Seals & Crofts - Seals & Crofts - Greatest Hits
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Free Music Notes for Seals & Crofts - Greatest Hits
Free Music Review: A Decent But Lacking Collection From Seals & Crofts!
Hit: 4 Stars
I bought this album back in the mid-seventies when it was first released. It did contain most of the essential Seals & Crofts hits such as "Summer Breeze", "East Of Ginger Trees", "Hummingbird", "Diamond Girl" and "We May Never (Pass This Way Again)", etc., but Warner Brothers Records badly needs to release a more complete and remastered collection. As another reviewer mentioned the hit "Get Closer" is missing on this collection because it came out later. For a duo as popular as Seals & Crofts were in the seventies, the label should have remastered and released the cd's "Diamond Girl" and "Summer Breeze" (the one still in print has not been remastered) as well as a more complete hits collection! If Warner Brothers (Rhino) can release Jim Croce, America and Gordon Lightfoot remastered collections than they should do the same for Seals & Crofts.Free Music Review: When will this be remastered?
Hit: 4 Stars
Of the five albums the tracks on this disc were taken from, only one, "Summer Breeze" is still in print. That's too bad because even though this album is very worthy of its title, it's only a small sample of what this duo have accomplished as singer/songwriters. Of course their two most recognizeable hits "Summer Breeze" and "Diamond Girl" are here along with the Top 40 hits "Hummingbird", "We May Never Pass This Way (Again)" and "I'll Play For You"."Castles In The Sand" was also a minor hit. The track "Ruby Jean and Billie Lee" was written for their respective wives. They also had a controversial hit called "Unborn Child" which isn't here but "King Of Nothing" from the same album is. The other tracks "When I Meet Them" and "East Of Ginger Trees" are album cuts. "Get Closer" was a hit after this collection.I've had the cassette of this album for over ten years and just recently purchased the CD version but I can only imagine how much better this would sound if Warner Bros. or Rhino would step in and remaster this along with the rest of their catalog. It's been done with other artists already and for this duo it's high time.
Free Music Review: Great Treasure!!
Hit: 5 Stars
"We May Never Pass This Way Again" and "Summer Breeze"are the best tracks. This whole CD is pure gold!
Too bad their songs are not still popular, perhaps they are not because of their religious politics, i.e. joining the Bahai Faith. Would love to see more recordings from this great duo hit the big time again.
Free Music Review: Torn Between 4 and 5 Stars
Hit: 4 Stars
This CD is a reissue of the original 1975 vinyl album. Therein lies the problem. Seals and Crofts crafted excellent lyrics and music in superb style that showed in song after song. Their catalog of "best of" or "greatest" is larger than the 10 songs from the 1975 collection, including at least 3 top 40 songs released after this compilation. Even thought there are numerous 70s artists that have various definitive collections, Jim Seals and Dash Crofts seem to have been overlooked.The songs on this collection are a good representation of Seals and Crofts up to 1975, though there are several other good songs from this era that could be included on a new collection. Until a nearly full CD collection appears with closer to 80 minutes of music, this 40 minute collection is the closest you can achieve to an overview of Seals and Crofts. For artists underrepresented by their compilations I usually recommend the individual CDs. Unfortunately most of Seals and Crofts' albums are not readily available.
Seals and Crofts were a very good team, and crafted well-written, beautiful music. The music on this collection gets 5 stars. Given we are in the CD era, the lack of a more comprehensive collection gets 2 stars, but I'll keep the rating for the CD at 4 stars because Seals and Crofts should not be penalized for the inadequacy of the only available Seals and Crofts collection.
Free Music Review: Should have been more inside!
Hit: 2 Stars
Now don't get me wrong, Seals & Crofts are great song writers and musician but the record company fell asleep on this one. There are so many tunes not on here that truely should be, this is what happenes when record companies get greedy and some cat in a suit who does not know the music makes the decision to put out a greatest hits Cd. Jim and Dash are great guys and I know first hand, I grew up jamming with them at San Fernando park in the San Fernando Valley. A certain song is truely missing here "Cause You Love", no I wont tell you what album its from you need to look it up and buy that album or Cd. Too bad that some record companies do this kind of thing?