MANEATER - DARYL HALL / JOHN OATES

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Maneater - DARYL HALL / JOHN OATES

Hall & Oates are an American pop rock duo formed in 1970 in Philadelphia. Daryl Hall is generally the lead vocalist; John Oates primarily plays electric guitar and provides backing vocals. The two write most of the songs they perform, separately or in collaboration. 

They are one of the most successful pop-rock duo that consistently have a string of successive chart hits. They achieved their greatest fame from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s with a fusion of rock and roll and rhythm and blues. In 2003, Hall & Oates were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. 

"Maneater" is a song by the American duo Hall & Oates, featured on their eleventh studio album, H2O (1982). It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on December 18, 1982. It remained in the top spot for four weeks, more than any of the duo's five other number-one hits, including "Kiss on My List", which remained in the top spot for three weeks.

The Hall & Oates music video opens with a woman (Aleksandra Duncan) walking down a red staircase, and the band playing in a dimly lit studio with shafts of light projecting down on them. The band members step in and out of the light for their lip sync. 

A young woman in a short party dress is shown in fade-in and fade-out shots, along with a black jaguar, hence the song line "The woman is wild, a she-cat tamed by the purr of a Jaguar." (In the lyrics' context, the Jaguar in question is the car manufacturer.) The song's chorus is "Oh, oh here she comes; watch out boy, she'll chew you up; oh, oh here she comes, she's a Maneater."

YOU MAKE MY DREAMS - DARYL HALL / JOHN OATES

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You Make My Dreams - DARYL HALL / JOHN OATES

Hall & Oates are an American pop rock duo formed in 1970 in Philadelphia. Daryl Hall is generally the lead vocalist; John Oates primarily plays electric guitar and provides backing vocals. The two write most of the songs they perform, separately or in collaboration. 

They are one of the most successful pop-rock duo that consistently have a string of successive chart hits. They achieved their greatest fame from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s with a fusion of rock and roll and rhythm and blues. In 2003, Hall & Oates were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. 

"You Make My Dreams" is a song by American duo Daryl Hall & John Oates, taken from their ninth studio album, Voices (1980). The song reached Number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1981.  The track received 154,000 digital sales between 2008 and 2009 according to Nielsen SoundScan.

John Oates said the song came about "through a happy accident, my guitar player friend of mine and myself were jamming in the dressing room, and I started playing a delta blues and he started playing a Texas swing, and we put them together, and all of a sudden into my head popped "you make my dreams." I just started singing it. I don't know why, but I did. And it sounded really cool and everyone liked it. It was as simple as that."

With a residency of 23 weeks in the charts, Out Of Touch had peaked to the Number 1 position at Billboard's Hot 100 on December 8, 1984.

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ADULT EDUCATION - DARYL HALL / JOHN OATES

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Adult Education - DARYL HALL / JOHN OATES

Hall & Oates are an American pop rock duo formed in 1970 in Philadelphia. Daryl Hall is generally the lead vocalist; John Oates primarily plays electric guitar and provides backing vocals. The two write most of the songs they perform, separately or in collaboration. 

"Adult Education" is a song by American duo Daryl Hall & John Oates, released as a single in February 1984 and debuting on the Billboard Hot 100 on February 18. The song is featured on the duo's second compilation album Rock 'n Soul Part 1 (1983). It was one of two new tracks that were recorded specifically for the compilation release and hit Number 8 on the US Billboard Hot 100.

The song centers on the plight of a teenage girl in high school. Her girlfriends only "care about what she wears" and the narrator assures her "there's life after high school." The lyrics suggest she is wiser than her years and, in fact, is receiving an education to the behavior of adults in high school.

Hall criticized the music video in the book I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution. "Videos began to attract wannabe Cecil B. DeMilles, directors who had almost unlimited budgets and did whatever they felt like. 'Adult Education' is a perfect example. 

We brought in a director I didn't know (Tim Pope) who was newly hot. He didn't have a clue what to do with the song. The plot? I couldn't tell you." On VH1's Behind the Music retrospective of Hall & Oates' career, Oates also derided many of their old videos, describing this clip as "Survivor on acid".

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I CAN'T GO FOR THAT - DARYL HALL / JOHN OATES

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I Can't Go For That - DARYL HALL / JOHN OATES

HALL & OATES are an American pop rock duo formed in 1970 in Philadelphia. Daryl Hall is generally the lead vocalist; John Oates primarily plays electric guitar and provides backing vocals. The two write most of the songs they perform, separately or in collaboration. 

They are one of the most successful pop-rock duo that consistently have a string of successive chart hits. They achieved their greatest fame from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s with a fusion of rock and roll and rhythm and blues. In 2003, Hall & Oates were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. 

With a residency of 21 weeks in the charts, I Can't Go For That had peaked to the Number 1 position at Billboard's Hot 100 on January 30, 1982. This live performance is from the February 8, 2012 concert held at the Sydney Entertainment Center, Sydney, NSW Australia.