Hayes and Porter wrote and produced the duo's biggest hits ( although they did not receive production credits until the Soul Men LP and singles ).

Though the Hall & Oates original ( recorded in a Memphis-soul style ) was never released as a single, it remains a fan favorite on the duo's greatest hits albums and was featured on their Apollo Theater CD in 1985, and is frequently featured in their live set to this day.

Live at the Apollo was released primarily to fulfill the duo's contract with RCA, and contained a top-20 hit with a medley of " The Way You Do the Things You Do " and " My Girl ", both hits Ruffin and Kendrick had recorded with the Temptations in 1964.

It features many of the duo's early hits and album tracks, such as " Leaves That Are Green ", " He Was My Brother ", and " For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her ".

Formerly named the " Geneva ", the two complexes were renamed " Close to You " and " Only Just Begun " in honor of the duo's first smash hits.

The film was one of the duo's biggest hits but is now lost.

22 it broke the duo's run of eleven consecutive UK top 20 hits.

In March 2011, Curb Records announced the release of The Judds ' new album, I Will Stand by You: The Essential Collection, which features two new songs and twelve of the duo's hits.

The first release off the duo's second album: You're All I Need, the song-written and produced by regular Gaye / Terrell collaborators Ashford & Simpson-became a hit within weeks of release eventually peaking at # 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 and # 1 on the Hot Soul Singles chart, the first of the duo's s two # 1 hit R & B hits.

In 2005, the Bellamys returned to Curb Records to record Angels & Outlaws, Volume 1, a compilation album featuring re-recordings of the duo's older hits with additional artists, including Dolly Parton, George Jones, Alan Jackson, Tanya Tucker, and Montgomery Gentry.

Featuring many hits, it included El Carnaval, the duo's biggest hit, and one of the most popular dancehall songs in Puerto Rico.

The song became the duo's first # 1 in the United Kingdom, as well as reaching # 13 on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100, becoming one of their last significant hits.

In 2006, Strange also collaborated with the electronic duo Punx Soundcheck and provided vocals on the track " In the Dark ", which was included on the duo's debut double album When Machines Ruled the World.

The duo's early career included a stint with Jay and the Americans ( where they went by pseudonyms ), and in the early 1970s, as pop songwriters for ABC / Dunhill Records, which would go on to release all of Steely Dan's 1970s output.

" The reference is to Sedaka's aptly-titled album Sedaka's Back, which also included his own original version of the duo's single, recorded several years earlier during his difficult years attempting a comeback while in the UK.

Also included on the album was " Born and Raised in Black and White ", the first song of the duo's career in which they alternated on lead vocals.

The song was originally recorded as a simple acoustic ballad and included on the duo's 1964 debut album, but the LP flopped and the duo split soon after, and Simon left for the UK.

The duo's first album, Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret, hit UK No. 5 and further explored the now-trademark Soft Cell themes of squalour and sleaze.

Headed by the duo's final single " Down In The Subway " ( UK No. 24 ), the album departed from its predecessors by featuring more live drums and guitars than previous albums.

It is a tongue-in-cheek step by step guide to achieving a No. 1 single with no money or musical skills, and a case study of the duo's UK novelty pop No. 1 " Doctorin ' the Tardis ".

The duo's first single together called " Gigolo " was released on May 27, 2011 in Germany which peaked at No. 40 there. Their second single " No More Tears On The Dancefloor " failed to enter the charts.

The duo's third album Come in from the Rain ( US No. 18, 1977 ) was released while their television show was still on the air, and the album's first single benefitted from that exposure.

In 1981, the duo's single, " Hip Shake Jerk ", became a hit in Australia, reaching No. 12, and their first album, On the Uptake was quickly released there.

Later that year the duo's debut album No Sleep Demon was re-released as No Sleep Demon V2. 0 presenting new mixes of the songs " Hooked " and " Avalost ".

The episodes were set mainly in the duo's activities at Bedrock High School in the prehistoric town of Bedrock with their friends Moonrock ( the school genius and resident inventor ), Penny ( a slightly overweight girl obsessed with being thin ), Wiggy ( who planned her day according to what it said in the daily horoscope ), snobby Cindy ( Pebbles's rival ) and her equally snobby boyfriend Fabian, Bad Luck Schleprock ( whose favorite catchphrase was, " Oh wowsie wowsie woo woo.

High radio demand for the single led to the label advancing the release date of the duo's debut album, Tattoos & Scars, from early May to April 6.

In 1964, he scored his first hit duets with singer Mary Wells including " Once Upon a Time ", which was later featured on the duo's album, Together, which became Gaye's first charted album.

While performing at local radio station KCKY they met disc jockey Lee Hazlewood, who produced the duo's single, " Soda Fountain Girl ", recorded and released in 1955 in Phoenix.

The Indigo Girls followed it with the live Back on the Bus, Y'all and 1992's album Rites of Passage, featuring the song " Galileo ", the duo's first top 10 modern rock music track (# 10 ).

After several successive R & B songs such as " I Idolize You ", " You Should've Treated Me Right ", " Poor Fool " and " Tra La La ", the duo reached the top 20 on the pop charts with " It's Gonna Work Out Fine ", which became the duo's second million-selling single and also garnered them their first Grammy Award nomination.

In the following three years the pair produced music under a variety of aliases, releasing a plethora of singles and EPs, including the successful bleep techno singles " Q " and " Metropolis ", some of which would end up on the duo's first compilation album " Earthbeat " in 1992.

Also in 1981, American comedians Stevens & Grdnic released " Commercials on 45 ", which was a compilation of that duo's parodies of commercials set to music.

One song from the sessions, " Leave Home ", was first released in late 1994 on the duo's mix album, NME Xmas Dust Up, released as a covermount cassette tape in an issue of the NME.

During these sessions, Miller and Margera met Chad I Ginsburg, a record producer and audio engineer working in Pennsylvania at the time, who they asked to join as a full-time member of the band ; impressed by the duo's song " Disengage the Simulator ", Ginsburg agreed to join as a guitarist.

" Mama Don't Get Dressed Up for Nothing ", the third single and B-side to " My Maria ", became the duo's first release not to make the top ten.

This cut went to number one, as did If You See Hers next two singles: " How Long Gone " and a cover of Roger Miller's " Husbands and Wives ", which also became the duo's first top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.

Following it was " South of Santa Fe ", which peaked at number 41 on the country charts and thus became the duo's lowest-peaking single there.

In 1999, Shaw and Haines decided to call their partnership " Metric ", after a synthesizer beat that Shaw used on his sampler and as a reference to the duo's musical precision.

Future singles and albums would be crafted in the vein of " All My Life ", which was the duo's only number-one hit, though many consider it one of the greatest jazz pop melodies of all time.

Their debut single was the self-released split with friends Gravity Wax, followed by the ground-breaking " Free Your Soul " EP, which featured the duo's best song to date, " Photon ".

In October 2005, You Do Your Thing became the duo's third platinum album.

Peaking at # 10 on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, it was the duo's most successful single, and they are often regarded as a one-hit wonder for the track because the duo's only other Hot 100 entry (" If Love Is In Your Heart ") stalled at # 86 a few months later.