You Make My Dreams Come True

December 30, 2011 • 4:02 am

It’s the last day of Coynezaa, so I can post any damn music I want!

This video proves that a bunch of old dudes (Daryl Hall is only three years older than I am) can still rock.  Hall, shown here on Episode 43 of of the monthly webcast “Live from Daryl’s House,” co-wrote this song with John Oates. The original version, which peaked at number 5 in 1980, is one of the smokingest dance songs of all time.

The other lead singer here is Mayer Hawthorne, whose real name is Andrew Mayer Cohen. And check out Booker T. Jones (remember him?) on the organ; his mini-solo at 2:03, and playing near the end, are great.

Hall’s voice has gone a bit, but he’s still great to watch.

(Daryl Hall, by the way, collects and wears cowboy boots.)

Well, I’ll ask readers to name their favorite dancing songs.  Anything Motown works for me.

57 thoughts on “You Make My Dreams Come True”

  4. I don’t care for dancing, so dance music doesn’t do much for me. But as far as Daryl Hall is concerned, I think his best work was his little-known and largely unheralded collaboration with Robert Fripp, the album Sacred Songs. It was recorded in 1977, but not released until 1980 because Hall’s record company, RCA, felt that it was too different from the music he did with John Oates and would alienate their fans.The album and the work with Fripp did, in fact, come very close to cementing an ongoing partnership between the two that may have spelled the end of Hall & Oates and a rebirth of a new version of King Crimson with Fripp and Hall as the centerpiece.

  6. First, Happy Birthday!! May all your boots be real!!

    Second, since it’s your bl…website, you can post any damn music you want to, any time you want to.

    Good dance music? Nashville Cats by the Lovin’ Spoonful, Dire Wolf by the Grateful Dead, Last Train to Clarksville by the Monkees, and on, and on. L

  7. Happy Birthday! Your website is a goldmine of laughs, information and great pictures. It is a treat to see what’s new every morning and evening (before and after work). Thank you for making it so interesting.

    By the way, I celebrated the first day of Coynezaa with a large slice of walnut pie, eaten in your honor, of course. It was delish.

  9. Happy B-day, Jerry. May you have, at bare bones minimum, at least 100 more.

    Thank you for all you do in the name of sanity and reason.
    ~Rev. El

  10. Dance music? Well, today I’d have to go with Bo Diddley’s “Who do you Love”:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAGoqMZRLB4

    Can you believe he wrote it in 1956? Way ahead of its time, still popular today…covered by many artists. But I digress…

    Happy Birthday Bo and Happy Birthday to you too Jerry. Two of the great ones!

  11. ’80’s child that I am, gotta go with Prince’s “I Wanna Be Your Lover.” “Erotic City” (for those who dare to play it) will get my touchas on the dancefloor as well.

    2. Sorry. Just as I won’t buy that Plantangia is “sophisticated,” I’m not buying Jerry as old enough for Social Security. Or even AARP, for that matter.

      I know he’s older than me, and I’m positively ancient, but I’d still guess he’s south of Hawaii, if you get my drift.

      Cheers,

      b&

        1. Sorry. Still not buying it. I’m absolutely certain — as certain as the Pope is that Jesus is blowing sweet nothings in his ear — that, if you called AARP, they wouldn’t have a clue who you’re talking about.

          b&

          2. 55+ stateside.

            And that’s my story, and I’m sticking to it. Any evidence to the contrary was faked by Jerry to add gravitas to his résumé.

            Cheers,

            b&

          3. AARP referred to retirement condos in my city as “reasonable”, “readily affordable” and “well within the means of most of today’s retirees”. Then they got around to quoting a price range: $250,000 – $400,000. Affordable in a deity’s eye! The “R” in AARP stands for “Rich”.

          4. AARP mission statement:

            “a nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization for people age 50 and over …”

            Anyway, why would JAC need the weight of unearned years? Gravitas IMO is for J. Haught & his type ~ those without real accomplishment who need to adopt an air. Your solid achievers can post about cats’n’stuff with no risk to their standing.

          7. Has your local wingnut, Pastor Steven L. Anderson, come knocking at your door?

            Jesus Christ! That’s just a few miles away. I had no idea the barbarians were that close!

            I mean, if I had thought about it, I’m sure I might have been able to figure it out, but why on Earth would it occur to me to think of something so horrid?

            …come to think of it, in the few years I’ve lived here, I’ve only had the door-to-door Jesus salesmen knock on my own door once. And I had my hands too full of whatever I was doing at the moment to even think of taunting them with their zombie fetish, sadly.

            b&

  16. “This video proves that a bunch of old dudes . . . can still rock.”

    The old dude in the video below is my age; he and I attended the same junior high school in the 60s. He is known for wearing a muumuu and performing barefoot.

  19. Wikipedia has Hall aged 65 — not old enough to be your pappy, but older. (I just knew there had to be a boot connection! Although what you’ve shown of your collection I think calling them boots is a misnomer — they’re works of art.)

    Oh, and Happy Birthday to you. I wish you every joy and happiness today and every other day.

    Michieux

  20. Definitely anything Motown, but I have to vote for Stevie–Superstition, Living for the City, Signed, Sealed, Delivered–can’t go wrong.

    Happy Birthday, Jerry!

    Coynezaa!!

  26. The Cult – She sells sanctuary
    The Sisters of Mercy – This Corrosion
    Rolling Stones – Brown Sugar

    2. You danced to the Cult? Better when they were Death Cult – saw them at a place in Tottenham Court Road just before they reduced the name. Also I was a big SoM fan & saw thyem a lot – but as an inverted snob I dropped them when they became too big! 😉

  28. A ’60s kid. Best slow dance/cuddle up on the floor/no space in between us song EVER: “My Girl” by the immortal Tempts.

    1. When they were in the charts it was ‘Golden Brown’ by the Stranglers, & OMD inter alia…

      Merry natality – sto lat!

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