Hall and Oates (1972) Goodnight and Goodmorning

 From their folky 1972 debut, Whole Oates, this is another gem of many from the 70s version of Hall and Oates when they were of many Philly Soul Stars. Signed to Atlantic Records they stripped down their soul music to a folky, country acoustic based sound over the extravagant productions of their contemporaries in the Philly scene. No lush string and horn sections this song was the lead single for them, and later used as a lead single by Hawaian, Hall and Oates style duo, Cecillio and Kapono. It's a another flower power type of song with it's glistening strums sounding like the breaking of a new morning. An nice bass line and hopeful lyrics about a burgeoning romance, it is very life affirming and nature based and very different to what they would become known for. Underservedly their first three albums at Atlantic got them no notice, and this song should have put them on the map.