Jim Seals, Singer for Seals and Crofts of ‘Summer Breeze’ Fame, Dies at 80

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Facebook.“I just learned that James ‘Jimmy’ Seals has passed,” he wrote. “My heart just breaks for his wife Ruby and their children.

Please keep them in your prayers. What an incredible legacy he leaves behind.”John Ford Coley, who worked with Seals’ younger brother the late Dan Seals in the duo England Dan and John Ford Coley, posted his thoughts to Facebook as well. “I spent a large portion of my musical life with this man.

We toured together, he and Dash invited us to sing on Seals and Crofts records, and we played with him for years. He was Dan’s older brother, it was Jimmy that gave Dan and me our stage name,” Coley wrote. “He taught me how to juggle, made me laugh, pissed me off, encouraged me, showed me amazing worlds and different understandings on life, especially on a philosophical level, showed me how expensive golf was and how to never hit a golf ball because next came the total annihilation of a perfectly good golf club and the list goes on and on.”“We didn’t always see eye to eye, especially as musicians, but we always got along and I thought he was a bona fide, dyed in the wool musical genius and a very deep and contemplative man,” he continued.