Jim Seals, who teamed with fellow musician “Dash” Crofts on such Seventies soft-rock hits as “Summer Breeze,” “Diamond Girl” and “We May Never Pass This Way Again,” has died at age 80.
His demise was introduced Tuesday by a number of folks together with John Ford Coley, who had shaped the ‘70s duo England Dan and John Ford Coley with Seals’ older brother Dan. Further particulars weren’t instantly out there.
“This is a hard one on so many levels as this is a musical era passing for me,” Coley wrote. “And it will never pass this way again as his song said. He belonged to a group that was one of a kind.”
Seals and Darrell George “Dash” Crofts had been Texas natives who had identified one another since they had been youngsters and had beforehand been within the Champs, which earlier than they joined had a success single with “Tequila,” and a group together with Glen Campbell. They began Seals and Crofts within the late Sixties and over the subsequent a number of years had been amongst a wave of soft-rock teams that included America, Bread and England Dan and John Ford Coley.
Seals and Crofts had three high 10 hits: “”Summer Breeze,” “Diamond Girl” and “Get Closer.” Their different widespread songs included “Hummingbird,” “You’re the Love” and “We May Never Pass This Way Again.” Seals and Crofts additionally launched the controversial “Unborn Child,” an anti-abortion music that got here out the 12 months after the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court determination and was banned by some radio stations.
They broke up in 1980, however reunited briefly within the early Nineties and once more in 2004, once they launched the album “Traces.” Seals additionally carried out every so often along with his brother Dan, who died in 2009.
(*80*) is survived by his spouse, Ruby, and their three youngsters.