel, Michael Lang,
Clarence McDonald, Michael Omartian - Drums: Jim Gordon, Jim Keltner, Russ Kunkel
- Percussion: King Errisson, John Guerin, Milt Holland
- Saxophone: Wilton Felder, Jim Seals
- Woodwinds: Jim Horn, Robert Lichtig
- Backing Vocals: Dee Higgins, Don Shelton
References
[edit]- ^ Summer Breeze at AllMusic
- ^ "Billboard.BIZ". www.billboard.biz. Archived from the original on 4 December 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
- ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 267. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
- ^ "RPM Top 100 Albums - January 20, 1973" (PDF).
