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"Sara Smile" is a song written and recorded by the American musical duo Hall & Oates. It was released as the third single from their album Daryl Hall & John Oates.The song was the group's first top 40 and first top ten hit in the US, reaching number four on the Billboard Hot 100.
Hall and Oates released the Do It for Love album in 2003, whose title track was a number one Adult Contemporary hit. They also released the Hall & Oates Live DVD from an A&E Live by Request special. This album was the first release (and first success) for their newest joint venture U-Watch Records.
Daryl Hall & John Oates is the fourth studio album by American pop music duo Hall & Oates. The album was released on August 18, 1975, by RCA Records. It is sometimes referred to as The Silver Album because of its metallic-foil cover. The album spawned three singles: "Camellia", [3] "Alone Too Long" and "Sara Smile".
John William Oates (born April 7, 1948) is an American musician, best known as half of the rock and soul duo Hall & Oates along with Daryl Hall. He has played rock , R&B , and soul music, serving as a guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer.
Janna Allen (May 12, 1957 – August 25, 1993) was an American songwriter.She is best known as a co-writer of some of the biggest hits recorded by Hall & Oates, in collaboration variously with Daryl Hall, John Oates and her sister Sara Allen, who was Hall's longtime girlfriend and the person for whom the duo's hit song "Sara Smile" was written.
Sara Allen (born March 23, 1954) is an American songwriter best known for her work with the duo Hall & Oates.. Working as a flight attendant in the early 1970s, Allen was introduced to John Oates, who subsequently wrote the song "Las Vegas Turnaround (The Stewardess Song)" which featured on the duo's second album Abandoned Luncheonette about Allen, who had begun a long-term relationship with ...
The song was released as a single in 1973 and peaked at No. 60 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Nearly three years later in 1976, after Hall & Oates had moved to RCA Records and had scored the hit "Sara Smile", Atlantic Records re-released the original single under a different number (Atlantic 3332).
Two of the three new songs ("Heartbreak Time," and "Do It for Love") were recorded for Hall & Oates next album, Do It For Love. It also features an acoustic re-recording of "Someone Like You" (retitled "Somebody Like You" for this release) from Hall's 1986 solo album Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine .