Along the Red Ledge
Hall & Oates
Engineer: Ed Sprigg, Humberto Gatica, Tom Knox
Friday Music, 2008
1 CD
Catalogue #: FRM 1978
EAN: 0829421197829
UPC: 829421197829
You save: 25%
This 1996 reissue marks the first time ALONG THE RED LEDGE has appeared on CD.
Hall & Oates: Daryl Hall, John Oates.
Reissue producer: Basil Marshall.
Originally released on RCA (2804).
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
Hall & Oates: John Oates (vocals, guitars); Daryl Hall (vocals, keyboards).
Additional personnel: Rick Nielson, Dick Wagner, Jay Graydon, Robert Fripp, Steve Lukather, Steve Porcaro, Todd Rundgren, George Harrison, Les Thompson, Steve Foreman, George Bitzer.
Audio Mixer: Ed Sprigg.
Arrangers: Daryl Hall; David Foster ; Gene Page; John Oates.
This album continues the mix of Philly soul and hard rock Hall and Oates began to flirt with on BEAUTY ON A BACK STREET. Hall occasionally oversings here. On the attempted big ballad "Have I Been Away Too Long" he confuses melisma with yodeling (which is actually pretty funny, albeit unintentional). Elsewhere, however, the album is smart and tuneful, with "The Last Time"--a Phil Spector tribute--and "Pleasure Beach," a '60s party song complete with cheesy Farfisa organ as particular standouts.
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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.
