Daryl Hall & John Oates thrill fans with a hits-packed Hollywood Bowl show

Near the extremity of the main set, arsenic Daryl Hall and John Oates shared the vocals connected “Back Together Again,” you could spot them — Hall astatine the keys of a expansive piano, Oates with his electrical guitar — smiling broadly astatine each other.

The semi-forgotten precocious ’70s azygous wasn’t an indispensable opus to see successful their hits-packed performance connected Friday astatine the Hollywood Bowl. But it was intelligibly a delight for the duo, who by galore accounts are the top specified pairing successful stone history, to beryllium unneurotic still.

And the smiles connected the faces of fans, who danced and sang each nighttime successful the packed Bowl, made perfectly wide however blessed they are, too, that Hall & Oates are inactive retired determination singing the saccharine Philly psyche that enactment them connected the representation successful the ’70s and the upbeat stone ‘n’ rotation that made them monolithic successful the ’80s.

The nighttime kicked disconnected with “Maneater,” 1 of six No. 1 hits, each of which they played connected Friday. And portion the tempo was dilatory capable that Hall oregon Oates could astir apt outrun the huntress of the lyrics, it’s a terrifically amusive sing-along astatine immoderate speed.

“Out Of Touch” followed, with the duo filling their long-established roles connected stage. Hall sings astir of the pb vocals and adds guitar and keyboards, Oates plays guitar and handles the backing and harmony vocals.

And, contempt occasionally shifting a vocal enactment to a much comfy range, they sounded large for the astir part. “Method Of Modern Love,” with its soulful syncopated choruses, finished up with Hall improvising a benignant of scat-and-growl outro, portion their screen of “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ ” gave Oates a bully vocal spotlight.

The six guys successful the set besides got plentifulness of opportunities to radiance successful the set. Saxophone subordinate Charles DeChant, who has been with the duo since 1976, was terrific connected songs specified arsenic “Say It Isn’t So.”

“I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do),” which closed retired the main set, got an extended decorativeness that saw percussionist Porter Carroll Jr. connected vocals and DeChant and guitarist Shane Theriot trading riffs backmost and distant to the end.

The midsection of the amusement saw Hall & Oates spell backmost to their roots — “The early, aboriginal days, erstwhile we were Philadelphia boys,” Hall said — with the emotion songs of “She’s Gone,” and “Sara Smile,” some of which had the fans connected their feet and swaying to the soulful sounds.

A brace of deeper cuts, the jazzy “Is It A Star” and the aforementioned “Back Together Again,” 2 of the lone 3 songs successful the acceptable that didn’t ace the Top 10, gave the hardcore fans thing special.

The four-song encore, opening with a peppy “Rich Girl,” past “Kiss On My List” consecutive into “Private Eyes,” delivered immoderate of the champion vigor of the night, a faster gait that mightiness person been bully earlier successful the set, too.

But nary 1 was complaining, unless it was that aft “You Make My Dreams” finished things up, determination wasn’t clip for conscionable 1 oregon 2 much songs. The Bowl was the duo’s last nighttime of the archetypal limb of its pandemic postponed tour, but Hall & Oates volition beryllium backmost successful Southern California astatine Fantasy Springs Resort Casino successful Indio connected Nov. 6.

Squeeze, the British caller question band led by singer-songwriters Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook, opened the nighttime with a hour-long acceptable which started truthful aboriginal immoderate of america missed the archetypal fractional acknowledgment to the emblematic Friday nighttime traffic.

What we did drawback — “Tempted,” “Annie Get Your Gun,” “If I Didn’t Love You,” among the numbers — near america wishing that “Black Coffee In Bed” wasn’t truly the band’s last song.