How Bob Dylan Almost Wrote a Song With Daryl Hall

Daryl Hall got here near writing a tune with Bob Dylan, however in the long run, to reference his personal work, he determined to say “no can do.”

The Hall & Oates vocalist was engaged on songs for a solo album that turned 1986’s Three Hearts within the Happy Ending Machine and realized that one of many tracks had a sure familiarity to it. “‘Dreamtime’ sounded a lot like mid-’60s Dylan,” he instructed The Morning Union shortly after the album’s launch. “It reminded me a lot of Blonde on Blonde for about 10 minutes.”

His collaborator and producer, Dave Stewart of Eurythmics, urged they attain out to see if Dylan can be excited about writing the lyrics. “He sent me these crazy lyrics,” Hall recalled throughout a new, wide-ranging dialog with the Naked Lunch podcast, hosted by Phil Rosenthal and David Wild. “Bob gave me this tape of him singing ‘Dreamtime’ with his lyrics.”

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The lyrics, Hall mentioned, have been good. Still, as he recalled on the time of the album’s preliminary launch, “They weren’t what I wanted to sing about, so I scrapped them. But I kept the phrase ‘movie star eyes.’”

Hall mentioned Dylan did not maintain a grudge, however with a little bit of hindsight, he ended up with some regrets himself. “I don’t know what I was thinking,” he instructed Rosenthal and Wild. “I [could have been] like, ‘Yeah, OK, sure. I’ll sing those words.’ But I didn’t do it.”

Even with out Dylan’s participation, Hall scored a Top 5 hit when “Dreamtime” was launched as the primary single from the Three Hearts album, and he was pleased with the ultimate outcomes general. “I purposefully was uninformed [when I started working on the record], because I knew what I didn’t want to do,” he shared again then. “I didn’t want this album to be a continuation of Hall & Oates.”

Watch Daryl Hall’s ‘Dreamtime’ Video

What Are Daryl Hall’s Future Touring Plans?

After wrapping up a profitable summer time outing with Elvis Costello, Hall will probably be again on the street this fall with fellow ‘80s hitmaker Howard Jones. As the songwriter revealed in the Naked Lunch interview, it’s nearer to the sort of touring he needs to pursue transferring ahead.

“I did the Elvis show and that was a co-bill, but I feel like I don’t want to do those kinds of major tours anymore,” he defined. “I just want to do shorter Daryl’s House tours where it’s basically a live version of what we do on the TV show, [Live From Daryl’s House]. In order to do that, I need bonding and the right combination of artists to bring in. Howard is going to be doing it with me, and I have some other people in mind. I’ll be doing more shows with Todd [Rundgren] and I’m going to just keep doing it that way.”

Listen to Daryl Hall on ‘Naked Lunch’