[Vision2020] Pop, Country Singer Dan Seals Dies of Cancer

[Tom Hansen]

Courtesy of the Associated Press at:

http://tinyurl.com/de9kp5
  
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Pop, country singer Dan Seals dies of cancer 
By JOHN GEROME, Associated Press

Dan Seals, who was England Dan in the pop duo England Dan and John Ford 
Coley and later had a successful country career, has died of complications 
from cancer. He was 61.

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In this image released by Morningstar Management, Dan Seals is shown in an 
undated photo. Seals, who was England Dan in the pop duo England Dan and 
John Ford Coley and later had a successful country career, died Wednesday, 
March 25, 2009, of complications from cancer. He was 61. Longtime manager 
Tony Gottlieb said Seals, diagnosed with lymphoma two years ago, died 
Wednesday night at his daughter's home in Nashville. (AP Photo/Morningstar 
Managment, Gwendolyn Cates) 

http://tinyurl.com/DanSealsPhoto
 
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Longtime manager Tony Gottlieb said Seals, diagnosed with lymphoma two 
years ago, died Wednesday night at his daughter's home in Nashville.

With England Dan and John Ford Coley, Seals had hits including "I'd Really 
Like to See You Tonight" and "Nights Are Forever," both in 1976. His 
country hits in the '80s and '90s included "Bop," "You Still Move 
Me," "Love on Arrival," and a duet with Marie Osmond, "Meet Me in Montana."

"I've loved to play and sing from the moment I knew what it was," he told 
The Associated Press in 1992.

Seals, who is survived by his wife and four children, was in hospice care 
when he died.

"He was very positive," said Gottlieb, Seals' manager for about 30 
years. "He participated in several clinical trials to assist with research 
on this type of lymphoma."

Gottlieb said a major misconception about Seals is that he was a pop 
singer who came to country music. In reality, he said, Seals grew up 
singing country music and crossed into pop.

"He was raised in a very rural part of West Texas. His father was an 
amateur country singer, and he used to play with his dad. They were Hank 
Williams, Grand Ole Opry people. He was much more of a country singer than 
a pop singer."

Seals' older brother, Jimmy, was the Seals in Seals & Crofts, who recorded 
the hits "Summer Breeze" and "Diamond Girl" in the 1970s.

Until Dan Seals got sick, the brothers were working as a duo, Seals & 
Seals. They performed some shows and were recording an album but never 
finished it. The songs they did complete, about eight in all, will be 
released.

"In the last two years he only did like three shows," Gottlieb said. "He 
just didn't have the energy."

Seals, whose father was a pipefitter, was born in McCamey, Texas, and grew 
up in Iraan, Texas, and Dallas.

His well-crafted songs tended to be insightful and graphic with lofty 
themes. In 1989, his music video for the song "Rage On" addressed a topic 
rare in country music: an interracial relationship. It showed angry youths 
smashing the windows of the car of a young man dating a girl of a 
different race. One boy hurled a beer bottle at the girl's father. The 
song itself was about small town values.

"When we record songs, we take chances," Seals said at the time. "We feel 
we are on the cutting edge of what we can do."

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"They Rage On"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dVTW1ZHuNc

"Everything That Glitters Is Not Gold"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUXCaXSTmns

"Addicted"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sju7osFbV9w

"God Must Be a Cowboy at Heart"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-UP26qH9Jc

"One Friend"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPnhSFrkpno

Rest well, Dan.

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
 
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