Daryl Hall & John Oates to Celebrate Holidays with First-Ever Christmas Album Oct. 3 Exclusive for Trans World.

LOS ANGELES -- World's Best-Selling Music Duo Will Donate A Portion of Proceeds from Home for Christmas to Toys for Tots, the 59-year-old charitable program run by the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve.

Call it a masterpiece, a labor of love or the beginning of a new tradition, Daryl Hall & John Oates will release "Home for Christmas" on October 3rd, a beautifully recorded and heartfelt Holiday album. Released on their own label U-Watch/DKE Records and distributed by ICON Music Entertainment Services, the album, with a portion of proceeds donated to the U.S. Marine Corps charity Toys for Tots, will be available exclusively at all Trans World Entertainment outlets, including F.Y.E., Sam Goody, Strawberries Music, Wherehouse Entertainment, Suncoast, Spec's, Second Spin, and Coconuts Music and Movies. The duo will also serve as spokesmen for the 2006 Toys For Tots fundraising campaign.

"We wanted to do an album that expressed the true spirit of Christmas, that of peace, traditions, family and friends coming together," says Daryl Hall. "The songs, some familiar, but adapted to our style, others more obscure, along with two originals, are about ecstasy, grace, poignancy, love and, of course, soul."

Produced by Daryl Hall with longtime collaborator T-Bone Wolk and Greg Bieck, "Home for Christmas," with special cover art designed by Michael McCurdy, features Daryl Hall and John Oates giving a new and original life to traditional pieces, including "The First Noel," "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear," "The Christmas Song," "Mary Had a Baby," "Oh Holy Night" and a re-recording of "Jingle Bell Rock," a promotional-only single that was a hit for the duo for many years. Daryl and John also penned a pair of original tracks for the collection, "Home for Christmas" and "No Child Should Ever Cry On Christmas."

"Toys for Tots is thrilled to have entertainers the quality of Daryl Hall and John Oates as spokesmen for our 2006 campaign," said retired Major Bill Grein, VP of the Foundation. "With proceeds raised from their Christmas CD, the toys collected at their holiday concerts and the awareness generated through all of their personal appearances, we expect to be able to reach thousands of additional children this year."

Daryl Hall and John Oates will kick off the release of Home for Christmas with a performance at the Trans World convention on Sept. 13, and will then embark on a press and television tour in November and December.

Trans World will then kick off a multi-million-dollar marketing campaign in its more than 1,100 retail stores in the U.S. to promote the album.

"Recording an album of Christmas songs has always been something we've dreamed about," said John Oates. "We're hoping this record can help make others' dreams come true, too."

For more information or album artwork, please contact Jonathan Wolfson at Wolfson Public Relations 818-615-0499, [e-mail]