Uploaded June 2011 | Updated September 2026, 12 hours ago
Long before Scott Trusty and fellow Kansas - musicians Gary Hodgden and Jimmy MacAllister joined The Beckies, he sang lead on this Michael Brown - composition. It was only released as a DJ-single.
According to Scott, it was supposed to be something short, so that a DJ could play it, if he needed a few minutes to fill up between talk and commercials. The B-side might've been an instrumental version of the song, but that version seems to be lost (if it ever existed).
This is one epic small gap - filler!
Long before Scott Trusty and fellow Kansas - musicians Gary Hodgden and Jimmy MacAllister joined The Beckies, he sang lead on this Michael Brown - composition. It was only released as a DJ-single.
According to Scott, it was supposed to be something short, so that a DJ could play it, if he needed a few minutes to fill up between talk and commercials. The B-side might've been an instrumental version of the song, but that version seems to be lost (if it ever existed).
This is one epic small gap - filler!









![England Dan & John Ford Coley - Miss Me
From their first album by the same name from 1971.
The duo began while the pair were friends and classmates at W. W. Samuell High School in Dallas, Texas. Seals and Coley performed first as part of Dallas pop/psych group Southwest F.O.B. (Freight on Board), whose material has been re-released on CD by the Sundazed label.
Seals was the younger brother of Jim Seals of the 1970s soft-rock duo Seals and Crofts. Dans childhood nickname was England Dan because he was a fan of English rock band The Beatles, and he occasionally adopted an affected English accent. John Colleys last name was re-spelled Coley for ease of pronunciation; Ford was added as his middle name for flow purposes, thus England Dan and John Ford Coley.[citation needed]
Both toured the Texas music scene where they had one hit, The Smell of Incense, that in 1969 rose to number 43 on the charts. This band played on the bill with such acts as Led Zeppelin. While in the band, Dan Seals and John Coley began their own acoustic act, Coley and Wayland. The act was renamed England Dan & John Ford Coley, and the duo was signed by A&M Records. In 1971, the two moved to Los Angeles where they opened for numerous bands. Their first break came in 1972, with the song Simone. It became a number one hit in Japan and was also popular in France, but it did not fare as well in the United States. England Dan & John Ford Coley - Miss Me](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PUjvslsM9lY/mqdefault.jpg)
