Hall & Oates Version
It was released as a single in 1974 and was moderately successful, peaking at #60 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. Atlantic Records re-released a highly edited, remixed and more 'pop-radio-friendly' version of the song as a single two years later in 1976, after Hall & Oates had moved to RCA Records and had scored with the hit "Sara Smile." This time "She's Gone" was a hit, peaking at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100. On the R&B chart, the song peaked at #93.
John Oates spoke of the song in a 2009 interview with American Songwriter: "I sat down with the guitar and sang the chorus of 'She's Gone' basically the way that it is. Then I played it for Daryl because I didn't have anything else. It just happened. I said, 'Hey, I’ve got this really great chorus.' And we wrote the verses together. 'She’s Gone' is a song that endures."
Read more about this topic: She's Gone (song)
Famous quotes containing the words hall, oates and/or version:
“When Western people train the mind, the focus is generally on the left hemisphere of the cortex, which is the portion of the brain that is concerned with words and numbers. We enhance the logical, bounded, linear functions of the mind. In the East, exercises of this sort are for the purpose of getting in tune with the unconscious—to get rid of boundaries, not to create them.”
—Edward T. Hall (b. 1914)
“I am just going outside and may be some time.”
—Lawrence Oates (1880–1912)
“If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotised by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change.”
—Robert Hewison (b. 1943)