Seals & Crofts | Greatest Hits (1975) [FULL ALBUM]

Music Review: Seals and Croft: Greatest Hits (1975)

This album is a compendium, so the music is not new to the album.  However it includes hits from their nine previous albums.  This album peaked at number 11 on the billboard charts.  It included their first big hit was "Summer Breeze."  The story telling in the song is excellent.  Some of their songs include references to the Baha'i faith.  This includes "Diamond Girl."  I personally love "King of Nothing" and "Ruby Jean" (a tribute to their spouses.)  "Diamond Girl" is also one of their most popular and sounds great.  This set also includes "I'll Play for You" and "We May Never Pass this Way Again."  The only song that was originally done is "When I Meet them" which had been previously recorded, but a different version.

Seals & Crofts - Full Concert - 11/02/72 - Hofstra University (OFFICIAL)

Even though this says full concert, it is only three songs, "Summer Breeze," "Humming Bird" and an instrumental country stomping song with Jim Seals on violin.  Even though short, these songs are plenty of fun.

"The Longest Road" by: SEALS & CROFTS

This is the last album of the run of successes Seals and Croft put together.  It came out in 1980.  This music did not do well in the charts, but it does represent the Seals and Croft style of music, with a bit more jazzy feel to some of the songs.  Dash Crofts plays his mandolin and James Seals wrote most of the music and plays guitar.  This is a play list which includes six of the ten songs from the album.  The song One Planet, One People Please really brings out the nostalgic Seals and Croft.

Music Review: Seals and Croft: Down Home (1970)

This is the second album produced by Seals and Croft and all the songs were written by Jim Seals or Dash Croft.  This album continues to present the unique flavor of this musical duet group.  The mandolin gives and the voices of the singers give Seals and Croft their own unique flavor.  I have always enjoyed listening to them. 
This album had no stand out hits.  "Hand-me-down Shoe" has a very catchy tune and beat.  "Robin" is a song about a bird which precedes their later hit "Humming Bird."  There is a very nice piano part in "Gabriel Go on Home."  Today is probably my favorite of the songs on this album.  This album has a duet part that is so well mixed listening to it is very enjoyable.  The lyrics for this song are very poetic:

Today went so softly
Just faded away
Like the rain in the springtime
On that day, I met you, I met you, when I met you

Today went so quietly
I turned and it was gone
Like you, like me, it was lonely
It went on, it went on, it went on, it went on

Then a beautiful thing happened
And we were one
And all the world was
A beautiful face to be lost in

Today went so quickly, just a moment in time
Like the hours in springtime
When you were mine, you were mine
You were mine, you were mine

Then a beautiful thing happened
And we were one
And all the world was
A beautiful face to be lost in
Today, today

This album has a bit for everyone.  They sing country.  They even sing to a poisonous snake in "Cotton Mouth".