Bigger Than Both Of Us
Hall & Oates
Engineer: John Arrias, John Mills, Armen Steiner
Friday Music, 2008
1 CD
Catalogue #: FRM 1976
EAN: 0829421197621
UPC: 829421197621
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Personnel: Darryl Hall (vocals, keyboards, mandola, synthesizer); John Oates (vocals, guitar, harmonica); C.B. (guitar, keyboards, synthesizer); Tom Scott (flute, saxophone, lyricon); Tom Hensley (piano); Scotty Edwards, Leland Sklar (bass); JIm Gordon, Ed Greene (drums); Gary Coleman (percussion).
Recorded at Cherokee Studios and Sound Labs Studios, Los Angeles, California.
Digitally remastered by Joe Lopes (July 1990, BMG Recording Studios, New York City).
Hall & Oates: John Oates (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Daryl Hall (vocals, mandolin, keyboard, synthesizer).
Personnel: C.B. (guitar, keyboard, synthesizer); Tom Scott (flute, saxophone, lyricon); Charlie DeChant (saxophone); Tom Hensley (piano); David Foster (keyboard); Scotty Edwards, Leland Sklar (bass instrument); Ed Greene, Jim Gordon (drums); Gary Coleman (percussion).
Audio Remasterer: Joe Reagoso.
Recording information: Sound Labs Studios, Los Angeles, CA.
This is a transitional album for the duo. Its sound is dominated by the blue-eyed soul for which they'd become famous, but toward the end there are some stylistic change of paces. The big hit here, "Rich Girl," is one of the pair's best Motown pastiches; it was reputedly inspired by Errol Wetson, heir to the hamburger fortune. Hall seems to have felt, rightly, that "Rich Boy" didn't quite have the same ring.
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Hall & Oates
The pre-eminent white soul duo of the 1970s and '80s, Daryl Hall and John Oates ruled pop radio for years with their hook-ridden hits. The pair eventually moved beyond their initial inspirations--primarily Motown groups like the Temptations and Philly soul artists like Harold Melvin & the Bluenotes--and incorporated pop, rock and disco into a sound that managed to be both commercial and soulful.
