It also peaked at number 32 on the week ending Novemon New Zealand's Official Top 40 Singles chart. It peaked at number 56 on the week ending Augon the UK Singles Chart. Clair) album, and was released in the UK as a 45 on the CBS label (S CBS 1196) in January 1973.Įnglish singer Geoffrey Williams released his version in 1992 as a single. The Ray Conniff Singers recorded a version in 1973, which appeared on the I Can See Clearly Now (a.k.a. ‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. Ernie Isley: electric & acoustic guitar, percussion.It was sampled in the track " All in My Mind" by MC Hammer along with his newly formed rap group, Oakland Fight Club featuring Mistah F.A.B. It was featured in season 8, episode 18 of The Blacklist and also in a 2014 episode of Scandal. The Isley Brothers performed "Summer Breeze" on the music TV show Soul Train in 1974. Issued also on their 1973 album 3 + 3, it reached number sixty on the pop chart, number ten on the R&B chart, and number sixteen on the UK Singles Chart. The song was covered in a harder rock- soulful style by the Isley Brothers as a single in 1974. "The Isley Brothers - Summer Breeze, Pts. Dash Crofts: background vocals, electric guitar.Jim Seals: lead & background vocals, guitar, saxophone.Seals and Crofts performed the song live on the Bobby Darin Amusement Company variety show in 1972. appropriately ubiquitous on the radio and in the memory". Bruce Eder of AllMusic referred to it as "one of those relentlessly appealing 1970s harmony-rock anthems. 6 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the US that same year. Released nine days ahead of their 1972 Summer Breeze album, Seals and Crofts' original version reached No. The song also became a hit for the Isley Brothers in 1974. 13 in Rolling Stone′s "Best Summer Songs of All Time". 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the US. It is the title track of their fourth studio album, and was released as the album's lead single in August 1972. " Summer Breeze" is a song written and originally recorded by American soft rock duo Seals and Crofts. Even when introduced as "the theme of CSI." Experience perspectives, and time.Seals & Crofts - "Summer Breeze" (Official Audio) on YouTube For those with maps or in the LA area Mar Vista.īack to this song, both versions came out in 73' and my 23 year old sister came by the house, to let me hear the Isley Brother "new song." After playing the song, she said, "Didn't that song feel like summer." After agreeing with her, I pull out my 45 of Seals & Croft, played it for her, my sister said, "That was a much shorter summer" That is when a good lives on. I knew people that didn't know that, "Heat Wave" was not a Linda Ron staid original!īeing Afro-American, into music living in Los Angeles (near USC) and going to school (where 405& the 10 freeway meet) 18 miles west of home. Not so much today but, until about the late 70's, there could be two versions of songs, and radio would not let it be known, so some people would not find out, and yes, it was along rock/R&B lines. The best thing for me, is that the 14 me was proven correct. 3+3 as well as Summer Breeze are both great albums.Ī little light a-shinin' through the windowĬlick to expand.I think it as explain in earlier post, filter of experience and time, life can change a lot of our perspectives and/of our world. I don't see any racial issues in the lyrics. Jim Seals wife is African heritage and his children are bi-racial.
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