Jim Seals, who teamed with fellow musician “Sprint” Crofts on such Nineteen Seventies soft-rock hits as “Summer season Breeze,” “Diamond Lady” and “We Could By no means Go This Method Once more,” 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. Additional particulars weren’t instantly out there.
“This can be a exhausting one on so many ranges as this can be a musical period passing for me,” Coley wrote. “And it’ll by no means move this manner once more as his tune mentioned. He belonged to a bunch that was one among a sort.”
Seals and Darrell George “Sprint” Crofts have been Texas natives who had recognized one another since they have been youngsters and had beforehand been within the Champs, which earlier than they joined had successful single with “Tequila,” and a bunch together with Glen Campbell. They began Seals and Crofts within the late Nineteen Sixties and over the following a number of years have 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 season Breeze,” “Diamond Lady” and “Get Nearer.” Their different fashionable songs included “Hummingbird,” “You’re the Love” and “We Could By no means Go This Method Once more.” Seals and Crofts additionally launched the controversial “Unborn Little one,” an anti-abortion tune that got here out the yr after the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court docket resolution and was banned by some radio stations.
They broke up in 1980, however reunited briefly within the early Nineties and once more in 2004, after they launched the album “Traces.” Seals additionally carried out now and again together with his brother Dan, who died in 2009.
He’s survived by his spouse, Ruby, and their three kids.
