Soft Rocker Jim Seals Has Passed – IOTW Report

Soft Rocker Jim Seals Has Passed

Wednesday, 8 June 2022, 12:00 Dr. Tar Uncategorized 28

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Jim Seals, who teamed with fellow musician “Dash” Crofts on such 1970s soft-rock hits as “Summer Breeze,” “Diamond Girl” and “We May Never Pass This Way Again,” has died at age 80.

His death was announced Tuesday by several people including John Ford Coley, who had formed the ‘70s duo England Dan and John Ford Coley with Seals’ older brother Dan. Further details were not immediately available…

…Seals and Crofts also released the controversial “Unborn Child,” an anti-abortion song that came out the year after the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision and was banned by some radio stations. More

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28 Comments on Soft Rocker Jim Seals Has Passed

  5. Sad news. They were a favorite of mine. Every time I hear “Diamond Girl”, I remember a girl I had a massive, secret crush on at band camp in the Summer of ‘73, when I was 12. I can’t remember her name, and I barely spoke ten words to her, but her face comes back to me like a picture whenever I hear that song. I wore that 45 slap out. Thanks for the memory, Jim and “Dash”.

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  10. If I hear “Summer Breeze” ten times a day, then ten times a day I will choke up, because memories of growing up in a home with wonderful parents make my heart swell. Thank you so much for creating the music that cradles my precious memories.

    See the curtains hanging in the window
    In the evening on a Friday night
    A little light shining through the window
    Lets me know everything is alright

    Summer breeze makes me feel fine
    Blowin’ through the jasmine in my mind
    Summer breeze makes me feel fine
    Blowin’ through the jasmine in my mind

    See the paper lying on the sidewalk
    A little music from the house next door
    So I walk on up to the doorstep
    Through the screen and across the floor…

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  12. Saw them in concert, just the two of them in the round. After the show, they stayed to chat for awhile. I don’t think that happens much anymore, if it ever did.

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  14. Those guys produced timeless songs that defined a musical era. I remember listening to their songs many an evening in the upper Midwest while on road trips or drinking cheap beer out of a can on remote gravel roads.

    Those were the days.

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  17. FWIW
    They were members of the Baháʼí Faith.
    “teaching the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people”
    Which is the opposite of Democrat.
    RIP

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  18. A forever memory is hearing “Diamond Girl” and Elton John’s “Daniel” playing on the radio while my parents drove around Columbus OH house hunting- and 2nd grade me in the back seat feeling sad about moving.

    RIP

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  22. I wasn’t a big fan, but I know they had a following. Someone I know went to a concert of theirs and he said they paused the show to recruit those in the audience to join their religious cult they belonged to. He said the crowd didn’t take to that very kindly.

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