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.