DARYL HALL AND JOHN OATES (HALL AND OATES)
Daryl Hall and John Oates, known more commonly as Hall & Oates, are an American musical duo from Philadelphia. The two write most of the songs they perform, either separately or in collaboration. They achieved their greatest fame from the late 1970’s to the mid-1980’s with a fusion of rock and roll and rhythm and blues, which they dubbed “rock and soul”. While much of their reputation is due to the sustained pop-chart run in the 1980s, they continue to record and tour, and remain respected by various artists for their ability to cross stylistic boundaries. They are best known for their six No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100: “Rich Girl”, “Kiss on My List”, “Private Eyes”, “I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do)”, “Maneater”, and “Out of Touch”, as well as many other songs which charted in the Top 40. Because of that chart success, Billboard magazine named them the most successful duo of the rock era, surpassing The Everly Brothers. (More from Wikipedia)
For those wanting to hear ’em like they used to be, I live in a casino town, so a lot of the oldies acts come through here. I set aside a more or less random Marquee newspaper insert covering entertainment options down here (from October 2011). Here are the better known acts that were listed, and this is by no means everybody who was in town over those several weeks: Herman’s Hermits (featuring Peter Noone), Loretta Lynn, Frankie Avalon, Tommy James and the Shondells, David Cassidy, Daryl Hall and John Oates, Kool & the Gang, Merle Haggard, and the Four Tops.
(January 2012)
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The name of the Greg Shaw magazine called Who Put the Bomp is taken from “Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)”, a Top-40 hit by Barry Mann. This was basically a one-hit wonder, but Mann always concentrated mostly on his songwriting, and he is well known for numerous songs that were co-written with his wife Cynthia Weil. Others that he co-wrote with others include two hit duets by Linda Ronstadt, “Don’t Know Much” (with Aaron Neville) and “Somewhere out There” (with James Ingram); “You’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feelin’” by the Righteous Brothers and also Daryl Hall and John Oates; and “On Broadway” by the Drifters and later by George Benson. Barry Mann’s songwriting credits include an astounding 635 songs.
(May 2013)
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Paul Young, Between Two Fires – Paul Young is a leading blue-eyed soul singer from England who is best known for his #1 hit in 1985 “Every Time You Go Away” (written by Daryl Hall and included on the 1980 Daryl Hall and John Oates album Voices but never released as a single).
(December 2015)
