Home For Christmas (Hall & Oates Album)

Home For Christmas (Hall & Oates Album)

Home For Christmas is Daryl Hall & John Oates' first full length album of Christmas music. It was released in the USA on October 3, 2006. A portion of the proceeds of the sale of this album goes to Toys for Tots. It was only available at Trans World Entertainment music stores in 2006, but has since become available at all retail outlets.

Previously, the duo released a promotional only single called "Jingle Bell Rock" in the early 1980s that had each of them separately singing the lead vocals on either side of the 45. The version of "Jingle Bell Rock" on this album is different than those 2 versions.

This album features two new songs written by Hall & Oates: "No Child Should Ever Cry on Christmas" and "Home for Christmas."

It includes a version of "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear", which became their second number one Adult Contemporary hit.

Read more about Home For Christmas (Hall & Oates Album):  Track Listing

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    “Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage.”
    —Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)

    “Whenever I hear about a child needing something, I ask myself, ‘Is it what he needs or what he wants?’ It isn’t always easy to distinguish between the two. A child has many real needs which can and should be satisfied. His wants are a bottomless pit. He wants, for example, to sleep with his parents. He needs to be in his own bed. At Christmas he wants every toy advertised on television. He needs only one or two.”
    —Haim Ginott (20th century)

    “I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing—for one of those bouts that go on and on, round following round, jabs, missed punches, clinches, nothing determined, again the bell and again and you and your opponent so evenly matched it’s impossible not to see that your opponent is you.... Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.”
    —Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)