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Hall and Oates
Band Philadelphia United States Active 1967–2024
Hall and Oates formed in 1967 in Philadelphia, United States and was active until 2024. Hall and Oates has 21 chart appearances on 13 radio countdowns from 7 stations on RockLists, spanning 1984–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “She's Gone”, which appears on 6 lists with a best position of #38. The station that charted Hall and Oates most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 13 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1984.
Out of Philadelphia came Daryl Hall and John Oates, two songwriters who fused rock, soul and rhythm and blues into something that gleamed. Hall usually took the lead vocal, Oates handled the electric guitar and the harmonies and stepped up to the mic now and then, and between them they wrote most of what they sang, sometimes together, sometimes apart.
Whole Oats in 1972 brought the wistful "Fall In Philadelphia", and a year later Abandoned Luncheonette gave them "She's Gone", an aching slow-burner that builds and builds until it breaks. Bigger Than Both of Us (1976) delivered the bratty "Rich Girl", and the hits kept coming into the '80s: Voices with "Kiss On My List", Private Eyes with its hand-clapping title track and the cool, minimal groove of "I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)", and Big Bam Boom with "Out of Touch". Guitarist G.E. Smith, bassist T-Bone Wolk, drummer Mickey Curry and multi-instrumentalist Charlie DeChant were fixtures of the band, and sisters Sara and Janna Allen wrote with them.
The Songwriters Hall of Fame inducted them in 2003 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame followed in 2014. In 2024, amid a legal battle between the two, Oates said the two of them were done performing together.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Hall and Oates on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She's Gone | 6 | #38 | – | – | |
| 2 | Sarah Smile | 2 | #580 | – | – | |
| 3 | You Make My Dreams | 1 | #32 | – | – | |
| 4 | Rich Girl | 3 | #477 | – | – | |
| 5 | I Can't Go For That (No Can Do) | 2 | #651 | – | – | |
| 6 | You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' | 1 | #452 | – | – | |
| 7 | Out of Touch | 2 | #70 | – | 1984 | |
| 8 | Kiss On My List | 1 | #1563 | – | – | |
| 9 | Private Eyes | 1 | #1811 | – | – | |
| 10 | Fall In Philadelphia | 1 | #1999 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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