~ Frank Sinatra ~
I was a computer programmer working for an oil company in Los Angeles.
So what were you up to?
Cue the Rockumentary theme!
Dan Seals and John Coley met at high school in Dallas and formed a rock band. Dan was the younger brother of Jim Seals, of Seals & Croft. He liked to affect an English accent at times and was a fan of the British Invasion bands which is where he got his professional name.
They went to L.A. in 1971 and signed with Herb Alpert’s A&M Records, which put them on as the opening act for Led Zeppelin, a poor choice for an acoustic duo. They had one hit in Japan, and then A&M terminated their contract.
They recorded “I’d Really Love to See You Tonight” as a demo and played it for a VP at Atlantic Records, who thought little of it. But a VP at an Atlantic subsidiary heard it through the wall, liked it and signed them. They had a string of hits in the Seventies,
Dan Seals became a successful Hot Country act in the Eighties. He died in 2009 of cancer.
Coley still performs and produces.