TS: "Summer Breeze" by Seals and Crofts vs. "Summer Breeze" by The Isley Brothers

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I'm not sure how to pick one of these versions myself, tbh. Seems like the Isleys are a little more summery, and Seals and Crofts are a little more breezy, but in both versions the summer is linked inextricably with the breeze in a perfect covalent bond of 70's excellence. Waiter, bring me one of those drinks with a little umbrella in it.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
The Isley Brothers	5
Seals and Crofts	3

― kenan, Friday, 13 June 2008 18:18 (seventeen years ago)

good one!

I side with Seals and Crofts...(less vocally overwrought)...both are instant nostalgia trips...

― henry s, Friday, 13 June 2008 18:44 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, tough call. I voted Isleys.

― Hurting 2, Friday, 13 June 2008 18:45 (seventeen years ago)

I side with the Type O Negative cover of the Seals and Croft version.

― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 13 June 2008 18:47 (seventeen years ago)

Jackie Mittoo (the "keyboard king of Studio One") also rocked "Summer Breeze"...(he substituted "memories" for "jasmine")...

― henry s, Friday, 13 June 2008 19:01 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Sunday, 15 June 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Monday, 16 June 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

white people choose black people over themselves shockaaaahhhh!!!!1111

― PappaWheelie V, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 02:48 (seventeen years ago)

I keep forgetting that Seals and Crofts are white.

― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 02:52 (seventeen years ago)

i keep forgetting we're not in love anymore

― PappaWheelie V, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 03:12 (seventeen years ago)

I keep forgetting Seals will never be the same again

― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 15:27 (seventeen years ago)

hearing Shinehead's "Collie Weed" (that interprets this) for first time right now. so digging it

http://dreamchimney.com/tracks/comments/MessageBoard.php?topic=8103

― jaxon, Friday, 20 June 2008 21:30 (seventeen years ago)

eleven years pass...

Listening to the awesome Isley Brothers version right now. Need to link the relevant Texas Monthly article soon.

― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Hitchcock/Truffaut (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 February 2020 22:39 (six years ago)

https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/secret-oil-patch-roots-summer-breeze/

― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Hitchcock/Truffaut (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 February 2020 22:45 (six years ago)

Dat Ernie solo tho

― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 7 February 2020 22:53 (six years ago)

What about it?

― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Hitchcock/Truffaut (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 February 2020 22:54 (six years ago)

Nothing, just...damn.

― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 7 February 2020 22:57 (six years ago)

Hasn't been singled out for praise itt.

― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 7 February 2020 22:58 (six years ago)

Yeah, I love Ernie Isley solos in general. Remembering hoping that thread about Ernie-ing was going to be about Ernie Isley.

― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Hitchcock/Truffaut (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 February 2020 23:03 (six years ago)

On the subject of Isley Brothers soft rock covers, I heard their version of 'Fire and Rain' for the first time recently, it's amazing.

― Gavin, Leeds, Friday, 7 February 2020 23:19 (six years ago)

We really need to poll those, if we haven’t already, which is something I was thinking earlier.

― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Hitchcock/Truffaut (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 February 2020 23:22 (six years ago)

Because “Love the One You’re With” is also grebt.

― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Hitchcock/Truffaut (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 February 2020 23:23 (six years ago)

https://web.musicaficionado.com/main/playlist/the_incredible_folk_rock_soul_of_the_isley_brothers

Was fairly interesting that funking up singer-songwriter shit was their whole thing for a year or two… don't necessarily see what market forces, which the Isleys were consistently responsive to, inspired this move…like, did Bill Withers show them an otherwise untapped market?

― veronica moser, Friday, 7 February 2020 23:27 (six years ago)

what is the instrumentation on the Isleys' version intro? Mandolin?

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 7 February 2020 23:36 (six years ago)

lol there is a ~tiny~ bit of ernie-ing in that (grebt) solo

― mookieproof, Saturday, 8 February 2020 00:07 (six years ago)

don't necessarily see what market forces, which the Isleys were consistently responsive to, inspired this move…like, did Bill Withers show them an otherwise untapped market?

I don't have a direct quote on this, but iirc Ronald said it came from them being listeners and fans of all kinds of music. I imagine too that they recognized the potential of introducing proven hit songs to ears who may not necessarily have heard them before also played a part.

― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 8 February 2020 00:16 (six years ago)

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