{"id":92033,"date":"2023-11-26T00:48:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T08:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=92033"},"modified":"2023-11-26T11:34:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T19:34:21","slug":"trouble-with-hall-and-oates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2023\/11\/26\/trouble-with-hall-and-oates\/","title":{"rendered":"Trouble with Hall and Oates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard about the drama between <strong>Daryl Hall <\/strong>and <strong>John Oates<\/strong>?&nbsp; Hall has apparently gotten a temporary restraining order against Oates, and filed a sealed complaint trying to prevent him from performing their songs on his own.&nbsp; To the best of my knowledge, anyone can sing any song anytime they want \u2013 provided it is not being broadcast or recorded for distribution or sale.&nbsp; However, billing and advertisement are a different matter.&nbsp; For instance, after <strong><em>The<\/em> <em>Supremes <\/em><\/strong>disbanded, <strong>Florence<\/strong>, <strong>Mary<\/strong>, or any of the other girls (including <strong>Diane<\/strong>) could not bill themselves as <em>Supremes<\/em>.&nbsp; Mary could be billed as \u201cThe Supreme Mary Wilson\u201d, but not \u201cMary Wilson of The Supremes\u201d.&nbsp; So perhaps John Oates is being restricted from using the term <strong><em>Hall &amp; Oates<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Let\u2019s throw in this wrinkle \u2013 despite many songs credited to <em>Hall &amp; Oates<\/em>, Daryl claims that most of them were written and performed solely by him and that John did not participate in the recordings.&nbsp; If so, why did he give up credit and money?&nbsp; As we went to press, we learned from someone who has seen the sealed complaint that Daryl is attempting to stop John from selling his share of their joint publishing, <em>Whole Oats Enterprises<\/em>.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; <em>Primary Wave Music <\/em>bought a large percentage about 16 years ago, so if they got ahold of Oates\u2019 shares, Daryl would have someone to answer to.&nbsp; Stay tuned.&nbsp; Fun fact \u2013 Daryl Hall is also 77 years old!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard about the drama between Daryl Hall and John Oates?&nbsp; Hall has apparently gotten a temporary restraining order against Oates, and filed a sealed complaint trying to prevent him from performing their songs on his own.&nbsp; To the best of my knowledge, anyone can sing any song anytime they want \u2013 provided it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92033"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92045,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92033\/revisions\/92045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}