The Seeds

{{Short description|American rock band}} {{Hatnote group|{{Distinguish|SEEDS|SeeDs}}{{Other uses|seed (disambiguation)}}}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}{{Use American English|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = The Seeds | background = group_or_band | image = The Seeds 1966.jpg |landscape=yes | caption = The Seeds in 1966. From left: Rick Andridge, Daryl Hooper, Sky Saxon, Jan Savage | origin = Los Angeles, California, U.S. | genre = {{flatlist| *Psychedelic rock *garage rock *{{nowrap|acid rock}}<ref name="Patoski">{{cite magazine|first= Joe Nick |last= Patoski |title= Gather Ye Records While Ye May |magazine= Texas Monthly |date= February 1979 |volume= 7 |issue= 2 |page= 144 |issn= 0148-7736 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=7S0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA144}}</ref> }} | years_active = 1965–1969, 1969–1972 (as Sky Saxon and the Seeds), 1989, 2003–2009, 2017–present (as Daryl Hooper and the Seeds) | label = {{hlist|GNP Crescendo|MGM|Bam Caruso|Ace/Big Beat|Hypnotic Bridge}} | current_members = *Daryl Hooper *Alec Palao *Paul Kopf *Mark Bellgraph *Justin Smith | past_members = *Sky Saxon *Jan Savage *Rick Andridge *Don Boomer *Bob Norsoph *Bill Chiapparelli *Jeff Prentice *Rik Collins *Dave Klein *Justin Polimeni *Jeremy Levine *Harvey Sharpe *Jimmy Valentine *Sean M'Lady *Dave Walle *Tommy Gunn *Christopher Robin *Gary Stern *Don Bolles *Geoff Brandin *Kevin Dippold *Atomic *Justino }}

'''The Seeds''' are an American psychedelic garage rock<ref>Multiple sources: *{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/27/arts/music/27saxon.html | title=Sky Saxon, Lead Singer and Bassist for the Seeds, Dies | last=Weber | first=Bruce | newspaper=The New York Times | date=June 26, 2009}} *{{cite news | url=https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/01/01/60s-los-angeles-bands-chapel-seeds-love/ | title=Iconic LA Bands From '60s Team Up at the Chapel | first=Dave | last=Pehling | newspaper=CBS News | location=San Francisco | date=January 1, 2019}} *{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ctjc6UWCm4C&pg=PT923|author=Peter Buckley|title=The Rough Guide to Rock|page=916|publisher=Rough Guides|date=2003|isbn=978-1-84353-105-0}}</ref> band that formed in Los Angeles, California in 1965, best known for their highest-charting single "Pushin' Too Hard". The band's classic lineup featured frontman Sky Saxon in lead vocals and bass guitar, along with guitarist Jan Savage (born Buck Jan Reeder),<ref name=ada /> keyboardist Daryl Hooper and drummer Rick Andridge. In 1968, the band changed their name to ''Sky Saxon and the Seeds'', with Savage and Andridge departing the band. They went on to release a handful of additional singles.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Breznikar |first=Klemen |author-link=Klemen Breznikar |date=August 10, 2020 |title=Daryl Hooper of The Seeds Interview |url=https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2020/08/daryl-hooper-of-the-seeds-interview.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928031549/https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2020/08/daryl-hooper-of-the-seeds-interview.html |archive-date=September 28, 2020 |access-date=February 3, 2023 |website=It's Psychedelic Baby! Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref>

In 1989, the original lineup of the band reformed for a handful of live dates in the US.<ref name="auto">{{Cite magazine|url=https://recordcollectormag.com/articles/sowing-the-seeds|title=Sowing The Seeds |magazine=Record Collector|date=October 23, 2007|access-date=October 10, 2021}}</ref>

In 2003, Saxon was persuaded to reform the Seeds with original guitarist Jan Savage (who departed part way through a European tour the same year due to ill health). Releasing two further studio albums, Saxon-led versions of the band continued to tour the US, UK, and Europe up to Saxon's death in 2009.

In 2017, founding member Hooper reformed the Seeds with a lineup of past and new members; they released a single in 2021 and continue to tour to this day.

== History == === Formation === The Seeds were formed in 1965 following the dissolution of the short lived band the Amoeba which featured frontman Sky Saxon.

Saxon, who had relocated to Los Angeles from Salt Lake City and had already released material under several names including ''Little Richie Marsh'' and ''Sky Saxon & the Soul Rockers'' put an ad in the LA Times for a keyboard player.<ref name="auto" /> Having already enlisted former bandmate Jan Savage as lead guitarist and Jeremy Levine as rhythm guitarist, Saxon reportedly contacted Daryl Hooper to recruit him as a keyboard player. After then asking Saxon whether he also needed a drummer, Hooper and Michigan school friend Rick Andridge met up with Saxon at a club and played that same night.<ref name=":0" /> Original rhythm guitarist Jeremy Levine left early on for personal reasons.

The band secured regular gigs at the LA club Bido Lito's and quickly gained a local reputation for high-energy live performances.<ref>{{cite book |last=Spitz |first=Mark |date=2001 |title=We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk |url=https://archive.org/details/wegotneutronbomb00marc/page/2 |location=Danvers, Massachusetts |publisher=Three Rivers Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/wegotneutronbomb00marc/page/2 2] |isbn=978-0-609-80774-3 |access-date=May 12, 2016 }}</ref>

As a live act, the band was one of the first to utilize keyboard bass. Although Saxon was credited as playing bass on the studio albums and would mime playing bass on TV appearances, they usually employed session player Harvey Sharpe for studio work.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://9nb.dc2.myftpupload.com/2020/08/20/harvey-sharpe-the-seeds/|title=Harvey Sharpe (The Seeds)|website=Know Your Bass Player|date=August 21, 2020|access-date=October 10, 2021}}</ref> On stage, keyboardist Daryl Hooper would perform the bass parts via a separate bass keyboard, in the same manner as Ray Manzarek later did with The Doors.

=== Recordings and TV appearances === After a tip from Hollywood impresario Jimmie Maddin, The Seeds were signed by Gene Norman to his GNP Crescendo label. The first single, "Can't Seem to Make You Mine", was a minor regional hit in Southern California in 1965. The song was also played regularly on AM rock stations in northern California (and probably elsewhere), where it was well received by listeners, and eventually went on to become, and is considered today, a '60s cult classic song. The band had a national Top 40 hit, "Pushin' Too Hard", in 1966 and performed the song on national television. Three subsequent singles, "Mr. Farmer" (also 1966), a re-release of "Can't Seem To Make You Mine" (1967), and "A Thousand Shadows" (1967), achieved more modest success, although all were most popular in southern California. Musically uncomplicated with a flair for simple melodic hooks and dominated by Saxon's unorthodox vocal delivery, their first two albums, ''The Seeds'' and ''A Web of Sound'', are today considered classics of 1960s garage music.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}

A major turning point for the Seeds came in 1967. The band's self-produced third album ''Future'' presented a grander psychedelic artistic statement and thrust the group forward as torchbearers during perhaps the most creative and experimental time in American pop culture and music history. The more expansive musical style with accompanying orchestration—presented with a gatefold sleeve featuring ornate flower-themed artwork by painter Sassin—was a departure from the rawer tone of the band's previous hits. Iggy Pop, Smashing Pumpkins, Animal Collective and members of the Beach Boys have all sourced the band, mentioning this album and previous ones as genre classics.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}

The release of ''Future'' in mid-1967 generally marked the commercial peak of the Seeds' career, coinciding with a major national hit, raucous concerts, numerous live TV performances, as well as prominent guest appearances on the NBC sitcom ''The Mothers-in-Law'' and in the hippie/counterculture-themed cult film ''Psych-Out''. In October 1966, The Seeds recorded an album devoted specifically to the blues, ''A Full Spoon of Seedy Blues'' that was released in November 1967, bearing the artist moniker "The Sky Saxon Blues Band" and with liner notes reputedly by Muddy Waters. Saxon later claimed that the album "... was my idea to get off the record label. I thought that if we just came up out of nowhere and did a blues album that wasn't going to sell, then they'd drop us. I never expected it to sell but it did OK. We never did those songs live except for a week of gigs at the Golden Bear in Huntington Beach".<ref name="auto" />

In May 1968 the band released their final LP for GNP Crescendo Records, ''Raw & Alive: The Seeds in Concert at Merlin's Music Box'', which revisited their more aggressive garage rock roots. However, the album and its accompanying single "Satisfy You" both failed to chart nationally. The band was renamed "Sky Saxon and the Seeds" in 1968, by which point Bob Norsoph (guitar) and Don Boomer (drums) had replaced Savage and Andridge, respectively. They were featured on the final GNP Crescendo single "Falling Off The Edge Of My Mind", the first and only period Seeds single not written by Saxon or the other members. The last major label records of new material by The Seeds – two non-charting singles on MGM Records – were released in 1970, after which Hooper quit. Saxon continued to use the name "The Seeds", utilizing various backup musicians, at least through 1972.

=== Dissolution and reformations === After the dissolution of the Seeds, Sky Saxon joined the Yahowha religious group, inspired by their leader Father Yod. Although a member of the Source Family for several years, Saxon did not participate in any of the albums released by Yahowha 13 in the mid-1970s. He does appear on the ''Golden Sunrise'' album by Fire Water Air, which was a Yahowha 13 offshoot, and later recorded the ''Yod Ship Suite'' album in memory of the deceased Father Yod. In the 1970s, Saxon also released the solo LPs ''Lovers Cosmic Voyage'' (credited to Sunlight) and ''Live at the Orpheum'' credited to Sunlight Rainbow. In the 1980s, Saxon collaborated with several bands—including Redd Kross and The Chesterfield Kings—before reforming the original Seeds in 1989 to headline "The Summer of Love Tour", along with Big Brother and the Holding Company, Arthur Lee and Love, The Music Machine, and The Strawberry Alarm Clock.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}

The Seeds remained dormant again until 2003, when Rik Collins persuaded Saxon to reform the group with original guitarist Jan Savage and newcomers Collins on bass, Mark Bellgraph on guitar, Dave Klein on keyboards and Justin Polimeni on drums. This iteration of the Seeds went through several incarnations, with Savage departing midway through their 2003 European tour due to his health. Saxon remained the only original member, and with several different sets of musicians continued to tour Europe and the United States.

Saxon died on June 25, 2009, of heart and kidney failure.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.spinner.com/2009/06/25/seeds-frontman-sky-saxon-dies-in-austin/|title=Yahoo|website=Spinner.com|access-date=August 13, 2019}}</ref> The Seeds' original drummer, Rick Andridge, died in 2011.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/seeds-pushin-hard-film-review-725958|title='The Seeds: Pushin' Too Hard': Film Review|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=August 18, 2014 |access-date=August 13, 2019}}</ref> Jan Savage died on August 5, 2020, aged 77.<ref name=ada>[https://obituaries.theadanews.com/obituary/buck-savage-1079657016 "Buck Jan Savage, October 23, 1942 – August 5, 2020", ''The Ada News'']. Retrieved August 8, 2020</ref>

In June 2017, a "reunited version" of the band (with founding member Daryl Hooper and late period Seeds drummer Don Boomer, along with Paul Kopf on lead vocals and Seeds archivist Alec Palao on bass) gave their first performance after a viewing of the Seeds documentary ''The Seeds: Pushin' Too Hard'' at the Center for the Arts in Grass Valley, California. Hooper's Seeds continue to tour and now incorporate Mark Bellgraph and Justin Smith from Saxon’s 2000s-era band. In 2021, the current line-up of the band released a single, "Butterfly Child" / "Vampire".<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/music/rock/the-seeds-documentary-interview-7817543/ | title=The Seeds: Pioneering Garage Rock Drummer Talks '60s Revolution & Reuniting Nearly 50 Years Later | magazine=Billboard | first=Joe | last=Lynch | date=June 2, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://darylseeds.bandcamp.com/album/butterfly-child-vampire | title=Butterfly Child / Vampire, by Daryl Hooper & the Seeds }}</ref>

== Style == The band's early material has been described as "straight up garage rock." Later output, such as 1967's ''Future'', was described as having a psychedelic rock sound.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=BrooklynVegan |title=The 50 best psychedelic rock albums of the Summer of Love |url=https://www.brooklynvegan.com/best-psychedelic-rock-albums-summer-of-love-1967/ |access-date=March 20, 2025 |website=BrooklynVegan |language=en-US}}</ref>

== Reissues ==

While GNP Crescendo has kept the Seeds catalog in print since the mid-1970s, the first notable archival compilation of the band was 1977’s ''Fallin’ Off The Edge'', compiled by Neil Norman, son of GNP’s founder Gene Norman. This was later expanded in the CD era as ''Travel With Your Mind'' in 1993. In 1996, Drop Out Records released ''Flower Punk'', a box set of their first five albums, ''The Seeds'', ''A Web of Sound'', ''Future'', ''A Full Spoon of Seedy Blues'' (as the Sky Saxon Blues Band), and ''Raw & Alive: The Seeds in Concert at Merlin's Music Box'', plus several rarities, B-sides, and other cuts (nothing unreleased) as a three-disc collection.

In 2011, Ace Records instigated a thorough reappraisal of The Seeds’ recorded legacy, helmed by reissue producer Alec Palao. Each of the band’s four principal albums was remastered, with a considerable amount of additional, mostly unreleased, material added. Initially presented as CD editions, they have also subsequently been issued as deluxe 2-LP sets. Ace/Big Beat also released the definitive compilation ''Singles As & Bs 1965-1970'' and the soundtrack CD to the film ''The Seeds: Pushin' Too Hard''.

== Documentary ==

A 2014 feature-length documentary film about the Seeds titled ''The Seeds: Pushin' Too Hard'' was directed by Neil Norman and written/produced by Alec Palao. The film draws on first-hand knowledge of the band, interviews, and concert footage.<ref name="LONGBEACH">{{cite web |first=Brian|last=Addison |date=July 10, 2014 |title=Prototype Garage Punk Band The Seeds to Have Documentary Screening in Long Beach |url=http://www.lbpost.com/life/arts-culture/2000003983-the-seeds-the-prototype-garage-punk-band-to-have-documentary-screening-in-long-beach |access-date=May 11, 2016 |work=Long Beach Post |archive-date=June 23, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160623214212/https://lbpost.com/life/arts-culture/2000003983-the-seeds-the-prototype-garage-punk-band-to-have-documentary-screening-in-long-beach |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>Stax, Mike (2013). "A Web of Seeds" Issue 35, Ugly Things Magazine.</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Harvey|last=Kubernik|author-link=Harvey Kubernik|date=2013|url=http://recordcollectornews.com/2013/02/pushin-too-hard/ |title=Pushin' Too Hard: Rags to Riches in the New Seeds Documentary|website= recordcollectornews.com|access-date=August 21, 2013}}</ref>

== Legacy and influence == Musicians in both the US and the UK have described The Seeds as an important influence on the early punk movement. Cover versions of various Seeds songs have been recorded by Cabaret Voltaire, The Dwarves, Alex Chilton,<ref name="Chilton">{{cite web | url=http://allmusic.com/album/bangkok-cant-seem-to-make-you-mine-r552399 | title='Bangkok/Can't Seem to Make You Mine' – Overview | website=AllMusic | access-date=January 24, 2012}}</ref> Johnny Thunders,<ref name="Spin">{{cite journal | date=April 1989 | last=Schoemer | first=Karen | title=Spin Offs | journal=Spin | publisher=SPIN Media LLC | volume=5 | issue=1 | page=113 | issn=0886-3032}}</ref> The Ramones,<ref name="Billboard">{{cite magazine | date=January 15, 1994 | title=Album Reviews | magazine=Billboard | volume=106 | issue=3 | page=44 | issn=0006-2510}}</ref> Yo La Tengo,<ref name="Robbins">{{cite web | last=Robbins | first=Ira | url=http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=yo_la_tengo | title=Trouser Press – Yo La Tengo | publisher=Trouser Press | access-date=January 24, 2012}}</ref> Garbage,<ref name="Strong2">{{cite book | last=Strong | first=Martin Charles | author-link=Martin C. Strong | title=The Great Rock Discography | publisher=Canongate Books | location=Edinburgh | year=2006 | page=431 | isbn=978-1-84195-860-6}}</ref> Murder City Devils,<ref name="Cantalini">{{cite web | date=August 25, 2007 | last=Cantalini | first=Chris | url=http://www.gorillavsbear.net/2007/08/25/cant-seem-to-make-you-mine/ | title=Can't Seem to Make You Mine | publisher=Gorilla vs. Bear | access-date=January 24, 2012}}</ref> Spirits in the Sky,<ref name="Bronson">{{cite magazine | date=August 29, 2009 | last=Bronson | first=Kevin | url=https://www.spin.com/2009/08/billy-corgan-dave-navarro-debut-10-songs/ | title=Billy Corgan, Dave Navarro Debut 10 Songs | magazine=Spin | access-date=January 24, 2012}}</ref> Paul Parker,<ref name="shapiro">{{cite book | last=Shapiro | first=Peter | title=Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco | publisher=Faber and Faber | location=New York | page=[https://archive.org/details/turnbeataround00pete/page/79 79] | year=2006 | isbn=978-0-86547-952-4 | url=https://archive.org/details/turnbeataround00pete/page/79 }}</ref> Pere Ubu,<ref name="pereubu">{{cite web | url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r239235|pure_url=yes}} | title=''Datapanik in Year Zero'' – Overview | website=AllMusic | access-date=August 2, 2010}}</ref> The Makers,<ref name="themakers">{{cite web | url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r276433|pure_url=yes}} | title=''Shout On!/Hip-Notic'' – Overview | website=AllMusic | access-date=August 2, 2010}}</ref> The Embarrassment,<ref name="theembarrassment">{{cite web | url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r523693|pure_url=yes}} | title=''Blister Pop'' – Overview | website=AllMusic | access-date=August 2, 2010}}</ref> The Bangles,<ref name="thebangles">{{cite web | date=August 14, 2007 | last=McIntosh | first=Dan | url=http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/the-bangles-return-to-bangleonia-live-in-concert-dvd | title=''The Bangles: Return to Bangleonia: Live in Concert'' [DVD] | website=PopMatters) | access-date=August 2, 2010}}</ref> The Rubinoos,<ref name="therubinoos">{{cite web | url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r1027520|pure_url=yes}} | title=''Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Rubinoos'' – Overview | website=AllMusic | access-date=August 2, 2010}}</ref> Strawberry Alarm Clock,<ref name="Britton">{{cite news | date=June 24, 2012 | last=Britton | first=Wesley | url=http://www.seattlepi.com/lifestyle/blogcritics/article/Music-Review-Strawberry-Alarm-Clock-Wake-Up-3658842.php | title=Music Review: Strawberry Alarm Clock – 'Wake Up Where You Are' | newspaper=Seattle Post-Intelligencer | access-date=August 7, 2012}}</ref> and other artists. Some lyrics in Frank Zappa's album ''Joe's Garage'' satirically refer to "Pushin' Too Hard": "You're plooking too hard, plooking too hard on ME".<ref name="mcdonald">{{cite web | last=McDonald | first=Lisa | url=http://www.timessquare.com/fashion/3078?task=view | title=Project/Object an interview with Andre Cholmondeley | website=TimesSquare.com | date=October 27, 2010 | access-date=June 28, 2012 }}{{Dead link|date=March 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

On July 24, 2009, a tribute concert to the recently deceased Sky Saxon was performed at the Echoplex venue in Los Angeles. Performers included guitarist Nels Cline and members of The Smashing Pumpkins, The Strawberry Alarm Clock, The Electric Prunes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bigwheelmagazine.com/show_reviews/a-tribute-to-sky-saxon-at-the-echoplex-los-angeles-silverlake-ca-july-24-2009/ |title=A Tribute to Sky Saxon – at The Echoplex – Los Angeles / Silverlake, CA – July 24, 2009 |work=Big Wheel Magazine |date=July 24, 2009 |access-date=December 18, 2012}}</ref>

== Discography == === Albums === '''Original Seeds line-up:''' * ''The Seeds'' (April 1966) * ''A Web of Sound'' (October 1966) * ''Future'' (August 1967) * ''A Full Spoon of Seedy Blues'' (as the Sky Saxon Blues Band) (November 1967) * ''Raw & Alive: The Seeds in Concert at Merlin's Music Box'' (May 1968)

'''Sky Saxon-fronted line-ups:''' * ''Red Planet'' (2004) * ''Back to the Garden'' (2008)

=== Compilations === * ''Fallin' Off the Edge'' (April 1977) * ''Bad Part of Town'' (1982) * ''Evil Hoodoo'' (1988) * ''Travel with Your Mind'' (1993) * ''Flower Punk'' (box set) (1996) * ''Singles As & Bs 1965–1970'' (compilation album) (2014) * ''The Seeds: Pushin' Too Hard'' (original soundtrack) (2019)

=== Reissues === * ''The Seeds (reissued in mono with unreleased tracks)'' (2013) * ''A Web of Sound (double CD mono/stereo reissued with unreleased tracks)'' (2014) * ''Future (double CD mono/stereo reissued with unreleased tracks)'' (2014) * ''Raw & Alive (double CD two concerts, the original without screaming and with crowd, and another earlier studio concert)'' (2014)

=== Singles (original line-up) === {| class="wikitable" |- !rowspan="2"|Year !rowspan="2"|Song !colspan="3"|Peak chart positions |- !style="width:5em;font-size:75%"| U.S. ''Billboard''<ref name="singles">{{cite magazine | url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=the seeds|chart=all}} | title=The Seeds Album & Song Chart History | magazine=Billboard | access-date=October 17, 2012}}</ref> !style="width:5em;font-size:75%"| U.S. Cashbox !style="width:5em;font-size:75%"| CAN |- |rowspan="2"|1965 | "Can't Seem to Make You Mine" b/w "Daisy Mae" | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — |- | "You're Pushin' Too Hard"{{Efn|Original title.}} b/w "Out of the Question" | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — |- |rowspan="2"|1966 | "Pushin' Too Hard" (re-release) b/w "Try to Understand" | style="text-align:center;"| 36 | style="text-align:center;"| 40<ref>{{cite magazine |url = http://www.cashboxmagazine.com/archives/60s_files/19670225.html |title = ''Cash Box'' Top 100 2/25/67 |magazine = Cashbox Magazine, Inc. |access-date = October 17, 2012 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120814104640/http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/60s_files/19670225.html |archive-date = August 14, 2012 }}</ref> | style="text-align:center;"| 44 |- | "Mr. Farmer" b/w "No Escape" | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — |- |rowspan="4"|1967 | "Mr. Farmer" (re-release) b/w "Up in Her Room" | style="text-align:center;"| 86 | style="text-align:center;"| 109<ref name="Whitburn">{{cite book| last = Whitburn| first = Joel| title = The Comparison Book Billboard/Cash Box/Record World 1954–1982| publisher = Sheridan Books| year = 2015| isbn = 978-0-89820-213-7}}</ref> | style="text-align:center;"| — |- | "Can't Seem to Make You Mine" (re-release) b/w "I Tell Myself" | style="text-align:center;"| 41 | style="text-align:center;"| 55<ref>{{cite magazine |url = http://www.cashboxmagazine.com/archives/60s_files/19670603.html |title = ''Cash Box'' Top 100 6/3/67 |magazine = Cashbox Magazine, Inc. |access-date = October 17, 2012 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120905214855/http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/60s_files/19670603.html |archive-date = September 5, 2012 }}</ref> | style="text-align:center;"| 33 |- | "A Thousand Shadows" b/w "March of the Flower Children" | style="text-align:center;"| 72 | style="text-align:center;"| 86<ref name="cashbox">{{cite magazine |url = http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/60s_files/19670805.html |title = ''Cash Box'' Top 100 8/5/67 |magazine = Cashbox Magazine, Inc. |access-date = October 17, 2012 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120911144724/http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/60s_files/19670805.html |archive-date = September 11, 2012 }}</ref> | style="text-align:center;"| — |- | "The Wind Blows Your Hair" b/w "Six Dreams" | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — |- ||1968 | "Satisfy You" b/w "900 Million People Daily Making Love" | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — |- ||1969 | "Fallin' Off the Edge of My Mind" b/w "Wild Blood" | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — |- |rowspan="2"|1970 |"Bad Part of Town" b/w "Wish Me Up" | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — |- |"Love in a Summer Basket" b/w "Did He Die" | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — |- ||1972 |"Shuckin' and Jiving" b/w "You Took Me By Surprise" | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — |- | colspan="21" style="text-align:center; font-size:8pt;"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. |}

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== External links == * [http://theseedsband.com/ Homepage] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180430114627/http://www.theseedsband.com/ |date=April 30, 2018 }} *{{allmusic}} * {{Discogs artist|The Seeds}} * [http://www.skysaxon.com/ Official website of Sky Saxon and The Seeds – Tribute album details here]

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