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August 22, 2007
Rockin ’ Soul
Hall and Oates to play Portland
by S arah B lount
T he P ortland O bserver
D on’t call it a com eback when
Darryl Hall and John O ates perform
in Portland next week.
Sure, the A rlene Schnitzer C on­
cert Hall will b echalk full o f nostal­
gic energy for songs o f the 1970s
like “S he's G one” and “Sara Smile,”
but the duo has been constantly at
work since breaking onto the scene.
“W e’ve never pretended to re­
tire," O ates told The Portland O b­
server. " It's a to u rth a t n everends.”
O ates met Hall as a fellow m usi­
cian and student at Tem ple U niver­
sity in the 1960s.
T h e ir firs t su c c e ss w as on
Philly’s R& B stations.
Their 1973 release "A bandoned
L uncheonette” featuring “S h e’s
Gone” did wel I on col lege radio. But
in what O ates calls a w eird quirk of
fate, their first T op-40 hit “Sara
Sm ile" broke out on a Toledo, Ohio
R&B station.
“ R&B radio paved the way to
our success,” O ates noted. “And I
think that over the years we were
one o f the first bands, especially
being white, that crossed over.”
The musical era o f the 1960s was
a tim e when artists crossed racial
lines and genres.
“W hen you look at 1960s play­
bills you have Curtis M ayfeild. Jimi
H endrix, the Rolling Stones, and
Staple Singers - all on the same
bill,” O ates said. "People were dig­
ging music, opening their ears to
different sounds and styles.”
In the mid 1970s, he said, radio
began to spin o ff other stations that
aired exclusive genres.
"T hat encouraged fragm enta­
Ha// and Oates play Portland on Wednesday, Aug. 29 at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.
tion and segregation," he noted.
At one point Hall and O ates’ co in ed in the 1960s w hen g roups soul; if it’s music that reaches the sensibility," he said.
Hall and O ates will perform
sound was labeled as “ Blue Eyed like T he R ig h teo u s B rothers b e­ soul and touches the listener, then
W ednesday, Aug. 29 at 7:30 p.m. at
Soul," a description o f R&B as per­ gan to r e fle c t th e e x p re s s iv e it is soulful."
O ates said he and Hall created the A rlene Schnitzer C oncert Hall.
M otow n sound.
form ed by w hite artists.
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“ I d o n 't think soul is dom ain of their own label: “rockin’ soul."
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