Hall & Oates Cereal - The Man Eater singers have filed a lawsuit against a Brooklyn-based cereal company claiming that the company's Haulin' Oats granola is a "phonetic play" on their stage name - Hall & Oates.
According to the BBC, the legal representatives of Daryl Hall and John Oates (Hall & Oates) filed the lawsuit in a Brooklyn federal court against the producers of Haulin' Oats - Early Bird Food & Co. The legendary band is accusing the cereal maker of attempting to benefit from their "fame and notoriety."
Haulin' Oats is one of Early Bird's main granola brands. The company also has other granola brands including Farmhand's Choice Recipe, Early Bird Gets the Worm and Choc-A-Doodle-Doo among others.
Hall & Oates are calling for the Haulin' Oats brand to be taken off the shelves. The duo has also requested that Early Bird hands over all the profits made from the Haulin' Oats brand. Reports indicate that in their lawsuit Hall & Oats noted that this is not the first time that someone is trying to associate their name with an oats product.
The owner of Early Bird Foods Nekesia Davis has declined to comment on the lawsuit, instead she emailed AP the titled of one of Hall & Oates hits which aptly captured her thoughts - Say it isn't so.
Hall & Oates broke into the music scene in the seventies after releasing their first album Whole Oats. Between this time and 2006, Hall & Oats released more than a dozen albums and chalked major pop success.
Recently, Oates told The Washington Times during an interview that he and Hall do not have any plans of recording new music at the moment."I would never say never about anything," he added."The reality is Daryl [Hall] and I have such a body of work - we are talking about 400 songs - that we can't even play all the songs we have written and recorded. We have this incredibly amazing problem: We have too many hits."
