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Subject: Daryl Hall and John Oates - The Solo Projects
Written By: whistledog on 12/22/05 at 11:04 am
Does anyone remember the brief solo ventures from Daryl Hall and John Oates in 1986-1987?
Daryl Hall released a 1986 debut solo album called Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine.
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It produced three chart hits ...
Dreamtime (US #5)
Foolish Pride (US #33)
Someone Like You (US #57)
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John Oates did not release an album, but he appeared on several projects. He produced the 1986 album "Small Victories" for Canadian band The Parachute Club and sang duet vocals on their smash hit Love is Fire
He also co-wrote the 1987 top 10 hit Electric Blue for Australian band Icehouse and even sang back-up on the song.
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Subject: Re: Daryl Hall and John Oates - The Solo Projects
Written By: Paul on 12/22/05 at 2:00 pm
I only recall 'Dreamtime' and 'Electric Blue', not major hits in Britain, but both very good nonetheless...
Sadly, after they'd returned from their brief hiatus, they dropped off the radar completely over here...
Subject: Re: Daryl Hall and John Oates - The Solo Projects
Written By: CeramicsFanatic on 12/22/05 at 2:03 pm
I remember "Dreamtime" and "Foolish Pride"...
I got to see Hall & Oates perform about 8 years ago and they still put on a very good show! 8)
Subject: Re: Daryl Hall and John Oates - The Solo Projects
Written By: Paul on 12/22/05 at 2:09 pm
I got to see Hall & Oates perform about 8 years ago and they still put on a very good show!
Subject: Re: Daryl Hall and John Oates - The Solo Projects
Written By: CeramicsFanatic on 12/22/05 at 2:12 pm
I can still remember the days when they were detested by the British music press who dismissed them as 'plastic and fake'...
That's quite shocking to hear! :o
But, with hindsight, they were quite influential in their own way...
I think so! :)
Subject: Re: Daryl Hall and John Oates - The Solo Projects
Written By: JohnTaylorsHeart on 12/23/05 at 6:05 am
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Subject: Re: Daryl Hall and John Oates - The Solo Projects
Written By: AFTERSHOCK on 12/28/05 at 3:07 pm
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Personally, I prefer Daryl Hall's first solo project, produced in 1977 by King Crimson's Robert Fripp, called Sacred Songs. It's weird, it's arty, it's soulful, it's experimental, it sounds nothing like Hall + Oates, and all in all it's pretty damn brave of Daryl Hall to record. Not a great album, but it's a very interesting one that has aged pretty well. Sacred Songs was the second of a three-album project that Fripp recorded, the first album being Peter Gabriel's second album (with D.I.Y. and the Eno-esque Exposure), the thrid album being Fripp's own Exposure lp which, surprisingly, is the worst of the trilogy.