This section needs additional citations for verification. When they appeared in concert, they often remained on stage after the performance to talk about the faith, while local Bahá'ís passed out literature to anyone interested. After becoming longtime adherents of the Bahá'í Faith, a number of their songs began to include references to and passages from Bahá'í scripture. Crofts eventually returned to California to team up with Seals again, in the Dawnbreakers, and thus both Seals and Crofts were introduced to and became members of the Baháʼí Faith.

Crofts returned to Texas and Seals joined a band named the Dawnbreakers (a reference to The Dawn-Breakers, a book about the beginnings of the Baha'i Faith). The band lasted only a couple of years before the members went their separate ways. In the UK, the sides were switched when the single was released, but the single failed to make the UK Singles Chart (at that time only a Top 50 listing).īy 1963, Seals, Crofts, Glen Campbell and Jerry Cole left the Champs to form a band named Glen Campbell and the GCs, which played at The Crossbow in Van Nuys, California. 'It's Never Too Late' nevertheless reached No. 101 on Billboard and No. 100 on Cash Box (week ending April 8, 1961) in its own right. Billboard No. 6 single, ' You Can Depend on Me'. Seals had a song ('It's Never Too Late') recorded by Brenda Lee in 1961, which was featured as the B-side of her U.S. Seals also spent time during 1959 in the touring band of Eddie Cochran. With Beard, they moved to Los Angeles to join the Champs after the group's ' Tequila' reached No. 1 in 1958. Later, Seals joined a rockabilly band called Dean Beard and the Crew Cats, in which he played sax later on, Crofts joined Seals in the band. They first met when Crofts was a drummer for a local band. Jim Seals and Dash Crofts were both born in Texas: Seals in Sidney in 1942, and Crofts in Cisco in 1940. Though the duo disbanded in 1980, they reunited briefly in 1991–1992, and again in 2004, when they released their final album, Traces. Both Seals and Crofts were publicly outspoken advocates for the Baháʼí Faith. Seals and Crofts was an American soft rock duo made up of James Eugene Seals (Octo– June 6, 2022) and Darrell George ' Dash' Crofts (born August 14, 1940) They are best known for their hits ' Summer Breeze' (1972), ' Diamond Girl' (1973), and ' Get Closer' (1976), each of which peaked at No.

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