70s Musical Icon Dead At Age 80
What is the old saying? “Man cannot live by bread alone.” However, with most diets you realize that you can live with just about no bread in your life at all, but I digress. When you spend hours every day emersed in a musical genre, you don’t find yourself listening to it much when you’re not on the clock. So, to steal the phrase, “We cannot live on country music alone.” I am a huge 80s music guy, and Debbie is the queen of 70s “yacht rock.” She always has been. A staple in just about every playlist I’ve ever known her to have is “Summer Breeze” by Seals & Crofts.
Yesterday, came the news that Jim Seals (who partnered with “Dash” Crofts) passed away at age 80. Hardly one hit wonders, S&C also had huge hits with “Diamond Girl” and “We May Never Pass This Way Again.” Seals died with his family at his side at his home outside Nashville. Seals was preceded in death by his older brother Dan, who had a huge country music career as well as some big hits in the 70s himself as 1/2 of “England Dan and John Ford Coley.”
