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Dash Crofts, RIP

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When I was a kid in the first half of the 1970s, a sizable fraction of hit songs on the radio were of the California mellow rock genre, such as “Summer Breeze” by Seals and Croft:

Dash Crofts of Texas has died at 87.

Other exemplars of Southern California rock include the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, and Joni Mitchell, few of whom were from Southern California.

That reminds me …

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