"summer breeze", the record and the song, puts the S back in soft rock. an out of time piece from 1973, yet no thread bout them on ILM.
― Zeno, Monday, 3 March 2008 16:38 (eighteen years ago)
"Sweet Green Fields"
― jaxon, Monday, 3 March 2008 16:41 (eighteen years ago)
Darlin' if you want me to be closer to you get closer to me.
classic
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 3 March 2008 16:58 (eighteen years ago)
any artistic endeavor related to the Honey Cone gets my thumbs up
― zaxxon25, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:49 (eighteen years ago)
I always liked how "Diamond Girl" went all Steely Dan at the end...
― henry s, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:53 (eighteen years ago)
C: "Hummingbird" D: "Unborn Child"
― Joseph McCombs, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 06:30 (eighteen years ago)
Isley Brothers did a great "Summer Breeze". My favourites are "Castles In The Sand" and "We May Never Pass This Way Again".
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 09:18 (eighteen years ago)
"east of ginger trees" sounds like a new and improved fleet foxes
― kamerad, Sunday, 8 February 2009 01:49 (seventeen years ago)
"summer breeze", the record and the song, puts the S back in soft rock.
TRUTH! this song: classic. wasn't it used in a key scene in dazed & confused?
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 24 June 2010 02:08 (fifteen years ago)
there's a drum machine in summer breeze, isn't there?
― by another name (amateurist), Sunday, 21 August 2011 05:34 (fourteen years ago)
ISN'T THERE??
― by another name (amateurist), Sunday, 21 August 2011 21:39 (fourteen years ago)
Maybe.
The song just popped in my head.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 20 September 2014 15:33 (eleven years ago)
had it previously become "oft rock"? Anyway, classic.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 03:52 (eight years ago)
totally classic! is it an outlier or do they have entire albums with treats like that?
― niels, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 09:37 (eight years ago)
"hummingbird" is better. they used to play concerts and treat their audiences to hog-calling and throat singing exhibitions: classic. when roe v. wade came down they started doing songs about how terrible abortion is. dud.
in general soft rock's origin story, which seems to be kind of an evolution from the 1960s folk rock duos, and particularly simon and garfunkel, is one that interests me. most of those '70s soft rock duos are weirder than we give them credit for these days.
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 12:24 (eight years ago)
They used to stick around after the show to meet and greet with anyone who wanted to discuss their Bahai faith.
― "Celebration" encourages the listener to celebrate good times. (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 15:36 (eight years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DImAcL1ea8g
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 2 December 2017 18:48 (eight years ago)
Had a college friend who was way into these guys. Easy to make fun of but solid tunes and performances and production.
― calstars, Sunday, 3 December 2017 00:03 (eight years ago)
easy to make fun of? never
https://d2ffutrenqvap3.cloudfront.net/items/3C3x3f3a1z2x1T2V2138/SealsCroftWilliamsFox.jpg
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 23 March 2018 11:38 (eight years ago)
https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/secret-oil-patch-roots-summer-breeze/
― We Jam von Economo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 24 January 2020 01:30 (six years ago)
Holy shit, is "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See" built on "Sweet Green Fields??"
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 24 January 2020 04:42 (six years ago)
Google says yes.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 24 January 2020 04:45 (six years ago)
RIP Dash Crofts
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 26 March 2026 19:02 (three weeks ago)
Excellent “Summer Breeze” base to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j5XK6qd0w0
― Come On, (Eazy), Thursday, 26 March 2026 19:23 (three weeks ago)
for most of my life I heard the line "blowing through the jasmine of my mind" as "blowing through the chasm of my mind" which I still think is a superior lyric
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 26 March 2026 20:28 (three weeks ago)
I think I must have conflated it with the Bonzo Dog Band song "canyons of your mind" somehow
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 27 March 2026 03:41 (three weeks ago)
I didn't realize that he and Seals were both in the Champs, but it sounds like they both joined right after they had recorded "Tequila"
― Cattedrale metropolitana di Santa Maria de Episcopio, Friday, 27 March 2026 03:56 (three weeks ago)
So around the same time as Glen Campbell then.
― Galactic Poetaster (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 27 March 2026 14:08 (three weeks ago)
Same with respect to jasmine/chasms/canyons.
― Galactic Poetaster (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 27 March 2026 14:09 (three weeks ago)
Maybe Glen was a couple of years later and only a touring member of the band.
― Galactic Poetaster (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 27 March 2026 14:12 (three weeks ago)
Crofts being 87 at death is older than I thought.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 27 March 2026 17:44 (three weeks ago)
I think as a kid I heard it as "rolling through the jazz-(something) in my mind"
― Come On, (Eazy), Friday, 27 March 2026 18:04 (three weeks ago)