Drummer and Missy's Place

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Hall & Oates - She's Gone video

The Story: Shot for cheesy pop show Summertime On The Pier, it features John in a vest and bow tie, Daryl in a bathrobe, a kazoo and their co-writer Sara Allen – immortalized in Sara Smile – walking past chased by a lurex devil.
John takes up the story: “The show was hosted by Ed Hurst, a real dweeb who used to be an insurance salesman. We said we just couldn’t lip-sync on it, but got told that we had to do the show.
“My sister Diane was in film school, so we wrote a script. We took all the furniture from our apartment – the big armchair that Daryl sits in
– and drove to this square, straight TV station. They expected us to lip-sync
and as Diane was a young college girl, they didn’t want to listen to her at all.”
Reluctantly, the duo got their way. “And once they saw that wacky video, that TV station got real pissed. They went to our record company and said, ‘These guys will never perform in Philadelphia again! We’ll blackball them on the radio! Their career is over!’ I think it might be the best video we ever did.”
It also kickstarted Diane’s career – she’s a producer for ABC TV, won an Emmy and overseen TV coverage of three Olympic Games.