Troy Seals is an American

United States

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 singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

He is a member of the prominent Seals family of musicians that includes, Jim Seals (of Seals and Crofts

Seals and Crofts

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) and Dan Seals

Dan Seals

Danny Wayland "Dan" Seals was an American musician. The younger brother of Seals & Crofts member Jim Seals, he first gained fame as the "England Dan" half of the soft rock duo England Dan and John Ford Coley, which charted nine pop and adult contemporary singles between 1976 and 1980, including...

 (of England Dan & John Ford Coley

England Dan & John Ford Coley

England Dan & John Ford Coley was an American pop rock duo composed of Danny Wayland "England Dan" Seals and John Edward "John Ford" Coley. Native Texans, the duo released eleven albums and nine singles in their career and are best known for their 1976 single, "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight"....

) and Brady Seals

Brady Seals

Brady Seals is an American country music artist. He is the cousin of Jim Seals and Dan Seals and Johnny Duncan, the nephew of Troy Seals, and the husband of former BNA Records recording artist Lisa Stewart...

 (Little Texas

Little Texas

Little Texas is an American country music band founded in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1988 by Tim Rushlow , Brady Seals , Del Gray , Porter Howell , Dwayne O'Brien , and Duane Propes . Signed to Warner Bros...

 and Hot Apple Pie

Hot Apple Pie

Hot Apple Pie was an American country music band founded in 2002 by Brady Seals , Keith Horne , Trey Landry , and Mark "Sparky" Matejka . Matjeka was replaced in 2006 by Kevin Ray. Seals was initially co-lead vocalist and keyboardist in the band Little Texas until 1997...

). During the '70s, Troy Seals recorded with Lonnie Mack

Lonnie Mack

Lonnie Mack is an American rock, blues and country guitarist and vocalist....

 and Doug Kershaw

Doug Kershaw

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 and although he made two albums of his own, he is best known as a songwriter. His compositions have been recorded by artists such as Randy Travis

Randy Travis

Randy Travis is an American country music singer and actor. Since 1985, he has recorded 20 studio albums and charted more than 30 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, 22 of which were number one hits...

, Conway Twitty

Conway Twitty

Conway Twitty , born Harold Lloyd Jenkins, was an American country music artist. He also had success in early rock and roll, R&B, and pop music. He held the record for the most number one singles of any act with 55 No. 1 Billboard country hits until George Strait broke the record in 2006...

, Hank Williams Jr., Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley

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, Roy Orbison

Roy Orbison

Roy Kelton Orbison was an American singer-songwriter, well known for his distinctive, powerful voice, complex compositions, and dark emotional ballads. Orbison grew up in Texas and began singing in a rockabilly/country & western band in high school until he was signed by Sun Records in Memphis...

 and Jerry Lee Lewis

Jerry Lee Lewis

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Troy Seals has played guitar on numerous sessions for recording stars and has collaborated on compositions with Waylon Jennings

Waylon Jennings

Waylon Arnold Jennings was an American country music singer, songwriter, and musician. Jennings began playing at eight. He began performing at twelve, on KVOW radio. Jennings formed a band The Texas Longhorns. Jennings worked as a D.J on KVOW, KDAV and KLLL...

, Vince Gill

Vince Gill

Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill is an American neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a...

, Will Jennings

Will Jennings

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 and others. He has had three co-written compositions nominated for the Country Music Association

Country Music Association

The Country Music Association was founded in 1958 in Nashville, Tennessee. It originally consisted of only 233 members and was the first trade organization formed to promote a music genre...

 "Song of the Year" award: "Seven Spanish Angels

Seven Spanish Angels

"Seven Spanish Angels is a 1984 single written by Troy Seals and Eddie Setser and recorded by Ray Charles with Willie Nelson. "Seven Spanish Angels" would be the most successful of Ray Charles' eight hits on the country chart...

" (1985), "Lost in the Fifties Tonight

Lost in the Fifties Tonight

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" (1986), and "If You Ever Have Forever In Mind" (1999).

In recognition of his successful career, Troy Seals was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame

Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame

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Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions
		US Country Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...
1973	"I Got a Thing About You Baby"	93
1974	"Star of the Bar"	78
	"You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover"A	96
	"Honky Tonkin'"	81
1975	"Easy"	76
1976	"Sweet Dreams"	88
1977	"Grand Ole Blues"	93
1980	"One Night Honeymoon"	85

• ^AB-side to "Star of the Bar."