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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.
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.
The album contained the ballad "Sara Smile", [16] a song Hall wrote for Sara Allen. [19] The album cover depicted Hall and Oates, overly made up with cosmetic blush to the point where they looked feminine, especially the long-haired and clean-shaven Hall.
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 album's cover shows an androgynous-looking Hall and Oates, both wearing makeup, against a silver background. It was designed by Pierre LaRoche, a makeup artist who was responsible for much of the androgynous look of glam rock artists at the time, including creating the appearance of the Ziggy Stardust persona for David Bowie.
Daryl Hall and John Oates had six No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart from 1977 to 1984; they were written or co-written by Hall: "Rich Girl", "Kiss on My List" (which Hall wrote with Janna Allen), "Private Eyes" (with Sara Allen, Janna Allen & Warren Pash), "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)" (with John Oates & Sara Allen), "Maneater ...
Matthew Tenedorio, 25, had a superpower: He could make people laugh, one of his cousins said. Tenedorio leaves behind two loving older brothers, his parents and many devastated cousins, said Zach ...
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).