Daryl Hall & John Oates (album)

Daryl Hall & John Oates
Studio album by Hall & Oates
Released	August 18, 1975
Recorded	1975
Genre	Pop rock, blue-eyed soul
Length	35:20, 42:03 (reissue)
Label	RCA Records
Producer	Daryl Hall, John Oates, Christopher Bond
Hall & Oates chronology
War Babies (1974) Daryl Hall & John Oates (1975) Bigger Than Both of Us (1976)
Singles from Daryl Hall & John Oates
"Alone Too Long" Released: November 1975 "Sara Smile" Released: January 31, 1976

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Daryl Hall & John Oates is the self-titled fourth studio album by American pop music duo 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 glam rock style cover. The cover was made by Pierre LaRoche, the same artist who created Ziggy Stardust for the rock-singer David Bowie.

In 2009, Sony Music Custom Marketing Group released a triple pack of Hall & Oates albums. Along with this album, the pack included H2O and Ooh Yeah!.

Background

"Grounds for Separation", according to Daryl Hall, was going to be used in the Sylvester Stallone film Rocky. Frank Stallone, Sylvester's brother, had been in a band with John Oates called Valentine and this connection got them a shot at an appearance on the soundtrack. The film, however, was slow to get off the ground, and Hall and Oates withdrew the song. "Alone Too Long" is the theme song for the television show Hello Ladies, which premiered on HBO in 2013. "Gino (The Manager)" is about the duo's manager at the time. The record jacket insert reads "And introducing Tommy Mottola as 'Little Gino.' " In 2009, the song was remixed and included on the duo's 4-CD box set Do What You Want, Be What You Are.

It featured an album cover in which Daryl and John are overly made up with make-up to the point where they looked like women. Hall would later say in an interview for VH1's Behind the Music that he looked like "the girl I always wanted to go out with" on that album cover.

In 2000, Buddah Records re-released the album with two bonus tracks ("What's Important to Me" and "Ice").

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Camellia"	John Oates	2:48
2.	"Sara Smile"	Daryl Hall, Oates	3:07
3.	"Alone Too Long"	Oates	3:21
4.	"Out of Me, Out of You"	Hall, Oates	3:28
5.	"Nothing at All"	Hall, Oates	4:24

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
6.	"Gino (The Manager)"	Hall, Oates	4:10
7.	"(You Know) It Doesn't Matter Anymore"	Hall, Oates	3:07
8.	"Ennui on the Mountain"	Hall, Oates	3:15
9.	"Grounds for Separation"	Hall	4:12
10.	"Soldering"	Ewart Beckford, Alvin Ranglin	3:24

Remastered CD bonus tracks

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
11.	"What's Important to Me (Demo)"	Hall	3:46
12.	"Ice (Demo)"	Oates	2:57

Personnel

• Daryl Hall – lead vocals (2, 4-10, 11), backing vocals, electric piano
• John Oates – backing vocals, lead vocals (1, 3, 10, 12), guitars
• Christopher Bond – synthesizer, guitars, Hammond organ, horn and string arrangements, backing vocals
• Clarence McDonald – grand piano on "Sara Smile"
• Scott Edwards – bass
• Leland Sklar – bass
• Jim Gordon – drums
• Ed Greene – drums
• Mike Baird – drums on "Grounds for Separation"
• Gary Coleman – percussion
• Sara Allen – backing vocals on "(You Know) It Doesn't Matter Anymore"

Production

• Produced by Christopher Bond, Daryl Hall and John Oates.
• Engineered by Barry Rudolph
• Strings and horns engineered by Armin Steiner
• Recorded at Larrabee Sound Studios (North Hollywood, CA) and Western Sound Recorders (Los Angeles, CA).
• Mixed by Christopher Bond and Barry Rudolph at Sound Labs (Hollywood, CA).
• Mastered by Allen Zentz at Allen Zentz Mastering (San Clemente, CA).
• A&R Coordination – Margie Meoli
• Make-up and Cover Concept – Pierre LaRoche
• Photography – Bill King

2000 Reissue

• Producers – Jeremy Holiday and Rob Santos
• Editing and Mixing – Dennis Ferrante
• Mastering – Elliott Federman
• Digital Transfers Technician – Bob Harty