Track Listing

1. I'd Really Love to See You Tonight
2. Nights Are Forever Without You
3. Lady
4. Showboat Gambler
5. Prisoner
6. Westward Wind
7. It's Sad to Belong
8. Soldier in the Rain
9. Gone Too Far
10. We'll Never Have to Say Goodbye Again
11. Who's Lonely Now
12. Some Things Don't Come Easy
13. What Can I Do with This Broken Heart
14. Love Is the Answer
15. Why Is It Me
16. Part of Me, Part of You

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16314 in Music
• Released on: 2008-03-25
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Dimensions: .24 pounds

Customer Reviews

Following in the footsteps of Bread
England Dan was actually Dan Seals, who eventually achieved success as a solo country singer in the eighties, and was also a cousin of Johnny Duncan, a country singer of the seventies. Another cousin, Troy Seals, became a successful songwriter. Dan’s brother, Jim, was one half of Seals and Croft. In contrast, John Ford Coley was a classically trained piano player. They met in the sixties but they had no real success until 1976, when this collection of their music begins.

Their first and biggest hit, I’d really love to see you tonight, was the sort of song you might expect to hear from Bread. It reached number two in the American pop charts. The follow-up, Nights are forever without you, also made the top ten. Despite this promising start, they only had a few more hits. We’ll never have to say goodbye again and Love is the answer both made the top ten. It’s sad to belong and Gone too far made the top thirty. What can I do with this broken heart just made the top fifty. In Britain, their chart record was almost non-existent.

This collection contains all their pop hits, plus the best of their other music, including a couple of singles that were minor hits on the adult contemporary chart. They split in 1980, after which Dan was a successful country singer, but that music is outside the scope of this collection. John has done little of note since the split.

England Dan and John Ford Coley made some great music that should appeal to fans of Bread in particular, but also to fans of great seventies pop music in general.

Little known and underated -- shame on the music industry !
I hardly know anybody who've heard of these guys. I discovered them while listening to the radio when I was living and working in California twenty years ago. If you like James Taylor, Carole King, Dan Fogelberg, or Ronnie Milsap, you'll love this album.

It's like soft rock and country music rolled into one. A band from the 70's, this CD has their best ever tracks from the classic "I'd Really Love To See You Tonight", to the memorable "It's Sad To Belong" then continuing with "Soldier In The Rain" and on to the upbeat "Gone Too Far" and "Why Is It me".

My cassette finally went to the place where all cassettes go to when they die. Fortunately for me, Amazon had the foresight to stock this all-time classic. My best purchase in years.

At last I've found it!!
I first heard "I'd really love to see you tonight" when living in S Africa in the 70's. It was one of those songs that gets right into your heart and I've loved and remembered it ever since. I even had a request played on our local radio last year -But I never bought it in the 70's and could never get hold of it, so I'm thrilled to find Amazon and at last I can listen to it whenever I want! I haven't even listened to the CD - only the clips on line, but I can tell that the promise of my favourite song will be fulfilled in the other tracks.
Where did these guys go and are they still performing and did they ever come to England?? Anyone know?? I would have loved to have heard them live in the 70's,but I suspect it's too late now!
And to any UK DJ's out there - why aren't you playing this music more, it's great, what I as an ignoramous would call gentle country with perfect harmonies and lyrics that reach out.