Phil Spector - Christmas Album (1963) Vinyl LP • Marshmallow World, Ronettes

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Catalog Number: SP-9103

CONDITION DETAILS Still in ORIGINAL SHRINK-WRAP (opened). Vinyl plays nicely (play-graded). Cover looks great; a couple creases near edges; no scuffing (front/back); shrink is torn near bottom-left on back. Inner-sleeve is original (generic white); two seams partially split. Spine is easy-to-read with very mild-wear; deep divot near bottom. Little-to-no shelf-wear along top/bottom-edge; minor wear to corners. Opening is crisp with signs of light use and a few divots. (Not a cut-out.)

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 (Darlene Love ) Frosty The Snowman (The Ronettes ) The Bells Of St. Mary's (Bob B. Soxx And The Blue Jeans ) Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (The Crystals ) Sleigh Ride (The Ronettes ) Marshmallow World (Darlene Love ) I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (The Ronettes ) Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (The Crystals ) Winter Wonderland (Darlene Love ) Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers (The Crystals ) Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) (Darlene Love ) Here Comes Santa Claus (Bob B. Soxx And The Blue Jeans ) Silent Night (Phil Spector And Artists )

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