The 'Seals and Crofts' Pro-Life Song

Careful readers of the obituaries may have noticed the death this past Monday of Jim Seals, co-leader of the popular 1970s soft-rock band Seals and Crofts. He was 79 and lived in Nashville. Once upon a time, Seals and Crofts became a household name in music with a string of popular hits – "Summer Breeze," "Diamond Girl," and "Get Closer." But Mr. Seals' obit took special note of a controversial chapter either long forgotten or deliberately ignored. Back in 1974, right in the middle of the band's rapid rise, Jim Seals and his musical partner, Dash Crofts, released a controversial album that its label, Warner Brothers, urged them not to. Moved and saddened by the Supreme Court's ruling on Roe a year earlier, Lana Bogan, wife of the band's recording engineer, Joseph Bogan, wrote a poem. It was titled, "Unborn Child." Read more...


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