Hall Of Fame
5 UNEXPECTED DARYL HALL COLLABORATIONS
5 B-LEGIT GHETTO SMILE
From Hall & Oates’ perennial radio staples to Paul Young’s US chart-topper Every Time You Go Away, Daryl Hall has penned so many hits across the past half-century of pop that it’s entirely understandable he’d forget about at least a few. “I can’t even remember the name of that one,” the soulman admits when the subject of co-writing for Celine Dion comes up in his interview with Classic Pop.
Is there any genre that Hall can’t adapt to? The soulman’s name may have stuck out like a sore thumb on the credits to West Coast rapper B-Legit’s 1996 sophomore The Hemp Museum yet his retooling of Hall & Oates’ breakthrough hit Sara Smile worked surprisingly well alongside the Tupac cohort’s rhymes.
Of course, Hall has kept many of his finest compositions entirely for himself, as is evident on BeforeAfter, a new two-disc retrospective which shines the spotlight on his underrated body of solo work.
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