Who Did It Better

Seals and Crofts OR The Isley Brothers?

Seals and Crofts 1972

Summer Breeze

Written by Dash Crofts, Jimmy Seals

Summer breeze makes me feel fine
Blowin' through the jasmine in my mind

What's this song about ↓

"Summer breeze makes me feel fine, blowin' through the jasmine in my mind" -- Seals and Crofts wrote a soft-rock meditation on domestic contentment, a man coming home on a Friday night to someone who has food waiting and arms open. The lyric catalogs small pleasures: curtains in the window, light shining through, a little music from the house next door. The song has no argument, no conflict, no dramatic turn. It is the radical act of describing happiness without apologizing for it. "When I come home from a hard day's work and you're waiting there, not a care in the world" -- the whole thesis in one couplet. Work ends. Home begins. That is the cycle the song honors.

The Isley Brothers The Isley Brothers 1973

Variation A — side column

1972
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Variation B — left & right edges

1972

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Variation C — filled color-coded buttons

1972
The Isley Brothers 1973

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Who Did It Better

Seals and Crofts OR The Isley Brothers?

Seals and Crofts 1972
The Isley Brothers The Isley Brothers 1973

Summer Breeze

Written by Dash Crofts, Jimmy Seals

Summer breeze makes me feel fine
Blowin' through the jasmine in my mind

What's this song about ↓

"Summer breeze makes me feel fine, blowin' through the jasmine in my mind" -- Seals and Crofts wrote a soft-rock meditation on domestic contentment, a man coming home on a Friday night to someone who has food waiting and arms open. The lyric catalogs small pleasures: curtains in the window, light shining through, a little music from the house next door. The song has no argument, no conflict, no dramatic turn. It is the radical act of describing happiness without apologizing for it. "When I come home from a hard day's work and you're waiting there, not a care in the world" -- the whole thesis in one couplet. Work ends. Home begins. That is the cycle the song honors.

Variation A — side column

1972
The Isley Brothers 1973

I already know

Play me a sample

Seals and Crofts The Isley Brothers

I need to be convinced

Variation B — left & right edges

1972

I already know

Play me a sample

Seals and Crofts The Isley Brothers

I need to be convinced

The Isley Brothers 1973

Variation C — filled color-coded buttons

1972
The Isley Brothers 1973

I already know

Play me a sample

Seals and Crofts The Isley Brothers

I need to be convinced

The Sunday Drop
One song. One story. Every Sunday.

No algorithms. No trending sections. Just a song someone loved and the story behind it. Delivered Sunday morning.

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