Abandoned Luncheonette
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| Studio album by Hall & Oates | ||||||||
| Released | November 3, 1973 | |||||||
| Recorded | 1973 | |||||||
| Genre | Soft rock, blue-eyed soul, folk rock | |||||||
| Length | 36:42 | |||||||
| Label | Atlantic | |||||||
| Producer | Arif Mardin | |||||||
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Abandoned Luncheonette is the second studio album by the American pop music duo Hall & Oates, released in 1973, which combines folk, philly soul, and acoustic soul. It is the most commercially successful of their first three albums of the duo's Atlantic Records period, the album reached #33 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tapes chart. Twenty-nine years after its release, the album was certified platinum (over one million copies sold) by the Recording Industry Association of America.
It is the duo's favorite Hall & Oates album ever.
"Recording that album was where we learned how songs become records. Our producer, the legendary Arif Mardin carefully crafted each song, every bit of nuance, bringing in the perfect players for the right moments. And it all worked together as one beautiful musical tapestry."
After their first album, Whole Oats failed to make an impact the duo moved from Philadelphia to New York and started recording Abandoned Luncheonette, it became the first album they recorded as New Yorkers.
"...experiencing the city, and being exposed to a whole new level of musicianship through the good will and artistic choices of Arif Mardin and Atlantic Records. We felt like we were where we needed to be. We had high hopes.”
“That space was one of the most amazing, exciting, and inspiring (studio) that I’ve ever experienced in my life, we’d walk out the door and see Bette Midler, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Doug Sahm, Led Zeppelin. They’d just walk in — it was crazy. Now I think back on it, and I just wish I’d taken pictures. It was a very exciting time, because we were at the epicenter of what was going on in New York recording at the moment.”
Their producer was still Arif Mardin but they wanted to get away from the commercial strandards to establish the parameters of their musical identity and Arif helped in this regard, he liked the American musical influence that Hall & Oates had been brought up on and he knew just how to bring all their ideas to life adding much of his own vision. When Daryl and John began producing themselves in the early 80s, they thought back to everything they learned from watching Arif.
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