HALL & OATES "PRIVATE EYES" 1981 RCA WHITE LABEL ONE SIDED PROMO SINGLE

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ALL 12” SINGLES EITHER COME FROM MY TIME AS THE MUSIC AND PROMOTIONS COORDINATOR AT A NATIONAL RADIO NETWORK WHEN WE CLEANED OUT THE RECORD LIBRARY, OR IS A THRIFT STORE FIND. ALL WILL BE MAILED IN A STANDARD CARDBOARD ALBUM MAILER., I DO COMBINE SHIPPING, ALL ITEMS WILL MAIL OUT MEDIA MAIL IN THE U.S., $4 1ST ITEM, $1 EACH ADDITIONAL ITEM, ALBUMS ARE EXPENSIVE TO MAIL INTERNATIONALLY SO MY FLAT RATE FOR INTERNATIONAL MAILING IS $14 FIRST ITEM, THEN $2 EACH ADDITIONAL ITEM.

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 THIS IS A VERY COOL AND RARE HALL & OATES WHITE LABEL PROMO 12" SINGLE, SENT OUT BY RCA RECORDS IN 1981 TO RADIO STATIONS, IT LITERALY IS A ONE SIDED PROMO, THE FLIP SIDE IS FLAT, THERE ARE A FEW GROOVES BUT NO AUDIO, AND THE LABEL IS BLACK EXCEPT FOR THE RCA LOGO AND "NOT FOR SALE" PRINTED ON THE LABEL. THIS COMES IN A COOL 12" RECORD JACKET THAT IS SIMILAR TO THE COMMERCIAL  RELEAE OF THIS SONG WHICH IS THE TITLE TRACK FROM THEIR 1981 RCA ALBUM. THE JACKET IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION, JUST VERY VERY LIGHT RING WEAR, NOT REALLY VISIBLE IN THE PHOTO. IT HAS PRINTED AT THE BOTTOM OF THE FRONT & BACK.."NOT FOR SALE/FOR PROMOTIONAL USE ONLY", THE LABEL ON THE RECORD HAS PRINTED "NOT FOR SALE" ON BOTH SIDES.. THIS IS RCA PROMO CAT.# JD-12297. THE SONG IS THE TITLE TRACK "PRIVATE EYES" (3:29). THE SIDE WITH THE AUDIO IS IN NM CONDITION, LOOKS TOTALLY UNPLAYED, THIS CAME OUT OF THE RECORD LIBRARY AT THE RADIO NETWORK. I WOULD GRADE THE ENTIRE RECORD AS VG. HERE'S MOE ON THE ARTISTS AND THIS TRACK...

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 with a fusion of rock and roll and rhythm and blues styles, which they dubbed "rock and soul." Critics Stephen Thomas Erlewine and J. Scott McClintock write, "at their best, Hall & Oates' songs were filled with strong hooks and melodies that adhered to soul traditions without being a slave to them by incorporating elements of new wave and hard rock." While much of the duo's reputation is due to its sustained pop-chart run in the 1980s, they continue to record and tour, and remain respected by various artists for their ability to cross stylistic boundaries.

They are best known for their six #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. In total, the act had 34 singles chart hits on the US Billboard Hot 100, seven RIAA platinum albums, and six RIAA gold albums. Because of that chart success, Billboard Magazine named them the most successful duo of the rock era, surpassing the Everly Brothers.

In 2003, Hall and Oates were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Billboard Magazine had Hall & Oates at #15 on their list of the 100 greatest artists of all time and the #1 duo, while VH1 placed the duo as #99 on their list of the 100 greatest artists of all time.

1981: Private Eyes

By the time "You Make My Dreams" was falling off the charts, Hall & Oates had already released their follow-up album Private Eyes. Having worked in the studio while Voices was at its peak in popularity, the two had already recorded most of their material and felt there was no need to repeat the previous album's formula. The result was the first Hall & Oates album to reach the Top 10 on the Billboard 200 album chart, and the four singles from Private Eyes all reached the Top 40.

The title track and "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)" were nearly consecutive Number 1 hits, separated only by the ten-week stay at Number 1 by the monster hit "Physical" by Olivia Newton-John. "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)" was one of the few songs ever recorded by a white act to reach Number One on both the R&B and the pop charts. "Did It in a Minute" reached Number 9 in the spring of 1982, and "Your Imagination" peaked at No. 33. This album is now considered among the duo's best albums, mixing soul, new wave and power pop.

"Private Eyes" is a 1981 single by Hall & Oates and the title track from their album of that year. The song was number one on the Billboard Hot 100 charts for two weeks, from November 7 through November 20, 1981. This single was the band's third of six number one hits (the first two being "Rich Girl" and "Kiss on My List"), and their second number one hit of the 1980s. It was succeeded in the number one position by Olivia Newton-John's "Physical," which was in turn succeeded by another single from Hall and Oates, "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)."

Background and writing

In an interview with American Songwriter, Daryl Hall states: "That’s a real Janna Allen [co-writer and sister of Sara Allen] song. Janna, and I, and Warren Pash wrote that. Warren and Janna wrote most of the song, and I took it and changed it around – changed the chords. Sandy [Sara Allen] and I wrote the lyrics. It’s a real family song, the Allen sisters and me."

The single carries a similar rhythm to the duo's number one hit from earlier that year, "Kiss On My List," with the difference being a handclap chorus that has made the song an audience-participation favorite at live Hall and Oates shows. It was one of the duo's first songs to appear in heavy rotation on MTV.

In popular culture

The song is performed by private investigator Vinnie Van Lowe in the Veronica Mars episode "Kanes and Abel's." After Veronica tries to bug Vinnie's office, he asks his receptionist (also his mother) who his favorite band is, then leans out the window and sings the song to an eavesdropping Veronica. At one point he changes the chorus from "Private Eyes" to "Veronica Mars/I'm watching you." There was a popular reworking of this classic at Rockness 2010, performed by the Shire Sect and was appropriately renamed "Scanty Eyes", to encourage the practice of scanting, in particular, towards mothers on Valentines' Day.

The Disney Channel ran a DTV music video of the song, set mostly to clips from the Goofy cartoon short How to Be a Detective.

Captain Kangaroo in the early '80's had a puppet vignette of the song.

On the August 13, 2007 episode of WWE Raw, John "Bradshaw" Layfield and Michael Cole dressed up as Hall & Oates and sang versions of "Private Eyes" and "Rich Girl."

In episode 3.16 of Psych, An Evening with Mr. Yang, Detective Lassiter is shown singing along to the song playing on his iPod. USA Network later parodied the original music video to "Private Eyes" in a promo for the television series.

In the television series Chuck, the titular character included the song in his stakeout mix.

In the film Knight and Day, the song is being played on a stereo system in a safehouse of a fugitive who is an inventor who is a fan of the duo, who later sports a vintage pin.

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