Bop (song)

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"Bop"
Single by Dan Seals
from the album Won't Be Blue Anymore
B-side "In San Antone" [1]
ReleasedOctober 1985
Genre Country
Length3:45
Label EMI America
Songwriter(s) Paul Davis
Jennifer Kimball
Producer(s) Kyle Lehning
Dan Seals singles chronology
"Meet Me in Montana"
(1985)
"Bop"
(1985)
"Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold)"
(1986)

"Bop" is a song written by Paul Davis and Jennifer Kimball, and recorded by American country music artist Dan Seals. It was released in October 1985 as the second single from the album Won't Be Blue Anymore . It reached #1 on the Country singles chart in early 1986. "Bop" was his second number one hit, but his first as a solo artist. It was a major crossover hit as well, peaking at #42 on the US Hot 100, and at #10 on the US Adult Contemporary Chart. [2]

Paul Lavon Davis was an American singer and songwriter, best known for his radio hits and solo career which started worldwide in 1970. His career encompassed soul, country, and pop. His most successful songs are 1977's "I Go Crazy", a #7 pop hit which once held the record for the longest chart run on the Billboard Hot 100, and 1982's "'65 Love Affair", which at #6 is his highest-charting single. In the mid-1980s, he also had two country #1 hits as a guest vocalist on songs by Marie Osmond and Tanya Tucker.

Jennifer Kimball is a singer and songwriter who formed the folk duo The Story with Jonatha Brooke.

Dan Seals singer-songwriter

Danny Wayland Seals was an American musician. The younger brother of Seals & Crofts member Jim Seals, he first gained fame as "England Dan", one half of the soft rock duo England Dan & John Ford Coley, which charted nine pop singles between 1976 and 1980, including the No. 2 Billboard Hot 100 hit "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight".

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Music video

The music video was directed by George Bloom. It shows an older couple preparing to travel to an armory. It concurrently shows flashbacks of the couple 30 years earlier. One of the highlights in the video is the 30-year flashback of the couple in a 1955 Ford Thunderbird that transforms 30 years later into the 1985 Ford Thunderbird. Towards the end of the video, it shows the couple in their elderly stages dancing at the armory along with many others with Seals performing the song onstage.

The video has not been included in Seals' 1991 video compilation, A Portrait, which also included the video for "They Rage On," plus three other videos for Seals' "God Must Be a Cowboy," "Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold)" and "Big Wheels in the Moonlight" that were filmed especially for the compilation.

Chart positions

Chart (1985–1986)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [3] 1
US Adult Contemporary ( Billboard ) [4] 10
US Billboard Hot 100 [5] 42
Canadian RPM Country Tracks1
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks6
Canadian RPM Top Singles1

Year-End Chart

Chart (1986)Position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard )11

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