This year, Every Sunday Evening, Album Rock WXYG, The GOAT will feature a full album at 8:00 PM from the halcyon musical days of 1975. 1975 was one of the top Years in Album Rock history. Another year of tough choices every week. So many great ones to choose from.
We hope you’ll tune in at 8:00 PM, Sunday, November 23rd for “Daryl Hall & John Oates”, the fourth studio album by Hall & Oates.
The album was released on August 18, 1975, by RCA Records. It is sometimes referred to as The Silver Album because of its metallic-foil cover.
In 2003, Hall & Oates were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In August 2018, in a 60th-anniversary celebration of the Billboard 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 100's top duos/groups. They remain the MOST SUCCESSFUL DUO OF ALL TIME, ahead of the Carpenters, the Everly Brothers, and Simon & Garfunkel. In September 2010, VH1 ranked the duo among the 100 greatest artists of all time. In April 2014, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and on September 2nd, 2016, they received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Their first album for RCA, 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 issued in 1975 and was their first triumphant success. The album contained the ballad "Sara Smile", a song Hall wrote for Sara Allen, his girlfriend of more than three decades - and the inspiration for the Hall & Oates hit "Sara Smile" and also his songwriting partner on songs such as "Private Eyes" (1981), "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)" (1981), "You Make My Dreams" (1981), "Maneater" (1982) and many others.
Signed to Atlantic by Ahmet Ertegun in the 1970s, Daryl Hall & John Oates have sold more albums than any other duo in music history. Their 1973 debut album, Abandoned Luncheonette, produced by Arif Mardin, yielded the Top-10 single, “She’s Gone”. The duo recorded one more album with Atlantic, War Babies, (produced by Todd Rundgren) before they were dropped and promptly signed to RCA. Their tenure at RCA would catapult the duo to international superstardom.
From the mid-’70s to the mid-’80s, the duo would score six No. 1 singles, including “Rich Girl” (also No. 1 R&B), “Kiss on My List,” “Private Eyes,” “I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)” (also No. 1 R&B), “Maneater” and “Out of Touch” from their six consecutive multi-platinum albums – 1976’s Bigger Than Both of Us, 1980’s Voices, 1981’s Private Eyes, 1982’s H2O, 1983’s Rock N Soul, Part I, and 1984’s Big Bam Boom. The era would also produce an additional five Top-10 singles: “Sara Smile,” “One on One,” “You Make My Dreams,” “Say It Isn’t So,” and “Method of Modern Love.”
By 1987, the R.I.A.A. recognized Daryl Hall and John Oates as the number one selling duo in music history, a record they still hold today.
The “Silver Album” was the album that made them giant stars, and from there, there was no looking back.
Tune In and Turn On Sunday, November 23rd, and every Sunday evening at 8:00 PM for The GOAT'S "The Long Play with Al Neff”.
