Maneater (Hall & Oates song)

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Chart positions
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Singles
Maneater
  DE 15th 12/20/1982 (22 weeks)
  CH 2 01/23/1983 (9 weeks)
  UK 6th 10/30/1982 (11 weeks)
  US 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 10/16/1982 (23 weeks)

Maneater is a 1982 Hall & Oates song written by Daryl Hall , John Oates, and Sara Allen. It appeared on the H2O album and was a number one hit in the US.

Background and story

Singer Daryl Hall on Maneater :

“John [Oates] wrote the rough draft, he had constructed it after Edgar Winter's model. It was like a reggae song. I said to him, 'Well, it has interesting chords, but we should change the groove .' I changed that to Motown Groove. After we did that, I played it for Sara and sang it to her: 'Oh oh here she comes, watch out boy she'll chew you up. Oh oh here she comes she's a maneater and…' But I had the end to forget. Then she said: 'Leave that shit at the end and just go on with' she's a maneater '. And then stop. ' I interjected, 'You're crazy to throw it all up.' Then I thought about it and saw that she was right and that made all the difference to the song. "

- Daryl Hall in an interview with "American Songwriter" (online music magazine, 2009)

Elsewhere Hall said:

“We tried and did. Our new single Maneater is not like everything else you hear on the radio. The idea was to do everything better. "

- New Musical Express (November 1982)

The release was on October 2, 1982.

Music video

At the beginning of the music video, a woman slowly walks down a red staircase. Then the band plays the song in a dimly lit studio with beams of light. The rest of the video shows a black jaguar , the woman and the band in fadeouts .

Cover versions

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sources chart placements:
  2. ↑ Ken Sharp: Hall and Oates: Soul Survivors. In: AmericanSongwriter.com. January 23, 2009, accessed November 20, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Maneater / Delayed Reaction release date RateYourMusic.com