SEALS & CROFTS WITH CAROLYN WILLIS - GET CLOSER

GET CLOSER

SEALS & CROFTS WITH CAROLYN WILLIS

SONGWRITER: JIMMY SEALS & DARRELL CROFTS

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: GET CLOSER

LABEL: WARNER RECORDS

GENRE: ROCK

YEAR: 1976

 

        Seals and Crofts was an American soft rock duo made up of Jimmy Eugene Seals(October 17, 1942 – June 6, 2022) and Darrell George "Dash" Crofts(born August 14, 1938) 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

      Get Closer is Seals and Crofts's eighth studio album. The title cut made the top 10 on 2 charts in early 1976, reaching #6 in Pop, and #2 in Adult Contemporary. It would be their final top 10 pop hit. "Goodbye Old Buddies" reached #10 on the US AC chart as well and #8 on the Canadian AC chart.

     The song "Get Closer" features the vocals of Carolyn Willis, who had been in the group Honey Cone.

       "Sweet Green Fields" was sampled in the 1997 song "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See" by Busta Rhymes. It was also sampled in 2002 by Syleena Johnson on "Tonight I'm Gonna Let Go" which was based on "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See".

Darling if you want me to be closer to you

Get closer to me

Darling if you want me to be closer to you

Get closer to me

Darling if you want me to love, love only you

Then love only me

Darling if you want me to see, see only you

Then see only me

There's a line that I can't cross over

It's no good for me and it's no good for you

And that feeling deep down inside me

I can't explain it and you're wondering why

You say we been like strangers

But I'm not the others you can hang by your fingers

Darling if you want me to be closer to you

Get closer to me

Darling if you want me to be closer to you

Get closer to me

Darling if you want me to love, love only you

Then love only me

Darling if you want me to see, see only you

Then see only me

There was a time I would come running

Drop everything for the touch of your hand in mine

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And I can't go on living

Wondering if you'll be here tomorrow

People change and you're changing

And I've given you my all

That no one can borrow

Darling if you want me to be closer to you

Get closer to me

Darling if you want me to be closer to you

Get closer to me

Darling if you want me to be closer to you

Get closer to me...