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Contents 1 Hall/Oates 2 Vote to move Hall to Hall & Oates 3 Disography 4 1975 self-titled album 5 Hall & Oates "were" a 6 Suggestions

[edit] Hall/Oates

Darly's last name is really HOHL, not Hall. He was a member of Guliver ( a folk/rock band), but John who lived in my home town of North Wales was a member of the Temptones, a soul group! John was also a championship wrester!

[edit] Vote to move Hall to Hall & Oates

No

1. D. F. Schmidt (talk) 09:37, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
2. Furry 13:21, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
3. Andylkl ^{(talk) (contrib)} 18:00, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
4. Antares33712 20:33, 29 December 2005 (UTC) (like Patti Labelle vs. Labelle the group, he has had a career outside the group and that should be noted)
5. Iamvered 21:26, 7 February 2006 (UTC) He's done solo work, and though not as successful, if Paul Simon, Gwen Stefani and Mick Jagger merit their own article, so does Daryl Hall... as long as it's not redundant. It should only focus on his solo career, and direct to Hall & Oates for the collaboration.

• Seeing no "yes" votes in four months of discussion, I have extensively pared down the Daryl Hall article to make it worthy of standing on its own. Iamvered 21:50, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Disography

I have reformatted the singles per the Wikipedia Tables for Charts guideline and I would like to also work on the albums to make them look more like, say, Pet Shop Boys discography or Prince discography. In doing so, I suggest spinning off all of this information to a Hall & Oates discography page. Any opinions on/objections to this? -- eo 14:41, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Didn't see any objections (or approvals, for that matter), so I went ahead and created Hall & Oates discography. Hope this looks ok and frees up some space in this article. -- eo 13:15, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 1975 self-titled album

This article says that the self-titled 1975 album Daryl Hall & John Oates is known as "the silver album" and the cover image made Hall & Oates look like women. This is a reasonable description of the original cover design shown here, but the image of the album shown on Hall & Oates discography (Image:Hall Oates self-titled.jpg) does not match that. --Metropolitan90 05:33, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

I agree, but I have never seen the version in the discog section before. I believe it should be changed to the more popular silver version. Of course there are also two or more covers for VOICES and ROCK & SOUL Vol 1 also. Antmusic 00:35, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hall & Oates "were" a

I noticed someone changed the first line to "Hall & Oates WERE a..." Is there a wiki reason for this (like all articles must be in the past tense)?

Daryl & John are still a touring and recording band/duo. Antmusic 00:33, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

• HALL AND OATES ROCK AND ROLL "HALL" OF FAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!? (Comment by user at 65.195.225.218)

[edit] Suggestions

Don't assume everybody already knows the basics. I came here looking for the answer to two questions and found nothing:

• What is the breakdown of what Daryl Hall did in the group and what John Oates did in the group? Do they both sing lead like Simon & Garfunkel? Are they a lead singer/lead guitarist duo like Plant/Page? It seems this would be an obvious point of info to include.
• What was their songwriting process? Did they write all their songs together? Did they sometimes collaborate and sometimes contribute individual efforts? How often did they go to outside writers completely?

• • The answers to your questions may rely on the time period. Both Daryl and John are singers and song writers. We would have to find verifiable articles to talk about their process. Looking at their writing credits, they are close to equal (they write one together, John writes one, Daryl writes one, so on and so on). John Oates sings lead on about 25% of each of their albums (maybe less)... he almost always does background vocals. They both play guitar. Daryl sometimes plays piano/keyboard. They both have solo albums also.Antmusic 19:53, 15 February 2007 (UTC)