In 1965, Dee Dee married the duo's manager ( later executive television producer for Dick Clark Productions ), Bill Lee, and had one son.

This was released as a single ( as " The Sound of Silence ") in late 1965 and by early 1966 it had become a major pop hit, relaunching the duo's career.

In 1966, together with Art Garfunkel, Simon re-recorded the song for the duo's album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme, with several lyrical changes.

* Mahler ( Rick Ducommun ), Brueghel's accomplice, who serves primarily as the muscle of the duo's body-harvesting operation.

In 1994, comedian Jerry Seinfeld — who says Abbott and Costello were strong influences on his work — hosted a television special Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld ( the title refers to the duo's popular film series in which they met some of Universal's famed horror picture characters ), on NBC ; the special was said to have been seen in 20 million homes.

The duo's first cartoon together was Puss Gets the Boot ( 1940 ), featuring an unnamed mouse's attempts to outwit a housecat named Jasper.

The song " My Old School " is a well-known example, referring to Annandale ( Annandale-on-Hudson, New York is the location of Bard College, which both attended and where they met ), and the Two Against Nature album ( 2000 ) contains numerous references to the duo's original home region, the New York metro area, including the district of Gramercy Park, The Strand Bookstore and well-known upmarket food business Dean & DeLuca.

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.

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.

In contrast to the duo's other official live releases ( The Concert in Central Park, Old Friends: Live on Stage, and Live 1969 ), this recording features Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel performing alone.

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.

During the duo's period of highest popularity, Tennille also worked as a session singer ( most frequently partnered with The Beach Boys ' Bruce Johnston ), performing as a backing vocalist on three Elton John albums including Caribou, Blue Moves, and 21 at 33 ( some vocally arranged by Dragon ) and most notably on the hit track " Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me ".

Although he avoids using deadly force whenever possible, usually taking his cue from Modesty as to whether to fight " for keeps " ( the duo's euphemism for killing ), he won't hesitate to kill to protect Modesty ( see, for example, the conclusion to the 1975 comic strip " Cry Wolf ").

The film marked the second installment in the Polish duo's projected trilogy Heaven ( filmed by Tom Tykwer in 2002 ), Hell and Purgatory.

The rest of the duo's band consisted of Ginny Whitaker ( drums ), Larry McDonald ( bass guitar ), Chris Bowman ( lead and rhythm guitar ), Rick Hinkle ( lead and rhythm guitar on " Pac-Man Fever ," " Mousetrap ," and " Goin ' Berserk "), Mike Stewart ( Moog synthesizer on " Mousetrap " and " Goin ' Berserk "), and David " Cozy " Cole ( syndrum ).

The series was an offshoot the duo's long-running, groundbreaking improvised radio comedy series This Sporting Life ( TSL ), which premiered on the Triple J radio network in 1986 and ran until 2008.

Although the duo's performance was billed under the Bark Psychosis name ( and was technically the band's last appearance for ten years ), it was in effect the debut of a brand new project which was only tenuously related to Bark Psychosis music.

The real PUFFY performs the cartoon's theme song ( which is also in Japanese, German, Spanish, and Portuguese in the respective regions ), and many episodes feature one or more of the duo's songs playing in the background, along with music by their Puerto Rico muse Andy Sturmer.

* Kaz Harada ( Voiced By: Keone Young ), is the duo's well-intentioned yet money-grubbing manager, whose successes are usually balanced out by his foolish decisions.

The film concludes with the duo's band, Ay Les Voy (" Here we go " in Spanish ), winning the contest, and a recording contract, with a performance of their song, Earache My Eye.

This has become the duo's most successful hit to date ( 9-07 ), climbing to # 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and # 3 and # 4 on the US Hot Rap Tracks and US Hot R & B / Hip Hop Songs charts, respectively.

The duo's songs have appeared in many films and television shows such as Blue Crush, Raising Helen, Smallville, Roswell, Obsessed, I'm With Lucy ), " Give It Away " ( Top Gear, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ), " Polaris " ( Sex and the City ), " Pop Art Blue " " Waterloo Road ", " In The Waiting Line " ( Garden State, Sex and the City, House and Numb3rs ).

The duo's lifestyle TV show is a mixture of cookery and travelogue.

Shyster is generally depicted as the duo's brain, with Pete acting as the brawn.

According to Moore and Prater, they also greatly influenced the duo's singing style, and had them shift their recording style from the style of their Roulette records to a more live, more energetic gospel, call-and-response feel and beat driven soul style the group is known for today.

" 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.

One of the apartments they shared had " Hall & Oates " on the mailbox, which is what they ended up using as their duo's name.

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.

This album is now considered among the duo's best albums, mixing soul, new wave and power pop.

Toward the Within is the duo's only official live album, which reached the Billboard 200.

This 1976 sketch has become one of the duo's most familiar and is a parody of a stripper routine where Eric and Ernie are seen listening to the radio at breakfast time.

Upon first hearing the duo's songs, Young was quoted as saying, " this Malkmus idiot is a complete songwriting genius.

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 Three Outlaws, starring Neville Brand as Butch Cassidy and Alan Hale Jr as the Sundance Kid, is a 1956 fictional film of the duo's exploits with Wild Bunch member William " News " Carver as the third outlaw in the title.

* The Police Commissioner is the duo's primary contact, and when trouble arises, he makes the call to their hangout.

Second only to his primary vocation of mad scientist is his obsession with outing the superheroes as gay, which tends to annoy his co-conspirators because they do not care about the duo's sexuality and only want to defeat them in order to rule the world.

* Kijoro is the duo's mentor whose spirit resides in the " Fortress of Privacy " ( a parody of Superman's Fortress of Solitude ) and offers advice from time to time when Ace and Gary seek counsel.

" Despite the fact that it doesn't boast singles as popular as the duo's previous albums (" Paid in Full " and " Follow the Leader ") it is considered by many to be the duo's most coherent album.

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

" 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.

The duo's second long player, Every Man and Woman is a Star ( 1991 ) found critical acclaim, and Ultramarine was frequently seen at festivals such as Megadog and Glastonbury during the early to mid 1990s.

The latter is also the duo's longest-lasting number one, at six weeks.

All but two of the duo's studio albums are certified platinum or higher by the Recording Industry Association of America ; their highest-certified is their 1991 debut Brand New Man, which is certified sextuple-platinum for shipments of six million copies.