Will Seals and Croft Ever Preform Again

American soft rock duo

Seals and Crofts
Seals (left) and Crofts in 1975
Groundwork information
Origin	Los Angeles, California
Genres	Soft rock, popular rock, folk rock
Years active	1969–1980, 1991–1992, 2004
Labels	Warner Bros., Wounded Bird
Associated acts	The Champs
Website	sealsandcrofts.com
Past members	James Seals Darrell Crofts

Seals and Crofts were an American soft stone duo made upwardly of James Eugene "Jim" Seals (built-in October 17, 1941) and Darrell George "Dash" Crofts (born Baronial 14, 1938). They are best known for their hits "Summer Breeze" (1972), "Diamond Daughter" (1973), and "Get Closer" (1976), each of which peaked at No. half-dozen on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Both members have long been public advocates of the Baháʼí Faith. Though the duo disbanded in 1980, they reunited briefly in 1991–1992, and again in 2004, when they released their final anthology, Traces.^[i]

Early on careers [edit]

Jim Seals and Dash Crofts were both born in Texas, Seals in Sidney and Crofts in Cisco. They first met when Crofts was a drummer for a local band. Later, Seals joined an outfit called Dean Beard and the Coiffure Cats, in which he played sax; afterward on, Crofts joined Seals in the band. With Beard, they moved to Los Angeles to join the Champs, but the ii did so merely afterward the group's "Tequila" reached No. i in 1958. Seals likewise spent time during 1959 in the touring band of Eddie Cochran.

Seals had a limerick ("It'southward Never Too Tardily") recorded by Brenda Lee in 1961, which featured as the B-side of her U.S. Billboard No. half dozen single, "You lot Can Depend on Me". "It's Never As well Late" nonetheless reached No. 101 on Billboard and No. 100 on Cash Box (week ending April 8, 1961)^[two] in its own right. In the UK, the sides were switched when the single was released, simply the single failed to make the Great britain Singles Chart (at that time simply a Tiptop fifty listing).

By 1963, Seals, Crofts, Glen Campbell and Jerry Cole left the Champs to class a ring named Glen Campbell and the GCs, which played at The Crossbow in Van Nuys, California. The band only lasted a couple of years before the members went their carve up ways. Crofts returned to Texas and Seals joined a band named the Dawnbreakers (a reference to The Dawn-Breakers, a book almost the ancestry of the Baha'i Faith). Crofts somewhen returned to California to squad up with Seals once again, in the Dawnbreakers, and thus both Seals and Crofts were introduced to and became members of the Baháʼí Organized religion. After becoming longtime adherents of Baha'i, a number of their songs began to include references to and passages from Baha'i scriptures. When they appeared in concert, they often remained on stage later on the performance to talk almost the faith, while local Baha'is passed out literature to anyone interested.^[iii]

As Seals and Crofts [edit]

After the failure of The Dawnbreakers, the ii decided to play as a duo, with Seals on guitar, saxophone and violin and Crofts on guitar and mandolin. They signed a contract with the record division of Talent Associates (TA) in 1969 and released ii LPs, of which simply the second reached the Billboard 200 nautical chart, peaking at No. 122 in October 1970. Crofts married swain Dawnbreaker Billie Lee Day in 1969 and Seals married Ruby Jean Anderson in 1970. The pair signed a new contract with Warner Bros. Records in August 1971.^[4] Their first album with their new characterization did not pause into the charts merely their 2nd anthology Summer Breeze charted at No. 7 in 1972. The tape sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. in December 1972.^[v]

In 1973 Warner Brothers released Diamond Girl. The album, as well a gold seller, was the tiptop of their success. The title song reached No. 6 on the charts in July 1973 and was followed by "We May Never Pass This Way (Again)", which topped out at No. 21.

The controversial Unborn Child followed in 1974. Written shortly after Roe v. Wade, Seals & Crofts expressed their anti-abortion position in the title song, which created a huge dilemma for radio stations. Some stations banned it while others played it repeatedly. The album notwithstanding went gilded despite the controversy and the lack of a Top twoscore hit.

The duo played at the California Jam festival in Ontario, California, on April vi, 1974. Attracting over 200,000 fans, the concert put them aslope 1970s acts such as Black Sabbath; Eagles; Emerson, Lake & Palmer; Deep Purple; Earth, Wind & Fire; Blackness Oak Arkansas; and Rare Earth. Portions of the testify were telecast on ABC Television set in the U.s.a., exposing the duo to a wider audition.

1975's I'll Play for Yous was a gilt seller as well, featuring the No. 18 hit title track, and their multi-platinum selling Greatest Hits, released afterwards the aforementioned year, was their most successful album.

The duo and so had a potent return to the charts with the song "Get Closer", the title rails from their 1976 album. Carolyn Willis (from the R&B vocal group Honey Cone) sang the bridge and it peaked at No. 6 in July of that year. Willis also joined them for their 1976 bout, which resulted in the live album Sudan Village.

The twosome also recorded songs that appeared in the feature films One on One (1977) and Foolin' Effectually (1980), as well equally the vocal "Start Years" that was the theme vocal to the debut (1978–79) flavour of the television series The Paper Chase.

1978's Takin' It Easy featured the ii branching out and experimenting with other types of sounds, including the disco influenced "You lot're the Love", which reached No. 18. Only their gold selling days were behind them by this point.

In 1979 they contributed to the anthology Lote Tree, which was a narrated history of their Baháʼí Faith that included songs by them and other artists. But it was distributed only inside Baháʼí media outlets.

The Longest Road, released in 1980, was their concluding for Warner Brothers.

Hiatus and reunions [edit]

In 1980, after a long and successful run of recordings in the 1970s, the two were dropped from Warner Brothers. Equally a result, they decided to take a hiatus from music. During the 1980s, despite no longer existence officially together equally a duo, they continued to announced at several Baháʼí gatherings, including a world peace concert at the Baháʼí Eye in Los Angeles for the pic and music customs in February 1989. Subsequently this, they made the rounds of Canadian radio stations and some American talk shows to promote the Baháʼí Peace Document.

Crofts lived in Mexico, Commonwealth of australia, and and then Nashville, Tennessee, playing country music and making occasional hit singles. He currently resides on a ranch in the Texas Hill Country. Seals moved to Costa Rica and has lived on a coffee subcontract off and on since 1980, also as in Nashville and southern Florida.

In 1991 Seals and Crofts officially reunited and made concert appearances over again until disbanding again a twelvemonth afterwards.

In 1998 Crofts released a solo CD titled Today, which contained some re-recordings of Seals and Crofts textile.

In 2004 the duo reunited again and recorded their outset new album since 1980, released as Traces.

In the early 2000s upward to 2008, Seals embarked on various tours with his brother Dan ("England" Dan Seals, of England Dan & John Ford Coley), billing themselves equally Seals & Seals and performing their successful hits from Seals & Crofts and England Dan & John Ford Coley, Dan's hits from his solo career and a few original songs written between the 2 brothers. A few shows featured Jim's sons Joshua on bass guitar and backing vocals and Sutherland on electric guitar.^[6]

Seals and Crofts were instrumental in England Dan and John Ford Coley becoming adherents to the Baha'i Faith,^[seven] some 28 years before Coley became a Christian.^[8] Dan Seals died of cancer in 2009. At the time of his expiry, Dan and Jim Seals had been working on songs together.^[nine] The status of those recordings is unknown.

In December 2010 the bandmates' daughters Juliet (Seals) Crossley and Amelia (Crofts) Dailey, along with Genevieve (Bogan) Dozier, daughter of Seals and Crofts engineer Joey Bogan, formed a musical trio chosen The Humming Birds.^[x] They released their cocky titled EP The Humming Birds in September 2012.

In 2018 Brady Seals (Jim's cousin) and Lua Crofts (Nuance's daughter) began touring as Seals and Crofts 2, performing the catalog of Seals and Crofts, as well as some new music.^[11]

Discography [edit]

Albums [edit]

• Seals & Crofts, 1969, No. 64 Canada Jul. 1970^[12]
• Down Abode, 1970, No. 74 Canada Dec. 1970^[xiii]
• Year of Lord's day, 1971, No. 133
• Summer Cakewalk, 1972, No. seven (RIAA: 2× Platinum), No. 6 Can. Jan. 73^[14]
• Diamond Daughter, 1973, No. 4 (RIAA: Gold), No. 8 Tin can. Sep. 73^[fifteen]
• Unborn Child, 1974, No. xiv (RIAA: Golden), No. 18 Tin. April. 74^[sixteen]
• Seals & Crofts I & Ii, 1974, No. 69 Can. Sep. 74^[17]
• I'll Play for You lot, 1975, No. 30 (RIAA: Golden), No. 31 Can. Jun. 75^[18]
• Greatest Hits, 1975, No. eleven (RIAA: 2× Platinum), No. eight Tin. January. 76^[xix]
• Become Closer, 1976, No. 37 (RIAA: Gilt), No. 25 Can. Aug. 76^[20]
• Sudan Village, 1976, No. 73, No. 90 Can. Jan. 77^[21]
• I on 1 (soundtrack), 1977, No. 118
• Takin' It Easy, 1978, No. 78, No. 45 Can. Jul. 78^[22]
• Lote Tree, 1979
• Collection, 1979
• The Longest Road, 1980
• Traces, 2004

Singles [edit]

Year	Single	Summit chart positions			Anthology
		Usa [23]	Us AC	AUS[24]
1971	"When I Meet Them"	104	—	—	Twelvemonth of Sun
1972	"Summer Breeze"	6	iv	16	Summer Cakewalk
1973	"Hummingbird"	twenty	12	—
	"Diamond Daughter"	6	4	57	Diamond Daughter
	"We May Never Pass This Fashion (Again)"	21	2	29
1974	"Unborn Child"	66	—	—	Unborn Child
	"The King of Nothing"	lx	26	—
1975	"I'll Play for You"	eighteen	four	55	I'll Play for You
	"Castles in the Sand"	—	21	—
1976	"Baby I'll Give It to You"	58	14	—	Sudan Village
	"Get Closer" (featuring Carolyn Willis)	half dozen	2	77	Become Closer
1977	"Goodbye One-time Buddies"	—	10	—
	"My Fair Share"	28	11	—	Ane on One soundtrack
1978	"Y'all're the Honey"	18	ii	—	Takin' It Like shooting fish in a barrel
	"Takin' Information technology Easy"	79	—	—
1980	"Showtime Dearest"	—	37	—	Longest Road
"—" denotes releases that did non nautical chart

Songs in movies [edit]

• "These Moments Never Live Again", from Foolin' Effectually (1980)
• "My Fair Share" from One on One (1977)
• "Summer Cakewalk" from Dazed and Confused (1993)
• "Summer Cakewalk" from Male monarch of California (2007)
• "Summer Cakewalk" from Land of the Lost (2009)
• "Summer Breeze" from Holiday (2015)

See also [edit]

• "England" Dan Seals, Jim Seals' blood brother, was also a successful recording artist, first in the pop duo England Dan & John Ford Coley, and later equally a country music artist.
• Troy Seals, land music artist, a cousin of Jim Seals.
• Brady Seals, a cousin of Jim Seals, frontman of the country groups Picayune Texas and Hot Apple Pie.

References [edit]

1. ^ Steve Huey. "Seals & Crofts – Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved June 28, 2010.
2. ^ Randy Cost. "Greenbacks Box Acme 100 Singles: week ending April eight, 1961". Cashboxmagazine.com. Retrieved April sixteen, 2017.
3. ^ Steve Huey. "Seals & Crofts – Biography". Pandora Music. Retrieved September 20, 2010.
4. ^ "South&C Sign". Sounds. Spotlight Publications. August 28, 1971. p. two.
5. ^ Murrells, Joseph (1978). The Volume of Golden Discs (2d ed.). London: Barrie and Jenkins Ltd. p. 320. ISBN0-214-20512-six.
6. ^ "Seals and Seals". Sealsandcrofts.com . Retrieved October 26, 2017.
7. ^ Casey Kasem, American Peak forty, July 30, 1977.
8. ^ John Ford Coley (March 5, 2013). Backstage Pass. Keegan Music Publishing. ISBN978-0578031354.
9. ^ Nelson, Valerie (March 27, 2009). "Dan Seals dies at 61; half of the pop duo England Dan and John Ford Coley". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved March 27, 2015.
10. ^ "Unity Feast, drops of one ocean, leaves of one tree: The Humming Birds". Unityfeast.org . Retrieved December 2, 2015.
11. ^ ://desmoinesperformingarts.org/news/the-legacy-lives-on-seals-crofts-2-comin/
12. ^ "RPM Peak 100 Albums – August ane, 1970" (PDF).
13. ^ "RPM Superlative 100 Albums – Dec 5, 1970" (PDF).
14. ^ "RPM Superlative 100 Albums – January xx, 1973" (PDF).
15. ^ "RPM Top 100 Albums – September 8, 1973" (PDF).
16. ^ "RPM Top 100 Albums – April xx, 1974" (PDF).
17. ^ "RPM Height 100 Albums – September 21, 1974" (PDF).
18. ^ "RPM Top 100 Albums – June 21, 1975" (PDF).
19. ^ "RPM Top 100 Albums – Jan 10, 1976" (PDF).
20. ^ "RPM Top 100 Albums – August 28, 1976" (PDF).
21. ^ "RPM Top 100 Albums – Jan 22, 1977" (PDF).
22. ^ "RPM Height 100 Albums – July 29, 1978" (PDF).
23. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2011). Tiptop Popular Singles 1955–2010. Record Research, Inc. p. 792. ISBN978-0-89820-188-8.
24. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Nautical chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.Southward.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 267. ISBN0-646-11917-vi.

Bibliography [edit]

• George-Warren, H. (ed.) The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll, 3rd ed., Fireside, New York, 2001.
• Landau, Deborah. "Introducing Seals and Crofts", Stereo Review, January 1971.

External links [edit]

• Official website
• Seals and Crofts: Popular Troubadours site

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seals_and_Crofts

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