I'll Play for You

{{More citations needed|date=July 2011}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = I'll Play For You | type = album | artist = Seals and Crofts | cover = I%27llPlayForYou200.jpg | alt = | released = March 1975 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Soft rock | length = | label = Warner Bros. | producer = Louie Shelton | prev_title = Unborn Child | prev_year = 1974 | next_title = Get Closer | next_year = 1976 }}

'''''I'll Play For You''''' is Seals & Crofts' seventh studio album. The title cut reached #18 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and #4 on the Adult Contemporary charts in the summer of 1975. It was equally successful in Canada (Pop #28, AC #2).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.3999a.pdf| title=RPM Top 100 Singles - July 5, 1975}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.3972.pdf| title=RPM Top 100 Pop - June 7, 1975}}</ref> It also charted in New Zealand (#30).<ref>[https://aotearoamusiccharts.co.nz/archive/singles/1975-07-11 NZ Top 40 Singles, 14 July 1975]</ref> "Castles in the Sand" also charted in the U.S. and Canada, peaking at #21 U.S. AC, and #27 Can Pop.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.4056.pdf| title=RPM Top 50 Pop Playlist - December 27, 1975}}</ref>

== Track listing == All songs written by James Seals and Dash Crofts, except where noted.

# "I'll Play for You" # "Golden Rainbow" <small>(James Seals, Dash Crofts, Roger Johnson, Bobby Lichtig, Jim Varley)</small> # "Castles in the Sand" # "Blue Bonnet Nation" # "Ugly City" # "Wayland the Rabbit" # "Freaks Fret" # "Truth Is But a Woman" # "Fire and Vengeance"

==Charts== {| class="wikitable" !Chart (1975) !Peak<br> position |- |Australia (Kent Music Report)<ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=267}}</ref> | style="text-align:center;"|55 |- |Canada<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.3982a.pdf| title=RPM Top 100 Albums - June 21, 1975}}</ref> |align="center"|31 |- |US Top LPs & Tape (''Billboard'') |align="center"|30 |}

== Personnel == {{Div col|colwidth=30em}} ;Musicians * Jim Seals – vocals (except on "Golden Rainbow"), guitar, banjo * Dash Crofts – vocals (except on "Wayland the Rabbit"), acoustic and electric mandolins, mandola on "Castles in the Sand" * Louie Shelton – guitar, banjo * Ovid Stevens – slide guitar * Jack Lenz – keyboards (including ARP synthesizer on "Fire and Vengeance"), flute on "I'll Play for You" * David Paich – keyboards * Wilton Felder – bass (except on "I'll Play for You" and "Castles in the Sand") * Mike Porcaro – bass on "I'll Play for You" and "Castles in the Sand" * Ed Greene – drums (except on "I'll Play for You" and "Golden Rainbow") * Jim Varley – drums on "I'll Play for You" * Jeff Porcaro – drums on "Golden Rainbow" * Antoine Dearborn – percussion * Gene Capriano, Bob Crosby, Jim Horn, Steve Leeds, and Henry Sigismonti – reeds * Larry Ford, Paul Hubinon, Ron King, and Bobby Shew – trumpet * Dick Hyde, John Leys, and Lew McCreary – trombone

;Production * Louie Shelton – producer * Joe Bogan and Tom Knox – engineers * Marcus Joseph – 2nd engineer * Ivan Nagy – photography * Robert Lockart – art direction and design {{Div col end}}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{Discogs release|1598346|I'll Play for You|type=album}}

Category:1975 albums Category:Seals and Crofts albums Category:Warner Records albums