I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)
I Can not Go for That ( No Can Do ) is a song by Hall & Oates from 1981, which was written by the band and Sara Allen. It appeared on the album Private Eyes.
History
One evening in a music studio in New York City in 1981 Daryl Hall prepared for the " Private Eyes " session the rough draft of the song. Through our own dissatisfaction with the result, he worked with John Oates and Sara Allen the next day to the song. The bass line is from a Korg synthesizer (synthesizer played by Daryl Hall ), the guitar played John Oates and the images recorded Neil Kernon on. According to BMI, this is one of the 14 songs from the band that were played in the United States for over a million times and in VH1's list of " 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s" managed this place 6 The release took place on November 2, 1981 instead of.
After the recording of We Are the World, Hall Michael Jackson spoke on the similarities between I Can not Go for That ( No Can Do ) and Billie Jean. Hall received the confirmation that the bassline of Billie Jean comes from his song.