50 Daryl Hall & John Oates Songs You Better Have…Or Else
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June 10, 2014 by J Matthew Cobb in
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“Kiss on My List”
(1981; #1 pop)
Writer: Daryl Hall, Janna Allen
Producer: Daryl Hall, John Oates
from the album Voices
“I only smile when I lie/Then I tell them why,” Hall sings along to Janna Allen’s simple poetry. There was no lie about the succulent lyricism and why it was so infectious to the ears of music listeners in 1981. The gold-certified single earned H&O their first number one hit in the Eighties, sparking an unbreakable chain of Top Ten hits to come. “[Eddie] Van Halen told me that he copied the synth part from ‘Kiss on My List’ and used it in ‘Jump’,” Hall told Mix Online. “I don’t have a problem with that at all.”
