Hard Core Poetry is the second album by American

United States

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 soul

Soul music

Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...

/R&B group Tavares

Tavares (band)

Tavares are a successful American R&B, funk and soul music group, composed of five Cape Verdean-American brothers from New Bedford, Massachusetts.-Band members:...

, released in 1974 on the Capitol

Capitol Records

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 label. This album brought Tavares together with songwriters and producers Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter for what would prove to be a productive musical relationship on this and the group's following album, In the City

In the City (Tavares album)

In the City is the third album by American soul/R&B group Tavares, released in 1975 on the Capitol label. Like the group's previous album Hard Core Poetry, it was produced by Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter and was well-received by critics...

.

Hard Core Poetry reached #11 on the R&B chart and was critically praised for its strong and diverse selection of songs and sophisticated but soulful production; the album remains one of the group's most highly-regarded. Its best-known single is "She's Gone

She's Gone (Hall & Oates song)

"She's Gone" is a song written and originally performed by pop music duo Daryl Hall and John Oates. It was released as a single in 1974 from their album, Abandoned Luncheonette , and was moderately successful, peaking at #60 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart.In 1974, the American R&B band Tavares...

", a cover of the Daryl Hall and John 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."...

 track from their 1973 album Abandoned Luncheonette

Abandoned Luncheonette

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. The Tavares version peaked higher on the Billboard Hot 100 than the original on its first chart run earlier in 1974 (#50 against #60), and became the first of their three R&B chart toppers.

Track listing

All tracks written by Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter unless stated

1. "Someone to Go Home To" 3:15
2. "She's Gone
   She's Gone (Hall & Oates song)
   "She's Gone" is a song written and originally performed by pop music duo Daryl Hall and John Oates. It was released as a single in 1974 from their album, Abandoned Luncheonette , and was moderately successful, peaking at #60 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart.In 1974, the American R&B band Tavares...
   
   " (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...
   
   , 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 ....
   
   ) - 3:39
3. "My Ship" - 3:26
4. "Leave It Up to the Lady" - 3:30
5. "To Love You" - 4:02
6. "Too Late" - 4:26
7. "Remember What I Told You to Forget" - 4:10
8. "What You Don't Know" - 3:34
9. "Hard Core Poetry" - 4:23

Singles

• "Too Late" (US Pop
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   #59, US R&B
  Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs
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   #10)
• "She's Gone" (US Pop #50, US R&B #1)
• "Remember What I Told You to Forget" (US Pop #25, US R&B #4)