Daryl Hall

Daryl Hall (* 11. October 1946 in Pottstown , Pennsylvania as Daryl Franklin Hollow ) is an American singer . He is one half of the Hall & Oates duo .

Life

Hall was heavily influenced by the music of Frank Sinatra through his mother during his childhood . In the mid-1960s he began to study at Temple University in Philadelphia and gained his first live and record experience in Philadelphia from 1966-67 as a member of The Temptones, which released two singles ( Girl I Love You , Say These Words of Love ). Hall met John Oates at university in 1967 ; the bands of the two musicians had performed in the Adelphi Ballroom in Philadelphia.

Daryl's first solo singles, The Princess and the Soldier and A Lonely Girl , were recorded in 1968. He then briefly joined the band Pal and the Prophets. He had his first rather dubious chart success in 1969 as a studio keyboarder for the band The Electric Indian , which reached 16th place in the US charts with the instrumental piece Keem-O-Sabe . Daryl Hall later said of this title: "probably the worst record ever made in history" (probably the worst record in history) . In 1969 Daryl Hall founded the band Gulliver without John Oates to record an album, which released an unsuccessful LP that same year. A year later the group broke up.

From December 1970 Daryl Hall performed live with John Oates and formed with him the duo Hall & Oates, which had a total of 34 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 from 1974 to 2005 . With 16 top ten hits and six number one hits, Hall & Oates became the most successful duo in American pop history. By 2017, Hall & Oates had received 11 platinum and 13 gold plates in the United States .

In collaboration with Robert Fripp , Daryl Hall recorded a solo album in 1977 under the title Sacred Songs . However, due to its non-commercial nature in the opinion of the record company RCA , it was not released until 1980. Daryl Hall was involved in Robert Fripp's 1979 album Exposure and sang a few pieces on this album.

Daryl Hall used a short creative break from Hall & Oates to record his second solo album Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine . The hit Dreamtime comes from this album . For the 1994 soccer World Cup in the USA, he contributed the official World Cup song Gloryland , together with the 40-piece choir and 10-piece orchestra "The Sounds of Blackness" . In 1996 Daryl released the album Can't Stop Dreaming , which was initially only released in Japan and only in 2003 in Europe and the USA. In 2011 the album Laughing Down Crying followed .

In 2018, BMG announced that it had bought "Live From Daryl's House" from Daryl Hall. The show started as a web show in 2007, over the years there have been Ben Folds , Sammy Hagar , Aaron Neville , Smokey Robinson , Nick Lowe , Todd Rundgren , Mayer Hawthorne , Jason Mraz , Gavin DeGraw , Amos Lee , Elle King , Aloe Blacc , Kenny Loggins and many other stars will be guests in Daryl Hall's private home. Most recently, the program was broadcast by MTV in America.

Daryl Hall's former wife, Amanda Aspinall, with whom he was married from 2009 to 2015, passed away in 2019.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
year	title	DE	CH	UK	US	Remarks
1980	Sacred Songs RCA Victor 3573	-	-	-	US58 (12 weeks) US	First published: March 1980 Producer: Robert Fripp
1986	Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine RCA 7196	DE43 (4 weeks) DE	-	UK26 (5 weeks) UK	US29 (26 weeks) US	First published: August 1986 Producers: Daryl Hall, David A. Stewart , Tom Wolk
1993	Soul Alone Epic 53937	-	-	UK55 (4 weeks) UK	US177 (3 weeks) US	First published: September 1993 Producers: Daryl Hall, Michael Peden, Peter Lord Moreland, V. Jeffrey Smith
2011	Laughing Down Crying Verve Forecast B0015927-02	-	-	-	US142 (1 week) US	First released: September 27, 2011 Producers: Daryl Hall, Greg Bieck, Paul Pesco, John Fields , Tom Wolk

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

More albums

1986: The Classic Ballads (promotional compilation; RCA 6243)
1996: Can't Stop Dreaming ( BMG )
2004: Live in Philadelphia (limited live album, 2 CDs)

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
year	Title album	DE	CH	UK	US	R&B	Dance	Remarks
1986	Dreamtime Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine	DE53 (6 weeks) DE	-	UK28 (8 weeks) UK	US5 (15 weeks) US	-	Dance36 (5 weeks) Dance	First published: July 1986 Authors: Daryl Hall, John Beebe
	Foolish Pride Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine	-	-	-	US33 (13 weeks) US	R&B91 (6 weeks) R&B	-	First published: October 1986 Authors: David A. Stewart , Tom Wolk
	I Wasn't Born Yesterday Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine	-	-	UK93 (2 weeks) UK	-	-	-	First published: November 1986 Authors: Daryl Hall, David A. Stewart, Sara Allen
1987	Someone Like You Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine	-	-	-	US57 (8 weeks) US	-	-	First published: January 1987 Author: Daryl Hall
1993	I'm in a Philly Mood Soul Alone	DE71 (9 weeks) DE	-	UK52 (6 weeks) UK	US82 (2 weeks) US	-	-	First published: September 1993 Authors: Alan Gorrie , Daryl Hall, Peter Lord, V. Jeffrey Smith
1994	Stop Loving Me, Stop Loving You Soul Alone	DE51 (13 weeks) DE	-	UK30 (6 weeks) UK	-	-	-	First published: December 1993 Authors: Daryl Hall, Marvin Gaye , Sara Allen
	Help Me Find a Way to Your Heart Soul Alone	-	-	UK70 (2 weeks) UK	-	-	-	First published: May 1994 Authors: Alan Gorrie, Daryl Hall, Peter Lord, V. Jeffrey Smith, Mariah Carey , Walter Afanasieff
	Gloryland Gloryland WorldCup USA 94	-	CH37 (3 weeks) CH	UK36 (4 weeks) UK	-	-	-	First published: June 1994 with Sounds of Blackness Official theme song for the Soccer World Cup '94 Authors: Charlie Skarbek, Rick Blaskey, Earle, Skornia Trad. arrangement
	Wildfire Soul Alone	-	-	UK99 (1 week) UK	-	-	-	First published: September 1994 Authors: Daryl Hall, Peter Lord, V. Jeffrey Smith, Sara Allen

More singles

1968: The Princess and the Soldier (release: December)
1969: A Lonely Girl
1976: Heaven (with Ruth Copeland; release: October)
1977: The Reason Why (with Gulliver; released April)
1977: The Provider (release: July)
1980: Something in 4/4 Time
1994: Love Revelation
1995: Wherever Would I Be (with Dusty Springfield)
1996: Justify
1996: Cab Driver
1996: Ghetto Smile ( B-Legit feat.Daryl Hall)
2006: Girl Don't Make Me Wait
2011: Talking to You (Is Like Talking to Myself)

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↑ Live From Daryl's House is supposed to come to Germany. Retrieved July 17, 2018 .
↑ Daryl Hall mourns his ex-wife. Retrieved July 25, 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b Chart sources: DE CH UK Billboard Hot 100 Billboard 200
^ Joel Whitburn : Top R&B Albums 1965–1998, ISBN 0-89820-134-9 .
^ Joel Whitburn : Hot R&B Songs 1942–2010: 6th Edition, ISBN 978-0-89820-186-4 .
^ Joel Whitburn : Hot Dance / Disco 1974-2003, ISBN 978-0-89820-156-7 .

Web links

Daryl Hall at Allmusic (English)
Daryl Hall at Discogs (English)
Live from Daryl's House
Daryl Hall & John Oates German Fan Website

personal data
SURNAME	Hall, Daryl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Franklin, Daryl (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American pop singer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 11, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pottstown , Pennsylvania

[1] Live From Daryl's House is supposed to come to Germany. Retrieved July 17, 2018 .

[2] Daryl Hall mourns his ex-wife. Retrieved July 25, 2019 .

[charts-3] Chart sources: DE CH UK Billboard Hot 100 Billboard 200

[4] Joel Whitburn : Top R&B Albums 1965–1998, ISBN 0-89820-134-9 .

[5] Joel Whitburn : Hot R&B Songs 1942–2010: 6th Edition, ISBN 978-0-89820-186-4 .

[6] Joel Whitburn : Hot Dance / Disco 1974-2003, ISBN 978-0-89820-156-7 .