Recently a well-known Townsperson posted a poll question that invited fellow Townspeople to poke fun at Daryl Hall, of the popular vocal duo Hall & Oates, for failing to show for his scheduled singing of the National Anthem before Game 5 of the 2008 World Series. His old singing partner, John Oates, filled in admirably, and some of us thought we were having some fun.
It was then brought to our attention that Mr. Hall was feeling “under the weather” owing to a flare up of his Lyme disease – no laughing matter – and that otherwise he would never have missed this great honor in front of his hometown fans on baseball’s largest stage. It was then brought to my attention that this would have been Hall’s second singing of the National Anthem before a Phillies’ home World Series game. Hall sang before one of the 1993 games, which I sadly missed while living abroad.
As our way of kicking off the final innings of the suspended Game 5 and apologizing to Daryl Hall, John Oates, Oates’ moustache, and the first two (and only) unadorned notes sung by Pattie LaBelle in her rendition the night before, Rock Town Hall remembers Daryl Hall’s 1993 redition of our National Anthem[.em…em…].
As our way of keeping it real, who better delivered the anthem, Hall or Oates?
