If you’ve grown up listening to music, then chances are you’ve heard the iconic song “You Make My Dreams Come True,” by Hall & Oates. And when you think of that song, of course, you have to think of the bass riff that made that song so catchy. Sadly, Tom “T-Bone” Wolk, the bassist who played with Darryl Hall and John Oates for almost thirty years, passed away on Saturday of what seems to be a heart attack. While the details of his death have not been released, nor have details about his funeral, the death comes as a shock to everyone, especially Hall and Oates. T-Bone had been scheduled to actually perform with Hall and Oates in a special one-year anniversary show for “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.”

At 58 years old, Wolk was a native of Yonkers, New York, and had been a collaborating bassist with several different bands and artists throughout the last thirty years. For example, Kurtis Blow’s early hit “These are the Breaks” features the bassist’s talent, and then between 1986 and 1992, he was the bassist for the house band on “Saturday Night Live.” Don’t quite remember him? Think of the guy with the black top hat. That was T-Bone Wolk.

But, before Saturday Night Live, it was his work with Hall and Oates that really defined him. He started with the album “Private Eyes” in 1981, then continued all the way through until recent times. And he wasn’t just the bassist, either. Wolk was also a co-producer for many of the different Hall and Oates projects over the years and also worked with Carly Simon, Bette Midler, Jewel, Rosanne Cash and Cyndi Lauper. The work that T-Bone Wolk left as his legacy will certainly be remembered, and I for one, will miss the bassist with the black top hat.