Dan Seals

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This article is about the American musician. For the US Congressional Candidate, see Daniel Seals.

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

1 Background
2 Collaboration with John Ford Coley
3 Chart performance
4 References
5 External links

[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. The latter 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-1960's to perform as Seals and Crofts. The Seals brothers (Jim and Dan), as well as Crofts are all members of the Bahá'í Faith.

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

While in high school, Seals joined with piano-playing 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. When the group disbanded, he continued performing with F.O.B. member John Ford Coley as England Dan & John Ford Coley. {The "England Dan" moniker was a reference to Seals being enamored by The Beatles and emulating the quartet's accent^[1].) The two would eventually have several hits performing singing pop rock harmonies such as I'd Really Love To See You Tonight. After 7 LPs, they disbanded in 1980 and since then Dan Seals has been performing as a solo artist.

[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.