Seals & Crofts Special | Good Night America (Jul 18th, 1974)

LIVE performance Seals and Crofts of 'Summer Breeze' and 'Ruby Jean and Billy Lee' on TV in ABC's Good Night America.

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When the music industry and listeners became enamored with sensitive singer-songwriters in the early 1970s, few would become more successful than Texans Jimmy Seals and Dash Crofts, better known as the soft-rock duo, Seals & Crofts.
By the time of their first album in 1969, Seals and Crofts were experienced singers and multi-instrumentalists, having worked together since 1957, when they were still in junior high school.
Their album, "Summer Breeze" would produce two big hits; for the next several years, the duo would experience monstrous success with a string of hit singles and albums. With Seals on guitar, saxophone and violin, and Crofts on guitar and mandolin, the duo created an extremely original sound. To quote from an early interview with Jimmy Seals, "We worked out counterparts on the mandolin and guitar, and also on the vocals, and then we tried to work it out sometimes where we would sing two parts, and play the other two harmony parts on the instruments."

This approach to singing and instrumentation would be a key to their success, but what made them quite different from the early 1970s pantheon of singer-songwriters was their deep religious faith, which dominated their songwriting.
Their radiant harmonies and always positive lyrics were a direct reflection of their commitment to the Baha'i religion, which began in Persia, based on the teachings of the prophet Baha'u'llah, who died in 1892. Throughout their career, Seals and Crofts never wavered in their commitment to advance the Baha'i faith through their music.
Although they stopped short of directly proselytizing on-stage, at the peak of their popularity, they held post-show "firesides," where they would return to the stage and chat with anyone who cared to hear more about it.

The basic tenets of the Baha'i faith are love, tolerance and equality, with an emphasis on worldwide unity, which for obvious reasons was appealing and fueled much of Seals' lyric writing.

Good Night America was a late-night-tv magazine that was hosted (and executive produced) by Geraldo Rivera.
It began its semi-regular airing from April 1974 to June 1977 as part of the ABC's Wide World of Entertainment program block.
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