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Dan Wayland Seals (born February 8, 1948 in McCamey, Texas) is an American musician, occasionally called England Dan.
Biography
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).
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.
Solo career
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.
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.
Solo discography
Albums
| Year | Album | Chart Positions | RIAA | Label | |
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| US Country | US 200 | ||||
| 1980 | Stones | Atlantic | |||
| 1982 | Harbinger | ||||
| 1983 | Rebel Heart | 40 | Liberty | ||
| 1984 | San Antone | 24 | |||
| 1985 | Won't Be Blue Anymore | 1 | 59 | Gold | |
| 1986 | On the Front Line | 12 | |||
| 1987 | The Best | 7 | Platinum | ||
| 1988 | Rage On | 6 | |||
| 1990 | On Arrival | 13 | |||
| 1991 | Greatest Hits | 15 | |||
| 1992 | Walking the Wire | Warner Bros. | |||
| 1994 | Fired Up | ||||
| The Best of Dan Seals | Curb | ||||
| 1995 | In a Quiet Room | Intersound | |||
| 1998 | In a Quiet Room II | TDC | |||
| 2002 | Make It Home | Lightyear | |||
Singles
| Year | Single | Chart Positions | Album | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country | US Hot 100 | US AC | |||
| 1980 | "Late at Night" | 57 | Stones | ||
| 1981 | "Stones" | ||||
| "Love Like the Last Time" | |||||
| 1982 | "Can't Get You Out of My Mind" | Harbinger | |||
| "I Could Be Loving You Right Now" | |||||
| 1983 | "Everybody's Dream Girl" | 18 | Rebel Heart | ||
| "After You" | 28 | ||||
| "You Really Go for the Heart" | 37 | ||||
| 1984 | "God Must Be a Cowboy" | 10 | |||
| "(You Bring Out) The Wild Side of Me" | 9 | San Antone | |||
| "My Baby's Got Good Timing" | 2 | ||||
| 1985 | "My Old Yellow Car" | 9 | |||
| "Meet Me in Montana" (with Marie Osmond) | 1 | Won't Be Blue Anymore | |||
| "Bop" | 1 | 42 | 10 | ||
| 1986 | "Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold)" | 1 | |||
| "You Still Move Me" | 1 | On the Front Line | |||
| 1987 | "I Will Be There" | 1 | |||
| "Three Time Loser" | 1 | ||||
| "One Friend" | 1 | The Best | |||
| 1988 | "Addicted" | 1 | Rage On | ||
| "Big Wheels in the Moonlight" | 1 | ||||
| 1989 | "They Rage On" | 5 | |||
| 1990 | "Love on Arrival" | 1 | On Arrival | ||
| "Good Times" | 1 | ||||
| "Bordertown" | 49 | ||||
| 1991 | "Water Under the Bridge" | 57 | |||
| "Sweet Little Shoe" | 62 | Walking the Wire | |||
| "Good Goodbye" | |||||
| 1992 | "Mason Dixon Line" | 43 | |||
| "When Love Comes Around the Bend" | 51 | ||||
| "We Are One" | |||||
| 1994 | "All Fired Up" | 66 | Fired Up | ||
| "Love Thing" | |||||
| 1995 | "Healin' Kind" | In a Quiet Room | |||
| "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight" | |||||
References
- ^ 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.
External links
- Official site
- The Dan Seals fan page includes biography, gallery, lyrics, etc.
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