Gap.Com skirts ad featuring remix of....well...."Summer Breeze" by Seals & Croft

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Anyone know it? Signature tune by mawkish, hirsute 70's soft-rock duo with brand new beatz.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 21 May 2004 05:18 (twenty-two years ago)

is that a remix? thought it was just a shit cover.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Friday, 21 May 2004 05:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Nah, it's not a cover. That's definetely the mustachioed two croonin'.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 21 May 2004 05:24 (twenty-two years ago)

They had jasmine in their minds!!!

― Tim Ellison, Friday, 21 May 2004 05:29 (twenty-two years ago)

i kind of like it. i liked the original anyways, my dad is a big fan of seals and crofts. plus its the theme song to my favorite beer - Wachusett Summer Breeze.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Friday, 21 May 2004 10:11 (twenty-two years ago)

from the seals and crofts website:

ABOUT THAT GAP AD. . . We've had a number of inquiries about the recent Gap ad that featured "Summer Breeze." It has appeared on "American Idol," "Friends," and other prime time shows. It is in fact the original version of the song, edited and remixed with new percussion. It is not the new version of the song which will appear on "Traces."

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Friday, 21 May 2004 10:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh and what the hell here is the ad. I like the model.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Friday, 21 May 2004 10:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Type O Negative covered this. And behold, it was good.

― NUXX (NUXX), Friday, 21 May 2004 10:31 (twenty-two years ago)

all of those new Gap ads look like tampon ads. "Summer Breeze" helps not at all

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Friday, 21 May 2004 11:05 (twenty-two years ago)

the girls in this ad could be eating a tampon and i'd still dig it.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Friday, 21 May 2004 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone else on this bitch was going on about how that commercial hypnotized him...can't remember who.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 21 May 2004 11:10 (twenty-two years ago)

its hypnotizing me, its like she's stripping for me. ugh, i need a life.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Friday, 21 May 2004 11:14 (twenty-two years ago)

the ISLEY BROTHERS version is fucking awesome, dudes.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 21 May 2004 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the Isleys one and the original, too. It's jazzay & hypno, herb-scented sufi-pop. And that model is hotness.

― briania (briania), Friday, 21 May 2004 13:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow....Seals & Crofts have a website???

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 21 May 2004 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

haha, that type 0 negative cover is pretty ill-advised... i think it was featured in the opening of "I Know What You Did Last Summer".

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

yup. www.sealsandcrofts.com

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

oh man, her belly button and hips get me everytime.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

the funbags aren't too bad either.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

how many people know that seals and crofts were in the band the Champs and had a hit with "Tequila"?

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Which one wrote Thor is Like Immortal?

― briania (briania), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Are they using an uptempo remix of "Unborn Child" with sped-up voices on Canadian TV ads for Plan B? Has anyone else seen this?

― im a negative creep & im stoned, Friday, 21 May 2004 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I was the one who was hypnotized by this. Just the skirt one, not the tank one. It's the twirling. Also, the song is in my head all day every day.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 21 May 2004 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I always misheard "jasmine" as "fooflah".

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 21 May 2004 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Seals & Ashcroft

― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 21 May 2004 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Ashcroft? "Unborn Child"? Ah, it's all coming full circle now!

― briania (briania), Friday, 21 May 2004 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

> I like the model.

If I'm not mistaken, that's Bridget Hall.
By her freckles you will know her ...

http://bhall.kmmod.com/fashion/original/bhfashion104.jpg

― bleuaswell, Friday, 21 May 2004 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Jimmy Seals' "The Yesterday Of Your Love" on the "Northern Soul's Classiest Rarities" set is a real winner, too.

― briania (briania), Friday, 21 May 2004 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

how many people know that seals and crofts were in the band the Champs and had a hit with "Tequila"?

How many think the Champs were better than Seals and Croft?

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 21 May 2004 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Cause I do.

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 21 May 2004 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, what did the Champs ever do for the cause of the innocent unborn?

― briania (briania), Friday, 21 May 2004 19:23 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

which is the wfmu dj who seems (seemed?) to be singlehandedly trying to lead a seal & crofts revival? not with much success, sadly.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 2 July 2004 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Jimmy's brother was Dan Seals who had the mid-eighties country hit, "Bop". If you ever wanted to know what rednecks roller-skated to in 1985, search this one.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 2 July 2004 01:18 (twenty-one years ago)

ten months pass...

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

eleven months pass...

"Summer Breeze" sounds great. So does "We May Never Pass This Way Again."

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 27 April 2006 23:29 (twenty years ago)

Old Navy has been cannibalizing some really painful tunes lately. Like "The Clapping Song." I can't remember what their new campaign features (it's the ad with all the people in earth tones twirling about on the roof of an apartment building) but I remember it hurting.

― Eppy (Eppy), Friday, 28 April 2006 01:31 (twenty years ago)

Great song.

One of my favorite all time band rehearsal moments was when our steel player was insisting that the "Jasmine in my mind" part is about Bahai, and the bass player was saying no, it was about "being high." (the former is apparently right)

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Friday, 28 April 2006 03:05 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

found a Nautilus halfspeed master of Summer Breeze in the goodwill for a dollar, listening to it now it reminds me of all kindsa good early 70's acts like CSNY, later Byrds, etc. Interesting that they were Bahai and wrote soem explicitly spiritual songs.

― sleeve, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 06:00 (eighteen years ago)

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