| 1 | * BreakthroughHit: "Sara Smile" in 1976, which was soon followed-up by the reissued "She's Gone" and "Rich Girl". |
| 2 | * ChannelHop: They started on [[Creator/AtlanticRecords Atlantic]], released their biggest hits on [[Creator/RCARecords RCA]], didn't do as well with [[Creator/AristaRecords Arista]], and eventually wound up recording for small indie labels ever since. |
| 3 | * ChartDisplacement: They had six #1 hits in America, but "You Make My Dreams" was not among them, only peaking at #5. But with the RevivalByCommercialization mentioned below, it's probably their most familiar song among younger listeners. |
| 4 | * CreatorCouple: Many of their '80s hits were written by Hall and his long-term girlfriend Sara Allen (whom he had earlier written "Sara Smile" about). The two never married, but were together from the early '70s to the early '00s and remain close friends. |
| 5 | * HostilityOnTheSet: Hall in late 2023 sued Oates to prevent him from singing the songs in their catalogue. It was later revealed that Hall doesn't think much of Oates as a friend, if at all... and only thinks of him as a ''business partner''. It would sadly explain Hall's ControlFreak tendencies and possible {{Jerkass}} core towards Oates. |
| 6 | ** To date, the controversy behind the lawsuit is about ownership of the song catalogues between both Daryl Hall and John Oates. The former claims all the songs in their catalogue are '''his''', while the latter claims it's ''both''. Depending on the situation and how Oates handled responding to the lawsuit with some class, [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation depending on how you see it]], Hall comes out of it [[TookALevelInJerkass even more callous than before]]. |
| 7 | * RevivalByCommercialization: "You Make My Dreams" has been featured in a number of movies, with ''Film/{{Stepbrothers}}'' and ''Film/FiveHundredDaysOfSummer'' in particular raising the song's profile. |
| 8 | * SimilarlyNamedWorks: Music/IrvingBerlin, Music/TheOutfield, Music/{{Weezer}}[[labelnote:*]]well, technically "Say It ''Ain't'' So", but still[[/labelnote]] and Music/BonJovi have also made songs named "Say It Isn't So". |
| 9 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: Music/RobertFripp asked Daryl Hall to front a revived Music/KingCrimson after he sang on Fripp's ''Exposure'' album, but Hall declined as Hall and Oates were hitting their stride as hitmakers. This lead to Crimson's ''Music/{{Discipline}}'' lineup to be instead fronted by Adrian Belew (previously a collaborator with Music/FrankZappa, Music/DavidBowie, and Music/TalkingHeads, among others) in the early '80s. |
| 10 | ** Hall was also considered to front Music/VanHalen after the departure of Music/DavidLeeRoth. He declined for the same reason. |
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