Comments on: R.I.P. "England Dan" Seals

R.I.P. "England Dan" Seals

porn in the woods — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:59:19 -0800

Dan Seals -- half of the 1970s pop duo England Dan and John Ford Coley, and a hit country musician in later decades -- passed away Wednesday night in Nashville at age 61. The duo's hits included the FM staple "I'd Really Love To See You Tonight" and "Nights are Forever." In Dan's later years, he was working with his older brother Jimmy (the Seals in Seals & Crofts) as Seals & Seals.

By: Joe Beese

Joe Beese — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:08:48 -0800

By: jonp72

jonp72 — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:13:59 -0800

. Dan Seals was also a member of the psychedelic group, Southwest F.O.B. Here's a live TV performance of their cover version of The Smell of Incense, originally by the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.

By: ND¢

ND¢ — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:15:00 -0800

I always liked "Bop".

By: Turtles all the way down

Turtles all the way down — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:23:32 -0800

Definitely part of the poignant soundtrack to my life. .

By: scody

scody — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:46:15 -0800

My boyfriend was temporarily blinded by the pyrotechnics at an England Dan and John Ford Coley show, an event that happened to be both his first date and his first concert. So this will conjure many bittersweet memories for him, I'm sure.

By: KevinSkomsvold

KevinSkomsvold — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:13:24 -0800

blinded by the pyrotechnics Wrapped up like a dou... aw nuts - forget it.

By: pracowity

pracowity — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:43:17 -0800

They were doing fine until that wrongheaded third single. It's sad to be long? What kind of boast is that? But to make up for that: here are England Dan and John Ford Coley in 1968 in a band called Southwest FOB playing a psychedelic song called "The Smell Of Incense". When Ovid introduces the band at 3:30, Coley is Lassie (because his real name is Colley). And here (bottom video) is Ovid's current site, with video of the band recording of the song above.

By: dog food sugar

dog food sugar — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:40:43 -0800

. 61 is so young. Cancer sucks.

By: quietalittlewild

quietalittlewild — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:42:04 -0800

As a noctural-tendencied kid growing up in Florida with the radio glued to my ear, I always liked the the line: "There's a warm wind blowin' the stars around, and I'd really love to see you tonight". Seemed beachy and romantic, as opposed to your cuddling-by-the-fire-while-the-storm-rages-outside type of romantic song images. I must have been at that pre-teen girly-girl swoony age when this song was on the radio. (Hey good thing there were no cell phones, right?!) .

By: evilcolonel

evilcolonel — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:08:20 -0800

As a noctural-tendencied kid growing up in Florida with the radio glued to my ear, I always liked the the line: "There's a warm wind blowin' the stars around, and I'd really love to see you tonight". I liked that line too, so I was quite crushed to learn it's actually "There's a warm wind blowing', the stars are out." .

By: doctorschlock

doctorschlock — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:08:56 -0800

Really going to miss those 70's love songs. Thanks Dan. Man, I miss the Top 40 easy listening tunes. You can't hum anything today..except that McDonalds Filet o fish jingle.

By: porn in the woods

porn in the woods — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:33:05 -0800

I'm not talking about moving in, and I don't wanna change your life, but I never knew that Seals & Crofts were related to one of the England Dan & John Ford Coley duo. It figures, though, for S&C's "Summer Breeze" is a close cousin to "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight"

By: quietalittlewild

quietalittlewild — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:02:22 -0800

evilcolonel! Thanks for the correction. Well, I'll try not to be crushed, but to think of it as childlike nights with the radio and such. Glad to see I'm not the only one who had a creative mishearing.

By: fairmettle

fairmettle — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:45:02 -0800

By: bowline

bowline — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:19:52 -0800

I don't know about that stars line. I used to have the sheet music for that song ("I'd Really Love to See you Tonight", or The Backsliding Song, as I like to think of it), and I am pretty sure the stars are blowing around, not just out. Google says the lyric websites are undecided.

By: camcgee

camcgee — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:31:12 -0800

I am pretty sure the stars are blowing around, not just out. Stars are blowing around. I can confirm this 100% because my dad wrote the song. Dan was a great guy and had been sick for quite a while so his death was not a surprise -- he left the hospital a couple of days ago to be with his family for what everyone knew would be his final days. Sad for his family and friends but it's a relief that's he's no longer in pain.

By: pracowity

pracowity — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:58:55 -0800

Here's Dan Seals singing your dad's song, just voice and guitars. (By the way, he sings "around" here and in the old hit version.)

By: staggering termagant

staggering termagant — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:42:14 -0800

THANK GOD the stars are blowing around. The idea that the stars are just "out" instead of "blowing around" was a much bigger problem than the realization I had earlier this morning that a clam will be elected president in 2012. I also grew up in Florida, born in 1970, and Summer Breeze is somehow embedded in my DNA. Perhaps no other song conjures up childhood for me more powerfully, although some come close: Black Water Angie Stairway to Heaven Dust in the Wind Hey 19 RIP, seminal '70s guy. I raise a glass of Strawberry Quik in your honor.

By: aught

aught — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:34:04 -0800

England Dan and John Ford Coley also managed to keep Todd Rundgren stocked in guitars and electronics for a while longer by improbably making a Top Ten hit out of his "Love is the Answer."

By: quietalittlewild

quietalittlewild — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:39:08 -0800

Ah, how nice to see the warm wind was, after all, blowing the stars around. So lovely, all that starry-nights-on-the-beach-swoony-romantic-girly-girl type stuff that one lyric instantly brings to mind.

By: 8-bit floozy

8-bit floozy — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:34:01 -0800

OK, I guess that means I'll play the dramatic-teenage-girl-heartbroken-over-bad-boy crying in the closet, calling the radio station requesting "Addicted." Man, I just googled that to make sure I got the song title right, and read the lyrics over again. It isn't until you get older that you figure out what bittersweet actually means.