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Hall and Oates have influenced decades of artists

The booklet that accompanies "Do What You Want, Be What You Are," the new four-CD boxed set devoted to the music of Daryl Hall and John Oates, is full of testimonials to the Philadelphia-bred soul-pop tandem.

It's not so surprising that many of the encomiums come from old-school R&B acts. Both Hall and Oates were soul-fixated teenagers in the 1960s, an affection returned by the likes of the...

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