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Daryl Hall and John Oates Privately Resolve Legal Feud
Variety ^ | Aug 12, 2025 | Thania Garcia

Posted on 08/12/2025 3:51:50 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Daryl Hall and John Oates have resolved their dispute over Oates’ plan to sell his half of their joint venture to Primary Wave Music. Court documents filed Aug. 11 reveal the legal back-and-forth between the duo has now been privately resolved, without any additional information on their deal.

The pair started litigation in 2023 when Hall launched arbitration seeking to block Oates from selling his stake in Whole Oats Enterprises — this includes the band’s name and likeness rights as well as royalties — to Primary Wave.

Primary Wave has become a music-catalog marketing powerhouse over the past 15 years, acquiring assets from Bob Marley, Whitney Houston, James Brown, Prince and many other artists and marketing those assets largely in cooperation with the artists’ reps or estates. As a storied heritage act with dozens of hits that spawned in the 1970s and ‘80s (songs such as “Kiss on My List” and “I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do”), Hall and Oates fit into their business model.

A Nashville judge temporarily blocked Oates’ proposed sale of his share in November of 2023, ruling that the proposed deal could not go through until an arbitrator could decide whether to impose a restraining order.

In the 2023 filings, Hall accused Oates of blindsiding and betraying him. Oates replied in his own filings that he was “deeply hurt” Hall was making “inflammatory, outlandish, and inaccurate statements” about him.

Representatives for Hall and Oates did not immediately return Variety‘s request for comment.

Oates told The Associated Press in 2024 that he’s had “no communication” with Hall and declined to discuss the legal proceedings. He also said that a reunion was “not in my plans at all.”

“You can ask Daryl Hall what he thinks,” he said at the time. “But for me personally, no.”


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: 70s; 80s; catcherorpitcher; halloates; lawsuit; music
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To: nickcarraway; Chode

Back in the 80s when I used to listen to them on the raid my dad thought the Radio DJ was saying “Holland Oats” instead of “Hall and Oates”


41 posted on 08/12/2025 6:51:18 PM PDT by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul 🇺🇸 )
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To: Albion Wilde

See my post 41


42 posted on 08/12/2025 6:52:15 PM PDT by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul 🇺🇸 )
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To: Morgana

AI says:

Hall & Oates, the iconic duo known for hits like “Rich Girl” and “Maneater,” have inspired some amusing misheard lyrics. One notable example is in their song “Every Time You Go Away,” where some listeners initially interpreted the lyrics as “Every time you go away, you take a piece of meat with you” instead of the actual line, “Every time you go away, you take a piece of me.”

Another example, although less widely circulated, involves the song “Rich Girl.” Some listeners initially misheard the line “You’re a rich girl” as “You’re a bitch, girl.”


43 posted on 08/12/2025 6:56:42 PM PDT by x
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To: Hyman Roth
Garfunkel And Oates
44 posted on 08/12/2025 7:10:15 PM PDT by real saxophonist (Michael Bennet claps on 1 and 3.)
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To: x

Everytime you go away is not by Hall and Oates. That one was Paul Young. AI is a liar.


45 posted on 08/12/2025 8:39:32 PM PDT by Roos_Girl (The world is full of educated derelicts. - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: Morgana
my dad thought the Radio DJ was saying “Holland Oats” instead of “Hall and Oates”

LOL!

46 posted on 08/12/2025 8:40:14 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (If [mortals] are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it? —Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Roos_Girl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tlz8qHFDbkI


47 posted on 08/12/2025 8:41:45 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Learn something old every day. Thanks. Which one is the cover?


48 posted on 08/12/2025 8:44:05 PM PDT by Roos_Girl (The world is full of educated derelicts. - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: Roos_Girl

Paul Young is the cover.


49 posted on 08/12/2025 8:44:38 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Hyman Roth

Say it isn’t so?


50 posted on 08/12/2025 8:53:48 PM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: nickcarraway

They will have to settle this mano a mano.


51 posted on 08/12/2025 9:01:17 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: Morgana; Chode

Holland Oates, the Dutch duo of Rock’n’soul.


52 posted on 08/12/2025 9:04:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: x

Save those bottletops


53 posted on 08/12/2025 9:48:01 PM PDT by RitchieAprile (available monkeys looking for the change..)
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I’m not a pop guy... but I listened to The Archie’s and... Hall & Oates.


54 posted on 08/13/2025 4:01:47 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The dawn cracks hard like a bull whip and it ain't taking no lip from the night before" Tom Waits)
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To: Roos_Girl

Hall and Oates (or Hall or Oates) wrote it.

Paul Young made it a hit.


55 posted on 08/13/2025 9:46:36 AM PDT by x
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To: dfwgator
Good one...Butch Walker another

(never heard of the guy, before/since).

56 posted on 08/13/2025 9:54:55 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please pray for my brother Ken)
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To: dfwgator

AI is too Out Of Touch.


57 posted on 08/13/2025 9:58:04 AM PDT by Windcatcher
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To: x; dfwgator

Yep, I learned that last night from dfwgator. Thanks! I stand by my comment that AI, particularly ChatGPT, is a liar, even if it was right this time.


58 posted on 08/13/2025 10:57:38 AM PDT by Roos_Girl (The world is full of educated derelicts. - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: nickcarraway

Hall is a lefty dem

Hall ran for Congress in the 19th District in the September 2006 primary race as a Democrat in New York’s 19th congressional district. He won the primary, with a commanding 48% in a 4-way race, and faced incumbent Sue W. Kelly in the November election.


59 posted on 08/13/2025 11:02:05 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro
LOL. You kind of owe an apology, you are way off. The person you are referring to is John Hall. He was in a band called Orleans that had some hits in the mid-70's, but he is in now way related to Daryl Hall.
60 posted on 08/13/2025 11:14:12 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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