
Billboard #1 Hits #512: ‘ I Can’t Go For That [No Can Do]-Daryl Hall and John Oates. January 30, 1982. #1 for 1 week in Billboard Hot 100.
- Single: ‘I Can’t Go For That [ No Can Do]- Daryl Hall and John Oates
- Record Company- RCA
- Genre: R&B Pop
- Written by Sara Allen, Daryl Hall and John Oates
- Time: 3:45
- B-side:’Unguarded Minute’
- Album- Private Eyes
- Grade: B
- Peaked at #1 1 week in Billboard Hot 100. #8 in UK Singles Chart, #1 in Canada.
This was the 3rd #1 hit since April of 1981 for Daryl Hall and John Oates. Pretty impressive. It was the second #1 from the Private Eyes album-the title track – ‘Private Eyes” had been #1 in November 1981- then Olivia Newton-John’s “Physical” for 10 weeks than back to Hall and Oates- kind of Bee Gees like. They would have another #1 in 1982- ‘Maneater’-
Oates looks like a midget on that cover.
This is one of my favorite Hall & Oates tunes.
Mine too!
Scoring their third no. 1 – I guess they COULD go for that! 🙂
Clearly, there are better songs by Hall & Oates. But it’s not a bad tune.
They had hit on a sound- for the times… as I mentioned before I prefer their 70’s material but this isn’t bad.