Who Did It Better

Seals and Crofts OR The Main Ingredient?

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" -- the song opens on a feeling so simple it barely qualifies as a thought. A warm breeze, jasmine in bloom, a Friday night with the curtains hanging in the window. Seals and Crofts wrote a song about the relief of arriving home to someone who is already there, who has food waiting, who smiles when you walk through the door. The song has no conflict. No tension. No third-act breakup. It is a description of contentment so complete that the absence of drama becomes the drama. "Sweet days of summer, the jasmine's in bloom, July is dressed up and playing a tune" -- the lyric inventories pleasure the way a grateful person inventories a room, counting what is good instead of what is missing.

The Main Ingredient The Main Ingredient 1974

Variation A — side column

1972
The Main Ingredient 1974

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Seals and Crofts The Main Ingredient

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Variation B — left & right edges

1972

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Seals and Crofts The Main Ingredient

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The Main Ingredient 1974

Variation C — filled color-coded buttons

1972
The Main Ingredient 1974

I already know

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Seals and Crofts The Main Ingredient

I need to be convinced

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Who Did It Better

Seals and Crofts OR The Main Ingredient?

Seals and Crofts 1972
The Main Ingredient The Main Ingredient 1974

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" -- the song opens on a feeling so simple it barely qualifies as a thought. A warm breeze, jasmine in bloom, a Friday night with the curtains hanging in the window. Seals and Crofts wrote a song about the relief of arriving home to someone who is already there, who has food waiting, who smiles when you walk through the door. The song has no conflict. No tension. No third-act breakup. It is a description of contentment so complete that the absence of drama becomes the drama. "Sweet days of summer, the jasmine's in bloom, July is dressed up and playing a tune" -- the lyric inventories pleasure the way a grateful person inventories a room, counting what is good instead of what is missing.

Variation A — side column

1972
The Main Ingredient 1974

I already know

Play me a sample

Seals and Crofts The Main Ingredient

I need to be convinced

Variation B — left & right edges

1972

I already know

Play me a sample

Seals and Crofts The Main Ingredient

I need to be convinced

The Main Ingredient 1974

Variation C — filled color-coded buttons

1972
The Main Ingredient 1974

I already know

Play me a sample

Seals and Crofts The Main Ingredient

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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