The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, September 21, 1981, Image 8

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By TOM SOLOMON
Battalion Reporter
Daryl Hall and John Oates brought a
quality show of pop n’ roll to an approv
ing crowd Sunday night in G. Rollie
White Coliseum.
Hall and Oates play “hlue-eyedsoul”
music, so-called because while the
musicians arc white, the music shows
heavy influences of hlack soul music.
Their concert, while including a good
selection of tunes from their 1980 album
“Voices, relied heavily on the bands
older, soulful tunes, like "She’s Gone
and “Sara Smile,” hits that won the
“blue-eyed soul’ reputation for the
band.
Taking the stage at 9:35 after a short
opening set by the Cate Brothers Band,
Hall and Oates quickly won over the
crowd, as Hall beckoned to clapalongto
the band’s opening tunes, HowDocslt
Feel To Be Back and “Diddy DooWop
(I Hear Voices).”
The crowd roared with approval asit
quickly recognized the intro to the hit
single “Private Eyes, the title cut from
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