Jim Seals, who as a part of the duo Seals and Crofts crafted memorably wistful Nineteen Seventies hits like ‘Summer season Breeze’ and ‘Diamond Lady’, has died on the age 80.
No reason for demise was instantly given, however a number of associates and family members confirmed the demise.
“I simply discovered that James ‘Jimmy’ Seals has handed,” introduced his cousin, Brady Seals, a former member of the nation band Little Texas. “My coronary heart simply breaks for his spouse Ruby and their youngsters. Please maintain them in your prayers. What an unbelievable legacy he leaves behind.”
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Wrote John Ford Coley, “This can be a exhausting one on so many ranges as this can be a musical period passing for me. And it’ll by no means move this fashion once more, as his music stated,” he added, referring to the Seals and Croft hit ‘We Might By no means Go This Means (Once more)’.
Coley was a member of one other hit duo of the period, England Dan and John Ford Coley, with Jim Seals’ youthful brother, the late Dan Seals.
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“You and Dan lastly get reunited once more,” Coley wrote. “Inform him and your candy momma hello for me.”
With Jim Seals as the first lead vocalist of the harmonising duo, Seals and Crofts got here to be the very emblem of “comfortable rock” with a run of hits that lasted for less than about six years.
Though not one of the pair’s hits ever reached No. 1 on the Scorching 100 within the US, their greatest songs have been for a time as ubiquitous as any that did prime the chart. ‘Summer season Breeze’ in 1972 and ‘Diamond Lady’ in 1973 each reached No. 6, as did a extra upbeat music in 1976, ‘Get Nearer’, sung with Carolyn Willis.
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Moreover these three songs that reached the highest 10 on the Scorching 100, 4 extra made it to the grownup up to date chart’s prime 10: ‘We Might By no means Go This Means (Once more)’ in ’73, ‘I will Play for You’ in ’75, ‘Goodbye Outdated Buddies’ in ’77 and ‘You are the Love’ in ’78.
Critic Robert Christgau known as the duo “folk-schlock,” however Seals and Crofts had the final snicker – or would have, if crowing with vindication was a part of the Baha’i means. Each members of the duo have been deeply embedded in that peace-loving religion from the late ’60s ahead.
The duo broke up in 1980, adopted by a few very fleeting reunions within the early ’90s and early 2000s, which generated just one album after their authentic run, the little-noticed Traces in 2004.
They by no means reembarked collectively on the sort of nostalgia-stoking package deal excursions that may have appeared pure for an act with so many well-remembered hits. However neither member confirmed a very heavy curiosity in chasing the limelight after the Nineteen Seventies.
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