Summer Breeze (Seals and Crofts album) explained

Summer Breeze
Type:	Album
Artist:	Seals and Crofts
Cover:	Summer Breeze.jpg
Released:	September 9, 1972
Studio:	Sound Factory (Hollywood)
Genre:	Folk rock, soft rock
Length:	39:11
Label:	Warner Bros.
Producer:	Louie Shelton
Prev Title:	Year of Sunday
Prev Year:	1971
Next Title:	Diamond Girl
Next Year:	1973

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 Billboards Top Pop Albums of 1973 list.^[1]

Track listing

• All lyrics by Jim Seals, music by Jim Seals and Dash Crofts, except "Say", music and lyrics by Seals and Crofts.

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
6. "Summer Breeze (2004 Philip Steir Remix)" – 4:30 (2004 remastered bonus track)

Charts

Chart (1972–73)	Peak position
Australia (Kent Music Report)^[2]	70
Canada^[3]	6
US Top LPs & Tape (Billboard)	7

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
• Michael 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

External links

• Album lyrics

Notes and References

1. Web site: Billboard.BIZ . www.billboard.biz . 3 February 2022 . https://archive.today/20121204135943/http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/charts/archivesearch/article_display/855834?imw=Y . 4 December 2012 . dead.
2. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 267.
3. Web site: RPM Top 100 Albums - January 20, 1973.