hypersongs

Voices

The first album they produced themselves, 100 weeks on the Billboard 200.
Daryl Hall & John Oates, 1980

Neil Kernon engineered and mixed, Bob Ludwig mastered at Masterdisk, and the players included G. E. Smith on guitar, John Siegler on bass, Jerry Marotta and Chuck Burgi on drums and Charlie DeChant on saxophone. Oates called the sessions a very traditional, old-school style. "Kiss on My List" came from Janna Allen; Hall cut a rough demo on drum machine and piano as a favor, and the band built on it. Singles were "How Does It Feel to Be Back" (30), "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" (12), "Kiss on My List" (number 1 for three weeks in spring 1981) and "You Make My Dreams" (5). It debuted at 75 on the Billboard 200 in August 1980, peaked at 17 on June 13, 1981 and spent 100 weeks on the chart, the most of any of their albums. It is platinum in the US. Paul Young's 1985 cover of "Everytime You Go Away" reached number 1 in July 1985. AllMusic's rating is reported as 3.5 or 4.5 stars.

Track listing

  1. How Does It Feel to Be Back4:35
  2. Big Kids3:40
  3. United State3:08
  4. Hard to Be in Love with You3:38
  5. Kiss on My List4:25
  6. Gotta Lotta Nerve (Perfect Perfect)3:37
  7. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'4:37
  8. You Make My Dreams3:10
  9. Everytime You Go Away5:23
  10. Africa3:39
  11. Diddy Doo Wop (I Hear the Voices)3:43

More from Daryl Hall & John Oates

Whole Oats (1972), Daryl Hall & John Oates (1975), Bigger Than Both Of Us (1976), Livetime (1978), Along The Red Ledge (1978), X-Static (1979), Change Of Season (1990), Do It For Love (2003)

Sources

  1. Voices (Hall & Oates album), Wikipedia
  2. Hall & Oates, Voices, Something Else! (2015-07-31)
  3. 1980 Hall & Oates, Voices, Sessiondays (2022-10)