{"id":359395,"date":"2026-03-26T16:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/359395\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T16:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:05:07","slug":"dash-crofts-of-summer-breeze-rock-duo-seals-and-crofts-dies-aged-85-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/359395\/","title":{"rendered":"Dash Crofts of Summer Breeze rock duo Seals and Crofts dies aged 85 | Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dash Crofts, the yacht rock musician who helped craft 70s hits such as Summer Breeze and Diamond Girl as part of the duo Seals and Crofts, has died aged 85.<\/p>\n

The news was announced on social media by the duo\u2019s producer, Louie Shelton. He wrote<\/a>: \u201cSad to hear our dear brother and partner in music has passed away today. Sending love and prayers to all his family and many fans. R.I.P. my brother…..Dash Crofts.\u201d A family member confirmed that Crofts died due to complications following heart surgery.<\/p>\n

Croft\u2019s musical partner Jim Seals died in 2022<\/a> at age 80.<\/p>\n

In the 1970s, Seals and Croft helped define the sound of breezy soft rock that was a musical mainstay of the decade. Their 1972 album Summer Breeze reached the US top 10 and included the single Hummingbird as well as the hit title track, which was a radio smash and was also covered by the Isley Brothers as well as the metal band Type O Negative, whose heavy take of the song was included on the soundtrack to the 90s teen thriller I Know What You Did Last Summer.<\/p>\n

In 1973, the duo released their follow-up album Diamond Girl, which was certified gold and span off a single of the same name that reached number six on the US singles charts.<\/p>\n

The following year, the band bumped up against controversy with the release of the 1974 album Unborn Child. The title track reflected the duo\u2019s Bah\u00e1\u2019\u00ed faith and belief that a child\u2019s life begins at the moment of conception. Arriving in the wake of the landmark Roe v Wade<\/a> ruling that protected women\u2019s freedom to terminate pregnancies, the single faced a backlash and was banned by some radio stations.<\/p>\n

The duo broke up in 1980, as their gentle musical style fell out of favor with the rise of punk and disco. Crofts turned to a quieter life and moved to Nashville, where he focused on playing country music and occasionally released singles.<\/p>\n

Seals and Crofts rarely appeared in public after they disbanded, aside from a few appearences at Bah\u00e1\u2019\u00ed gatherings. In 1998, Crofts released the solo album Today, followed by Seals and Crofts\u2019 final album Traces, released in 2004.<\/p>\n

Yacht rock has seen a recent wave of reappreciation, with a 2024 HBO documentary Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary arguing for the importance of the breezy genre.<\/p>\n

In a 2019 interview, Bill Hader spoke of his love of yacht rock, saying: \u201cSeals and Crofts, I think, were maybe privately more hardcore than Minor Threat.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dash Crofts, the yacht rock musician who helped craft 70s hits such as Summer Breeze and Diamond Girl…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-359395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}