Background
Seals was born in McCamey, Texas, to a music-oriented family. He was taught by his father to play the upright bass, and his brothers, Eddie Seals and Jim Seals, are recording artists in their own right. Dan moved to Dallas as a teenager. He graduated from W. W. Samuell High School in Pleasant Grove in 1966. He and classmate John Colley, who later changed the spelling of his last name to Coley, formed a group with three other Samuell students called the Playboys Five.
Seals' cousins include country music artists Johnny Duncan and Troy Seals, as well as Brady Seals, lead singer of the band Hot Apple Pie and ex-member of Little Texas.
The Seals brothers (Jim and Dan), as well as Crofts, are members of the Bahá'í Faith.
Dan's childhood nickname of "England Dan" was given to him by his brother Jim. It was also Jim's idea to incorporate the name "England Dan" into England Dan's & John Ford Coley's act. The nickname was a reference to the fact that, as a youngster, Dan had fixated on the Beatles and briefly affected an English accent.
Dan passed away from complications of the treatment of mantle cell lymphoma.
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