Obit: Darrell "Dash" Crofts, 87, part of the popular 1970s soft rock duo Seals & Crofts, died Wednesday. He died of heart failure in a hospital, having had heart issues for years.
There is some "controversy" over just which year Crofts was born. Most sources say he was born in 1938, while some say he was born in 1940. He was older than his partner Jim Seals, who died at the age of 80 in 2022.
It is most likely he was born in 1938 because he met Jim when he was a senior in high school while Jim was in the eighth grade. That would check out as Jim was born in 1942.
Regardless, both of them had been around in the music business for many, many years, starting in the late 1950s, before hitting the big time in the early 1970s. Crofts was born in Texas just as Jim had been.
Born in Cisco, Texas, Crofts began playing the piano at the age of 5 before taking up the drums by the time he turned 10. By high school, he played drums in a band, where he met Jim Seals, who was playing saxophone at the time.
After high school, Crofts and Seals relocated to Southern California and became members of The Champs from 1958 to 1965.
The duo began working together under the name Seals & Crofts in 1969 and by the '70s, they landed hits including "Summer Breeze" and "Diamond Girl."
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