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American soft stone duo

Seals and Crofts
Seals (left) and Crofts in 1975
Background information
Origin	Los Angeles, California
Genres	Soft stone, popular stone, 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 rock duo made up of James Eugene "Jim" Seals (born October 17, 1941) and Darrell George "Dash" Crofts (born August 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 nautical 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 album, Traces.^[1]

Early careers [edit]

Jim Seals and Nuance 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 Bristles and the Crew Cats, in which he played sax; subsequently on, Crofts joined Seals in the band. With Bristles, they moved to Los Angeles to join the Champs, but the ii did and so simply later on the group's "Tequila" reached No. 1 in 1958. Seals likewise spent fourth dimension during 1959 in the touring band of Eddie Cochran.

Seals had a limerick ("It's Never Likewise Late") recorded by Brenda Lee in 1961, which featured equally the B-side of her U.S. Billboard No. six unmarried, "You Tin Depend on Me". "Information technology'southward Never As well Late" nevertheless reached No. 101 on Billboard and No. 100 on Cash Box (calendar week catastrophe Apr eight, 1961)^[two] in its ain right. In the UK, the sides were switched when the single was released, simply the single failed to make the United kingdom Singles Chart (at that time merely a Top 50 listing).

By 1963, Seals, Crofts, Glen Campbell and Jerry Cole left the Champs to form a band named Glen Campbell and the GCs, which played at The Crossbow in Van Nuys, California. The ring lasted only a couple of years before the members went their dissever ways. Crofts returned to Texas and Seals joined a band named the Dawnbreakers (a reference to The Dawn-Breakers, a volume almost the beginnings of the Baha'i Faith). Crofts somewhen returned to California to team up with Seals once again, in the Dawnbreakers, and thus both Seals and Crofts were introduced to and became members of the Baháʼí 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 oftentimes remained on phase afterwards the performance to talk about the faith, while local Baha'is passed out literature to anyone interested.^[3]

As Seals and Crofts [edit]

After the failure of The Dawnbreakers, the two 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 tape partition of Talent Assembly (TA) in 1969 and released ii LPs, of which just the second reached the Billboard 200 chart, peaking at No. 122 in October 1970. Crofts married fellow 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.^[four] Their get-go album with their new characterization did not interruption into the charts but their second anthology Summer Breeze charted at No. seven in 1972. The record sold over i million copies and was awarded a gilt disc by the R.I.A.A. in Dec 1972.^[5]

In 1973 Warner Brothers released Diamond Girl. The album, besides a gold seller, was the summit of their success. The championship song reached No. 6 on the charts in July 1973 and was followed by "We May Never Pass This Fashion (Once again)", which topped out at No. 21.

The controversial Unborn Kid 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 information technology while others played it repeatedly. The album still went gold despite the controversy and the lack of a Top forty hit.

The duo played at the California Jam festival in Ontario, California, on April 6, 1974. Attracting over 200,000 fans, the concert put them alongside 1970s acts such as Black Sabbath; Eagles; Emerson, Lake & Palmer; Deep Imperial; World, Wind & Burn down; Black Oak Arkansas; and Rare Earth. Portions of the show were telecast on ABC Telly in the US, exposing the duo to a wider audition.

1975'southward I'll Play for You was a golden seller equally well, featuring the No. 18 striking championship track, and their multi-platinum selling Greatest Hits, released later the aforementioned year, was their most successful album.

The duo and then had a strong return to the charts with the song "Go Closer", the title track from their 1976 anthology. Carolyn Willis (from the R&B song grouping Beloved Cone) sang the bridge and it peaked at No. half dozen in July of that year. Willis also joined them for their 1976 bout, which resulted in the alive album Sudan Village.

The twosome as well recorded songs that appeared in the feature films One on One (1977) and Foolin' Around (1980), equally well every bit the song "Start Years" that was the theme song to the debut (1978–79) season of the television set series The Paper Hunt.

1978'due south Takin' It Easy featured the ii branching out and experimenting with other types of sounds, including the disco influenced "You're the Love", which reached No. 18. But their gilded selling days were backside them past this betoken.

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

The Longest Route, released in 1980, was their last for Warner Brothers.

Hiatus and reunions [edit]

In 1980, afterward a long and successful run of recordings in the 1970s, the two were dropped from Warner Brothers. As a outcome, they decided to take a hiatus from music. During the 1980s, despite no longer being officially together as a duo, they connected to appear at several Baháʼí gatherings, including a earth peace concert at the Baháʼí Heart in Los Angeles for the picture show and music community 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 then Nashville, Tennessee, playing country music and making occasional hit singles. He currently resides on a ranch in the Texas Colina State. Seals moved to Costa Rica and has lived on a java farm off and on since 1980, as well as in Nashville and southern Florida.

In 1991 Seals and Crofts officially reunited and made concert appearances once once more until disbanding again a year after.

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

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

In the early on 2000s up to 2008, Seals embarked on diverse tours with his blood brother Dan ("England" Dan Seals, of England Dan & John Ford Coley), billing themselves as 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 two brothers. A few shows featured Jim'south sons Joshua on bass guitar and bankroll 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,^[vii] some 28 years earlier Coley became a Christian.^[eight] Dan Seals died of cancer in 2009. At the time of his decease, 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 called The Humming Birds.^[10] They released their self titled EP The Humming Birds in September 2012.

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

Discography [edit]

Albums [edit]

• Seals & Crofts, 1969, No. 64 Canada Jul. 1970^[12]
• Down Home, 1970, No. 74 Canada December. 1970^[thirteen]
• Year of Sunday, 1971, No. 133
• Summer Breeze, 1972, No. 7 (RIAA: two× Platinum), No. half-dozen Tin can. Jan. 73^[14]
• Diamond Daughter, 1973, No. 4 (RIAA: Gold), No. eight Can. Sep. 73^[15]
• Unborn Child, 1974, No. 14 (RIAA: Gold), No. 18 Tin. April. 74^[16]
• Seals & Crofts I & II, 1974, No. 69 Can. Sep. 74^[17]
• I'll Play for You, 1975, No. xxx (RIAA: Gilded), No. 31 Tin. Jun. 75^[18]
• Greatest Hits, 1975, No. xi (RIAA: two× Platinum), No. viii Can. January. 76^[xix]
• Get Closer, 1976, No. 37 (RIAA: Gold), No. 25 Tin can. Aug. 76^[twenty]
• Sudan Village, 1976, No. 73, No. 90 Tin. Jan. 77^[21]
• One on I (soundtrack), 1977, No. 118
• Takin' Information technology Easy, 1978, No. 78, No. 45 Tin can. Jul. 78^[22]
• Lote Tree, 1979
• Collection, 1979
• The Longest Road, 1980
• Traces, 2004

Singles [edit]

Year	Single	Peak chart positions			Album
		US [23]	The states Ac	AUS[24]
1971	"When I Meet Them"	104	—	—	Yr of Sunday
1972	"Summer Breeze"	half-dozen	4	xvi	Summer Breeze
1973	"Hummingbird"	twenty	12	—
	"Diamond Girl"	six	four	57	Diamond Girl
	"We May Never Pass This Manner (Once again)"	21	ii	29
1974	"Unborn Kid"	66	—	—	Unborn Kid
	"The King of Cipher"	60	26	—
1975	"I'll Play for Y'all"	xviii	iv	55	I'll Play for Y'all
	"Castles in the Sand"	—	21	—
1976	"Baby I'll Give Information technology to You"	58	14	—	Sudan Village
	"Get Closer" (featuring Carolyn Willis)	6	2	77	Go Closer
1977	"Goodbye Sometime Buddies"	—	ten	—
	"My Off-white Share"	28	11	—	I on 1 soundtrack
1978	"Yous're the Love"	18	2	—	Takin' Information technology Like shooting fish in a barrel
	"Takin' It Piece of cake"	79	—	—
1980	"First Dear"	—	37	—	Longest Road
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Songs in movies [edit]

• "These Moments Never Alive Again", from Foolin' Effectually (1980)
• "My Off-white Share" from Ane on One (1977)
• "Summer Cakewalk" from Dazed and Confused (1993)
• "Summer Breeze" from King of California (2007)
• "Summertime Breeze" from State of the Lost (2009)
• "Summer Cakewalk" from Vacation (2015)

See likewise [edit]

• "England" Dan Seals, Jim Seals' blood brother, was as well a successful recording artist, first in the popular duo England Dan & John Ford Coley, and afterwards as a country music artist.
• Troy Seals, country music artist, a cousin of Jim Seals.
• Brady Seals, a cousin of Jim Seals, frontman of the country groups Little Texas and Hot Apple Pie.

References [edit]

1. ^ Steve Huey. "Seals & Crofts – Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved June 28, 2010.
2. ^ Randy Cost. "Cash Box Summit 100 Singles: week ending April eight, 1961". Cashboxmagazine.com. Retrieved April xvi, 2017.
3. ^ Steve Huey. "Seals & Crofts – Biography". Pandora Music. Retrieved September 20, 2010.
4. ^ "S&C Sign". Sounds. Spotlight Publications. August 28, 1971. p. two.
5. ^ Murrells, Joseph (1978). The Book of Golden Discs (second ed.). London: Barrie and Jenkins Ltd. p. 320. ISBN0-214-20512-half-dozen.
6. ^ "Seals and Seals". Sealsandcrofts.com . Retrieved October 26, 2017.
7. ^ Casey Kasem, American Superlative 40, 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 Banquet, drops of one ocean, leaves of 1 tree: The Humming Birds". Unityfeast.org . Retrieved Dec 2, 2015.
11. ^ ://desmoinesperformingarts.org/news/the-legacy-lives-on-seals-crofts-ii-comin/
12. ^ "RPM Top 100 Albums – August 1, 1970" (PDF).
13. ^ "RPM Height 100 Albums – December v, 1970" (PDF).
14. ^ "RPM Top 100 Albums – Jan 20, 1973" (PDF).
15. ^ "RPM Meridian 100 Albums – September 8, 1973" (PDF).
16. ^ "RPM Height 100 Albums – April 20, 1974" (PDF).
17. ^ "RPM Peak 100 Albums – September 21, 1974" (PDF).
18. ^ "RPM Top 100 Albums – June 21, 1975" (PDF).
19. ^ "RPM Top 100 Albums – January ten, 1976" (PDF).
20. ^ "RPM Top 100 Albums – Baronial 28, 1976" (PDF).
21. ^ "RPM Peak 100 Albums – Jan 22, 1977" (PDF).
22. ^ "RPM Peak 100 Albums – July 29, 1978" (PDF).
23. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2011). Top Pop Singles 1955–2010. Record Research, Inc. p. 792. ISBN978-0-89820-188-8.
24. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, Due north.S.W.: Australian Nautical chart Volume. p. 267. ISBN0-646-11917-six.

Bibliography [edit]

• George-Warren, H. (ed.) The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll, third 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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