#seal and crofts

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[retropopcult]

"Summer Breeze" is a song by American soft rock duo Seals and Crofts and was the title track of their fourth studio album. It was released as the album's lead single in August 1972, reaching No. 6 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.

A remixed version of the song was featured in a commercial for the Gap in 2004 and the original version subsequently reappeared on Billboard's charts that summer, climbing as high as #8 on the Adult Contemporary chart. In 2013, it was ranked #13 in Rolling Stone magazine's "Best Summer Songs of All Time".

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[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

... morning music ...

[unholy-cvlt]

SUMMER BREEZE

Makes me feel fine

Blowing through the jasmine in my mind

Sweet days of summer

The jasmine is in bloom

July is dressed up and playing her tune

And I come home

From a hard day's work

And you are waiting there

Without a care in the world

[rainingmusic]

Type O Negative - Summer Breeze

[zimtrim]

Seals & Crofts - Jim Seals

[mythwoven]

Sweet days of summer, the jasmine's in bloom

July is dressed up and playin' her tune

[closertotheheart]

[myimaginaryradio]

Summer Breeze - Seals And Crofts

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[arinewman7]

Diamond Girl

Seals and Crofts

*

I could never find

Another one like you

Part of me is

Deep down inside you

[retropopcult]

People magazine

January 19, 1976

[akron-squirrel]

Summer Breeze but it's only every time they say "Summer breeze makes me feel fine"

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honeysuckle

Growing up in the US South, honeysuckle in the summer evenings was almost a cultural touchstone, something that invokes lazy slow afternoons and ice cubes clinking in glasses of sweet iced tea, screen doors slamming before the sound of bare children's feet across wood flooring and the always immortal creak of the porch swing. As a child I always found the smell cloying, an almost too sweet smell that crowding out every other scent until it was all invasive. I like my air sharp and clear, unclouded by perfume - which made Sunday mornings at church surrounded by hug effusive old women a challenge in and of itself. I could never seem to catch the taste of anything from the stalks of the flowers either and there were bugs in the vines that covered walls and grew like lion's mane across everything their tendrils could reach. As an adult I've learned to find a quiet pleasure in the hints of their perfume, brought to me through moving car windows and breezes from the neighbors yards and, now that I'm not a child, I sit still long enough to appreciate how many butterflies and humming birds the tenacious plants can lure in.

It's still a bear of a plant to try to keep contained and once its planted, its planted to stay because despite your best efforts, its not going anywhere.

Perhaps this is why, for centuries now, honeysuckle as been seen as a flower that represented devotion. With its strong vines and its ability to cling to and encase almost anything, honeysuckle holds fast to what it gives itself to. Both Chaucer and Shakespeare use 'woodbine' when they speak of steadfast love and affection. For friendship or for romance, honeysuckle says you're there to stay.

Placing honeysuckle under your pillow, or maybe even simply in the room with you, will let you dream of your true love. Though be careful! According to Victorian superstition, which forbade young ladies from bring honeysuckle into their bedrooms, those dreams may be a bit too saucy for delicate maidens. You might want to risk it though because bringing honeysuckle into your house can either herald in cheerfulness or money, and honestly, who couldn't use a bit more of both of those?

Honeysuckle is also supposed to ward off witches and evil spirits, so it was a popular plant around the doors and windows of homes. It was also, for a time, very popular in graveyards and so has picked up the connotation of nostalgia, either for a lost love or as many songs will remind you, a nostalgia for a childhood home and time that doesn't exist anymore.

“Opening the window, I sit at Taryn's desk and sip nettle tea, drinking in the sharp salt scent of the sea and the wild honeysuckle and the distant breeze through the trees. I take a deep breath, at home and homesick all at the same time.” ― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing