Photograph by Mark Maglio
One of them had a hit album in 1980 called Voices. The other is a judge on NBC’s The Voice. Now, Daryl Hall and Cee Lo Green have joined voices.
Green stopped by for filming of the latest edition of Hall’s compulsively watchable live web series “Live at Daryl’s House,” filling in for Hall’s long-time singing partner John Oates on a pair of seamless new renditions of Hall and Oates songs during the six-song set.
“Cee Lo and I performed together,” Hall enthuses, “like we’ve been doing this all our lives.”
Along with H&O faves “I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)” and “One on One,” the duo also performs Green’s Grammy-nominated record and song of the year entry “Fuck You,” as well as “Crazy,” Green’s Grammy-winning collaboration with Danger Mouse in Gnarls Barkley. The newest edition of “Live from Daryl’s House” premieres March 15 on www.livefromdarylshouse.com and then March 24 on syndicated television affiliates — where Hall and Green will perform the “Forget You” radio edit.
“It was very flattering to be asked, and to be in the presence of such a great guy, great talent and great voice,” Green says on Hall’s Web site. “I feel like I’m being recognized for what I’ve accomplished. Daryl made me very comfortable, and that’s when I can do my best. Having him beside me is all the incentive you could ever ask for.”
Here’s a look back at our recent thoughts on John Oates, Daryl Hall and their record-smashing collaborations as Hall and Oates. Click through the titles for complete reviews …
DARYL HALL – LAUGHING DOWN CRYING (2011): Apparently playing live on “Live from Daryl’s House” has had an impact on Hall. He performs with a crisp, uncharacteristically loose sound here, in keeping with the friendly, free-form performances which populate that addictively watchable web show — and a world away from the synthesized urban pop that helped make Hall and Oates a signature act of the 1980s. At the same time, Hall retains every bit of the pop-song finesse that gave the duo a truckload of hits back then, and his voice sounds surprisingly resilient after all of these years. A welcome return to form for Hall, who also hadn’t put out a solo studio effort in more than a decade.
SOMETHING ELSE! INTERVIEW: JOHN OATES: John Oates has always been more than the Other Guy in Hall and Oates. In fact, the mustachioed one co-wrote half of H&O’s six Billboard No. 1 songs, including “Out of Touch,” “I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)” and “Maneater.” That’s to say nothing of his writing contributions to memorable sides like “Sara Smile,” “Adult Education,” “How Does It Feel To Be Back,” “You Make My Dreams” and “She’s Gone.” Oates even co-wrote and sang backup on Icehouse’s 1987 Top 10 hit “Electric Blue,” before starting a low-key parallel career on his own. While personal efforts like 2002’s Phunk Shui and 2008’s 1000 Miles of Life were well received, neither garnered the critical praise and broad attention afforded his newest project, the gritty, cool-rocking Mississippi Mile. He stopped by for an SER Sitdown to talk about the new album, as well as key moments from his career with Daryl Hall, the Temptations, Todd Rundgren and, yeah, the blues.
SOMETHING ELSE! FEATURED ARTIST: HALL AND OATES: Call them a guilty pleasure. (We have.) But the truth is, there’s more to Hall and Oates than the sum of their blow-dried caricature. So, we set about looking for tunes that made some points: That they brilliantly connected the dots between new wave and and rock music’s R&B ancestry. That they were more than just Daryl. That they had an untold complexity, leaving aside those awful videos. Included are tracks from Voices, Private Eyes, Greatest Hits: Rock ‘n’ Soul Pt. 1, and Hall’s crazy-cool late-1970s collaboration with Robert Fripp, Sacred Songs.
ONE TRACK MIND: JOHN OATES ON ‘SHE’S GONE,’ AN ALL-NEW ‘YOU MAKE MY DREAMS,’ “BACK TOGETHER AGAIN’: On this special edition of Something Else! Reviews’ One Track Mind, we handed the reins over to John Oates, one half of the pop-soul hitmaking duo Hall and Oates. Hear more about the love-gone-wrong beginnings of “She’s Gone,” and how the birth of Oates’ son sparked a standout solo track. He also laments that doo wop never gets its due, and how he remade a signature Hall and Oates hit into a boot-scootin’ swing tune on his new record, “Mississippi Mile.”
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