When the music industry and listeners became enamored with sensitive singer-songwriters in the early 1970s, few would become more successful than Texans Jimmy Seals and Dash Crofts, better known as the soft-rock duo, Seals & Crofts.

Presented here is Seals & Crofts at their absolute peak, performing before an enthusiastic audience a few months prior to the release of the Unborn Child album.
The concert put them alongside '70s acts such as Deep Purple; Black Sabbath; Eagles; Emerson, Lake & Palmer; Earth, Wind & Fire; Black Oak Arkansas; and Rare Earth.
The California Jam attracted 250,000 paying music fans.
The festival set what were then records for the loudest amplification system ever installed and the highest paid attendance (Although more people attended the festival at Woodstock in New York, only a few thousand had purchased tickets). It was one of the last of the original wave of rock festivals, as well as one of the most well-executed, and presaged the era of media consolidation and the corporatization of the rock music industry.

The concert was not planned for release as a film or sound recording. However, the ABC television network (which was also a sponsor of the concert) broadcast several portions of the show as part of its 'In Concert' series several months later. The audio portion of the show was also broadcast in stereo on FM radio stations.
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By the time of their first album in 1969, Seals and Crofts were experienced singers and multi-instrumentalists, having worked together since 1957, when they were still in junior high school.
Their album, "Summer Breeze" would produce two big hits; for the next several years, the duo would experience monstrous success with a string of hit singles and albums. With Seals on guitar, saxophone and violin, and Crofts on guitar and mandolin, the duo created an extremely original sound. To quote from an early interview with Jimmy Seals, "We worked out counterparts on the mandolin and guitar, and also on the vocals, and then we tried to work it out sometimes where we would sing two parts, and play the other two harmony parts on the instruments."

This approach to singing and instrumentation would be a key to their success, but what made them quite different from the early 1970s pantheon of singer-songwriters was their deep religious faith, which dominated their songwriting.
Their radiant harmonies and always positive lyrics were a direct reflection of their commitment to the Baha'i religion, which began in Persia, based on the teachings of the prophet Baha'u'llah, who died in 1892. Throughout their career, Seals and Crofts never wavered in their commitment to advance the Baha'i faith through their music.
Although they stopped short of directly proselytizing on-stage, at the peak of their popularity, they held post-show "firesides," where they would return to the stage and chat with anyone who cared to hear more about it.