Daryl Hall & John Oates is the self-titled fourth album by Hall & Oates

Hall & Oates

Hall & Oates are an American musical duo composed of Daryl Hall and John Oates. They achieved their greatest fame in the late 1970s and early to mid-1980s. Both sing and play instruments. They specialized in a fusion of rock and roll and rhythm and blues styles, which they dubbed "rock and soul."...

, released in 1975. This is sometimes labeled The Silver Album because of its metallic glam rock

Glam rock

Glam rock is a style of rock and pop music that developed in the UK in the early 1970s, which was performed by singers and musicians who wore outrageous clothes, makeup and hairstyles, particularly platform-soled boots and glitter...

 style cover. In 2000 Buddah Records

Buddah Records

Buddah Records was founded in 1967 in New York City. The label was born out of Kama Sutra Records, an MGM Records-distributed label, which remained a key imprint following Buddah's founding...

 re-released the album with two bonus tracks ("What's Important to Me" and "Ice").

"Grounds For Separation", according to Daryl Hall

Daryl Hall

Daryl Hall is an American rock, R&B and soul singer, keyboardist, guitarist, songwriter and producer, best known as the co-founder and lead vocalist of Hall & Oates . Hall scored several Billboard chart hits in the 1970s and early 1980s, and is regarded as one of the best blue eyed soul singers...

, was going to be used in the Sylvester Stallone

Sylvester Stallone

Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone , commonly known as Sylvester Stallone, and nicknamed Sly Stallone, is an American actor, filmmaker, screenwriter, film director and occasional painter. Stallone is known for his machismo and Hollywood action roles. Two of the notable characters he has portrayed...

 movie Rocky

Rocky

Rocky is a 1976 American sports drama film directed by John G. Avildsen and both written by and starring Sylvester Stallone. It tells the rags to riches American Dream story of Rocky Balboa, an uneducated but kind-hearted debt collector for a loan shark in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

. Frank Stallone, Sylvester's brother, had been in a band with John Oates

John Oates

John William Oates is an American rock, R&B and soul guitarist, musician, songwriter and producer best known as half of the rock and soul duo Hall & Oates ....

 called Valentine and this connection got them a shot at an appearance on the soundtrack. The movie, however, was slow to get off the ground, and Hall and Oates withdrew the song.

"Grounds For Separation" is also sampled

Sampling (music)

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 by Kanye West

Kanye West

Kanye Omari West is an American rapper, singer, and record producer. West first rose to fame as a producer for Roc-A-Fella Records, where he eventually achieved recognition for his work on Jay-Z's album The Blueprint, as well as hit singles for musical artists including Alicia Keys, Ludacris, and...

 in his song "Fight With The Best." "Gino (The Manager)" was about Tommy Mottola

Tommy Mottola

Thomas Daniel "Tommy" Mottola is an American music executive, co-owner of Casablanca Records in a joint venture with the Universal Music Group. He is the ex-husband of Mariah Carey and is married to Mexican singer Thalía...

, their manager, who later became president of Sony Music

Sony Music Entertainment

Sony Music Entertainment ' is the second-largest global recorded music company of the "big four" record companies and is controlled by Sony Corporation of America, the United States subsidiary of Japan's Sony Corporation....

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In 2009, Sony Music Custom Marketing Group released a triple pack of Hall & Oates albums. Along with this album, the pack included H2O

H2O (Hall & Oates album)

H2O is the eleventh studio album from Daryl Hall and John Oates, released in 1982. A hit, it featured three top 10 US singles, one being "Maneater", which was the biggest hit of their career, spending four weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts...

and Ooh Yeah!

Ooh Yeah!

Ooh Yeah! is the thirteenth studio album by Daryl Hall & John Oates, released in 1988. Though it went platinum and produced a hit with "Everything Your Heart Desires", it charted lower and sold fewer copies than the band's early-to-mid-eighties albums....

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Track listing

All tracks by Daryl Hall & John Oates unless noted.

1. "Camellia" (Oates) 2:48
2. "Sara Smile
   Sara Smile
   Country music singer Jimmy Wayne released a cover version in 2009, with backing vocals from Hall & Oates. This version debuted at #51 on the Hot Country Songs chart dated October 3, 2009 and serves as the title track for Wayne's third album, Sara Smile...
   
   " - 3:07
3. "Alone Too Long" (Oates) 3:21
4. "Out of Me, Out of You" - 3:28
5. "Nothing at All" - 4:24
6. "Gino (The Manager)" - 4:10
7. "(You Know) It Doesn't Matter Anymore" - 3:07
8. "Ennui on the Mountain" - 3:15
9. "Grounds for Separation" (Hall) - 4:12
10. "Soldering
    Soldering (song)
    "Soldering" is a song, by Ewart Beckford & Alvin Ranglin, that has been recorded by artists including Desmond Dekker, The Specials, and Hall & Oates...
    
    " (Ewart Beckford, Alvin Ranglin
    Alvin Ranglin
    Alvin 'GG' Ranglin is a Jamaican reggae singer and record producer.-Biography:Ranglin started to sing in public in his teens with an Adventist Church background. As a radio and television technician involved in the jukebox industry, he soon acquired his own sound system he named "GG"...
    
     [credited to Hall/Oates]) - 3:24
11. "What's Important to Me (Demo)" (Hall) - 3:46 (2000 Bonus Track)
12. "Ice (Demo)" (Oates) - 2:57 (2000 Bonus Track)

Personnel

• Daryl Hall - vocals, synthesizer, guitar, vibraphone
• John Oates - vocals, synthesizer, guitar
• Jim Gordon
  Jim Gordon (musician)
  James Beck "Jim" Gordon is an American recording artist, musician and songwriter. The Grammy Award winner was one of the most requested session drummers in the late 1960s and 1970s, recording albums with many well-known musicians of the time, and was the drummer in the blues-rock supergroup Derek...
  
   - drums
• Sandy Allen - background vocals
• Michael Baird - drums
• Christopher Bond - synthesizer, guitar, string & horn arrangements
• Gary Coleman - percussion
• Scott Edwards - bass
• Ed Greene
  Ed Greene (musician)
  Ed Greene is an American drummer and session musician.An early recording in 1971 has him as a member of the Donald Byrd Group, together with Thurman Green Harold Land Bobby Hutcherson Joe Sample and Wilton Felder , among others....
  
   - drums
• Clarence McDonald - keyboards
• Tommy Mottola
  Tommy Mottola
  Thomas Daniel "Tommy" Mottola is an American music executive, co-owner of Casablanca Records in a joint venture with the Universal Music Group. He is the ex-husband of Mariah Carey and is married to Mexican singer Thalía...
  
   - synthesizer
• Leland Sklar
  Leland Sklar
  Leland "Lee" Bruce Sklar is an American musician, singer-songwriter and film score composer. A prominent bass guitarist, Sklar has contributed to thousands of albums as a session musician...
  
  - bass

Production

• Produced By Daryl Hall, John Oates & Christopher Bond
• Engineers: Barry Rudolph, Armin Steiner
• Editing, Mixing: Dennis Ferrante
• Mastering: Elliott Federman