Posted on Jul 28, 2019
Daryl Hall & John Oates - Private Eyes (Official Music Video)
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Good Sunday Morning my RP Brothers and Sisters!
It is a gorgeous day here in the Greater Boston Area with a temp of 70°, going up to 90°, low humidity and just a few clouds in the sky... I was not able to spend as much time on RP yesterday as I would have liked, as my wife and I attended the 50th Wedding anniversary of one of my very good childhood friends and his wife... It was an awesome day in Barrington, RI and the huge tidal estuary, Barrington River, was high as it is connected to Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay...
For today's Mid-Morning Music Interlude, I have chose a song by Hall & Oates entitled "Private Eyes"!
Background:
"Daryl Hall and John Oates, often referred to as Hall & Oates, are an American pop rock duo formed in 1970 in Philadelphia. Daryl Hall is generally the lead vocalist; John Oates primarily plays electric guitar and provides backing vocals. The two write most of the songs they perform, separately or in collaboration. They achieved their greatest fame from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s with a fusion of rock and roll and rhythm and blues.
Hall and Oates have sold an estimated 40 million records, making them the best selling music duo in history. They are best known for their six No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100: "Rich Girl", "Kiss on My List", "Private Eyes", "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)", "Maneater", and "Out of Touch", as well as many other songs which charted in the Top 40 including the single "You Make My Dreams". In total, they had 34 chart hits on the US Billboard Hot 100, seven RIAA platinum albums, and six RIAA gold albums. Billboard magazine named them the most successful duo of the rock era, surpassing Simon & Garfunkel and The Everly Brothers. They have achieved moderate success in the United Kingdom with two UK top ten albums, spending a total of one-hundred and seventeen weeks in the UK top 75 album charts and eighty-four weeks in the top seventy-five of the UK Singles Chart.
In 2003, Hall and Oates were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Billboard magazine had Hall and Oates at No. 15 on their list of the 100 greatest artists of all time and the No. 1 duo, while VH1 placed the duo as No. 99 on their list of the 100 greatest artists of all time. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2014. On September 2, 2016, they received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
On October 16, 2013, Hall and Oates were announced as 2014 nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They were announced as inductees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Class of 2014 on December 16, 2013.
Hall started his monthly web series Live From Daryl's House in 2007 after having the idea of "playing with my friends and putting it up on the Internet". The series features him jamming with various guest musicians in his house in the woods. Guest artists on the show have run the gamut of musical styles and influences, and have included Smokey Robinson, Robby Krieger from The Doors, Rumer, Nick Lowe, Cee-lo Green, K.T. Tunstall, Todd Rundgren, Darius Rucker, and Chromeo. In 2010, Live From Daryl's House won a Webby Award in the Variety category."
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It is a gorgeous day here in the Greater Boston Area with a temp of 70°, going up to 90°, low humidity and just a few clouds in the sky... I was not able to spend as much time on RP yesterday as I would have liked, as my wife and I attended the 50th Wedding anniversary of one of my very good childhood friends and his wife... It was an awesome day in Barrington, RI and the huge tidal estuary, Barrington River, was high as it is connected to Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay...
For today's Mid-Morning Music Interlude, I have chose a song by Hall & Oates entitled "Private Eyes"!
Background:
"Daryl Hall and John Oates, often referred to as Hall & Oates, are an American pop rock duo formed in 1970 in Philadelphia. Daryl Hall is generally the lead vocalist; John Oates primarily plays electric guitar and provides backing vocals. The two write most of the songs they perform, separately or in collaboration. They achieved their greatest fame from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s with a fusion of rock and roll and rhythm and blues.
Hall and Oates have sold an estimated 40 million records, making them the best selling music duo in history. They are best known for their six No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100: "Rich Girl", "Kiss on My List", "Private Eyes", "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)", "Maneater", and "Out of Touch", as well as many other songs which charted in the Top 40 including the single "You Make My Dreams". In total, they had 34 chart hits on the US Billboard Hot 100, seven RIAA platinum albums, and six RIAA gold albums. Billboard magazine named them the most successful duo of the rock era, surpassing Simon & Garfunkel and The Everly Brothers. They have achieved moderate success in the United Kingdom with two UK top ten albums, spending a total of one-hundred and seventeen weeks in the UK top 75 album charts and eighty-four weeks in the top seventy-five of the UK Singles Chart.
In 2003, Hall and Oates were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Billboard magazine had Hall and Oates at No. 15 on their list of the 100 greatest artists of all time and the No. 1 duo, while VH1 placed the duo as No. 99 on their list of the 100 greatest artists of all time. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2014. On September 2, 2016, they received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
On October 16, 2013, Hall and Oates were announced as 2014 nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They were announced as inductees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Class of 2014 on December 16, 2013.
Hall started his monthly web series Live From Daryl's House in 2007 after having the idea of "playing with my friends and putting it up on the Internet". The series features him jamming with various guest musicians in his house in the woods. Guest artists on the show have run the gamut of musical styles and influences, and have included Smokey Robinson, Robby Krieger from The Doors, Rumer, Nick Lowe, Cee-lo Green, K.T. Tunstall, Todd Rundgren, Darius Rucker, and Chromeo. In 2010, Live From Daryl's House won a Webby Award in the Variety category."
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Thank you, my friend Sgt (Join to see) for posting the official music video of Daryl Hall & John Oates performing "Private Eyes"
Song background
"The song title came from the 1980 movie The Private Eyes, starring Don Knots and Tim Conway as bumbling detectives. Warren Pash, a musician who was trying to make it in Los Angeles, was working on a song called "I Need You To Need Me," but he didn't like that title. He was driving on Ventura Boulevard when he saw the movie billboard, turned back home, and wrote the song with a new title and chorus: "Private Eyes."
Pash had met Daryl Hall and Janna Allen (Hall's sometime songwriting partner) earlier in 1980, and had done some songwriting with Hall that didn't amount to anything. When Allen and Hall returned to New York, they kept writing together, including a song that was intended for Allen's first solo album: "Kiss On My List." That song ended up being recorded by Hall & Oates, but Janna kept looking for material. When she called Pash, he told her about "Private Eyes," and when Janna returned to LA, they worked on the song together.
Pash told us: "We went in a little rehearsal room somewhere - I think it was five bucks an hour with a beat-up, old piano with cigarette burns and half the keys not working, and a cassette player. We banged it out with some stuff that she added to make it more singable for her and more melodic for her. She took it away and I said, 'OK, we'll see what happens.' She calls me maybe a month later and says, I don't think that song is for me. I said, Yeah, I understand. And she goes, But I think it's perfect for Daryl and John, so I gave the cassette to them. I went, What are you trying to do, kill my opportunity to work with Daryl again? Why'd you give him that piece-of-crap tape? She says, No, no, no... they'll know what to do with it.'"
Daryl Hall worked on the song with his girlfriend, Sara Allen (Janna's sister), turning it into a Hall & Oates tune. In the end, the song had four writers: Janna Allen, Sara Allen, Daryl Hall and Warren Pash.
The song compares the challenges of a romance to the cloak-and-dagger work performed by detectives. The promotional video featured the duo wearing stereotypical detective dress of long trench coats and trilby hats. Hall & Oates didn't like making videos, as they felt the visuals detracted from the sound, but they knew it was a vital part of marketing with the emergence of MTV. When someone suggested the '50s detective look for this clip, they went with it because it was cheap and easy."
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/daryl-hall-john-oates/private-eyes
"Private Eyes" written by
Lyrics
"I see you, you see me
Watch you blowin' the lines
When you're making a scene
Oh girl, you've got to know
What my head overlooks
The senses will show to my heart
When it's watching for lies
You can't escape my
Private Eyes
They're watching you
They see your every move
Private Eyes
They're watching you
Private Eyes
They're watching you
Watching you
Watching you
Watching you
You play with words
You play with love
You can twist it around, baby
That ain't enough
'Cos girl
I'm gonna know
If you're letting me in
Or letting me go
Don't lie
When you're hurting inside
'Cos you can't escape my
Private Eyes
They're watching you
They see your every move
Private Eyes
They're watching you
Private Eyes
They're watching you
Watching you
Watching you
Watching you
[Instrumental Interlude]
Why you try to put up a front for me
I'm a spy but on your side, you see
Slip on into any disguise
I'll still know you
Look into my Private Eyes
They're watching you
They see your every move
Oh, babe, Private Eyes
They're watching you
Private Eyes
They're watching you, yeah
They see your every move
They see it
Ooooh, they're watching you
Private Eyes
They're watching you... "
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. LTC Ivan Raiklin, Esq. Capt Seid Waddell Capt Tom Brown SFC William Farrell SSgt Robert Marx SSgt (Join to see) SGT John " Mac " McConnell Maj Marty Hogan PO1 William "Chip" Nagel SP5 Robert Ruck SCPO Morris Ramsey SGT Michael Thorin SPC Margaret Higgins LTC Wayne Brandon LTC Bill Koski Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. MSG Andrew White
Song background
"The song title came from the 1980 movie The Private Eyes, starring Don Knots and Tim Conway as bumbling detectives. Warren Pash, a musician who was trying to make it in Los Angeles, was working on a song called "I Need You To Need Me," but he didn't like that title. He was driving on Ventura Boulevard when he saw the movie billboard, turned back home, and wrote the song with a new title and chorus: "Private Eyes."
Pash had met Daryl Hall and Janna Allen (Hall's sometime songwriting partner) earlier in 1980, and had done some songwriting with Hall that didn't amount to anything. When Allen and Hall returned to New York, they kept writing together, including a song that was intended for Allen's first solo album: "Kiss On My List." That song ended up being recorded by Hall & Oates, but Janna kept looking for material. When she called Pash, he told her about "Private Eyes," and when Janna returned to LA, they worked on the song together.
Pash told us: "We went in a little rehearsal room somewhere - I think it was five bucks an hour with a beat-up, old piano with cigarette burns and half the keys not working, and a cassette player. We banged it out with some stuff that she added to make it more singable for her and more melodic for her. She took it away and I said, 'OK, we'll see what happens.' She calls me maybe a month later and says, I don't think that song is for me. I said, Yeah, I understand. And she goes, But I think it's perfect for Daryl and John, so I gave the cassette to them. I went, What are you trying to do, kill my opportunity to work with Daryl again? Why'd you give him that piece-of-crap tape? She says, No, no, no... they'll know what to do with it.'"
Daryl Hall worked on the song with his girlfriend, Sara Allen (Janna's sister), turning it into a Hall & Oates tune. In the end, the song had four writers: Janna Allen, Sara Allen, Daryl Hall and Warren Pash.
The song compares the challenges of a romance to the cloak-and-dagger work performed by detectives. The promotional video featured the duo wearing stereotypical detective dress of long trench coats and trilby hats. Hall & Oates didn't like making videos, as they felt the visuals detracted from the sound, but they knew it was a vital part of marketing with the emergence of MTV. When someone suggested the '50s detective look for this clip, they went with it because it was cheap and easy."
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/daryl-hall-john-oates/private-eyes
"Private Eyes" written by
Lyrics
"I see you, you see me
Watch you blowin' the lines
When you're making a scene
Oh girl, you've got to know
What my head overlooks
The senses will show to my heart
When it's watching for lies
You can't escape my
Private Eyes
They're watching you
They see your every move
Private Eyes
They're watching you
Private Eyes
They're watching you
Watching you
Watching you
Watching you
You play with words
You play with love
You can twist it around, baby
That ain't enough
'Cos girl
I'm gonna know
If you're letting me in
Or letting me go
Don't lie
When you're hurting inside
'Cos you can't escape my
Private Eyes
They're watching you
They see your every move
Private Eyes
They're watching you
Private Eyes
They're watching you
Watching you
Watching you
Watching you
[Instrumental Interlude]
Why you try to put up a front for me
I'm a spy but on your side, you see
Slip on into any disguise
I'll still know you
Look into my Private Eyes
They're watching you
They see your every move
Oh, babe, Private Eyes
They're watching you
Private Eyes
They're watching you, yeah
They see your every move
They see it
Ooooh, they're watching you
Private Eyes
They're watching you... "
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