Hall & Oates - Home for Christmas

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61ERRVS053L._SS500_.jpgTitle: Home for Christmas

Artist: Hall & Oates

Audio CD (September 25, 2007)

Original Release Date: October 3, 2006

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Christmas

Format: Free Lossless Audio CodecTrack Listing:



01. Overture/The First Noel

02. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear

03. No Child Should Ever Cry on Christmas

04. Everyday Will Be Like a Holiday

05. Home for Christmas

06. Christmas Must Be Tonight

07. Children Go Where I Send Thee

08. Mary Had a Baby

09. Christmas Song

10. Jingle Bell Rock

11. Oh Holy NightAmazon Description:

2006 holiday offering from the dynamic duo. Call it a masterpiece, a labor of love or the beginning of a new tradition, Daryl Hall & John Oates release Home For Christmas, a beautifully recorded and heartfelt Holiday album. 11 new yuletide recordings including nine classics and semi-obscure treats plus two new self-penned Christmas tunes. **Please note that the U.S. pressing of this album is only available at selected retail chain stores.



AllMusic Review:

As one of the biggest-selling duos in pop music history, it makes perfect sense for Daryl Hall and John Oates to make a Christmas album: any artist with such enduring popularity certainly has an audience waiting to hear them singing seasonal songs, and they made one of the greatest Christmas videos of early MTV with their cheerfully silly "Jingle Bell Rock." That kind of built-in audience is one of the reasons musicians play it safe when they make holiday albums, but fortunately Hall & Oates don't fall into that trap on 2006's Home for Christmas. There certainly are a fair share of familiar songs here -- this opens with "The First Noel" and "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear," and closes with "The Christmas Song," "Oh Holy Night" and a revival of "Jingle Bell Rock" -- and the album has smooth, slick veneer that's friendly and comforting. But within the conventions of a holiday album, Hall & Oates actually cover a lot of ground, touching on their early folky roots on their arrangement of "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear," covering Robbie Robertson's quite wonderful "Christmas Must Be Tonight," unearthing William Bell and Booker T. Jones' excellent "Everyday Will Be Like a Holiday," singing spirited gospel on "Children Go Where I Send Thee" and contributing two very good originals in Oates' soulful "No Child Should Ever Cry on Christmas" and Hall's title track (which was also co-written by T-Bone Wolk and Greg Bieck, who also produced the album with Hall). The result is the rare holiday album that feels familiar yet fresh, and there's enough variety here to make this a Christmas record that will hold up well over the years.