Dan Seals

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This article is about the American musician. For the US Congressional Candidate, see Illinois's 10th congressional district election, 2006#Dan Seals.

Dan Wayland Seals (born February 8, 1948 in McCamey, Texas) is an American musician, occasionally called England Dan.

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[edit] Background

Seals was born into a music-oriented family; he was taught by his father to play the upright bass, and his brothers — Eddie Seals and Jim Seals — are recording artists in their own right. Jim sang with a 1950s musical group called The Champs who had a 1958 hit single with the song "Tequila", and teamed up with Dash Crofts in the mid-1960s to perform as Seals and Crofts. The Seals brothers (Jim and Dan), as well as Crofts, are members of the Bahá'í Faith.[1]


Seals' cousins include Johnny Duncan, Troy Seals, Chuck Seals and Brady Seals (of Little Texas and Hot Apple Pie fame).

[edit] Collaboration with John Ford Coley

Dan joined with W.W. Samuell High School classmate and longtime friend John Ford Coley to perform first as part of Dallas pop/psych group "Southwest F.O.B." (Freight On Board), whose material has been re-released on CD by the Sundazed label. As England Dan & John Ford Coley, the two men would have several pop hits in the second half of the 1970s. "I'd Really Love To See You Tonight" was the pair's biggest hit, reaching #2 in the second half of 1976 and becoming their only gold single; other hits include "Nights Are Forever Without You" (#10 in 1976-77); "It's Sad to Belong" (#21) and "Gone Too Far" (#23), both in 1977; "We'll Never Have to Say Goodbye Again" (#9 in 1978); and their most recent top-40 hit, "Love is the Answer" (#10 in May 1979). After 7 LPs, they disbanded in 1980 and since then Dan Seals has been performing as a solo artist.

[edit] Health

On June 9, 2008, Dan Seals' manager, Tony Gottlieb reported that Seals is completing radiation treatments for lymphoma and that he is scheduled to get a stem cell transplant later after treatment at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Seals has been at the cancer center for four months.

[edit] Chart performance

Between 1985 and 1990, Seals scored 11 #1 hits, 7 of them consecutively, on the country charts. His first #1 was "Meet Me in Montana", a 1985 duet with Marie Osmond. His first #1 as a solo artist, "Bop", won the Country Music Association Award for best single in 1986 and had some crossover success as well; the song reached #10 on the adult contemporary charts and #42 in the Billboard Hot 100. Seals and Osmond also won a CMA award as Vocal Duo of the Year in 1986.

Notable songs include:
God Must Be A Cowboy (1984)
(You Bring Out) The Wild Side of Me (1984)
My Old Yellow Car (1985)
Meet Me In Montana (duet with Marie Osmond) (1985) #1 Country
My Baby's Got Good Timing (1985)
Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold) (1986) #1 Country
Bop (1986) #1 Country, #10 Adult Contemporary, #42 Hot 100
You Still Move Me (1987) #1 Country
Three Time Loser (1987) #1 Country
I Will Be There (1987) #1 Country
One Friend (1988) #1 Country
Addicted (1988) #1 Country
They Rage On (1989) #5 Country
Big Wheels In The Moonlight (1989) #1 Country
Love On Arrival (L.O.A.) (1990) #1 Country
Good Times (1990) #1 Country
We Are One (1992)
I'd Really Love To See You Tonight (Acoustic re-release of his previous hit as England Dan & John Ford Coley) (1995)

[edit] Discography

2002 - Make It Home, w/ "Such a Sweet Sight," "Why This River Runs," "Angel Eyes"
1998 - In a Quiet Room II
1995 - In a Quiet Room
1994 - Fired Up, w/ "Jayney," "A Good Place to Be"
1992 - Walking the Wire, w/ "We Are One," "When Love Comes Around the Bend," "Slower," "The Wire"
1990 - On Arrival, w/ #1 "Love On Arrival (L.O.A.)," #1 "Good Times," and "Bordertown"
1988 - Rage On, w/ #1 "Addicted," #5 "They Rage On," #1 "Big Wheels in the Moonlight," and "24-hour Love," "Long Long Island Nights"
1987 - The Best, w/ #1 "One Friend" (originally from San Antone)
1986 - On The Frontline, w/ #1 "You Still Move Me," #1 "Three Time Loser," #1 "I Will Be There," and "Out on the Frontline"
1985 - Won't Be Blue Anymore, w/ #1 "Meet Me In Montana," #1 "Everything that Glitters," #1 "Bop," and "So Easy To Need," "Headin' West"
1984 - San Antone, w/ "In San Antone," "The Loving Proof," "Tonight Is for the Lover in You," "My Baby's Got Good Timing," "Who's Gonna Keep Me Warm," "The Wild Side of Me," "My Old Yellow Car," "She Thinks I Still Care," "She's Leaving," "Oh These Nights," "One Friend"
1983 - Rebel Heart
1982 - Harbinger, w/ "Harbinger," "Sage or Fool," "I Don't Believe I'll Fall in Love Again"
1980 - Stones
1981 - The Best of England Dan and John Ford Coley Vol. 2 1980 Stones
1980 - Just Tell Me You Love Me (Soundtrack)
1979 - The Best of England Dan and John Ford Coley
1978 - Dr. Heckle & Mr. Jive
1978 - Some Things Don't Come Easy
1977 - Dowdy Ferry Road
1976 - Nights Are Forever
1976 - I Hear The Music
1972 - Fables
1971 - England Dan & John Ford Coley

[edit] References

  1. ^ Dan Seals has found a sense of hope since embracing Faith by Frank Roberts, August 17, 1994, The Virginian-Pilot, Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.

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