Seals and Crofts perform on the BBC’s ‘Old Grey Whistle Test.’ (YouTube)<\/span><\/p> They typically shared songwriting credits and vocals. Crofts played guitar and, later, mandolin. He memorably sang the second verse of “Diamond Girl,” while taking over lead vocals for “King of Nothing” and “Goodbye Old Buddies,” among others. <\/p>\n “Hummingbird,” “I’ll Play for You” and “You’re the Love” reached the Top 20, while “We May Never Pass This Way (Again)” just missed at No. 21. Seals and Crofts hit No. 14 on the album charts with 1974’s gold-selling Unborn Child<\/em> and cracked the Top 40 again with 1975’s I’ll Play for You<\/em>. Their mid-’70s Greatest Hits<\/em> album was a twice-platinum smash, too. <\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Top 10 Seals and Crofts Songs<\/a><\/p>\n Seals and Crofts split in the early ’80s, before briefly reuniting in the ’90s and ’00s. “Around 1980, we were still drawing 10,000 to 12,000 people at concerts” Seals later told the Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/em>, “but we could see, with this change coming where everybody wanted dance music, that those days were numbered.”<\/p>\n Dash Crofts eventually returned to his native Texas, where he raised horses<\/a> late in life. His lone solo album, 1998’s Today<\/em>, included some updated<\/a> Seals and Crofts material. Jim Seals, the older brother of Danny “England Dan” Seals, died in 2022<\/a>. <\/p>\n Listen to Seals and Crofts\u2019 \u2018We May Never Pass This Way (Again)\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n A look at those we’ve lost in 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWhy Did Seals and Crofts Break Up?<\/h3>\n
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