Country-Pop Singer Dan Seals Passed Away At 61

I had no idea Dan Seals was also “England Dan” till I heard it on the news. I enjoyed a lot of the former’s music, the latter not so much. Thanks for the FTM mention.

My CD of the Dan Seals’ album “Won’t Be Blue Any More” is one of my prized possessions. For some reason EMI had just a moderate sized batch manufactured in Japan and they are rare. The LP’s are very common and plentiful, the CD’s not so much. I’m sorry to hear of his passing and am glad I made an effort to listen every time he’s been on the Opry the last few years.

The last paragraph of the Ricky Skaggs interview at CMT.com is really interesting to me. Ricky’s output from the 1980’s is some of my favorite country music and I was disappointed when he went bluegrass full time. Now it seems he’s grown a bit weary of that as well and will be branching out again. Go Ricky!

As mentioned above: OPRY COUNTRY CLASSICS Debut Tonight! Also, I just want to publicly thank WSM for installing a new internet media player recently that sounds fantastic. The old player used so low of bitrate it sounded like the music was coming from inside a tin can! The new feed sounds great!

Trailer’s “Badass O-Meter” is a hoot and I hope it is the first of many such “meters” to appear on Farce. How about a “Real Country Cred O-Meter”? I’d like to see where Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift would fall on that one….

Wow. “Everything that Glitters is Not Gold,” which I haven’t heard in several years, has been randomly stuck in my head all morning. I just now found out about Dan’s death. Freaky.

Oh, and that’s an excellent interview with Ricky Skaggs – definitely recommended reading.

“I Won’t Take Less…” was Tanya, Paul Overstreet, and Paul Davis. Dan’s big country duet was with Marie Osmond, “Meet Me In Montana.” Perhaps now someone (Capitol?) can release a solid greatest hits package.

Ahh this is sad =[ has anyone heard that song by Rascal Flatts called “Love who you Love”?? Thats a great song you guys should check it out

“RICK- As mentioned above: OPRY COUNTRY CLASSICS Debut Tonight! Also, I just want to publicly thank WSM for installing a new internet media player recently that sounds fantastic. The old player used so low of bitrate it sounded like the music was coming from inside a tin can! The new feed sounds great!”

I couldn’t agree more. I stream WSM at my work day and night and the quality is much much better. It’s still the widest range of country music styles of anywhere I’ve found on the dial anywhere and now it doesn’t have to sound like it’s old AM.

Today is a bad day in country world.

The Opry Classics Show is well worth listening to. In tonight’s debut episode Patsy Cline songs were covered by Mandy Barnett, Lorrie Morgan, and Loretta Lynn. Chris Young sang the Marty Robbins hit “Devil Woman” and his voice sounded much stronger than on his own material! Chris can now sing Keith Whitley songs and have it fit perfectly with the show’s format. There was a touching tribute to Hank Locklin and the entire tone of the show just felt “right” for us traditionalists. I think will quickly become my favorite weekly Opry broadcast! Now if they can just keep a good variety of songs being sung, rather than the standard cast Opry Legends repeating the same songs week afetr week, the new Opry Classic show can soar like an eagle! (lol)

Sad to hear of Dan Seals’ passing although I was aware that he was losing the battle against cancer. He recorded a number of fine songs and had a nearly five year run in which every song made it to #1 (9 straight, a #5 and then two more #1s)

Dan Seals, rest in peace. You had a gentle voice and manner along with lots of talent that served you well in the music business.

You made your mark; and it’s a classy one.