Daryl Hall - BBC In Concert, The Forum, London, Britain, 12-6-1993

Here's a BBC concert starring Daryl Hall, from Hall and Oates.

Daryl Hall was the dominant force in Hall and Oates, doing most of the lead vocals and songwriting. (That said, Oates' role was far from insignificant, as he was involved in writing many of the duo's songs.) 

After a 1990 album, Hall and Oates took a prolonged break. They wouldn't release another album until 1997. So in 1993, Hall had time to release a solo album, "Soul Alone." It emphasized soul and jazz more than his music with Oates. This concert is from the tour supporting that album. 

Apparently wanting to differentiate his solo career from his Hall and Oates career, this concert mostly consists of songs from his solo album, plus a lot of soul music covers, and relatively few Hall and Oates hits. 

This BBC concert has been widely available as a bootleg. However, that was only an hour long version. Thanks to Progsprog sharing his music with me, this is the full concert, with 45 extra minutes. Yet the sound quality is excellent for all of it. 

This album is an hour and 45 minutes long.

 01 Money Changes Everything (Daryl Hall)
02 Help Me Find a Way (Daryl Hall)
03 talk (Daryl Hall)
04 Borderline (Daryl Hall)
05 Stop Loving Me, Stop Loving You (Daryl Hall)
06 talk (Daryl Hall)
07 Everytime You Go Away (Daryl Hall)
08 Send Me (Daryl Hall)
09 Love T.K.O. (Daryl Hall)
10 I Can't Go for That [No Can Do] (Daryl Hall)
11 I'm in a Philly Mood (Daryl Hall)
12 talk (Daryl Hall)
13 Love Revelation (Daryl Hall)
14 talk (Daryl Hall)
15 Maneater (Daryl Hall)
16 talk (Daryl Hall)
17 What's Going On (Daryl Hall)
18 talk (Daryl Hall)
19 Work to Do (Daryl Hall with Alan Gorrie)
20 talk (Daryl Hall)
21 For the Love of Money (Daryl Hall)
22 Hot Fun in the Summertime (Daryl Hall)
23 talk (Daryl Hall)
24 Wildfire (Daryl Hall)
25 talk (Daryl Hall)
26 Me and Mrs. Jones (Daryl Hall)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Mn5tnuuU 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/3sExbNFUhPpSG5C/file

The cover photo is from a 1993 concert, but I don't know the details.

Hall & Oates - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: In Concert, Hackney Ocean, Hackney, Britain, 4-7-2003

A couple of days ago, I posted a Hall and Oates BBC concert from 1998. Here's another one, probably the last one I can find from them, from 2003.

In 2003, Hall and Oates released a new studio album, "Do It for Love." The sales were still quite low compared to the 1970s and 1980s heyday, but critical appraisal improved. They played three songs from it here: "Do It for Love," "Forever for You," and "Getaway Car." They also finished with a cover of the 1970s soul classic, "Me and Mrs. Jones," which they didn't release on any studio album.

In 2023, Hall and Oates broke up due to a financial conflict that led to a lawsuit. So this is probably the last BBC album they did, unless there are others hiding out there that I don't know about. 

This music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 55 minutes long.

01 Adult Education (Hall & Oates)
02 talk (Hall & Oates)
03 Out of Touch (Hall & Oates)
04 talk (Hall & Oates)
05 Do It for Love (Hall & Oates)
06 talk (Hall & Oates)
07 Forever for You (Hall & Oates)
08 One on One (Hall & Oates)
09 talk (Hall & Oates)
10 Getaway Car (Hall & Oates)
11 Sara Smile (Hall & Oates)
12 I Can't Go for That [No Can Do] (Hall & Oates)
13 talk (Hall & Oates)
14 Man on a Mission (Hall & Oates)
15 Me and Mrs. Jones (Hall & Oates)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/yYpVYNYp

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/aX13LVZzC5DFyY7/file

The cover photo isn't from this exact concert, but it's close. It was taken at the Manchester Apollo in Manchester, Britain, three days earlier, on April 4, 2003.

Hall & Oates - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert, Battersea Park, London, Britain, 6-6-1998

Here's a Hall and Oates concert for the BBC, in 1998. I thought this was another renumbering situation. But I looked at my music collection and realized I'd never posted a 2003 BBC concert from them. So I'll post this one, and then the 2003 soon thereafter.

Hall and Oates were huge in the 1980s, but they fell out of fashion in the 1990s. Their 1997 album "Marigold Sky" barely scraped the bottom of the Top 100 US. album chart. There's just one song from that album here, the first one, "Romeo Is Bleeding." Otherwise, this is a nice run through 1970s and 80s hits.

The music here is unreleased. It's another very hard to find bootleg that was given to me by Progsprog. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 51 minutes long. 

01 Romeo Is Bleeding (Hall & Oates)
02 talk (Hall & Oates)
03 Out of Touch (Hall & Oates)
04 She's Gone (Hall & Oates)
05 One on One (Hall & Oates)
06 Sara Smile (Hall & Oates)
07 I Can't Go for That [No Can Do] (Hall & Oates)
08 Maneater (Hall & Oates)
09 Rich Girl (Hall & Oates)
10 Kiss on My List (Hall & Oates)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/76ezFcLm

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/nn0lhSchu4AKzKj/file

The cover photo was taken in England in 1998. So it's possible it's from this concert. This is the only concert they did in England in 1998 according to setlist.fm, though that database is often incomplete. Oates (in the striped shirt) was further to the side. But I used Photoshop to move him closer to Hall.

Hall & Oates - Hersheypark Arena, Hershey, PA, 12-8-1977 (A Mike Solof Guest Post)

The first thing I want to say about this album is that the Hall and Oates live album "Livetime" was recorded on this exact date and location. However, that album is only 38 minutes long. Guest poster Mike Solof found out there's a soundboard recording of the entire concert, that's more than double the length - an extra fifty minutes. He's a big fan of the album, so he had the idea to post the whole show.

I could have started with the album and added in the extra songs. But the soundboard boot sounded just as good as the official live album to my ears, so I just used that for the entire thing. That was better for including more applause and some banter between songs anyway.

There were only a couple of minor problems I wanted to fix. One was that the soundboard was so pristine that the applause at the end of each song was rather quiet. So I boosted that some. The other is that there was a lot of boring cheering at the start and during the encores, so I cut that down some. That probably cut about two minutes from the total length.

Other than that, I'll leave the rest of the commentary to Mike. As usual, he's included a PDF file with his opinions, plus lots of photos of the band from this time period.  

This album is an hour and 29 minutes long. 

01 talk (Hall & Oates)
02 Don't Change (Hall & Oates)
03 talk (Hall & Oates)
04 Rich Girl (Hall & Oates)
05 Can't Stop the Music (Hall & Oates)
06 Do What You Want, Be What You Are (Hall & Oates)
07 The Emptyness (Hall & Oates)
08 Winged Bull (Hall & Oates)
09 Is It A Star (Hall & Oates)
10 I'm Just a Kid [Don't Make Me Feel like a Man] (Hall & Oates)
11 talk (Hall & Oates)
12 Back Together Again (Hall & Oates)
13 Sara Smile (Hall & Oates)
14 She's Gone (Hall & Oates)
15 talk (Hall & Oates)
16 Abandoned Luncheonette (Hall & Oates)
17 Room to Breathe (Hall & Oates)
18 talk (Hall & Oates)
19 You Must Be Good for Something (Hall & Oates)
20 Bad Habits and Infections (Hall & Oates)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/NmTF9ycK

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/wGK7K0sFGFx6uGs/file

The cover is from a concert in Central Park, New York City, in 1977. 

Hall & Oates - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: Old Grey Whistle Test, Wood Lane BBC 2 TV Centre, London, Britain, 5-18-1976

Still yet another renumbering. I previously posted a 1990 Hall and Oates concert as their only BBC album. But then I discovered this one, from 1976.

The Old Grey Whistle Test was a long-running BBC TV show. Typically, they had several different musical acts on each episode, but occasionally they would devote an entire episode to just one act. This was one such time. It's a bit surprising Hall and Oates got that much attention, because they weren't that popular yet, especially in Britain. They only had one minor hit in Britain at the time, "She's Gone," which just missed hitting the Top Forty singles chart in 1976. "Sara Smile" was a big hit in the U.S. that year too, but it completely missed the singles chart in Britain. Even so, I'm surprised it wasn't performed here. (Or at least it didn't get included if the BBC edited the show down.) Most of the big hits they're known for would come later, in the early 1980s.

This performance is unreleased. I couldn't find a bootleg of this anywhere. However, I found individual videos for all the songs on YouTube. I also found a set list with the correct song order. So I put them in order and edited them to make smooth transitions between songs. 

As mentioned above, I renamed the 1990 BBC concert they did after finding this one. Here's the link for that:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2022/07/hall-oates-bbc-in-concert-town-and.html 

I also found a 2003 BBC concert they did, so I plan on posting that. However, they also did a BBC concert in Battersea Park, London, at some point in 1998, which I can't find. So if anyone has that, please pass it on to me so I can post it.

01 Camellia (Hall & Oates)
02 talk (Hall & Oates)
03 Lady Rain (Hall & Oates)
04 Laughing Boy (Hall & Oates)
05 I'm Just a Kid [Don't Make Me Feel like a Man] (Hall & Oates)
06 Is It a Star (Hall & Oates)
07 talk (Hall & Oates)
08 She's Gone (Hall & Oates)
09 Gino [The Manager] (Hall & Oates)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/cZZko5HQ

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/BkQCz36VcVe2nBM/file 

The cover image is a screenshot I took from a YouTube video of this exact concert.

Live Aid - JFK Stadium, Philadelphia, PA, 7-13-1985, Part 7: Hall & Oates with Eddie Kendricks & David Ruffin, Mick Jagger & Tina Turner, and Bob Dylan with Keith Richards & Ronnie Wood

I was hoping to post this at the same time as the others, but I got too busy. Anyway, this is the final part of the Philadelphia portion of Live Aid. The London portion will soon follow.

The biggest acts were saved for the end of the concert. First up was Hall and Oates, who were probably at the peak of their popularity in 1985. But more than half of their set was dominated by their guests, David Ruffin and Eddie Kendricks, both former lead singers for the Temptations. (The actual Temptations were still in existence and even had a big comeback hit in 1985 with "Treat Her like a Lady," so I wonder if they were passed over in favor of Ruffin and Kendricks.) Either Ruffin or Kendricks sang lead vocals on the last four songs, which were all Temptations classics from the 1960s. Note that Hall and Oates had started touring with Ruffin and Kendricks earlier in the year, and put out a live album with them later in the year.

Next up was Mick Jagger, lead vocalist for the Rolling Stones. In my opinion, he was clearly a substitute for having all of the Rolling Stones play. But around this time the Rolling Stones were having a rough patch, and almost broke up. Apparently, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood, the guitarists for the Stones, didn't want to miss out on Live Aid entirely. So they backed Bob Dylan instead. It's telling how badly the Rolling Stones must have been getting on with each other that they didn't even make a guest appearance for Jagger's set, but played on the one immediately after instead.

Jagger had just put out his first proper solo album earlier in the year, "She's the Boss." It's unfortunate in my opinion that he performed a couple of songs from that during his set, "Lonely at the Top" and "Just Another Night." They're decent songs, but they don't seem worthy of the second to last act for the US version of Live Aid. At least he did play one Rolling Stone classic, "Miss You." Then he was joined by soul singer Tina Turner. They did "State of Shock," which is a song Jagger had done the year before with Michael Jackson and the rest of the Jacksons. Then they did another Stones classic, "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)." Jagger rarely dueted with Turner, and I think these two songs by them may have been unique to this concert.

The last act was Bob Dylan. I'm glad they gave him the respect he deserved by giving him the most prestigious time slot, even though I'm sure his 1980s record sales were smaller than many of the acts that went on before him. It's interesting that the first two of the three songs he played were lesser known ones from his deep discography. But both obviously were selected with the Live Aid theme of helping the Ethiopian famine in mind. The first song, "The Ballad of Hollis Brown," was especially apt, as it told of a 1930s Midwest farmer that face crop failure and disaster. He finished with a crowd pleaser and all time classic, "Blowin' in the Wind." Unfortunately, while Dylan performed well, Richards and Wood didn't add much, mostly just strumming their guitars, probably with little to no practice beforehand.

Dylan caused some controversy, due to a comment he made between songs. He said: "I hope that some of the money... maybe they can just take a little bit of it, maybe... one or two million, maybe ... and use it, say, to pay the mortgages on some of the farms and, the farmers here, owe to the banks." 

This pissed off organizer Bob Geldof, who later said: "He displayed a complete lack of understanding of the issues raised by Live Aid. ... Live Aid was about people losing their lives. There is a radical difference between losing your livelihood and losing your life. It did instigate Farm Aid, which was a good thing in itself, but it was a crass, stupid, and nationalistic thing to say." 

However, as Geldof points out, Dylan's comment did inspire the Farm Aid concert, which took place later that year and directly benefited US farmers. Furthermore, Farm Aid has become a yearly concert that continues to this day (as I write this in 2023). Over time, all those Farm Aid concerts have raised way more money for charity than Live Aid ever did. So if Dylan's comment helped cause all that, then I say kudos to Dylan. 

After that, there was a big finale with all the stars on stage, like these kinds of shows usually end. And naturally, the song they sang was "We Are the World," the charity single from earlier in the year that helped inspire the concert in the first place. There were some problems with the microphones, so some of the lead vocals weren't heard early in the song. On the DVD release, this was fixed by patching in some vocals from the "We Are the World" single. But I've kept to the untampered version. I don't think it sounds bad, and the patched in vocals prominently featured some people (Kenny Rogers and James Ingram) who weren't actually at the concert.

This album is an hour and six minutes long.

149 talk (Bill Graham)
150 talk (Dionne Warwick)
151 Out of Touch (Hall & Oates)
152 talk (Hall & Oates)
153 Maneater (Hall & Oates)
154 talk (Hall & Oates)
155 Get Ready (Hall & Oates & Eddie Kendricks)
156 Ain't Too Proud to Beg (Hall & Oates, Eddie Kendricks & David Ruffin)
157 The Way You Do the Things You Do (Hall & Oates, Eddie Kendricks & David Ruffin)
158 My Girl (Hall & Oates, Eddie Kendricks & David Ruffin)
159 talk (Bette Midler)
160 Lonely at the Top (Mick Jagger)
161 talk (Mick Jagger)
162 Just Another Night (Mick Jagger)
163 talk (Mick Jagger)
164 Miss You (Mick Jagger)
165 talk (Mick Jagger)
166 State of Shock (Mick Jagger & Tina Turner)
167 It's Only Rock 'n Roll [But I Like It] (Mick Jagger & Tina Turner)
168 talk (Bill Graham)
169 talk (Jack Nicholson)
170 talk (Bob Dylan)
171 The Ballad of Hollis Brown (Bob Dylan with Keith Richards & Ronnie Wood)
172 talk (Bob Dylan)
173 When the Ships Comes In (Bob Dylan with Keith Richards & Ronnie Wood)
174 talk (Bob Dylan)
175 Blowin' in the Wind (Bob Dylan with Keith Richards & Ronnie Wood)
176 We Are the World (USA for Africa)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15699932/LveAidJFKStdiumPhladlphiaPA__7-13-1985_Part7.zip.html

As with most of the albums in this series, I have four pictures from the concert making up the cover. On the top left is Hall and Oates with David Ruffin and Eddie Kendricks, on the top right is Tina Turner and Mick Jagger, on the bottom left is Ronnie Wood, Bob Dylan, and Keith Richard, and on the bottom right is a portion of the large group of people on stage for the finale. If you look closely, you can see Lionel Richie and Dionne Warwick, both of whom were not given their own sets earlier in the concert.

Hall & Oates - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, Town and Country Club, London, Britain, 9-5-1990

Opinion on the American duo Hall and Oates is mixed. They've sold many millions of records and have millions of fans, but some think they're overly commercial and cheesy. Personally, I think they had a lot of great singles, but I haven't gotten into their music more than that. But still, I found a concert they did for the BBC, and I liked it enough to want to share it here.

Hall and Oates put out their first album in 1972. They steadily grew in popularity, peaking in the early 1980s, when they were a hit-making machine. They had five Number One hits in the US, and many more hits as well. Their hit-making years pretty much came to an end in 1990 when their song "So Close" made it to number 11 in the US charts. After releasing their 1990 album "Change of Season," they took a seven year hiatus, and have had a lower level of commercial success ever since.

If you want just one live concert recording from them, I think this is the ideal time. Unfortunately, that 1990 album gets low ratings. But this bootleg only contains two songs from it: the hit "So Close," plus a cover of the classic soul song "Starting All Over Again." So basically, this concert is filled with their earlier hits, and they did the vast majority of the big ones. They also did "Everytime You Go Away," which they wrote but was a big hit for Paul Young instead. On top of that, they finished with two soul covers, "Hot Fun in the Summertime" by Sly and the Family Stone, and "What's Going On" by Marvin Gaye. Neither of those were ever officially released by the duo.

The sound quality is excellent, just as you'd expect from a BBC recording. There were only two snags. One is that the volume of the talk between songs was sometimes quite low. I easily fixed that by boosting the volume of just those bits. The other is that the song "Wait for Me" only went for about 30 seconds before fading out. So rather than having that frustrating snippet, I removed that song altogether.

This album is an hour and 44 minutes long.

UPDATE: On March 3, 2025, I updated the mp3 download file. The music is exactly the same, but I changed the album title (and thus the cover art and mp3 tags too) to "Volume 2" after finding music for "Volume 1."

01 talk (Hall & Oates)
02 Out of Touch (Hall & Oates)
03 talk (Hall & Oates)
04 Family Man (Hall & Oates)
05 talk (Hall & Oates)
06 Say It Isn't So (Hall & Oates)
07 How Does It Feel (Hall & Oates)
08 talk (Hall & Oates)
09 Kiss on My List (Hall & Oates)
10 Starting All Over Again (Hall & Oates)
11 Everytime You Go Away (Hall & Oates)
12 So Close (Hall & Oates)
13 I Can't Go for That [No Can Do] (Hall & Oates)
14 talk (Hall & Oates)
15 Sara Smile (Hall & Oates)
16 She's Gone (Hall & Oates)
17 Rich Girl (Hall & Oates)
18 Maneater (Hall & Oates)
19 talk (Hall & Oates)
20 Adult Education (Hall & Oates)
21 You Make My Dreams (Hall & Oates)
22 Hot Fun in the Summertime (Hall & Oates)
23 What's Going On (Hall & Oates)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/xuAFevkr

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/u8LeYIQ6YsMHO3R/file

I couldn't find any really good color concert photos of the duo in 1990. So I used this one from December 1988, in Tokyo.