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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Rich Zimmermann