Beauty on a Back Street
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Beauty on a Back Street is the sixth studio album by Hall & Oates
, released in 1977.
This album takes a more rock-oriented approach, similar to War Babies, but more streamlined and polished.
Both Daryl Hall and John Oates claim to hate this album, and many of Hall and Oates' most comprehensive compilations, such as The Essential Daryl Hall & John Oates
(originally released as Ultimate Daryl Hall + John Oates) and the 2009 box set, Do What You Want, Be What You Are: The Music of Hall and Oates, do not include any songs from this album (although the "3.0" edition of The Essential does contain the album's sole charting single, "Why Do Lovers Break Each Other's Hearts?" as a bonus track).
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 1977.
This album takes a more rock-oriented approach, similar to War Babies, but more streamlined and polished.
Both Daryl Hall and John Oates claim to hate this album, and many of Hall and Oates' most comprehensive compilations, such as The Essential Daryl Hall & John Oates
The Essential Daryl Hall & John Oates
The Essential Daryl Hall & John Oates is a 2005 two-CD compilation album by Hall & Oates, part of Sony BMG's The Essential series....
(originally released as Ultimate Daryl Hall + John Oates) and the 2009 box set, Do What You Want, Be What You Are: The Music of Hall and Oates, do not include any songs from this album (although the "3.0" edition of The Essential does contain the album's sole charting single, "Why Do Lovers Break Each Other's Hearts?" as a bonus track).
Track listing
- "Don't Change" (Hall, Oates) (3:37)
- "Why Do Lovers Break Each Other's Heart?" (Sara Allen, Hall) (3:16)
- "You Must Be Good for Something" (Hall, Oates) (3:32)
- "The Emptyness" (Oates) (3:35)
- "Love Hurts (Love Heals)" (Oates) (3:11)
- "Bigger Than Both of Us" (Hall, Oates) (4:31)
- "Bad Habits and Infections" (Hall) (6:03)
- "Winged Bull" (Hall) (4:39)
- "The Girl Who Used to Be" (Oates) (4:10)
Personnel
- Daryl Hall - vocals, synthesizer, guitar, vibraphone
- John Oates - vocals, dulcimer, synthesizer, guitar, piano
- Tom ScottTom Scott (musician)Tom Scott is an American saxophonist, composer, arranger, conductor and bandleader of the west coast jazz/jazz fusion ensemble The L.A. Express.-Biography:Scott was born in Los Angeles, California...
- tenor saxophone - Christopher Bond - synthesizer, guitar, arranger, conductor, string arrangements
- Gary Coleman - percussion
- Scott Edwards - bass
- Jim Hughart - bass
- Tommy MottolaTommy MottolaThomas 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...
- background vocals, direction - Jeff PorcaroJeff PorcaroJeffrey Thomas "Jeff" Porcaro was an American session drummer and a founding member of the Grammy Award winning band Toto. Porcaro was one of the most recorded drummers in history, working on hundreds of albums and thousands of sessions...
- drums - Lee Sklar - bass
Production
- Produced by Christopher Bond
- Recorded and Engineered by John Mills and Armin Steiner (engineered strings)
- Assistant Engineer: Linda Tyler
- Mastered by Pat Martin