Dash Crofts Is Dead

[toobfreak]

Has no one heard that Dash Crofts of Seals and Crofts died yesterday? He was 85 but actually died from complications from some sort of heart surgery he was having and not just "old age" instead. I was never a huge fan of the duo, but they had a lot of good music.

Jim Seals died four years ago at the age of 79 after suffering a stroke in 2017 forcing him into retirement.

Dash Crofts - Wikipedia

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[pknopp]

I didn't see that. I was a fan.

I won a radio call in based upon them.

"what is the first names of Seals and Croft"

 

[lg325]

They put out the type of songs needed for that violent time in the world.

 

[1srelluc]

 

[1srelluc]

Consider this, if your are 85 and have a heart condition, it really does not matter if you die of "complications", you died of old age.

 

[toobfreak]

Consider this, if your are 85 and have a heart condition, it really does not matter if you die of "complications", you died of old age.

What I really wondered was what the point was? What is the point of operating on a person's heart at 85 years old? If you have some condition bad enough to require heart surgery at that age:

1. The strain of just the surgery alone could likely kill a person at that age.
2. Healing and recovering from such surgery at that age will be long, slow, and difficult.
3. What will the surgery do, add a few years to his life so he lives to be 89? At that age, if the heart doesn't get you, likely something else will shortly thereafter. I might have opted just to live out my life naturally without going through the pain, expense and risk of heart surgery just to add 6 months or 2 more years to my life.

 

[HikerGuy83]

What I really wondered was what the point was? What is the point of operating on a person's heart at 85 years old? If you have some condition bad enough to require heart surgery at that age:

1. The strain of just the surgery alone could likely kill a person at that age.
2. Healing and recovering from such surgery at that age will be long, slow, and difficult.
3. What will the surgery do, add a few years to his life so he lives to be 89? At that age, if the heart doesn't get you, likely something else will shortly thereafter. I might have opted just to live out my life naturally without going through the pain, expense and risk of heart surgery just to add 6 months or 2 more years to my life.

You can say the same thing about chemo in older patients.

 

[toobfreak]

You can say the same thing about chemo in older patients.

Yeah, probably. At some point, I suspect some of this medical treatment becomes more an attempt by the medical community to experiment, test and try out stuff just to see how it works or to just milk the insurance companies and buoy profits.

I mean, what is the point of doing a high-risk million dollar operation on a person already 86 years old to extend their living farther? Statistically, not many people live that old, fewer live to be 90, and much fewer live to be 95 or 100.

So had the heart surgery succeeded, what might it have bought him, two more years? Five?

 

[HikerGuy83]

Yeah, probably. At some point, I suspect some of this medical treatment becomes more an attempt by the medical community to experiment, test and try out stuff just to see how it works or to just milk the insurance companies and buoy profits.

I mean, what is the point of doing a high-risk million dollar operation on a person already 86 years old to extend their living farther? Statistically, not many people live that old, fewer live to be 90, and much fewer live to be 95 or 100.

So had the heart surgery succeeded, what might it have bought him, two more years? Five?

It's not the years, IME.

It's the quality of life associated with those years.

Five good years is a big deal.

Five years in a bed?......

 

[HikerGuy83]

Has no one heard that Dash Crofts of Seals and Crofts died yesterday? He was 85 but actually died from complications from some sort of heart surgery he was having and not just "old age" instead. I was never a huge fan of the duo, but they had a lot of good music.

Jim Seals died four years ago at the age of 79 after suffering a stroke in 2017 forcing him into retirement.

Dash Crofts - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I enjoyed their music.

R.I.P.

 

[toobfreak]

It's not the years, IME. It's the quality of life associated with those years.
Five good years is a big deal. Five years in a bed?......

Well perhaps. I don't know what he was in for, was it to save his life or just to give him a better one?
If just to give him a better one, then he would have been better off without the surgery, he might still be alive, apparently the surgery killed him.

And while the surgery might have improved his quality of life, given him a few more years, the shock to the body is an awful strain that can often trigger another latent ailment to come to the fore.

So, it is all one big gamble.

 

[toobfreak]

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

Dash Crofts, Half of ‘Summer Breeze’ Soft Rock Duo Seals & Crofts, Dead at 85

Dash Crofts' death has been confirmed by his family. The Seals & Crofts singer died at age 85.

www.billboard.com

The news was announced by producer Louie Shelton early Thursday morning (March 26), shortly after which a member of Crofts’ family confirmed it to TMZ. “Sad to hear our dear brother and partner in music has passed away today,” Shelton wrote on Facebook. “Sending love and prayers to all his family and many fans. R.I.P. my brother…..Dash Crofts.”

The “Summer Breeze” hitmaker — whose was born Darrell George Crofts on Aug. 14, 1940 — died Wednesday (March 25) from heart failure, as shared by his daughter Lua, according to The New York Times.

His passing comes about four years after former bandmate Jim Seals died in 2020 at the age of 80. Together, Seals and Crofts scored a number of Billboard Hot 100 hits, including top 10 singles “Summer Breeze” (No. 6, 1972), “Diamond Girl” (No. 6, 1973) and “Get Closer” featuring Carolyn Willis (No. 6, 1976). One of their most controversial tracks, “Unborn Child” — an anti-abortion song released the year after the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court verdict in 1973 — reached No. 66.

Jim Seals and Dash Crofts were both born in Texas; Crofts in Cisco in 1940<a href="Seals & Crofts - Wikipedia"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a> and Seals in Sidney in 1942. They first met when Crofts was a drummer for a local band. 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. With Beard, they moved to Los Angeles to join the Champs after the group's "Tequila" reached No. 1 in 1958. Seals also spent time during 1959 in the touring band of Eddie Cochran.

Dash Crofts - Wikipedia

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They had some great pop hits in the 1970s

 

[1srelluc]

We know.

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Mar 26, 2026

• toobfreak

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

 

[skye]

They played beautiful music...

 

[Oddball]

 

[JustAnotherNut]

What I really wondered was what the point was? What is the point of operating on a person's heart at 85 years old? If you have some condition bad enough to require heart surgery at that age:

1. The strain of just the surgery alone could likely kill a person at that age.
2. Healing and recovering from such surgery at that age will be long, slow, and difficult.
3. What will the surgery do, add a few years to his life so he lives to be 89? At that age, if the heart doesn't get you, likely something else will shortly thereafter. I might have opted just to live out my life naturally without going through the pain, expense and risk of heart surgery just to add 6 months or 2 more years to my life.

OK so, 2 of the sources provided in the thread have conflicting information. I didn't watch the video, but Wiki says his DOB was 8/14/38, making him 87yo and died from heart surgery.

The link from Billboard says his DOB was 8/14/40 (85yo) and died from heart failure, according to his daughter, with no mention of surgery

I am suspecting the Billboard article is probably the more accurate, just because of the statement from the daughter, and that it was heart failure, probably because of his age........because I can't see any doctor willing to do any major surgery on an elderly patient without risking malpractice. Usually they don't, just because it would do more harm than any good as you say and go against their Hippocratic oath. Too many risks that outweigh too few benefits

 

[Concerned American]

Has no one heard that Dash Crofts of Seals and Crofts died yesterday? He was 85 but actually died from complications from some sort of heart surgery he was having and not just "old age" instead. I was never a huge fan of the duo, but they had a lot of good music.

Jim Seals died four years ago at the age of 79 after suffering a stroke in 2017 forcing him into retirement.

Dash Crofts - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

RIP to a great duo.

 

[toobfreak]

OK so, 2 of the sources provided in the thread have conflicting information. I didn't watch the video, but Wiki says his DOB was 8/14/38, making him 87yo and died from heart surgery.

Several sources today are now listing him as 87, so, I'm going with 87.

Wiki says he died of complications from heart surgery on the 25th. Maybe he was having heart problems and they rushed him to the hospital for necessary intervention and it just didn't work out.