Songoftheday 10/31/12 - I'm tired of playing on the team, it seems I don't get time out anymore...

Daryl Hall & John Oates - "One On One"
from the album H2O (1982)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #7 (three weeks)
Weeks in the top-40: 15

Today's Song of the Day is by Philly blue-eyed soul legends Hall & Oates, whose eleventh studio album, H2O, already scored them their biggest pop hit to date with "Maneater", which spent four weeks at #1. For their followup they released the ballad "One On One", written by Hall and produced by the duo, with a no-frills love song that references a game of basketball, and harkening back to the slow jam R&B songs of the late 70s...

"One On One" hit the top-10 for the duo on the pop, R&B, and adult-contemporary (soft-rock) chart, though it was only a minor hit in England. It remains one of the longest-lasting hits, though, aging better than some of their more pop-oriented work.

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In 2010, alt-pop act the Bird and The Bee covered the song for their Hall & Oates tribute album...

..and here's Daryl and John performing the song in 1983..

Up tomorrow: a beat crazy guy splits in half.