Today (October 11, 2009) is the 60^th birthday of singer Daryl Hall. He is best known as half of the hit-making duo Hall & Oates. Hall is one of my very favorite voices of all time and he has written or co-written 11 Billboard #1 songs. Most of those hits were in the late 70s and early 80s. I could do (and probably will some time do) an entire issue on Hall & Oates, but many people do not remember that Daryl Hall also has done some solo work.

He released a solo album in 1986 called Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine which included his most successful single as a solo artist. "Dreamtime" reached #5 on the Billboard Hot 100. This song was definitely more pop than most of Hall's blue-eyed soul songs, but I still recall it fondly anyways. So much so that this week's Flashback Video is "Dreamtime" by Daryl Hall...

As I said, I will likely do more issues on Hall & Oates as a duo. In fact, this week (October 13, 2009) a Hall & Oates 4-CD box set called Do What You Want, Be What You Are: The Music of Daryl Hall and John Oates will be released to the public. You should also check out Live from Daryl's House, a monthly Internet webcast featuring him playing along with some of his friends and colleagues in an intimate setting. You don't have to watch it live because old episodes are available on the website which you can get to by clicking on the link. Though his best work was from the 70s and 80s, Daryl Hall is still a great musician today at 60 years old.

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