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''Takin' It Easy'' is the ninth studio album by
Seals and Crofts Seals and Crofts was an American soft rock duo made up of James Eugene Seals (October 17, 1942 – June 6, 2022) and Darrell George "Dash" Crofts (born August 14, 1938) They are best known for their hits " Summer Breeze" (1972), " Diamond Girl" ...
, released in 1978 by
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. It was their last album to contain any charting singles. " You're the Love" reached #18 in early 1978 and #8 in Canada. The title track reached #79 later the same year and #13 on the Canadian AC charts. The title track has a more rock-oriented approach than was the band's usual fare, and was essentially a James Seals solo track, with Dash Crofts making no contribution to either writing or performing it. Seals in turn was absent from the album's second track, "One More Time". The album in general relied more heavily on outside musicians and songwriters than Seals and Crofts's previous albums, with the duo writing barely half the songs themselves and only occasionally performing anything other than lead vocals. The cover photograph was taken at the historic
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in Louisiana.


Track listing

#"Takin' It Easy" (Sean MacLeod, Bob Phillips) #"One More Time" (Lewis Anderson) #"Midnight Blue" ( Jim Seals,
Dash Crofts Seals and Crofts was an American soft rock duo made up of James Eugene Seals (October 17, 1942 – June 6, 2022) and Darrell George "Dash" Crofts (born August 14, 1938) They are best known for their hits " Summer Breeze" (1972), " Diamond Girl" ...
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#" You're the Love" (
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Louie Shelton William Louis Shelton (born April 6, 1941) is an American guitarist and music producer. Biography During the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s Shelton was a session musician working in recording studios around Hollywood. Among his more notable session wo ...
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#"Sunrise" (Grant Gullickson, Brian Whitcomb) #"Breaking in a Brand New Love" (Seals, Crofts) #"Magnolia Moon" (Seals, Crofts) #"Nobody Gets Over Lovin' You" (Seals, Crofts) #"Forever Like the Rose" (Seals, Crofts) #"A Tribute to
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" (Seals, Crofts)


Personnel

* James Seals – lead vocals (except on "One More Time"), acoustic guitar (on "Midnight Blue", "Breaking in a Brand New Love", "Forever Like the Rose", and "A Tribute to ʻAbdu'l-Bahá"), tenor sax on "Sunrise" * Dash Crofts – lead vocals (except on "Takin' It Easy" and "Midnight Blue"), mandolin *
Louie Shelton William Louis Shelton (born April 6, 1941) is an American guitarist and music producer. Biography During the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s Shelton was a session musician working in recording studios around Hollywood. Among his more notable session wo ...
– production, guitars (except on "A Tribute to ʻAbdu'l-Bahá"), arrangements, art concept *
Tony Peluso Anthony F. Peluso (March 28, 1950 – June 5, 2010) was an American guitarist and record producer. He was lead guitarist for pop duo Carpenters from 1972 to 1983. Peluso played the fuzz guitar solo on the Carpenters' song " Goodbye to Love". He a ...
– guitars on "Takin' It Easy" and "Sunrise", Buchla synthesizer on "Sunrise", backing vocals on "Takin' It Easy" and "One More Time", arrangements (for "Takin' It Easy", "One More Time", and "Sunrise") * Marty Walsh – guitars on "Takin' It Easy" and "Forever Like the Rose" * Larry Rolando – guitars (on "One More Time", "Midnight Blue", "You're the Love", "Breaking in a Brand New Love", and "Nobody Gets Over Lovin' You") * Dan Fergueson –
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on "Midnight Blue" * Dennis Belfield – bass (except on "Takin' It Easy", "Midnight Blue", and "Forever Like the Rose") * Dominic Genova – bass on "Takin' It Easy" and "Forever Like the Rose" * David Parlota – bass on "Midnight Blue" * Steven Olitzky – piano (on "Takin' It Easy", "One More Time", "You're the Love", "Nobody Gets Over Lovin' You", and "Forever Like the Rose") * Tom Hensley – piano (on "One More Time", "You're the Love", "Breaking in a Brand New Love", "Magnolia Moon", and "Nobody Gets Over Loving You") * Brian Whitcomb - piano on "Sunrise" and "Breaking in a Brand New Love" *
David Foster David Walter Foster (born November 1, 1949) is a Canadian musician, composer, arranger, record producer and music executive who chaired Verve Records from 2012 to 2016. He has won 16 Grammy Awards from 47 nominations. His music career spans mor ...
– piano on "Midnight Blue" * Danny Deardroff - harmonica on "Midnight Blue" * Ralph Humphrey - drums (on "Takin' It Easy", "One More Time", "You're the Love", "Magnolia Moon", and "Nobody Gets Over Lovin' You") * Ron Krasinski - drums (on "Takin' It Easy", "You're the Love", "Nobody Gets Over Lovin' You", and "Forever Like the Rose") * James Divisek – drums and Buchla programming on "Sunrise" and "Breaking in a Brand New Love" *
Jim Keltner James Lee Keltner (born April 27, 1942) is an American drummer and percussionist known primarily for his session work. He was characterized by Bob Dylan biographer Howard Sounes as "the leading session drummer in America".Howard Sounes. ''Down ...
– drums on "Midnight Blue" * Bob Zimmitti -
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on "Midnight Blue" * Shaun Furlong – strings programming on "Sunrise" *
Don Menza Don Menza (born April 22, 1936) is an American jazz saxophonist. Career Menza was born in Buffalo, New York. After serving in the U.S. Army, he was part of the Maynard Ferguson Orchestra from 1960 to 1962 and then briefly worked for Stan Kenton ...
– tenor sax on "Magnolia Moon" * Alan Estes – vibraphone on "Nobody Gets Over Lovin' You" *
Manoochehr Sadeghi Manoochehr Sadeghi (born April 13, 1938) is a Persian-American naturalized citizen, born in Tehran, Iran. He is considered a Grandmaster or Ostad of the santur, a Persian hammered dulcimer. He has been lecturing, teaching, recording and ...
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and Persian chanting on "A Tribute to ʻAbdu'l-Bahá" * Sean MacLeod and Bob Phillips - backing vocals on "Takin' It Easy" *
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Sherlie Matthews Sherlie Matthews (born November 10, 1934) is an American singer, songwriter and former Motown Records producer, best known as a backing vocalist for pop, R&B and rock groups from the mid-1960s to the present time. Early life Matthews started ...
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Jim Gilstrap James Earl Gilstrap (born November 10, 1946)''U.S. Public Records Index'' Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010. is an American singer, considered one of the most prolific session musicians in the industry. He is best known fo ...
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Venetta Fields Venetta Lee Fields (born 1941) is an American-born singer, musical theater actress and vocal coach. She was a backing vocalist for American and British rock and pop acts of the 1960s and 1970s, including Ike & Tina Turner, Pink Floyd, Humble Pie, ...
– backing vocals on "Nobody Gets Over Lovin' You" * Gary Sims - arrangement and backing vocals on "One More Time" * Doug Strawn - arrangement and backing vocals on "One More Time" *
Gene Page Eugene Edgar Page Jr. (September 13, 1939 – August 24, 1998) was an American conductor, composer, arranger and record producer, most active from the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s. His sound can be heard in the arrangements he did for Jeffer ...
– string arrangement for "You're the Love" *
Lee Holdridge Lee Elwood Holdridge (born March 3, 1944) is a Haitian-born American composer, conductor, and orchestrator. A 18-time Emmy Award nominee, he has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Daytime Emmy Awards, two News & Documentary Emmy Awards, and one ...
– string arrangement for "Forever Like the Rose"


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