Seals and Crofts (1972) Hummingbird

A gentle folk song that almost erupts into a soft rock ballad before traversing into a disco sound this showed experimental song Simon and Garfunkel would kill for. Seals and Crofts harmonies still ring in your ear and the flaxen sunshine arrangements of horns and folky duo setup works with the quirky, slightly countrified songwriting. The Andalusian guitar work brings out the springtime feel of their tunes and is reminiscent of that of El Condor Pasa by that other famous folk duo but the funky back beat combined with strong rock instrumentation, stabbing cellos showed that the 70s folk sound was the direct antecedent of Soft Rock ultimately creating a bigger sound mixing sweeping strings with electric guitars; a combo made more prominent in the latent Disco sound.