Songoftheday 1/2/14 - In the moonlight under starlight songs old as the night are what I've been dreamin' of...

Daryl Hall and John Oates - "Method Of Modern Love"
from the album Big Bam Boom (1984)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #5 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 11

The first Song of the Day for 2014 is by Philly pop and soul duo Daryl Hall and John Oates, who closed out 1984 with their sixth and most recent #1 pop hit "Out Of Touch". They followed that single up with "Method Of Modern Love", a funky spelling exercise written by Hall with Jenna Allen and produced by the artists with Bob Clearmountain, who gave the record a big, echo-filled sound, while dance king Arthur Baker helped with the mixing...

"Method Of Modern Love" reached the top-5 on the American pop chart in February of 1985, while also making the top-20 on the dance (#15) and Adult Contemporary (#18) charts. The single also crossed over to the R&B format (#21) and even got play on rock radio (#42). Internationally, the song was their sixth and most recent top-40 hit in England, and peaked at #7 in Canada.

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..here's the pair at the American Music Awards in 1985...

....and a better live version from around that time...

...and to close things out, a version featuring Chromeo from Hall's excellent Live From Daryl's House webseries...

Up tomorrow: A married pair of soulsters are structurally sound.