The Longest Road

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The Longest Road
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Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 1980
Genre Soft rock
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Louie Shelton
Seals and Crofts chronology
Takin' It Easy
(1978)
The Longest Road
(1980)
Traces
(2004)

The Longest Road is the tenth studio album by Seals and Crofts, released in July 1980 by Warner Bros. Records. It was the final album the group released before being dropped by the label, and was their last studio album until 2004's Traces . It is also the only Seals and Crofts album with no writing credits for co-founder Dash Crofts. Jim Seals instead wrote most of the songs with pianist Brian Whitcomb. Other guest musicians on the album include Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke of Return to Forever on the jazz fusion opening number "Stars" and Michael Sembello on "If and Any Day".

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Jim Seals and Brian Whitcomb, except where noted

  1. "Stars"
  2. "Try Your Love"
  3. "First Love" (Seals, Eddie Brown)
  4. "If and Any Day" (Michael Sembello, Marietta Waters)
  5. "Kite Dreams" (Seals, Louie Shelton, Whitcomb)
  6. "Egypt, Israel & America" (Seals)
  7. "The Longest Road"
  8. "I Keep Changing the Faces"
  9. "Silver Rails"
  10. "One Planet, One People, Please" (Seals)

Personnel

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