''Won't Be Blue Anymore'' is the fifth studio album by American

country music Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...

artist

Dan Seals Danny Wayland Seals (February 8, 1948 – March 25, 2009) was an American musician. The younger brother of Seals and Crofts member Jim Seals, he first gained fame as one half of the soft rock duo England Dan & John Ford Coley, who charted ...

. It was his most successful studio album; the only one to reach No. 1 on the

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chart. The album featured some of Seals most popular songs, including "Bop" and "Meet Me in Montana", a duet with

Marie Osmond Olive Marie Osmond (born October 13, 1959) is an American singer, actress, television host, and a member of the show business family the Osmonds. Although she was never part of her family's singing group, she gained success as a country and pop ...

. These and the third single, "Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold)", all reached No. 1 on the

Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine in the United States. This 50-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly by collecting airplay data from Nielsen BDS along with digital sal ...

chart. "Bop" was a major crossover hit, peaking at No. 10 on the

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chart. The compact disc format of this album was released on the album's initial release. It has been out-of-print for more than 20 years and is highly collectible.

Track listing

Personnel

* Dan Seals – lead and backing vocals *

Barry Beckett Barry Edward Beckett (February 4, 1943 – June 10, 2009) was an American keyboardist, session musician, record producer, and studio founder. He is best known for his work with David Hood, Jimmy Johnson, and Roger Hawkins, his bandmates in th ...

– acoustic piano (1, 2, 7, 10),

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(4), electric piano (5) *

Shane Keister Shane Keister is an American musician. He is known for his work as a studio musician, writer, arranger and producer. He plays synthesizer, piano, Hammond B3, Synclavier, Fairlight CMI, Fender Rhodes, and others. History Keister was born in Hunti ...

– acoustic piano (2, 10),

Fairlight CMI The Fairlight CMI (short for Computer Musical Instrument) is a digital synthesizer, sampler, and digital audio workstation introduced in 1979 by Fairlight. — with links to some Fairlight history and photos It was based on a commercial lic ...

(6, 7, 10), synthesizers (9),

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(10) * Dennis Burnside – electric piano (3), acoustic piano (8) * David Innis – synthesizers (8) * Paul Davis –

Synclavier The Synclavier is an early digital synthesizer, polyphonic digital sampling system, and music workstation manufactured by New England Digital Corporation of Norwich, Vermont. It was produced in various forms from the late 1970s into the early 1 ...

(9), drum programming (9) *

Larry Byrom Steppenwolf was an American-Canadian rock band that was prominent from 1968 to 1972. The group was formed in late 1967 in Los Angeles by lead singer John Kay, keyboardist Goldy McJohn, and drummer Jerry Edmonton, all formerly of the Canadian b ...

– electric guitar (1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 10) *

Jerry Douglas Gerald Calvin "Jerry" Douglas (born May 28, 1956) is an American Dobro and lap steel guitar player and record producer. Career In addition to his fourteen solo recordings, Douglas has played on more than 1,600 albums. As a sideman, he has ...

–

dobro Dobro is an American brand of resonator guitars, currently owned by Gibson and manufactured by its subsidiary Epiphone. The term "dobro" is also used as a generic term for any wood-bodied, single-cone resonator guitar. The Dobro was originally ...

(1, 2, 4, 7) *

Brent Mason Brent Mason (born July 13, 1959) is an American, Nashville, Tennessee-based recording studio guitarist and songwriter, performing primarily country music. Guitar World Magazine listed him as one of the "Top Ten Session Guitarists of All Time". ...

– guitar solo (1) * Joe Stanley – acoustic guitar (1, 4, 7, 10), electric guitar fills (3), electric guitar solo (4), guitar (9) * Bobby Thompson – acoustic guitar (1, 4, 5, 7, 10) * Doyle Grisham –

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(2, 3) * Rafe Van Hoy – acoustic guitar (2, 3, 11) * Kenny Mims – electric guitar (3) * Steve Gibson – electric guitar fills (5), electric guitar (8), guitar (9) * Larry Shell – acoustic guitar (6) *

Wendy Waldman Wendy Waldman (born November 29, 1950) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. Biography Early life Waldman (born Wendy Steiner) grew up in the Los Angeles area. She was raised in a musical environment: her father Fred Steiner w ...

– acoustic guitar (6), backing vocals (6) *

Greg Jennings Gregory Jennings Jr. (born September 21, 1983) is a former American football wide receiver who played in the National Football League (NFL) for ten seasons, primarily with the Green Bay Packers. He played college football at Western Michigan an ...

– electric guitar (7, 11) * Sonny Garrish – steel guitar (8) *

Paul Worley Paul Worley (born February 16, 1950 in Nashville, Tennessee) is an American record producer and session guitarist, known primarily for his work in country music. Formerly a vice president at Sony BMG, he later joined the staff of Warner Bros. Rec ...

– acoustic guitar (8) * John Porter McMeans – electric guitar (10) * Bob Gundry – guitar solo (11), acoustic piano (11), LinnDrum programming (11), arrangements (11) *

David Hungate William David Hungate (born August 5, 1948) is an American bass guitarist noted as a member of the Los Angeles pop-rock band Toto from 1976 to 1982 and again from 2014 to 2015, and the son of judge William L. Hungate. Along with most of his T ...

– bass (1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11) * Bob Wray – bass (3) * Michael Rhodes – bass (8) *

Larrie Londin Ralph Gallant (October 15, 1943 − August 24, 1992), better known by the stage name Larrie Londin, was an American drummer and session musician. According to journalist James Byron Fox, "If not the best known, Larrie is one of the most listene ...

– drums (1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11) *

Eddie Bayers Eddie Bayers (born January 28, 1949) is an American session drummer who has played on 300 gold and platinum albums. He received the Academy of Country Music 'Drummer of the Year Award' for fourteen years, has three times won the Nashville Music ...

– drums (3, 8, 11) *

Kyle Lehning Kyle Lehning is an American record producer whose work is mainly in the field of country music. He has produced virtually every album released by Randy Travis, who described their partnership "an interesting relationship." The only exceptions are ...

– drum programming (9) * Farrell Morris – percussion (4, 5, 6) *

Mark O'Connor Mark O'Connor (born August 5, 1961) is an American fiddle player and composer whose music combines bluegrass, country, jazz and classical. A three-time Grammy Award winner, he has won six Country Music Association Musician Of The Year awards ...

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fiddle A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including classical music. Although in many cases violins and fiddles are essentially synonymous, th ...

(4, 5, 6) *

Jim Horn James Ronald Horn (born November 20, 1940) is an American saxophonist, woodwind player, and session musician. Biography Horn was born in Los Angeles, and after replacing saxophonist Steve Douglas in 1959, he toured with member Duane Eddy for f ...

– saxophone (9) * Bergen White – string arrangements (8) *

– lead and backing vocals (8) * The Cherry Sisters – backing vocals (9)

Production

* Producer – Kyle Lehning * Co-Producer on Track 8 – Paul Worley * Engineers – Joseph Bogan and Kyle Lehning * Assistant Engineers – Russ Martin and Kirt Odle * Recorded at Emerald Sound Studios, Audio Media Recorders and Master’s Touch (Nashville, TN); Morningstar Sound Studio (Hendersonville, TN). * Mixed at

The Bennett House The Bennett House is a recording studio located on 4th Avenue North in Franklin, Tennessee. Built in 1875, the two-story building has served as a residence, a clothing store and, starting in 1980, a recording studio used by many popular music ar ...

(Franklin, TN) and Morningstar Sound Studio. * Mastered by

Doug Sax Doug Lionel Sax (April 26, 1936 – April 2, 2015) was an American mastering engineer from Los Angeles, California. He mastered three of The Doors' albums, including their 1967 debut; six of Pink Floyd's albums, including ''The Wall''; Ray Charles ...

at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, CA). * Art Direction – Henry Marquez * Design – Carol Chen * Photography – Alan Dockery and Paul Maxon * Management – Tony Gottlieb at Morningstar Management.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Singles

Production

*Produced by Paul Worley & Kyle Lehning *Engineers: Joseph Bogan, Kyle Lehning, Marshall Morgan, Kirt Odle *Assistant Engineers: Russ Martin, Kirt Odle

Personnel

*Dan Seals - lead and backing vocals *

- drums *Farrell Morris - percussion * Paul Davis,

- drum programming *

, Michael Rhodes, Bob Wray - bass *Dennis Burnside,

, Dave Innis,

- keyboards *Paul Davis -

*Steve Gibson, Greg Jennings, Brent Mason, Kenny Mims, Dan Seals, Larry Shell, Joe Stanley, Bobby Thompson, Rafe Van Hoy,

, Paul Worley - guitar *Sonny Garrish, Doyle Grisham - steel guitar *

- dobro *

- saxophone *

- fiddle * The Cherry Sisters – Diane Tidwell, Sheri Kramer, Lisa Silver - backing vocals (track 9) *

- backing vocals (track 6) *Bergen White - string arrangements

References

External links

* Personnel & Production Credits for "Won't Be Blue Anymore" by Dan Seals {{Authority control 1985 albums Albums produced by Kyle Lehning Albums produced by Paul Worley Dan Seals albums Capitol Records albums