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Daryl Hall & John Oates
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ReleasedAugust 18, 1975
Recorded1975
Studio Larrabee (West Hollywood), Western Recorders (Hollywood)
Genre
Length35:20, 42:03 (reissue)
Label RCA Victor
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 Hall & Oates
  1. "Camellia"
    Released: August 1975
  2. "Alone Too Long"
    Released: November 1975
  3. "Sara Smile"
    Released: January 1976
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Daryl Hall & John Oates is the 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-foil cover. The album spawned three singles: "Camellia", [3] "Alone Too Long" and "Sara Smile". "Sara Smile" peaked at number four in 1976 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the duo's first top 40 and first top ten hit.

Contents

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. "Gino (The Manager)" is about Tommy Mottola, who was the duo's manager at the time. The record jacket insert reads "And introducing Tommy Mottola as 'Little Gino.' " [4]

Album cover

The album's cover shows an androgynous-looking Hall and Oates, both wearing makeup, against a silver background. It was designed by Pierre LaRoche, a makeup artist who was responsible for much of the androgynous look of glam rock artists at the time, including creating the appearance of the Ziggy Stardust persona for David Bowie. The cover came about after Hall and Oates happened to meet LaRoche, who like the two was living in New York City's Greenwich Village at the time; LaRoche told the two, "I want to do an album cover with you guys. I will immortalize you!" [5]

In a 2019 interview, Oates said that the cover had confused listeners, because it seemed unrelated to either Hall & Oates' musical style or their public persona. [5] However, he noted that it was in keeping with other androgynous-looking album covers of the time, including The Rolling Stones' Goats Head Soup and Rick Derringer's Spring Fever. [5] He also noted that it was "pretty much the only album cover [of theirs] that anyone ever talks about, so in a way, if you just look at it in a purely analytical way, I guess it was very successful." [5] In an interview for VH1's Behind the Music , Hall joked that the cover made him look like "the girl I always wanted to go out with". [6]

Re-releases

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

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

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Camellia" John Oates 2:48
2."Sara Smile" Daryl Hall, Oates3:07
3."Alone Too Long"Oates3:21
4."Out of Me, Out of You"Hall, Oates3:28
5."Nothing at All"Hall, Sara Allen4:24
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
6."Gino (The Manager)"Hall, Oates4:10
7."(You Know) It Doesn't Matter Anymore"Hall, Allen3:07
8."Ennui on the Mountain"Hall, Oates3:15
9."Grounds for Separation"Hall4:12
10."Soldering" Ewart Beckford, Alvin Ranglin 3:24
Remastered CD bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
11."What's Important to Me (Demo)"Hall3:46
12."Ice (Demo)"Oates2:57

Personnel

Production

2000 Reissue

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