It contained the ballad Sara Smile, a song Hall wrote for his aforementioned girlfriend Sara Allen.Daryl Hall is generally the lead vocalist; John Oates primarily plays electric guitar and provides backing vocals.
The two write most of the songs they perform, separately or in collaboration. They achieved their greatest fame from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s with a fusion of rock and roll and rhythm and blues. Six of these peaked at number one: Rich Girl (1977), the three 1981 releases Kiss on My List Private Eyes and I Cant Go for That (No Can Do) (also a Hot Soul no. Maneater (1982) and Out of Touch (1984). Their overall 16 US Top Tens also include Shes Gone, Sara Smile, You Make My Dreams, Family Man, Say It Isnt So and Method of Modern Love. Seven of their albums have been RIAA -certified platinum and six of them gold. In the United Kingdom they have achieved comparatively moderate success, with two Top Ten albums and six Top 40 singles, two of which I Cant Go for That (No Can Do) and Maneater reached the Top Ten. The duo have spent 120 weeks in the UK Top 75 albums chart and 84 weeks in the UK Top 75 singles chart. In August 2018, in a 60th-anniversary celebration of Billboard s Hot 100, the duo ranked 18 in a list of the top Hot 100 artists of all time and six in a list of the Hot 100s top duosgroups. They remain the most successful duo, ahead of the Carpenters, the Everly Brothers and Simon Garfunkel. In September 2010 VH1 placed the duo at no. In April 2014 they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 5 and on September 2, 2016 they received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In an interview with Esquire, Oates said, There isnt one album that says Hall and Oates. The idea of Hall and Oates, this two-headed monster, this thing, is not anything weve ever wanted or liked. In a 2015 interview, Oates noted that its a horrible name and that it was a totally conscious decision not to be known as Hall Oates. We didnt want to be the Everly Brothers, or Loggins Messina, or whatever. At the time they met, each was heading his own musical group, Hall with The Temptones and Oates with The Masters. They were there for a band competition when gunfire rang out between two rival gangs, and in trying to escape, they ran to the same service elevator. On further discovering that they were interested in the same music and that both were attending Philadelphias Temple University, they started spending time together on a regular basis and eventually shared a number of apartments in the city. One of the apartments they shared had Hall Oates on the mailbox, which became the duos common nickname. The two didnt start working together seriously until 1970 after Oates got back from an extended stay in Europe. None of their early albums - Whole Oats, Abandoned Luncheonette and War Babies - were very successful. Despite being produced by such big-name producers as Arif Mardin and Todd Rundgren, they had no hit singles during this time period, though Abandoned Luncheonette contained Shes Gone. This song would be covered by Lou Rawls and Tavares before Atlantic Records re-released the Hall and Oates version in 1976. Shes Gone, as covered by Tavares, did go to Number One on the RB charts in 1974. Another Abandoned Luncheonette single, Las Vegas Turnaround, was written about (and mentioned by first name) Halls girlfriend, flight attendant and future song-writing collaborator Sara Allen. Their first album for the new label, Daryl Hall John Oates (often referred to by their fans as the silver album because of the silver foil material on the original album cover), was their first legitimate success.
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