Danny Wayland Seals (February 8, 1948 – March 25, 2009), also known as England Dan, was an American musician.

After the duo disbanded, Seals began a solo career, starting in soft rock before shifting to country music.

The nickname was a reference to the fact that, as a youngster, Dan had fixated on the Beatles and briefly affected an English accent.

[1][2] Dan joined with fellow 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.

('Free On Board'), whose material has been re-released on CD by the Sundazed label, and then as the duo England Dan & John Ford Coley.

Seals later recalled[3] that this led to a period of severe financial challenge which ended only when the duo signed to Big Tree Records and had a run of six US Top 40 hits from the mid-1970s, beginning with "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight", the pair's biggest hit, reaching No.

After seven LPs, they disbanded in 1980 and Seals reinvented himself as a solo country-pop artist, signing with Atlantic Records in 1980.

He initially struggled, but his voice and sentimental manner suited Nashville at a time when country music began to soften its rural styling.

A 1985 duet with Marie Osmond, "Meet Me in Montana,” reached No 1 and Seals followed this with a run of eight chart-toppers.

Just as the pop rock market had changed radically in the 1980s, so did country music in the 1990s with the arrival of Garth Brooks's turbo-charged anthems.

[5] After it came "Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold)," about a rodeo cowboy having to cope with single parenthood (written by Seals and fellow Texan Bob McDill).

The lone new track "One Friend," which was originally included on 1984's San Antone, was re-recorded for this collection and continued his No.

[8] The next single, the truck driving song "Big Wheels in the Moonlight," was released in late 1988, and reached No.

It contained his hits from the albums Won't Be Blue Anymore, Rage On, and On Arrival, along with a new track, "Ball and Chain," which was not released as a single.

By this time, the country music landscape had changed abruptly, and Dan Seals found his style out of favor.

Only three of the five singles released from this album ("Sweet Little Shoe," "Mason Dixon Line," and "When Love Comes Around the Bend") actually charted, but none of them reached the top 40.

He signed to Intersound and released In a Quiet Room in 1995, comprising acoustic versions of his earlier hits.

[citation needed] In 2008, Seals completed radiation treatments for cancer ( mantle cell lymphoma ) at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville and at M.D.

Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and received a stem cell transplant at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Maryland.

The track is featured as the closing number on Rogers's album You Can't Make Old Friends.