Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks Good Vibrations - Beach Boys Bungle in the Jungle - Jethro Tull Crocodile Rock - Elton John Little Willy - Sweet The Streak - Ray Stevens 😄 Spiders and Snakes - Jim Stafford Bad, Bad Leroy Brown/You Don't Mess Around with Jim - Jim Croce And so many more
Sugar sugar by the Archie's Tie a yellow ribbon by Tony Orlando and Dawn American Pie by Don McLean One more for dad Goodnight Irene. Johnny Cash's version
I remember hearing this on the radio as a child. My mother played the radio in the house a lot during that time, and even though she was from an older generation (she grew up in the 50s) she really seemed to enjoy the music of the early 70s. One afternoon I came in from playing outside with my friends and saw my mom cooking dinner, humming to this song as it played softly on the kitchen radio. She was so beautiful and seemed so happy that day. That memory stuck with me, even now, 21 years after losing her, it still makes me smile.
My cousins had that toy piano back in the day. We younguns swore that they used that piano. The cool older kids said we were so stupid for thinking that. Alas, 50 years later, the Professor proved us right. Thank you sir.
It had a VERY distinct sound, which I still remember from playing that thing in the '70's and '80's! I saw the thumbnail of this one on my phone and was curious if it was the same one I had, or if the sound of mine was based on a "real" musical instrument. When I read the text, I already knew..
Christmas 1972, my very loud R&R band was playing a dinner party. Just after starting to play, the owner of the venue ordered us to stop and shut off our amps. Panic. Immediately, my buddy, Jim, and I broke out our acoustic guitars and began to play Summer Breeze, while our manager negotiated with the owner. The partygoers loved it. And, minutes later, the owner agreed to allow us to restart our amps and continue with our R&R songs. To this day, I believe that it was Summer Breeze that saved the day. It still is a special song, 50 years later. Thank you professor for this wonderful walk and for your passionate enthusiasm.
@@jiveturkey9993 You bet, but mostly at church, these days. It's a great church and I'm still playing the same 72 Gibson Les Paul ( but with a smaller amp). Can't beat it!
@@carlosanvito I'm not a musician but I am astounded at how sharp playing music keeps people's brains. I've seen plenty of musicians in their 60s and '70s and even in their eighties whose brains are just firing on all eight cylinders like you wouldn't believe. Like they're in their twenties.
@@jiveturkey9993 You are so right. Turns out that I'm an electrical engineer and in my semi-retirement, I'm an adjunct college professor. I'm convinced that music, math and science are all interconnected and each one improves the other. Fascinating how the human brain works, isn't it?
Paused the video to go thank my wife of 42 (and counting) years for greeting me at the door practically every day when I came home from work. The kids would also come running out of the house because she'd start the anthem, "Daddy's home, daddy's home." I'm so blessed.
I too was 12 in 1972. Living in Illinois and listening to WLS every day. Then we moved to Iowa and I was listening to KRNA. Always loved Summer Breeze.
From the soundtrack of my life… When this song is played, for at least a few minutes, you find that you actually can pass that way again! RIP Jim Seals.
Thanks, Adam, for shining Summer Breeze and Jim Seals through your kind and earnest heart. Brought me back to good times in the kitchen of a summer camp where I was a counselor, but also moved the self that I am now. I had heard but not noticed the toy piano and I just love it.
Summer breeze reminds me of those hot summer days growing up in the 70's. I still get that feeling every time I hear it. Diamond girl is another great one. Love these guys.
I fell in love with Summer Breeze when it was released. Even to this day, when I hear it, it instantly takes me back to the summer days of my youth where it was just me, my horse, dusty country roads, barn swallows, the radio playing quietly in the tack room, the jasmine climbing the trellis out by the house; the picture that the lyrics are painting closely match my memories of those special days. Whenever I feel depressed, this song often plays in my head and before I know it I am singing it to myself, and it lifts me back up
Summer breeze in my opinion is one of the quintessential 70s songs, especially from the soft rock genre. Although I grew up in the 80s, this song takes me back to the long summer days of my childhood hanging out with my friends, riding my bike all over the neighborhood, and watching baseball. Good times.
Simon & Garfunkel, Loggins and Messina, Dan & Coley, and Seals & Croft - great duo groups of the 70s decade Each of these 70s duos have their own greatest hits studio albums
13 when 'Summer Breeze' hit my soul and just beginning to dream of life to come, the image I saw of my wife and our cozy home as I _walked on up to the doorstep_ and _feeling her arms reach out to hold me_ are burned into my memory to this day! What a powerful song! Thanks once again Adam!
I was 4 when this song came out and living way out in the country. I distinctly remember thinking they were singing "centipedes" and not "summer breeze". Eventually I figured it out and still love the song to this day.
I have a similar thing where for the song More Human than Human for some reason I heard "Bald headed man dancing with me" of course slam dancing . . uuuh excuse me Moshing was popular and I could see people in a mosh pit where a bald headed guy was in the pit. This is one of my favorite songs from the era and it was not what I normally listen to , my favorite cover was by Type O Negative
Similar thing here. I heard this on the radio in the 70s. I was 4 maybe 5. I had a toy submarine. So I thought they were singing submarines. I heard this song all my life. Still makes me think of submarines. Even though I know better.
Our wedding video contains the song, "We May Never Pass This Way Again"... Such a beautiful song. It tugs on my emotions every time I watch through the song as it shows my now deceased parents, my wife's aging parents, and family/friends not seen for so long now. Just one of many awesome songs by S & C that have left indelible marks on people's souls.
That was our HS class' song. I was sick of hearing it on the radio well before that vote, but I have to say the lyrics seem appropriate for a graduating class.
This song always brings me back to the best time in my life. For me this was also before my parents got divorced. Living in the rural country of Alabama. Before I ended up with my mother growing up in Detroit Michigan and a very rough childhood. Music became my only escape, and still is to this day. Thanks for reminding me of this song and stirring up those great memories. I added this to my playlist of memories. ✌💚
Rest in peace Jim Seals, and rest in peace to his brother Dan Seals. Summer Breeze is an all time classic song. Didn't know about the toy piano until this video.
Me neither! I think a LOT of us didn’t know about the toy piano and yet it sounds so obvious now. Yeah one of my all time favorites. RIP to the Seales Brothers.
My father LOVED this song. As far as Dad was concerned, my mom, my sister, and I were Daddy's Diamond Girls 💎 . Daddy left us too soon when he passed away . R. I. P. Dad. You were our Diamond. ❤❤❤❤❤
What a great song. Thank you for doing the story of Summer Breeze. Seals & Crofts were wonderful and their sound brings back SO many great memories of an era long gone but sweetly recalled...
A timeless song, for our perenial need for humankind to take a breath, sit back in that Summer lawn chair & enjoy the Summer Breeze with jasmine in the air. RIP Jim Seals.
I can't argue with this one. Summer Breeze is easily one of my favorite songs of all time. And of course I noticed the toy piano in the mix. I had a JayMar toy piano when I was a kid, and I don't know what happened to it, but I got another one as an adult, and have it sitting in my music room today. And I made the connection of Jim Seals and Dan Seals, as I also loved England Dan and John Ford Coley, especially their version of Todd Rundgren's Love is the Answer, another one of my favorite songs.
Summer Breeze brings back such good memories. I was 16 yrs old in 1973 when I first heard this song and spent a summer with a girl from another state. Although it was Brief, Off and On relationship, I'll never forget it. I still listen to Seals and Croft as it was such Feel Good Music.
Beautiful melody & harmony. I always pictured a man coming home from a hards days work and as he pulled into the driveway all his stress and worries melted away as he walked along his sidewalk hearing the neighbors music & smelling the jasmine as he enters his home and into the loving arms of his woman.
While everyone is bringing up the music and musicians in praise of evoking the warm and fuzzies, you Adam my friend deserve a whole heck of a lot of credit for you, your talent as creator and host of one of the best "warm and fuzzy" channels we adore! Kudos and accolades and I feel we owe it all to your father! Love this channel and your excellent interviews! You and this channel must surely live on in history!🙏❤✌😎
Loved these two! Remember laying out by our pool in the seventies where we had 2 fences covered in jasmine. This song brings me back to smell that beautiful smell and to recall my innocence once upon a time.
I saw Seals & Crofts in '92, Merrillville IN. Jim was painstakingly concentrating so hard on making sure his music coming out of the speakers was perfect, I never once saw him look at the audience. Then halfway through the show he got up, walked to the middle of the stage, thanked everyone for coming out, and said someone very special to him was there in the audience and he'd like to introduce her to us, then his little girl, Juliette ran from the curtains and leaped into his arms. They hugged like no one else was around, I can still feel the emotion I felt then. Don't remember if he got a standing O from the audience, but he went back to work playing the dou's songs. One if the best concerts I've been to. Thank Jim for bringing me and so many others the joy of your music.
Man, I love your history as a kid. I too had my dad give me quizzes on history mostly WW2 and Vietnam, Korea. Some times music but it would be over Glen Miller, and songs from the Lawrence Welk Show. My dad had me late on life so I was being fed different info than the kids of my age. Always got the (is this your Grand Father). Love ya, Dad. Thanks for all you did
Feel the phone vibrate in my pocket Feel the emails pouring in Hear the kids AutoTune music Hear the empty house of everyone gone Feel the neighbors screaming and fighting Hear the rap blasting from passing cars Hear the cars racing at 100 See the divorce forming in the next room All of us staring down at our phones Summer breeze, so long gone Pounding like a headache in my life.
Love the duo. Glad you paid tribute to them once again. We will never pass this way again could be a mantra to live by. Everyday make a difference in someone’s life. Thank you prof for making a difference in our lives in your own little way. Keep on rocking my friend.
Excellent tribute to the late Jim Seals... I was a teen in the 70's and what a wonderful time to grow up, the music was so darn good. Summer Breeze, Diamond Girl and Get Closer were my favorites from this magnificent duo.
Seals and Crofts' music is some of my all time favorite! I love their harmonies! Summer Breeze evokes such beautiful memories! I had goosebumps repeatedly while listening to and watching your video about Seals and Crofts! It's near 100° right now and I'm not even feeling it! Thank you so very much! May Jim Seals rest in peace! My deepest sympathies to his family and friends!
What a treat! Met my (eventually) wife in 1972. We were both big Seals and Crofts fans. We have been married 43 years and hearing your passionate review now invokes great memories!
What I love about your channel is hearing a sog that I'd completely forgotten about (at 60 years old there's a lot I've forgotten) but hearing it after all this time...when it had been played so much when it first came out that its burned into my brain with the moments surrounding it. So that hearing it again I'm instantly transported back and feel the "warm summer breeze" as I'd lay out on the beach or on a raft in the local lake while listening to AM radio.
Thanks for paying tribute to Jim and Dash. They made some beautiful music from my youth. I listened to them in my car for a couple of days after hearing of Jim's passing. May he Rest in Peace.....
I was holding my breath as to whether or not that you would mention that they were the darlings of the Baha’i Faith. If you read anything about the Baha’i Faith & the prophet, Bahá’u’lláh, you will notice subtle references to to Bahá’u’lláh & hhis teachings of love (of God & that we are all brothers & sisters in this world & should treat each other with love & respect & kindness). References to jasmine are about the jasmine in the garden in Persia where the prophet announced that he was the awaited prophet to bring the message of spiritual growth our modernfor our era
Yikes! I got cut off before I finished my reply! Bahá’u’lláh was ushering in what Jesus had been trying to teach us for a new era.Summer Breeze invokes that gentle time of love & unity after so much world violence.The mention of key words like jasmine, hummingbird, a new day is dawning for us all, the draught of understanding, wisdom, peace and love is ours. It is easier to see the Baha’i message in Hummingbird. Heavenly Songbird we were so wrong, we’ve harmed you Oh Hummingbird, lend us your wings let us soar in atmosphere of Abha “ Lift us up to the heaven of holiness “Oh Source of our being!” The sweetness of your nectar (ie. the teachings) has drawn me like a fly. I just love you , love you, love you “. The Seeker in the song has met Bahá’u’lláh perhaps in the Garden of Ridvan & has heard the message of love, kindness, unity through diversity & his spirit has been impressed. East of Ginger trees is another reference to the Baha’i Faith: The Gentle Religion. Any Baha’is I’ve met have been aware of the Seals & Croft duo. Their harmonies are gentle & beautiful, their songs speak of love of family (the whole human family?) & love of mankind & love of Bahá’u’lláh, the messenger of God for our daysJust think about how you feel when you listen to their songs…gentle, invokes fond memories that are innocent & nostalgic.Summer Breeze is one of my favourite songs. I bought the vinyl in 1972 when I was in Capilano College in Vancouver as an art student & played it constantly! It was uplifting in more ways than one! I became a Baha’i at that time. A “Fireside” was a gathering of Baha’is that could be attended by non-Baha’is…Seekers curious to find out what it was all about. And what could be welcoming than a fireside gathering? Thank you, thank you for featuring. Seals & Crofts! Paying tribute to that beautiful song that I could listen to forever. And sharing that surprising & charming piece of info about the toy piano! I will be sharing your post with my Baha’i friends. Just started watching your show and I love it! Keep up the good work! Take care!
Lovely segment, Adam. Huge fan of S&C. Their music has aged extremely well, which speaks both to the quality of their musicianship and songwriting skill. Jim and Dash were real pros and their voices blended beautifully together. They were truly in synch on many levels, even spiritually. RIP, Jimmy.
I grew up with Jimmy Seals 2 kids here in Costa Rica, we grew up to be great friends and started a band ourselves, Mr Seals and Mr Crofts gave me my first drum lessons, what a person he is (he is still alive in my heart forever!) and his sons are 2 of my best friends! He wrote many songs here in Costa Rica and is beloved as well, there is a street named after him. Thought I'd share my story with You Professor of Rock! Pura Vida, #1 fan in Costa Rica!
I'm so glad you featured this song. It has been on my mind for the last several weeks. Seals and Crofts are American treasures and true originals. Their songs are like a comfortable piece of clothing. So sad to hear of Jim Seals' passing. May he rest in peace.
Wow! This brings back memories.... In 1972 we were living in San Jose, California. I must have been in 8th grade or so... We had recently purchased an Admiral Stereo Tuner. Not real high end, but not schlock either. (I still own it!) I was laying on the living room floor listening to K-101 (KIOI) out of San Francisco with the stereo headsets.. K-101 always had a slight echo effect behind their programming... ELP's "In the Beginning" played, followed by Seals And Croft's "Summer Breeze". Pure Rock & Roll Musical Heaven!!! To this day, every time I hear either one of those songs, it take me back to that moment in 1972...
My favorite memory of these guys was around 1969. (maybe 68 or 70) I was attending UCLA and would often take a date to the Ice House in Pasadena to listen to music. It was a very small venue. I was lucky on one occasion to see a new group. Seals and Croft. Good times.
Thanks for these reminders of my youth. My family played S&C's LPs on our stereo and everyone sang along. My parents are gone now and my siblings live far apart, but I hear these wonderful songs and I am taken back to simpler times. Thanks again!
My wife and I saw them shortly after Summer Breeze came out. A very nice concert. And they introduced England Dan and John Ford Coley. I was not aware Dan was the brother to Jim Seals. Such a classic song...a lot of the 70s easy rock are still popular with us.
I grew up in 60's and 70's and remember when this was on the radio. I loved it then and still love this song today. To me it always brings back memories of summer when I was growing up in upstate NY. I think that is the magic of this song in that it will bring back memories of a quiet simple summer no matter where you grew up. To me ;Summer Breeze; brings back scents of my father's roses and my mother's flower garden. Those were times when most houses did not have air conditioning and you always had windows open to the breeze.
Summer Breeze always takes me back to a very specific moment of my childhood. I was in grade school and my parents and I had been out late, visiting friends. We got home around 1am or so. It was summertime. Instead of going to bed, we stayed up sitting on our front porch, listening to music, on a radio. Summer Breeze was playing and my mom decided to have some fun, by chasing me and my dad around with the hose and soaking us, especially me. The whole street was quiet and empty, except for my parents & I having so much fun, while Summer Breeze played in the background.
Seals And Crofts were one of my older sister’s favorite bands. This song takes me back to a better time between my sister and me. I was five years old and my sister was a teenager. I’d sit with her and listen to her play her 45s as we did chores. We were close. Later, my sister started having some mental health struggles and we weren’t nearly as close as we were when I was young. I miss the sister she was at one time.
Seals & Crofts / Greatest Hits was my favorite album when I first heard it at my boyfriend's house in the fall of 1975. "Summer Breeze" still invokes memories of those times. 🥰
Amazing! Happy tears from 1/3 of the way into the video... How can you Not get teary eyed as you deliver such beautiful and quite poetic commentary on these songs!? Your Wordsmanship is Spectacular!!!!!!!! (yeah, made up word..sort'a)
Undeniably one of the greatest songs of the '70s. The chords, the imagery and the harmonies are the best. As a kid, I always wanted the background harmonies to continue in the final pre-chorus, but then I finally got it that they wanted it simpler and stripped down before the final chorus. Reminds me of great memories growing up in the '70s.
Your comment of how the song takes you back to your grandparents back porch. That resonated with me. I remember the exact same thing in my childhood almost 70 years ago, except for me it was my grandparents, front porch, and the quiet little Street with the cicadas singing And grandma and grandpa. How sweet.
BRAVO ! What a sensational tribute to the timeless sounds of Seal & Crofts ! S&C provided the anthem to my childhood, that to this day, causes my heart to ACHE for the simple times of my youth. Even today, at 57 yrs, Seal & Crofts adorn my music playlist of over 650 songs spanning more than 40 years of musical memories. A play list, I might add, would fail to be complete without them.
Summer Breeze fell smack dab in the middle of my HS days. It was the staple and summer just wasn't summer unless it came on the radio! The lyrics and melody just soothed your soul. A most beautiful timeless creation. When it comes to thought provoking nostalgia " We may never pass this way again" is a definite close second. Thank you Professor for highlighting this gem of a duo!! Loved S&C!!!
I have always loved this duo. I listened to them on the radio all the time growing up in the 70's. They were always on the radio and I always loved their music. Thanks for the tribute and information on them. Great video as always Prof. Keep up the great work.
Damn.... Talk about a trip down memory lane... I was a kid, listening to this song on the radio as a youngster. I was born in '73, so, as you can imagine, this was a "new song" as I was growing up .. love it
Adam, I always love hearing you recall the familial connections with the songs you choose. Those emotions remind us that our feelings matter and that no small memory is ever that small after all.
Dear professor, My teenage years were the late sixties and early seventies. I grew up listening to the AM radio. Laying on the beach near the ocean in the Summer with the AM radio playing. Listening to Seals and Croft. There was a mixture of hard rock and soft rock at that time. I guess it just depended on which station you were listening to. But the song Summer Breeze was one of my favorites. Because I grew up on a lake just outside of Boston, and the Summer Breeze was just a wonderful thing coming off the water. Whenever I hear the song today it always reminds me of my childhood home. Your in depth information about each artist that you feature it's just amazing. At this point after listening to you for the last few years, I really have to put you up there with Casey Kasem or Ryan Seacrest. Each one of your videos are a glimpse back into my youth. And I love music as much as you do and being reminded of all the vinyl records that I used to listen to as a teenager it's just a sweet and wonderful memory that you always bring back. I wish today the formats were different. So that you could highlight your own show in the mainstream. American Bandstand with Dick Clark. Soul Train with Don Cornelius. Burnt Sugarman's The midnight Special. The show Solid Gold. These are all the shows I grew up with and the different DJs or announcers that hosted them. Something's definitely missing in today's music world where these variety shows where a mainstay of American music. And highlighted all of the different up and coming popular artists of the day. Or a British music show Jools Holland Hootenanny or Later With Jools Holland. How about, The Professor of Rock Music Hour? You are deserving of being held in the companies of these wonderful shows. You just do a fantastic job of bring the history, the artistry, and the live interviews with these wonderful artists back to life for all of us music lovers. Thank you so much for what you do. You just bring back such good memories of the music that made me so happy when I was younger. And it makes me revisit all of the music that I used to listen to. And it makes me feel young again watching your show. Keep up the good work because you're doing what you love. And all your effort is shining through your show. Thank you again!
Nothing takes me back to my childhood like Summer Breeze. I was listening to a greatest hits CD of theirs yesterday. Wonderful stuff, laidback but not spineless.
I was today years old when I learned England Dan and Jim Seals were brothers! I loved both of them for their easy listening style of music! Thank you Professor of Rock for this episode and teaching me something new!
Me too! I remember the teacher of the year at my school, a science teacher, and I sang “I’d Really Love to See You Tonight” in her classroom. Now I know how these two are connected! Thanks, Adam!
"Although you can go home again Summers Breeze gets you mighty close" Well said professor. Nothing takes me back to the summers past like this song. Weird thing is me and the girl I'm seeing share songs we are listening to in the morning and this is the song I sent her an hour before this episode. Rest in Peace Jim Seals and thank you for your music. Great episode professor!
So Adam proved you psychic! Yeah, this song really does take me back to a few years ago when my mom took me to various places to eat. She would play me this song and the Isley Brothers cover. Good times, man.
Summer Breeze was one of the great. hits of the 70's. The Toys R Us toy piano filled the sound out to make it richer. I'm hearing a sound that is enriched by the toy piano and lyrics that were very intelligent and metaphysical. What makes it standout is the gentle vocals that capture the calming moment of the record.
i absolutely ADORE this song!! and i never ever ever tire of it. whenever i need to take myself to a welcoming, warm place, this song transports me there 😊❤ thanks, prof!
I was just starting my adult work life as a carpenter in '72, and much of the '70s, the "Me Decade," seemed so superficial and artificial, with bell-bottom pants, sideburns, plasticky music (with notable exceptions), and a self-absorbed "yacht-rock" culture. Summer Breeze offered something magical on a hot afternoon making my way thru traffic on the way home from a sweaty, exhausting day at work in LA. The imagery Jim Seals gave us is so welcoming and comforting, everything a working person dreams of that makes all the sacrifice worthwhile. Home. Rest. Peace. Love. It's all there.
Thank you for covering Seal and Crofts. With Jim Seals passing over this is very Emotional for me. I did get to meet them after a show back in 1978 at the U IN SALT LAKE CITY
Your channel reminds me of how lucky we were as a generation to have such great music. We really needed it, as the Vietnam war, racism, and Nixon were enough to make you light up and never want to come down. The song Get Together by the Youngbloods was my anthem.
Absolutely one powerful 1970s ballad about life, a beautiful song that everytime it plays, it brings me back to a wonderful time in my life. RIP Jim Seals, you will be missed.
Hey man. Just found your channel a couple of days ago and have been binge watching it. Love all the nostalgia and the memories from the late 70's and 80's music. Love your style too. It's obvious how much you love not just the music but also the musicians and artists that make the music. It's infectious. Thanks brother. Keep rockin!!
I was a new RN. I had a seasoned MD as a patient. I was petrified. He was listening to this song when I was in his room. He did not catch the word “jasmine”. After I told him what the word was, the song suddenly made sense to him and he could enjoy the peaceful mind pictures evoked by the lyrics. We were forever connected after that as the hospital was not large.I’m retired now, living in Belize. I have a jasmine plant at the corner of my cottage, its fragrance can bring the sweet memories with every “summer breeze”.
Adam, great episode! Seals&Crofts provided the soundtrack of summertime in the early 70’s! We’ll never pass that way again, except for great memories! Thanks for sharing!💫
Thank you for covering "Summer Breeze" by Seals and Crofts. This has always been one of my favorite songs. As a child of the 70s, I have always loved their music... I love it even more now. When I heard of Jim Seal's passing, I was so sad and played several Seals and Crofts' songs for my classic rock loving 17-year-old son. He was not familiar with them. Maybe he will remember that someday.... just like I remember listening to their music with my mom who passed in 2016. Passing down a tradition of loving great musical artists.
POR, you are a poet, a wordsmith for the ages! I tune in just to hear you paint a picture with your words. Your tribute to Jim Seals, Benny Mardonis, your father, just leaves me in reverent silence.
Listen up Adam- I THOUGHT I loved music until I found you! I THOUGHT I knew a lot about music until I found you! You amaze & impress me almost every day!
Poll: What song take you back to childhood every time you hear it?
"Band on the Run" by Paul McCartney and "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty.
Follow You Follow me reminds me of weekends camping with my parents
Anything by Burt Baccarah as a small child
Cat Stevens, 'Moon Shadow' brings me back to childhood. My first record was Teaser and the Firecat.
Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks
Good Vibrations - Beach Boys
Bungle in the Jungle - Jethro Tull
Crocodile Rock - Elton John
Little Willy - Sweet
The Streak - Ray Stevens 😄
Spiders and Snakes - Jim Stafford
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown/You Don't Mess Around with Jim - Jim Croce
And so many more
Sugar sugar by the Archie's
Tie a yellow ribbon by Tony Orlando and Dawn
American Pie by Don McLean
One more for dad Goodnight Irene. Johnny Cash's version
I remember hearing this on the radio as a child. My mother played the radio in the house a lot during that time, and even though she was from an older generation (she grew up in the 50s) she really seemed to enjoy the music of the early 70s. One afternoon I came in from playing outside with my friends and saw my mom cooking dinner, humming to this song as it played softly on the kitchen radio. She was so beautiful and seemed so happy that day. That memory stuck with me, even now, 21 years after losing her, it still makes me smile.
Thank you for sharing that precious memory.
This is so sweet! ❤
Love this!! What a lovely memory.
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I think that is so awsome and sweet!
My cousins had that toy piano back in the day. We younguns swore that they used that piano. The cool older kids said we were so stupid for thinking that. Alas, 50 years later, the Professor proved us right. Thank you sir.
It had a VERY distinct sound, which I still remember from playing that thing in the '70's and '80's! I saw the thumbnail of this one on my phone and was curious if it was the same one I had, or if the sound of mine was based on a "real" musical instrument. When I read the text, I already knew..
A toy piano was also featured in "Magnet and Steel" by Walter Egan.
Christmas 1972, my very loud R&R band was playing a dinner party. Just after starting to play, the owner of the venue ordered us to stop and shut off our amps. Panic. Immediately, my buddy, Jim, and I broke out our acoustic guitars and began to play Summer Breeze, while our manager negotiated with the owner. The partygoers loved it. And, minutes later, the owner agreed to allow us to restart our amps and continue with our R&R songs. To this day, I believe that it was Summer Breeze that saved the day. It still is a special song, 50 years later. Thank you professor for this wonderful walk and for your passionate enthusiasm.
Hope you're still jamming to this day.
@@jiveturkey9993 You bet, but mostly at church, these days. It's a great church and I'm still playing the same 72 Gibson Les Paul ( but with a smaller amp). Can't beat it!
@@carlosanvito I'm not a musician but I am astounded at how sharp playing music keeps people's brains.
I've seen plenty of musicians in their 60s and '70s and even in their eighties whose brains are just firing on all eight cylinders like you wouldn't believe. Like they're in their twenties.
You’re right, it is a very special song. 😊
@@jiveturkey9993 You are so right. Turns out that I'm an electrical engineer and in my semi-retirement, I'm an adjunct college professor. I'm convinced that music, math and science are all interconnected and each one improves the other. Fascinating how the human brain works, isn't it?
Paused the video to go thank my wife of 42 (and counting) years for greeting me at the door practically every day when I came home from work. The kids would also come running out of the house because she'd start the anthem, "Daddy's home, daddy's home." I'm so blessed.
Only a good dad would have kids happy to greet him when he arrived home! (Giving you the credit you're due!)🙂
I was 12 in 1972 and summer breeze was the most played song on the radio I can remember. Still today it raises my spirits.
I too was 12 in 1972. Living in Illinois and listening to WLS every day. Then we moved to Iowa and I was listening to KRNA. Always loved Summer Breeze.
What a great tribute to a song that is the perfect representation of the 70’s. Rest In Peace, Jim Seals.
Thank you for watching!
Rest In Peace to a legend.
From the soundtrack of my life…
When this song is played, for at least a few minutes, you find that you actually can pass that way again! RIP Jim Seals.
Summer Breeze, Hummingbird, Diamond Girl, We May Never Pass This Way Again, Get Closer. Soundtrack to high school days.
Grade school for me and these songs still resonate with me.
Yep, they (S&C) always take me back to HS days
I really liked “King Of Nothing”
Thanks, Adam, for shining Summer Breeze and Jim Seals through your kind and earnest heart. Brought me back to good times in the kitchen of a summer camp where I was a counselor, but also moved the self that I am now. I had heard but not noticed the toy piano and I just love it.
Summer breeze reminds me of those hot summer days growing up in the 70's. I still get that feeling every time I hear it. Diamond girl is another great one. Love these guys.
I fell in love with Summer Breeze when it was released. Even to this day, when I hear it, it instantly takes me back to the summer days of my youth where it was just me, my horse, dusty country roads, barn swallows, the radio playing quietly in the tack room, the jasmine climbing the trellis out by the house; the picture that the lyrics are painting closely match my memories of those special days.
Whenever I feel depressed, this song often plays in my head and before I know it I am singing it to myself, and it lifts me back up
Summer breeze in my opinion is one of the quintessential 70s songs, especially from the soft rock genre. Although I grew up in the 80s, this song takes me back to the long summer days of my childhood hanging out with my friends, riding my bike all over the neighborhood, and watching baseball. Good times.
RIP James Eugene Seals
Summer Breeze brings many bittersweet menories.
Never knew about the toy piano. Wow. Thanks professor
Toy piano was also used in "Magnet and Steel" by Walter Egan.
Toy piano was a new fact for me as well!
Simon & Garfunkel, Loggins and Messina, Dan & Coley, and Seals & Croft - great duo groups of the 70s decade
Each of these 70s duos have their own greatest hits studio albums
Great music.
Don't forget Becker & Fagen!
@@mournblade1066 aka Steeley Dan - ok 👍 thanks for the reminder
They should’ve called themselves Becker & Fagen all along
I love all four!
13 when 'Summer Breeze' hit my soul and just beginning to dream of life to come, the image I saw of my wife and our cozy home as I _walked on up to the doorstep_ and _feeling her arms reach out to hold me_ are burned into my memory to this day! What a powerful song!
Thanks once again Adam!
I was 4 when this song came out and living way out in the country. I distinctly remember thinking they were singing "centipedes" and not "summer breeze". Eventually I figured it out and still love the song to this day.
Thanks for sharing.
That's hilarious! "Centipeeeeedes. . . make me feel fiiiine!"
Centipedes? Hahahahaha! 😅
I have a similar thing where for the song More Human than Human for some reason I heard "Bald headed man dancing with me" of course slam dancing . . uuuh excuse me Moshing was popular and I could see people in a mosh pit where a bald headed guy was in the pit. This is one of my favorite songs from the era and it was not what I normally listen to , my favorite cover was by Type O Negative
Similar thing here. I heard this on the radio in the 70s. I was 4 maybe 5. I had a toy submarine. So I thought they were singing submarines. I heard this song all my life. Still makes me think of submarines. Even though I know better.
Our wedding video contains the song, "We May Never Pass This Way Again"... Such a beautiful song. It tugs on my emotions every time I watch through the song as it shows my now deceased parents, my wife's aging parents, and family/friends not seen for so long now. Just one of many awesome songs by S & C that have left indelible marks on people's souls.
What a meaningful comment. Thank you for opening your heart.
Very moving post.
That was our graduating class song! 1979
@@eightiesmusic1984 So nostalgic.
That was our HS class' song. I was sick of hearing it on the radio well before that vote, but I have to say the lyrics seem appropriate for a graduating class.
This song always brings me back to the best time in my life. For me this was also before my parents got divorced. Living in the rural country of Alabama. Before I ended up with my mother growing up in Detroit Michigan and a very rough childhood. Music became my only escape, and still is to this day. Thanks for reminding me of this song and stirring up those great memories. I added this to my playlist of memories. ✌💚
Music is good for the soul indeed.
Rest in peace Jim Seals, and rest in peace to his brother Dan Seals. Summer Breeze is an all time classic song. Didn't know about the toy piano until this video.
Now, I will always hear the toy piano, it's so obvious now.
Me neither! I think a LOT of us didn’t know about the toy piano and yet it sounds so obvious now.
Yeah one of my all time favorites. RIP to the Seales Brothers.
My father LOVED this song. As far as Dad was concerned, my mom, my sister, and I were Daddy's Diamond Girls 💎 . Daddy left us too soon when he passed away . R. I. P. Dad. You were our Diamond. ❤❤❤❤❤
What a great song. Thank you for doing the story of Summer Breeze. Seals & Crofts were wonderful and their sound brings back SO many great memories of an era long gone but sweetly recalled...
A timeless song, for our perenial need for humankind to take a breath, sit back in that Summer lawn chair & enjoy the Summer Breeze with jasmine in the air. RIP Jim Seals.
I can't argue with this one. Summer Breeze is easily one of my favorite songs of all time. And of course I noticed the toy piano in the mix. I had a JayMar toy piano when I was a kid, and I don't know what happened to it, but I got another one as an adult, and have it sitting in my music room today.
And I made the connection of Jim Seals and Dan Seals, as I also loved England Dan and John Ford Coley, especially their version of Todd Rundgren's Love is the Answer, another one of my favorite songs.
Summer Breeze brings back such good memories. I was 16 yrs old in 1973 when I first heard this song and spent a summer with a girl from another state. Although it was Brief, Off and On relationship, I'll never forget it. I still listen to Seals and Croft as it was such Feel Good Music.
Beautiful melody & harmony. I always pictured a man coming home from a hards days work and as he pulled into the driveway all his stress and worries melted away as he walked along his sidewalk hearing the neighbors music & smelling the jasmine as he enters his home and into the loving arms of his woman.
Seals and Crofts have always had a place in my music heart.
Seals & Crofts were an outstanding duo-"Summer Breeze" & "Get Closer" are my two favorite songs from them.
Mine are "Summer Breeze" and "Hummingbird."
I love both plus Diamond Girl!
The summer's were long and the World was sain
Me too!!😁
let's not forget "I'll Play For You", and that lovely song they wrote to their wives, "Ruby Jean and Billie Lee".
While everyone is bringing up the music and musicians in praise of evoking the warm and fuzzies, you Adam my friend deserve a whole heck of a lot of credit for you, your talent as creator and host of one of the best "warm and fuzzy" channels we adore! Kudos and accolades and I feel we owe it all to your father! Love this channel and your excellent interviews! You and this channel must surely live on in history!🙏❤✌😎
@ Helen Katz - Here here! I can hardly wait for the next video to drop - it's an important go-to happy place. Thanks much, Adam!
Summer Breeze is the first song I ever remember hearing, and it gets me every time. Takes me back to a time where I don’t have many strong memories.
I used to sing this song with my best friend durning the lunch hour in high school. Good times! Great memories!
Loved these two! Remember laying out by our pool in the seventies where we had 2 fences covered in jasmine. This song brings me back to smell that beautiful smell and to recall my innocence once upon a time.
What a great memory!
The smell of jasmine is so nice!
HOW could you EVER think of summer without this classic coming to mind?!!
I saw Seals & Crofts in '92, Merrillville IN. Jim was painstakingly concentrating so hard on making sure his music coming out of the speakers was perfect, I never once saw him look at the audience. Then halfway through the show he got up, walked to the middle of the stage, thanked everyone for coming out, and said someone very special to him was there in the audience and he'd like to introduce her to us, then his little girl, Juliette ran from the curtains and leaped into his arms. They hugged like no one else was around, I can still feel the emotion I felt then. Don't remember if he got a standing O from the audience, but he went back to work playing the dou's songs. One if the best concerts I've been to. Thank Jim for bringing me and so many others the joy of your music.
their harmonies were some of the most beautiful, unique harmonies ever...
Diamond girl is my favorite Seals and Crofts songs. My cousin Louie Shelton played with them and many other artist. He was in the wrecking crew
Louie Shelton!! Great guitarist!!
Professor Of Rock, as a former music teacher, I can truly say you really know your stuff including musical history.
Man, I love your history as a kid. I too had my dad give me quizzes on history mostly WW2 and Vietnam, Korea. Some times music but it would be over Glen Miller, and songs from the Lawrence Welk Show. My dad had me late on life so I was being fed different info than the kids of my age. Always got the (is this your Grand Father). Love ya, Dad. Thanks for all you did
Feel the phone vibrate in my pocket
Feel the emails pouring in
Hear the kids AutoTune music
Hear the empty house of everyone gone
Feel the neighbors screaming and fighting
Hear the rap blasting from passing cars
Hear the cars racing at 100
See the divorce forming in the next room
All of us staring down at our phones
Summer breeze, so long gone
Pounding like a headache in my life.
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
@I STAN Kim Jong-Un but Can't STAND Trump I’m not complaining, I’m praising him for his excellent parody of “Summer Breeze”.
Some of these, makes me feel fine!
@@chrisfrancis455 lol! True
Love the duo. Glad you paid tribute to them once again. We will never pass this way again could be a mantra to live by. Everyday make a difference in someone’s life. Thank you prof for making a difference in our lives in your own little way. Keep on rocking my friend.
This song made “Dazed and Confused” so very heartfelt.
Excellent tribute to the late Jim Seals... I was a teen in the 70's and what a wonderful time to grow up, the music was so darn good. Summer Breeze, Diamond Girl and Get Closer were my favorites from this magnificent duo.
All great songs!
Boy!!! You hit the nail on the head. I'm now looking on the 70s and 80s with nostalgia.
Seals and Crofts' music is some of my all time favorite! I love their harmonies! Summer Breeze evokes such beautiful memories! I had goosebumps repeatedly while listening to and watching your video about Seals and Crofts! It's near 100° right now and I'm not even feeling it! Thank you so very much! May Jim Seals rest in peace! My deepest sympathies to his family and friends!
What a treat! Met my (eventually) wife in 1972. We were both big Seals and Crofts fans. We have been married 43 years and hearing your passionate review now invokes great memories!
Dan Seals “everything that glitters isn’t gold” is quite a masterpiece.
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At a carnival, the operator of one of the rides, would play this song over and over. I never got tired of it.
What I love about your channel is hearing a sog that I'd completely forgotten about (at 60 years old there's a lot I've forgotten) but hearing it after all this time...when it had been played so much when it first came out that its burned into my brain with the moments surrounding it. So that hearing it again I'm instantly transported back and feel the "warm summer breeze" as I'd lay out on the beach or on a raft in the local lake while listening to AM radio.
Rest in peace, Jim Seals.
Thank you for the music and for the healing hope that everything would be alright.
Always loved Humming Bird . The mandolin rising over the crescendo still makes me shiver .
Thanks for paying tribute to Jim and Dash. They made some beautiful music from my youth. I listened to them in my car for a couple of days after hearing of Jim's passing. May he Rest in Peace.....
I was holding my breath as to whether or not that you would mention that they were the darlings of the Baha’i Faith. If you read anything about the Baha’i Faith & the prophet, Bahá’u’lláh, you will notice subtle references to to Bahá’u’lláh & hhis teachings of love (of God & that we are all brothers & sisters in this world & should treat each other with love & respect & kindness).
References to jasmine are about the jasmine in the garden in Persia where the prophet announced that he was the awaited prophet to bring the message of spiritual growth our modernfor our era
Yikes! I got cut off before I finished my
reply! Bahá’u’lláh was ushering in what Jesus had been trying to teach us for a new era.Summer Breeze invokes that gentle time of love & unity after so much world violence.The mention of key words like jasmine, hummingbird, a new day is dawning for us all, the draught of understanding, wisdom, peace and love is ours.
It is easier to see the Baha’i message in Hummingbird. Heavenly Songbird we were so wrong, we’ve harmed you Oh Hummingbird, lend us your wings let us soar in atmosphere of Abha “ Lift us up to the heaven of holiness “Oh Source of our being!”
The sweetness of your nectar (ie. the teachings) has drawn me like a fly. I just love you , love you, love you “.
The Seeker in the song has met Bahá’u’lláh perhaps in the Garden of Ridvan & has heard the message of love, kindness, unity through diversity & his spirit has been impressed.
East of Ginger trees is another reference to the Baha’i Faith: The Gentle Religion.
Any Baha’is I’ve met have been aware of the Seals & Croft duo.
Their harmonies are gentle & beautiful, their songs speak of love of family (the whole human family?) & love of mankind & love of Bahá’u’lláh, the messenger of God for our daysJust think about how you feel when you listen to their songs…gentle, invokes fond memories that are innocent & nostalgic.Summer Breeze is one of my favourite songs.
I bought the vinyl in 1972 when I was in Capilano College in Vancouver as an art student & played it constantly! It was uplifting in more ways than one!
I became a Baha’i at that time.
A “Fireside” was a gathering of Baha’is that could be attended by non-Baha’is…Seekers curious to find out what it was all about.
And what could be welcoming than a fireside gathering? Thank you, thank you for featuring. Seals & Crofts! Paying tribute to that beautiful song that I could listen to forever. And sharing that surprising & charming piece of info about the toy piano!
I will be sharing your post with my Baha’i friends.
Just started watching your show and I love it!
Keep up the good work!
Take care!
Lovely segment, Adam. Huge fan of S&C. Their music has aged extremely well, which speaks both to the quality of their musicianship and songwriting skill. Jim and Dash were real pros and their voices blended beautifully together. They were truly in synch on many levels, even spiritually. RIP, Jimmy.
They were great musicians!
I grew up with Jimmy Seals 2 kids here in Costa Rica, we grew up to be great friends and started a band ourselves, Mr Seals and Mr Crofts gave me my first drum lessons, what a person he is (he is still alive in my heart forever!) and his sons are 2 of my best friends! He wrote many songs here in Costa Rica and is beloved as well, there is a street named after him. Thought I'd share my story with You Professor of Rock! Pura Vida, #1 fan in Costa Rica!
I'm so glad you featured this song. It has been on my mind for the last several weeks. Seals and Crofts are American treasures and true originals. Their songs are like a comfortable piece of clothing. So sad to hear of Jim Seals' passing. May he rest in peace.
Great way of saying it.
This song really does make me feel fine!
Wow! This brings back memories.... In 1972 we were living in San Jose, California. I must have been in 8th grade or so... We had recently purchased an Admiral Stereo Tuner. Not real high end, but not schlock either. (I still own it!) I was laying on the living room floor listening to K-101 (KIOI) out of San Francisco with the stereo headsets.. K-101 always had a slight echo effect behind their programming... ELP's "In the Beginning" played, followed by Seals And Croft's "Summer Breeze". Pure Rock & Roll Musical Heaven!!! To this day, every time I hear either one of those songs, it take me back to that moment in 1972...
My favorite memory of these guys was around 1969. (maybe 68 or 70) I was attending UCLA and would often take a date to the Ice House in Pasadena to listen to music. It was a very small venue. I was lucky on one occasion to see a new group. Seals and Croft. Good times.
Thanks for these reminders of my youth. My family played S&C's LPs on our stereo and everyone sang along. My parents are gone now and my siblings live far apart, but I hear these wonderful songs and I am taken back to simpler times. Thanks again!
My wife and I saw them shortly after Summer Breeze came out. A very nice concert. And they introduced England Dan and John Ford Coley. I was not aware Dan was the brother to Jim Seals. Such a classic song...a lot of the 70s easy rock are still popular with us.
Me neither! I learned a lot of new things today!
You think it’s EASY? Try PLAYING ‘70s Music sometime!
I grew up in 60's and 70's and remember when this was on the radio. I loved it then and still love this song today. To me it always brings back memories of summer when I was growing up in upstate NY. I think that is the magic of this song in that it will bring back memories of a quiet simple summer no matter where you grew up. To me ;Summer Breeze; brings back scents of my father's roses and my mother's flower garden. Those were times when most houses did not have air conditioning and you always had windows open to the breeze.
Summer Breeze always takes me back to a very specific moment of my childhood. I was in grade school and my parents and I had been out late, visiting friends. We got home around 1am or so. It was summertime. Instead of going to bed, we stayed up sitting on our front porch, listening to music, on a radio. Summer Breeze was playing and my mom decided to have some fun, by chasing me and my dad around with the hose and soaking us, especially me. The whole street was quiet and empty, except for my parents & I having so much fun, while Summer Breeze played in the background.
Seals And Crofts were one of my older sister’s favorite bands. This song takes me back to a better time between my sister and me. I was five years old and my sister was a teenager. I’d sit with her and listen to her play her 45s as we did chores. We were close. Later, my sister started having some mental health struggles and we weren’t nearly as close as we were when I was young. I miss the sister she was at one time.
Seals & Crofts / Greatest Hits was my favorite album when I first heard it at my boyfriend's house in the fall of 1975. "Summer Breeze" still invokes memories of those times. 🥰
Summer Breeze has been my favorite song since it first came out. I am 62 and still love it. Even the remake was awesome.
Amazing! Happy tears from 1/3 of the way into the video...
How can you Not get teary eyed as you deliver such beautiful and quite poetic commentary on these songs!?
Your Wordsmanship is Spectacular!!!!!!!! (yeah, made up word..sort'a)
I always thought it sounded like a toy piano, but never imagined that's actually what it was! The effect hit the mark.
I remember listening to this song as we drove around Yosemite Valley during the summer of 72 . That was a magical combination.
R. I. P. Jim Seals. How sad it makes me to know he passed away on my birthday... My love and condolences to his family, friends and fans. 💔
Undeniably one of the greatest songs of the '70s. The chords, the imagery and the harmonies are the best. As a kid, I always wanted the background harmonies to continue in the final pre-chorus, but then I finally got it that they wanted it simpler and stripped down before the final chorus. Reminds me of great memories growing up in the '70s.
Everything about this song is just great.
Your comment of how the song takes you back to your grandparents back porch. That resonated with me. I remember the exact same thing in my childhood almost 70 years ago, except for me it was my grandparents, front porch, and the quiet little Street with the cicadas singing And grandma and grandpa. How sweet.
BRAVO ! What a sensational tribute to the timeless sounds of Seal & Crofts !
S&C provided the anthem to my childhood, that to this day, causes my heart to ACHE for the simple times of my youth.
Even today, at 57 yrs, Seal & Crofts adorn my music playlist of over 650 songs spanning more than 40 years of musical memories. A play list, I might add, would fail to be complete without them.
They’re so nostalgic!
Summer Breeze fell smack dab in the middle of my HS days. It was the staple and summer just wasn't summer unless it came on the radio! The lyrics and melody just soothed your soul. A most beautiful timeless creation. When it comes to thought provoking nostalgia " We may never pass this way again" is a definite close second. Thank you Professor for highlighting this gem of a duo!! Loved S&C!!!
I have always loved this duo. I listened to them on the radio all the time growing up in the 70's. They were always on the radio and I always loved their music. Thanks for the tribute and information on them. Great video as always Prof. Keep up the great work.
Thanks!
Their songs are so nostalgic.
I saw Seals and Crofts in concert in Morgantown, WV in the mid 1970’s. I still remember that great show.
That’s Jim Seals playing the sax for the Champs in their one hit, Tequila.
Damn.... Talk about a trip down memory lane... I was a kid, listening to this song on the radio as a youngster. I was born in '73, so, as you can imagine, this was a "new song" as I was growing up .. love it
Adam, I always love hearing you recall the familial connections with the songs you choose. Those emotions remind us that our feelings matter and that no small memory is ever that small after all.
Thanks!
The stories with his dad are so sweet!
Dear professor, My teenage years were the late sixties and early seventies. I grew up listening to the AM radio. Laying on the beach near the ocean in the Summer with the AM radio playing. Listening to Seals and Croft. There was a mixture of hard rock and soft rock at that time. I guess it just depended on which station you were listening to. But the song Summer Breeze was one of my favorites. Because I grew up on a lake just outside of Boston, and the Summer Breeze was just a wonderful thing coming off the water. Whenever I hear the song today it always reminds me of my childhood home. Your in depth information about each artist that you feature it's just amazing. At this point after listening to you for the last few years, I really have to put you up there with Casey Kasem or Ryan Seacrest. Each one of your videos are a glimpse back into my youth. And I love music as much as you do and being reminded of all the vinyl records that I used to listen to as a teenager it's just a sweet and wonderful memory that you always bring back. I wish today the formats were different. So that you could highlight your own show in the mainstream. American Bandstand with Dick Clark. Soul Train with Don Cornelius. Burnt Sugarman's The midnight Special. The show Solid Gold. These are all the shows I grew up with and the different DJs or announcers that hosted them. Something's definitely missing in today's music world where these variety shows where a mainstay of American music. And highlighted all of the different up and coming popular artists of the day. Or a British music show Jools Holland Hootenanny or Later With Jools Holland. How about, The Professor of Rock Music Hour? You are deserving of being held in the companies of these wonderful shows. You just do a fantastic job of bring the history, the artistry, and the live interviews with these wonderful artists back to life for all of us music lovers. Thank you so much for what you do. You just bring back such good memories of the music that made me so happy when I was younger. And it makes me revisit all of the music that I used to listen to. And it makes me feel young again watching your show. Keep up the good work because you're doing what you love. And all your effort is shining through your show. Thank you again!
Nothing takes me back to my childhood like Summer Breeze. I was listening to a greatest hits CD of theirs yesterday. Wonderful stuff, laidback but not spineless.
This is one of those songs that always carries me away. It really does put you in that mood every time.
I was today years old when I learned England Dan and Jim Seals were brothers! I loved both of them for their easy listening style of music! Thank you Professor of Rock for this episode and teaching me something new!
I actually knew that back in the late 1970's. I also remember Dan going solo and switching over to country and his given name.
Me too! I remember the teacher of the year at my school, a science teacher, and I sang “I’d Really Love to See You Tonight” in her classroom. Now I know how these two are connected! Thanks, Adam!
A magical song that captures a moment in time.
"Although you can go home again Summers Breeze gets you mighty close"
Well said professor. Nothing takes me back to the summers past like this song. Weird thing is me and the girl I'm seeing share songs we are listening to in the morning and this is the song I sent her an hour before this episode. Rest in Peace Jim Seals and thank you for your music. Great episode professor!
Thanks My Name always love seeing your comments!
So Adam proved you psychic! Yeah, this song really does take me back to a few years ago when my mom took me to various places to eat. She would play me this song and the Isley Brothers cover. Good times, man.
can't... Summer.
Summer Breeze was one of the great. hits of the 70's. The Toys R Us toy piano filled the sound out to make it richer. I'm hearing a sound that is enriched by the toy piano and lyrics that were very intelligent and metaphysical. What makes it standout is the gentle vocals that capture the calming moment of the record.
It’s super cool that they used a toy piano on this record!
i absolutely ADORE this song!! and i never ever ever tire of it. whenever i need to take myself to a welcoming, warm place, this song transports me there 😊❤
thanks, prof!
I was just starting my adult work life as a carpenter in '72, and much of the '70s, the "Me Decade," seemed so superficial and artificial, with bell-bottom pants, sideburns, plasticky music (with notable exceptions), and a self-absorbed "yacht-rock" culture.
Summer Breeze offered something magical on a hot afternoon making my way thru traffic on the way home from a sweaty, exhausting day at work in LA. The imagery Jim Seals gave us is so welcoming and comforting, everything a working person dreams of that makes all the sacrifice worthwhile. Home. Rest. Peace. Love. It's all there.
Thank you for covering Seal and Crofts. With Jim Seals passing over this is very Emotional for me. I did get to meet them after a show back in 1978 at the U IN SALT LAKE CITY
Summer Breeze makes me feel fine blowing through the Jasmine in my mind
Same!
Your channel reminds me of how lucky we were as a generation to have such great music. We really needed it, as the Vietnam war, racism, and Nixon were enough to make you light up and never want to come down. The song Get Together by the Youngbloods was my anthem.
Absolutely one powerful 1970s ballad about life, a beautiful song that everytime it plays, it brings me back to a wonderful time in my life.
RIP Jim Seals, you will be missed.
Your videos are the absolute best. I lived through most of these times and never knew 1/10 of what I’ve learned watching you
Thank you for the visual painting of listening to Summer Breeze at your family get togethers. I felt like I was there! Awesome!!!
Hey man. Just found your channel a couple of days ago and have been binge watching it. Love all the nostalgia and the memories from the late 70's and 80's music. Love your style too. It's obvious how much you love not just the music but also the musicians and artists that make the music. It's infectious. Thanks brother. Keep rockin!!
I'm not crying tears of nostalgia, you're crying tears of nostalgia!
I’ll admit it. I’m crying.
I was a new RN. I had a seasoned MD as a patient. I was petrified. He was listening to this song when I was in his room. He did not catch the word “jasmine”. After I told him what the word was, the song suddenly made sense to him and he could enjoy the peaceful mind pictures evoked by the lyrics. We were forever connected after that as the hospital was not large.I’m retired now, living in Belize. I have a jasmine plant at the corner of my cottage, its fragrance can bring the sweet memories with every “summer breeze”.
@@maryarnold1426 that's beautiful.
@@ThatSceneKittyCatFemboy thank you
Adam, great episode! Seals&Crofts provided the soundtrack of summertime in the early 70’s! We’ll never pass that way again, except for great memories! Thanks for sharing!💫
Now I want to go back to the times when my mother was a toddler!
Thank you for covering "Summer Breeze" by Seals and Crofts. This has always been one of my favorite songs. As a child of the 70s, I have always loved their music... I love it even more now. When I heard of Jim Seal's passing, I was so sad and played several Seals and Crofts' songs for my classic rock loving 17-year-old son. He was not familiar with them. Maybe he will remember that someday.... just like I remember listening to their music with my mom who passed in 2016. Passing down a tradition of loving great musical artists.
More young people need to discover Seals & Crofts’ nostalgic music!
Seals and Crofts such an awesome group. Summer Breeze , We May Never Pass This Way Again and Diamond Girl are my favorites.
POR, you are a poet, a wordsmith for the ages! I tune in just to hear you paint a picture with your words. Your tribute to Jim Seals, Benny Mardonis, your father, just leaves me in reverent silence.
The incredible stories these musicians used to tell, is what made the music back then sooooo incredible.
I love Seals And Crofts, and this is my absolute favorite by them!
Me too!
Listen up Adam- I THOUGHT I loved music until I found you! I THOUGHT I knew a lot about music until I found you! You amaze & impress me almost every day!