TMZ.com: 'Summer Breeze' Singer Dash Crofts Dead at 85 - DASH CROFTS 'SUMMER BREEZE' SINGER DEAD AT 85 ... Dash Crofts, best known for creating the hit song, "Summer Breeze," as a member of Seals & Croft, has died ... TMZ has learned. - A family member tells TMZ ... Crofts died Wednesday from complications of a heart surgery.