It’s been said that the highest form of flattery is imitation, but sometimes impersonators should just leave the original alone. So it is when it comes to the Bird and the Bee, a Los Angeles-bred indie pop band who recently covered Hall & Oates’ biggest numbers from the ’70s and ’80s. The Bird and the Bee, comprised of chirpy vocalist Inara George (daughter of the late Little Feat frontman Lowell George) and instrumentalist Greg Kurstin, recently chose a selection of Hall & Oates classics and parlayed them into an “interpretation” album of covers, but the end result hasn’t yielded much on a positive note.

Interpreting the Masters, Vol. 1: A Tribute to Daryl Hall and John Oates dropped Viagra Professional on March 23, 2010, and USA Today gave it only two and a half stars upon review. Despite glowing reviews of the Bird and the Bee’s cover of the Hall & Oates classic “Heard It on the Radio,” the USA Today dragged the album through the mud, proclaiming, “It would be impossible for a proficient pop act to render these golden oldies leaden, but the Bird and the Bee fail to make this stuff soar like it should.”

Is it, then, that the Bird and the Bee have failed at finding their own voice through Daryl Hall & John Oates’ masterpieces, or is it simply that Hall & Oates have so magnificently crafted their own original versions of hit songs that it would be most unattainable to outshine them? The latter almost positively seems the plausible answer, and dedicated Hall & Oates fans don’t have to settle on hearing cover versions of the band’s hit songs in concert this year.

Daryl Hall and John Oates are currently on the road on the Do What You Want, Be What You Are 2010 Tour, and Hall & Oates tickets to the touring affair are hot items on the market. Though their biggest hits still lay claim to the ’70s and ’80s, Hall & Oates continues to remain a staple on the soft rock music scene.

The duo is a surefire throwback to the soulful music style of the ’70s, and Hall & Oates has been a household name ever since 1973, when John Oates and Daryl Hall debuted on the music scene with an album titled Abandoned Luncheonette. The album immediately became the go-to Hall & Oates release and put this bona fide duo on the map, and songs like “When the Morning Comes,” “She’s Gone” and “Las Vegas Turnaround” are still quintessential Hall & Oates classics.

Though the one-time trend of soul-infused pop/R&B tunes didn’t make it out of the ’80s, Hall & Oates has, continuing to release Billboard charting albums and singles well into the 2000s. John Oates and Daryl Hall, a smooth pair of recording artists originally based out of Philadelphia, continue to placate audiences of all ages at concert dates around the country, and this summer’s Do What You Want, Be What You Are 2010 Tour is billed as one of the top tours in the music industry. We can’t say the same for mockingbirds the Bird and Brand Cialis the Bee, but Hall & Oates fans don’t have to wait for cover bands to sing their classics like “Rich Girl” and “I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do)” to hear the songs live, as the timeless Hall & Oates will make cameos in several North American cities this spring and summer.

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