Phil Spector - Christmas Album (1963) [SEALED] Vinyl LP • Holiday, Ronettes

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Catalog Number: PB-3604

CONDITION DETAILS Unopened/new vinyl, factory sealed, and in excellent condition. A few creases near right corners. Small section of shrink is missing in bottom-left corner. A few tiny discoloration spots near center of spine. Minor wear to corners. 1984 pressing. (Notch in bottom-left.)

ABOUT THE RECORD Phil Spector's Christmas Album is an album of Christmas songs, produced by Phil Spector, and originally released as A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector in 1963. Spector treated a series of mostly secular Christmas standards to his trademark "Wall of Sound" treatment, and the selections feature the vocal performances of Spector's regular artists during this period. The album peaked at number 13 on Billboard magazine's special, year-end, weekly Christmas Albums sales chart in December 1963. The album was reissued by Apple Records in 1972, with different cover art—a photograph of Spector dressed as a heavily bearded Santa Claus, wearing a "Back to Mono" button—and retitled Phil Spector's Christmas Album. This version went to number 6 on Billboard's special Christmas Albums sales chart in December of that year, which was its highest chart ranking. In 2003, the album was voted 142 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The album was included in Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. In subsequent years, especially after its reissue on Apple, the album grew in popularity and is considered now to be a holiday classic. Several of its tracks became iconic Christmas songs for generations, such as the original (and flop) single Christmas (Baby Please Come Home), and the well-known Ring-a-ling-a-ling Ding-dong-ding background vocals in The Ronettes' Sleigh Ride. The arrangement of Bruce Springsteen's version of Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town is based in part on the Crystals' version of the song, and U2's late 1980s cover of Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) that appeared on the first A Very Special Christmas album is patterned after the Darlene Love original that appeared on the Spector LP. The Ronettes version of Frosty The Snowman and I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus also usually get some radio airplay during the holiday season.
Portions of our "About the Record" section are taken from information gathered from Wikipedia and AllMusic.

TRACK LISTING White Christmas Frosty The Snowman The Bells Of St. Mary Santa Claus Is Coming To Town Sleigh Ride Marshmallow World I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer Winter Wonderland Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) Here Comes Santa Claus Silent Night

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