Jim Seals of Seals and Crofts Dies at 80

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Jim Seals, who as part of the duo Seals and Crofts crafted memorably wistful 1970s hits like “Summer Breeze” and “Diamond Girl,” died Monday at age 80. No cause of death was immediately given.

Several friends and relatives confirmed the death. “I just learned that James ‘Jimmy’ Seals has passed,” announced his cousin, Brady Seals, a former member of the country band Little Texas, Monday night. “My heart just breaks for his wife Ruby and their children. Please keep them in your prayers. What an incredible legacy he leaves behind.”

Wrote John Ford Coley, “This is a hard one on so many levels as this is a musical era passing for me. And it will never pass this way again, as his song said,” he added, referring to the Seals and Croft hit “We May Never Pass This Way (Again).” Coley was a member of another hit duo of the era, England Dan and John Ford Coley, with Jim Seals’ younger brother, the late Dan Seals.

“You and Dan finally get reunited again,” Coley wrote. “Tell him and your sweet momma hi for me.”

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jim-seals-seals-crofts-duo-164143449.html

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. Noooooh.... :(

[SheilaAnn]

2. My age group are leaving us quickly, condolences to all who knew and loved him, family and friends.

[SharonClark]

3. I hope he had a good life and was a good person

because he helped define carefree summer days and first love for a lot of people my age.

[jalan48]

4. Seals & Crofts - We May Never Pass This Way (Again)

[JohnSJ]

7. +++

[Trueblue1968]

11. Seals and Crofts is a band made up of Jim Seals (born James Seals, October 17, 1941, Sidney, Texas)

Seals and Crofts is a band made up of Jim Seals (born James Seals, October 17, 1941, Sidney, Texas) and Dash Crofts (born Darrell Crofts, August 14, 1940, Cisco, Texas). The soft rock duo was one of the most successful musical acts of the 1970s. They are best-known for their hits "Summer Breeze" and "Diamond Girl". Seals' younger brother, Dan Seals was also well known as one half of another successful soft rock band in the same time period, England Dan & John Ford Coley, as well as for his success as a country artist in the mid-1980s. The duo disbanded in 1980, and both members went on to become public advocates of the Bahá'í Faith. They reunited briefly from 1991--1992 and again in 2004, when they released their final album, Traces.

[Ferrets are Cool]

16. You beat me to it.

[MerryBlooms]

5. Heavy sigh. 💕

[Raine]

6. Sad news 🕯️

R-I-P

[llmart]

8. Oh, my.

Summer Breeze brings back so many memories for me every time I hear it. I can picture my young self in my apartment kitchen with my little boy sitting on the floor while I made dinner, and the avocado green kitchen curtains blowing in the summer breeze while that song played.

It really did happen that way. So many of the artists we listened to are leaving us now. Their songs will live on in our memories.

[JohnSJ]

9. Damn.

[blue neen]

10. One of my favorites, a great song to sing along:

RIP Jim

[blueknight73]

12. Another favorite

from my younger years gone. I remember those carefree days riding around in the summer with the windows down listening to them

[TomSlick]

13. Sigh. The icons of my misspent youth are dying.

[crickets]

14. I played their greatest hits album until I almost wore it out.

I often find "Summer Breeze" playing in my head on sunny days. Songs like that just take hold and never let go. It's so hard to see the musicians I loved in my younger days slowly leaving one by one.

[Elwood P Dowd]

15. I still have some S&C albums I purchased in the 1970s. This is my favorite S&C song

because of my mother's love of Hummingbirds. Until she passed in her mid-90s, she always had feeders for them.

[musette_sf]

17. I saw them open for Delaney & Bonnie

in 1970 at a Schaefer concert in Central Park. Their first album had just been released and I bought it the next day. I was a devoted fan… until the hideous “Unborn Child”. I do have all their albums except THAT one.

From the first album, a song that I loved so much that Is had a quote from it in my HS yearbook:

[sobenji]

18. You mean anti-abortion Dan Seals?