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June 4, 2012
Jim Seals and Dash Crofts are two musicians from Texas who were very popular in the 1970's, known as Seals and Crofts. Today, you can still hear some of their songs such as Hummingbird, Diamond Girl and Summer Breeze. Those were some of their biggest hits. Their music was inspired by their Baha'i faith beliefs which gave the songs some spiritual themes and lyrics.
The photographs here are from November 30, 1972 when Seals and Crofts played at UW Milwaukee. At that time I was working as a photographer for the Bugle American newspaper. It was in 1972 that Seals and Crofts released their second album, "Summer Breeze" which charted #7 with Billboard and they were awarded a gold disc for over one million copies sold.
After success in the 1970's they took a break, and in 1980 they lost their contract with Warner Brothers. A short reunion tour was held in 1991-1992 and they have appeared at Baha'i gatherings. In 2003, they reunited, recorded and released "Traces" with limited success.
Jim Seals lives in Nashville and Costa Rica where he has a coffee farm. Dash Crofts and his wife raise Arabian horses on the Crofts family farm in Texas.
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May 27, 2012
In 1997 Dario Franchitti started racing Indy cars in the USA and little did we know how great he would be. Today, Dario won his third Indy 500! We can only think that his good friend Dan Wheldon must have helped him on the last lap. Takuma Sato and Dario had a little incident racing on the last lap and amazingly Dario came away clean and won the race. Takuma went into the wall.
Dan Wheldon's face is now sandwiched on the Borg Warner trophy at Indy with Dario Franchitti. If you win the Indy 500, the winner's face is sculpted on the Borg Warner trophy. Dan would have loved seeing Dario in victory lane today wearing a pair of white framed sunglasses which Dan was always wearing if he did not have his helmet on. White sunglasses and drinking and pouring milk over your head in victory circle today was a very good thing to see.
The two photographs here are of Dario in 1997 and a little part of my race room collection. The visors shown are Dario's and Dan Wheldon's. I think they were talking to each other today!
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Rich Zimmermann
May 21, 2012
Attention lovers of my music blogs- for the next two weeks we are in the Indy 500 mode! It's time for the "greatest spectacle in racing", the Indy 500!
We are almost ready for the 2012 Indy 500 race and it seems strange that we won't have last year's winner, Dan Wheldon, there to defend his Indy 500 win. Dan also won the 2005 Indy 500 and he won the 24 hours of Daytona in 2006. Dan died in 2011 in a terrible accident at the track in Las Vegas, the final race of the 2011 IRL season.
Dan, after finishing second in the Indy Lights championship in 2001, started his Indy Car run with Panther Racing in 2002. In 2003, he became the rookie of the year driving for Andretti Green Racing and then for Target Chip Ganassi Racing. When he won the Indy 500 in 2011 he was driving for Bryan Herta Autosport. He was a superstitious man in that every time he got into the car he would pat the nose of his car three times!
I have a helmet visor of Dan's that he gave me in 2005 when I gave him some photographs. I will be looking at it during the race this year and thinking about Dan. He was a great race car driver and his record shows it. He won the 2005 Indy Racing League championship.
This week, as you enjoy the race, think about Dan and know he watching his friends from upstairs.
Attached are a few photographs from the past few years for you to enjoy.
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