SEALS AND CROFTS - SUMMER BREEZE

SUMMER BREEZE

SEALS AND CROFTS

SONGWRITER: CROFTS DASH & CROFTS DARRELL G.

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: SEALS & CROFTS SUMMER BREEZE

LABEL: WARNER BROS

GENRE: FOLK ROCK

YEAR: 1972

 

        Seals and Crofts were an American soft rock duo made up of James Eugene "Jim" Seals(born October 17, 1941) and Darrell George "Dash" Crofts(born August 14, 1940). They are best known for their hits "Summer Breeze" (1972), "Diamond Girl" (1973), and "Get Closer" (1976), each of which peaked at Nº 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Both members have long been public advocates of the Baháʼí Faith. Though the duo disbanded in 1980, they reunited briefly in 1991–1992, and again in 2004, when they released their final album, Traces.

     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 August 31, 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. Summer Breeze finished second on Billboard's Top Pop Albums of 1973 list.

See the curtains hangin' in the window

In the evening on a Friday night

A little light-a-shinin' through the window

Lets me know everything's all right

 

Summer breeze makes me feel fine

Blowin' through the jasmine in my mind

Summer breeze makes me feel fine

Blowin' though the jasmine in my mind

 

See the paper layin' on the sidewalk

A little music from the house next door

So I walk on up to the doorstep

Through the screen and across the floor

 

Summer breeze makes me feel fine

Blowin' through the jasmine in my mind

Summer breeze makes me feel fine

Blowin' through the jasmine in my mind

 

Sweet days of summer

The jasmine's in bloom

July is dressed up and playing her tune

And I come home from a hard day's work

And you're waitin' there, not a care in the world

 

See the smile awaitin' in the kitchen

Food's cookin' and the plates for two

Feel the arms that reach out to hold me

In the evening when the day is through

 

Summer breeze makes me feel fine

Blowing through the jasmine in my mind

Summer breeze makes me feel fine

Blowing through the jasmine in my mind.