Seals & Crofts: Diamond Girl Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		4.5
Video		0.0
Audio		5.0
Extras		0.0
Overall		4.5

Seals & Crofts: Diamond Girl Blu-ray Movie Review

Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman June 10, 2026

Note: The latest bunch of Quadio releases from Rhino feature three artists who have already had at least one previous Quadio release, namely Carly Simon, Randy Newman and Seals & Crofts, along with newcomer Mongo Santamaria.

1972's Summer Breeze and this album from 1973 are probably the two major albums from this duo which either introduced them or solidified interest in them, and in fact the two albums provided Seals & Crofts with two Top 10 singles each with their respective title tunes, each of which made it to Number 6. (Maybe a little hilariously, their much later Get Closer also made it to Number 6, a trio of sixes which it might be joked hopefully the pair's famous Bahá'í faith protected them from.) Also as with their first album which produced a lower charting second single, Hummingbird (reportedly an allegory about Bahá'í) this album also offers the lower charting We May Never Pass This Way Again, another really charming example of that aforementioned Baha'i faith, at least allusively, and which rather interestingly got to almost exactly the same mid-chart position that Hummingbird had a year earlier. One way or the other, there's a remarkable gentleness to the music, even when it's relatively high energy, that seems to speak to an inner calm and almost meditative awareness that these self avowed "believers" experienced. We just sadly lost Dash Crofts a couple of months ago at the venerable age of 87 as this review is being written, which makes listening to this album now especially nostalgic and maybe more than a little bittersweet in terms of that aforementioned second lower charting single.

The album's track list can be seen in the screenshots of the disc menu accompanying this review. See the video section below for information about navigating through the menu.

Seals & Crofts: Diamond Girl Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

This is another Quadio release with a static menu. As usual, the track listing changes color depending on whether you scroll, chapter skip (which amounts to next track) or actually individually select tracks, and I've offered some examples of the different changes on tap. Unfortunately this is another audio Blu-ray from Rhino where you have to navigate through the tracks to get to the audio codecs to change those, and also unfortunately this is another case where the song starts over once a different codec is chosen. This is especially frustrating since Rhino's release of Summer Breeze (linked to above) utilized the much preferable (to my liking and a lot of the readers I hear from) ability to simply use the colored buttons on the remote to instantly toggle between codecs (frequently if not always with the song continuing after the HDMI handshake).

Seals & Crofts: Diamond Girl Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

The title track offers some great separation from the get go, with kick drum left forward and high high right forward, and then the rest of the band suddenly entering from all four channels. Other percussion like bongos can be heard in the rear channels. Both vocals and the appealing guitar solos are nicely splayed so that they typically surround the listener from all sides. Some of the gorgeous acoustic guitar based ballads like Ruby Jean and Billie Lee tend to offer simultaneous engagement of all four channels without a ton of discrete placement, but everything is nicely prioritized, and there's a really warm surround ambience in several songs once the stunning Marty Paich string arrangements enter (Marty's son David plays keys on the album).

Seals & Crofts: Diamond Girl Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

As usual with the Quadio releases, there are no on disc supplements. An insert leaflet reproduces the album's lyrics and credits and also includes Quadio's standard photos of master tape boxes.

Seals & Crofts: Diamond Girl Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

I was always a bit more of a fan of this album than I was of Summer Breeze, as much as I unabashedly appreciate that first effort from the pair, but I have to say in revisiting the album now in this really nice sounding quad mix I was really struck again by the well crafted arrangements and great songcraft. What may have caught the attention of my ears most this time, maybe a little unexpectedly, is how much the Marty Paich string writing really adds to several tunes (as it did on Summer Breeze). Highly recommended.