The Related Press
NEW YORK — Jim Seals, who teamed with fellow musician Sprint Crofts on such Nineteen Seventies soft-rock hits as “Summer time Breeze,” “Diamond Woman” and “We Could By no means Move This Means Once more,” has died at age 80.
His demise was introduced Tuesday by a number of individuals together with John Ford Coley, who had shaped the ’70s duo England Dan and John Ford Coley with Seals’ youthful brother Dan. Additional particulars weren't instantly obtainable.
“It is a arduous one on so many ranges as this can be a musical period passing for me,” Coley wrote. “And it'll by no means cross this fashion once more as his music stated. He belonged to a bunch that was one among a sort.”
Seals and Darrell George “Sprint” 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 bunch together with Glen Campbell. They began Seals and Crofts within the late Nineteen Sixties and over the following 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 time Breeze,” “Diamond Woman” and “Get Nearer.” Their different standard songs included “Hummingbird,” “You’re the Love” and “We Could By no means Move This Means Once more.” Seals and Crofts additionally launched the controversial “Unborn Baby,” an anti-abortion music that got here out the yr after the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Courtroom choice and was banned by some radio stations.
They broke up in 1980, however reunited briefly within the early Nineteen Nineties and once more in 2004, after they launched the album “Traces.” Seals additionally carried out once in a while together with his brother Dan, who died in 2009 at age 61.
He's survived by his spouse, Ruby, and their three youngsters.