Takin' It Easy

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Takin' It Easy
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Studio album by
ReleasedApril 1978
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Louie Shelton
Seals and Crofts chronology
One on One
(1977)
Takin' It Easy
(1978)
The Longest Road
(1980)
Singles from Takin' It Easy
  1. "You're the Love"
    Released: April 1978
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Takin' It Easy is the ninth studio album by Seals and Crofts, released in 1978 by Warner Bros. Records. [2] 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. [3]

Contents

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 Oak Alley Plantation in Louisiana.

Track listing

  1. "Takin' It Easy" (Sean MacLeod, Bob Phillips)
  2. "One More Time" (Lewis Anderson) [lower-alpha 1]
  3. "Midnight Blue" (Jim Seals, Dash Crofts)
  4. "You're the Love" (David Batteau, Louie Shelton)
  5. "Sunrise" (Grant Gullickson, Brian Whitcomb)
  6. "Breaking in a Brand New Love" (Seals, Crofts)
  7. "Magnolia Moon" (Seals, Crofts)
  8. "Nobody Gets Over Lovin' You" (Seals, Crofts)
  9. "Forever Like the Rose" (Seals, Crofts)
  10. "A Tribute to ʻAbdu'l-Bahá" (Seals, Crofts) [lower-alpha 2]

Personnel

Charts

Chart (1978)Peak
position
Canada [4] 45
US (Billboard 200)78

Notes

  1. Anderson is the sole author of "One More Time" for copyright purposes, but the album notes credit Louie Shelton and Gary Sims for writing the intro section of the song.
  2. The lyrics to the introductory chant are a poem by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá.

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References

  1. "Takin' It Easy Seals & Crofts". AllMusic. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
  2. "Seals & Crofts Biography by Stephen Thomas Erlewine". AllMusic. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
  3. "RPM Top 50 AC - October 14, 1978" (PDF).
  4. "RPM Top 100 Albums - July 29, 1978" (PDF).