Seals told a reporter that they had pulled out of a previous European engagement.Seals & Crofts - "Summer Breeze" (Official Audio) on YouTube In 1973, when they were about to tour England, Mr. Once they hit it big as a duo, they knew the image they wanted to project and tried to stay true to it. Both mastered other instruments, including the guitar. The two became friends and played with the Champs for several years out of Los Angeles. The band’s drummer quit right before a show at a junior college, and the drummer from another band on the bill sat in - Darrell Crofts, known as Dash. Jim later took up the saxophone, which led to an invitation to join a rockabilly band called the Crew Cats, which played at dances and in local clubs. When a fiddler came by one evening, young Jim was taken with the instrument, and his father ordered him one from a Sears catalog. His father played a little guitar, and his mother played the dobro, so informal jam sessions were a common way to pass the time in the household. “And the stench was so bad, you couldn’t breathe.” “There were oil rigs as far as you could see,” Mr. His father worked in the oil fields, and Jim spent much of his childhood in Iraan, a boomtown in southwest Texas. 17, 1942, in Sidney, Texas, to Wayland and Susan Seals. At the time it overshadowed all the other things we were trying to say in our music.” “If we’d known it was going to cause such disunity,” he continued, “we might have thought twice about doing it. “On one hand we had people sending us thousands of roses, but on the other people were literally throwing rocks at us.
“It was our ignorance that we didn’t know that kind of thing was seething and boiling as a social issue,” he said. Seals said the pair had never intended the song to be a lightning rod. In the 1991 Los Angeles Times interview, Mr. Some Seals & Crofts concerts were picketed, although there were also hundreds of letters of support. Radio stations refused to play the record. “It completely killed it for a while,” he said. Seals, in a 1978 interview with The Miami Herald, acknowledged that the record damaged the duo’s career. The title track urged women who were considering an abortion to “stop, turn around, go back, think it over.” Six years earlier, though, the pair had begun to fall out of favor with some listeners and critics because of their sixth album, “Unborn Child,” which was released in 1974 not long after the Supreme Court’s Roe v. “But we could see, with this change coming where everybody wanted dance music, that those days were numbered.” Seals told The Los Angeles Times in 1991, when the two revived the act. “Around 1980, we were still drawing 10,000 to 12,000 people at concerts,” Mr. “Jim Seals plays acoustic guitar and fiddle,” Don Heckman wrote in The New York Times in 1970 in a brief review of their second album, “Down Home,” “and Dash Crofts plays electric mandolin and piano together they sing coolly intertwined, and quite colorful, vocal harmony.” 1 hit in 1958 with “Tequila.” By the mid-1960s they had tired of the band and of the loud, sometimes angry strains that were infusing the hard rock of the time.Īdherents of the Baha’i faith, they sought to make a calmer brand of music, mixing folk, bluegrass, country and jazz influences and delivering their lyrics in close harmony. Seals and his musical partner, Dash Crofts, were still teenagers when they were asked to join an instrumental group, the Champs, which had a No. His wife, Ruby Jean Seals, said the cause was an unspecified “chronic ongoing illness.” Jim Seals, half of Seals & Crofts, a soft-rock duo who had a string of hits in the 1970s, including the Top 10 singles “Summer Breeze” and “Diamond Girl,” died on Monday at his home in Nashville.
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