Darlene Love, The Ronettes, The Crystals... - A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spect...

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What a great album with foot tapping songs!

This is the song Darlene Love does every Christmas Eve on the Letterman show. Darlene does a great job belting out this tune with a full band back-up. You can see her performance on You Tube by searching for Darlene Love.

I'll keep this short. This is the best Christmas album ever recorded, possibly eclipsing the first Elvis Christmas album from about 6 years earlier.

I listen to this every single year, several times. It's near perfection, save for the talky bit at the end.

Phil Spector's 1963 classic set the bar for every subsequent Christmas album. Buy this now!

Introducing me to this album was one of the few good things my step-mother ever did for me! The best ever!

This Christmas album is the best ever. It makes me remember my childhood when my parents were alive and our house was filled with love and joy, the mono version is what I used to play on my dad's Gramophone when I used to put up Christmas decorations. I have the CD version I purchased in 1988 still sounds good just like back in the day. Please, please, buy this album and you won't regret it.

This is a decent…not great, but decent, Xmas album. I don’t have an issue with spending the $$ for the download. What I do have a beef with is the sound quality, remastered or not, the sound quality is really pretty bad. I want my money back for that alone. I burned it to a disc and played it in the car, and it was like it was 1963 all over again on an AM radio. So, I guess it was authentic. But for anyone expecting decent quality sound…fuhgettaboutit.

I’m only 9 and I’m blown away. My friend recommended me to listen to it so I did and just wow

This is one classic album, easily my favorite Christmas album ever. Pure class and talent all the way....every track is a gem! The mono version sold here on iTunes is great and has that flat, mono AM radio sound that seems so right for the songs and the era it came from. However, the stereo version is equally incredible - to hear these great songs in stereo is amazing and they sound so full and rich. Easily trumps the mono version.....at least for me. But either way, this is a must-own album. One of the all time best.

The best Christmas album ever made. The price is even decent. A Holiday masterpiece that will stand up to the test of time.

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The best classic Christmas coir

It’s a classic wants not to love about it

A must have for anyone.

WOW great songs I love them a lot I am a big fan of all these songs they make me really happy and I can’t believe that Christmas 🎄is coming up I can’t wait for Christmas 🎄 I am so excited I love the song called sleigh 🛷 ride 🎢 I am in love with all these song I am so happy that you all made theses song for Christmas 🎄 I am so happy and thankful 🥹 I am loving the vibes of the music 🎶 this is amazing and awesome I can’t wait for more I am a big fan of all of you. You are all amazing I can’t wait for all of you to make more amazing songs 🥰💕 I play your songs on repeat 🔂 I believe that you are all the best you all have amazing voices and I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas 🎄.

Phil Spector’s 1963 Christmas album was an immediate classic and radio favorite, but having been released on the day of John Kennedy’s assassination, it was quickly difficult to find. Radio play kept it alive, however, and it was made available again on the Beatles’ Apple label in 1972. The reissue renamed the album from “A Christmas Gift from Philles Records” to “The Phil Spector Christmas Album” and eventually to its current title; the original cover art was replaced by a photo of Spector dressed as Santa. A later reissue on Warner-Spector airbrushed away the “Back to Mono” button Spector wore in his beard and produced the tracks in stereo. The sacrilege was reversed and the AM-radio-ready mono mixes returned to print with the record’s first CD issue in 1987. Subsequent CD reissues on ABKCO restored elements of the original artwork, and the last reissue left print in 2007. With ABKCO’s Allen Klein having passed away earlier this year, and Phil Spector in jail, a new day has dawned for the Philles label as Sony and EMI have gained the catalog’s distribution rights are planning the archival reissues it deserves. That may be the best Christmas present music lovers will get for years to come. The first result is a fresh reissue of this Christmas classic with a 16-page booklet that includes original artwork and liner notes, contemporary notes by Billboard’s Jim Bessman, and superb photos of Spector with his musicians and singers. Most importantly, of course, is the pristine reproduction of Spector’s musical classics in all their mono glory, recorded as his Wall of Sound was reaching its greatest height. Featured are The Ronettes, Darlene Love, Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans, and the Crystals, all recorded at Gold Star Studio with the cream of Los Angeles’ studio musicians. Spector and his arranger Jack Nitzsche adorned the Wall of Sound with the holiday sounds of jingling bells, bells and the clip-clop of horses’ hooves as they revitalized a dozen holiday classics. Several of these performances became icons that inspired covers of the performances rather than just the underlying songs. To top it off Spector minted his own classic Christmas song with the Spector-Greenwich-Barry composition “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).” In an era dominated by singles, Spector created a holiday album that was stocked start to finish with superbly conceived and realized productions – no filler here. It wasn’t the first Christmas album, or even the first rock ‘n’ roll Christmas album, but it was (and remains) the best ever. Technical note: EMI Legacy’s reissue duplicates the re-master that Bob Ludwig created for the second disc of last year’s UK-released The Phil Spector Collection. This is a complete re-master from the original tape using a full-track mono reproduce head and an Ampex tube-based machine. This replaces the Phil Spector-Larry Levine re-master that was the basis of the fourth disc of ABKCO’s Back to Mono box set and the standalone 1990 version. According to educated ears, the new re-master is less harsh and has smoother bass; it’s also louder, but without any detriment to the dynamics. [©2009 hyperbolium dot com]

.."You Can Do The Job When You're In Town!".."The Sleigh Bells Ring!-Are You Listenin'?"-And you can hear every Sleigh Bell Ringing out In Stereo now in Arguably the "Hippest Santa Joint In Town!"-That would be that instantly recognizable "Wall Of Sound" that only that undisputed "Master Of Mono" can serve up; Mister Phil Spector!-Listen in once again to all these Terrific Tunes; All sung by acts Phil Spector created; wrote & produced; And; Might I add; Had "Smash Hits" with on the old AM Radio & Jukeboxes in Bars & Resturants "Back In The Day!"-"Deck The Halls; Baby!"..by Grimmbo.

JINGLE LINGLE LINGLE DING DONG DING

Still one of the best Christmas songs I have heard ever. I love it so much.

Phil Spector is a genius!

Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound" is evident in every single track on this must have Christmas album. I grew up listening to the vinyl version, on my dad's stereo, and when I heard it on iTunes, it was like going back to my childhood.

This album should be on everyone's top ten list of Best Christmas Albums of All Time. It certainly is on mine. Great interpretations of Christmas classics, and Spector's "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)," which has become a classic!

Seriously

Good songs to make you feel the season!

By far the BEST classic christmas collection. Great upbeat music puts you in the holiday party mood even when you are driving alone!

BEST Christmas album ever! Hands down! End of story!!!

I bought two songs last year and they are downloaded but now they won't play on my iPhone. I tried to download them from the purchased section of iTunes again and it says the songs are already on my phone and gives me the Play option, but they just aren't there. Neither is the album. It doesn't make sense.

No way. No how. One of the absolute best Christmas albums ever!

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If you want a magical Christmas.

This is a must!

Best Christmas album ever! Hands down!

great Motown faves. Well worth it after all these years. From the man who gave us the wall of sound, bad hair and well, a killer collection

I Have this album on CD and it is great well worth buying

This album has been around since 1963 and still no-one has made better versions of these carols. Phil Spector is at his best behind the desk, the Wrecking Crew and the assorted vocalists involved have created an album where Christmas music doesn't sound schmaltzy, or overdone, it sounds like real contemporary pop music. This record is an absolute classic and indispensible for the festive season.

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So good I can't stop listening to it

The definitive Christmas Album of The Music Industry.

My favourite Xmas album - the oldies are the best!

If we only bought things based on a persons morality(with one or two exceptions) all we'd have in I tunes would be cliff richard!

Ok heard worse i hope it isn't in my stocking

Great Christmas album should be released in stereo

The best Christmas album ever.

THE best Christmas album ever made. No question.

Had this in so many formats, all gone, vinyl gone, 8 track gone,CD gone,cassette gone.Hope this is the last time I have to buy it. Cos compared to this all the other Christmas songs are rubbish, apart from the Pogues Fairytale and Slades Merry Christmas. If you could get those 2 on the album as well it would be complete.

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