Dash Crofts has passed away.

Part of the soundtrack of my life, RIP

@mahler123 -Both were in the Champs, who performed Tequila.

This is from the NYTimes obit-

The pair remained a popular act throughout the decade but lost fans over their album “Unborn Child,” released in 1974, a year after the Supreme Court recognized a nationwide right to abortion under the Constitution. In the album’s provocative title track, the singers urged women seeking abortions to “Stop! Turn around. Go back. Think it over.”

Some radio stations refused to play the song, and protesters picketed Seals & Crofts concerts.

“Warner Brothers warned us against it,” Mr. Crofts told Goldmine magazine in 1992. “They said, ‘This is a highly controversial subject, we advise that you don’t do this.’ And we said, ‘But you’re in the business to make money; we’re doing it to save lives. We don’t care about the money.”

Mr. Seals later said that the album had derailed the duo’s professional fortunes for a period and distracted from other points that they had wanted to express in their music.

But Mr. Crofts saw benefits, too.

“It hurt us in one way and helped us in another,” he told Goldmine. “It turns over fans, is what it does. If you’re against something, you lose those fans. But if you’re for it, you gain some fans. And that’s kind of what happened.”

R.I.P.

I loved these guys too.  I also was totally unaware of their politics.  Lots of musicians and or singers from this era are leaving us.  John Mayall wrote a song called "All of my Heroes" which is all about this.

Dylan’s passing is going to be huge, surpassing all others, including Elvis Presley and John Lennon. THE single most consequential musical artist of the last half of the 20th century (and even into the 21st). You may disagree with that opinion, which is fine.