Song Lyric Sunday was created by Helen Vahdati from This Thing Called Life One Word at a Time and author Jim Adams from A Unique Title For Me is our current guest host. For complete rules or to join in the fun, click here.

The theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week is “Chin/Ears/Eyes/Face/Mouth/Nose.”

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I took the collective prompt of facial beauty to go with something that enhances a person’s beauty… the smile.

While a smile can add to facial beauty, a genuine smile also bolsters inner beauty, self-esteem and it’s even good for your health–mental and physical!

So smile like Sara in Hall & Oates very first top ten hit, Sara Smile.

I know SLS’ers of a certain age aren’t ready for this but the single that was released when many of us were teenagers will be FORTY-FOUR years old next month! Yeah, ain’t that a kick in the pants? Sara Smile was played several times at my Sweet Sixteen birthday party.

But you know what? The song that reached #4 on Billboard Hot 100 and was ranked #11 for 1976 is still a smooth classic that  gets airplay on R&B, Adult Contemporary, and Pop stations and satellite radio.

FUN FACTS

• • Sara Smile was written about Hall’s then-girlfriend, Sara Allen. The couple were together for almost 30 years before breaking up in 2001.
  • Following the success of Sara Smile, the Atlantic Records label re-released the duo’s previous single, She’s Gone, which peaked at #60 on the Billboard Hot 100 when it was released in 1973, but went all the way to #7 behind the success of Sara Smile.
  • The album’s cover photo by Mick Jagger’s makeup designer Pierre LaRoche is a glitzy shot of Hall and Oates in heavy makeup. John Oates talked about the eye-catching image in Nick Tosches’ biography Dangerous Dances: “We decided that if we were going to put our faces on an album cover for the first time we wanted to do it in a big way. Pierre said, in that French accent of his, ‘I will immortalize you!’ And he just did. To this day it’s the only album cover that people ask us about.”

Enjoy!

See my Song Lyric Sunday selection for Nesie’s Place!

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