The band only lasted a couple of years before the members went their separate ways. In the UK, the sides were switched when the single was released, but the single failed to make the UK Singles Chart (at that time only a Top 50 listing).īy 1963, Seals, Crofts, Glen Campbell and Jerry Cole left the Champs to form a band named Glen Campbell and the GCs, which played at The Crossbow in Van Nuys, California. 'It's Never Too Late' nevertheless reached No. 101 on Billboard and No. 100 on Cash Box (week ending April 8, 1961) in its own right. Billboard No. 6 single, ' You Can Depend on Me'. Seals had a composition ('It's Never Too Late') recorded by Brenda Lee in 1961, which featured as the B-side of her U.S. Seals also spent time during 1959 in the touring band of Eddie Cochran. With Beard, they moved to Los Angeles to join the Champs, but the two did so only after the group's ' Tequila' reached No. 1 in 1958. Later, Seals joined an outfit called Dean Beard and the Crew Cats, in which he played sax later on, Crofts joined Seals in the band. They first met when Crofts was a drummer for a local band. Jim Seals and Dash Crofts were both born in Texas, Seals in Sidney and Crofts in Cisco.
