A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

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citation needed] Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys attempted to contribute his piano playing to " Santa Claus Is Coming to Town", but was rejected because of his low performing ability. on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, [4] maintaining the rating in a 2012 revised list. At the same time, the Ronettes' recording of " Sleigh Ride", though never released as a single, charted on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time, initially reaching as high as No.

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on Billboard's special Christmas Albums sales chart in December of that year, which was its highest chart ranking.Cher, on the 4/20/2021 episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, talked about attending the recording sessions with her then-boyfriend, Sonny Bono. Regardless, for those of you with audiophile level set-ups; you might be in for a treat - regardless of whether it's stereo or mono (like I said, I'm not sure), there seems to be enough 'information' on this pressing to support a dual-mono output, so, for those of you with the pre-amps and/or the requisite techno-wizardry, you could probably simulate stereo. The Ronettes' versions of "Frosty The Snowman" and "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" also usually get some radio airplay during the holiday season. 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 remake 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.

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Spector treated a series of mostly secular Christmas standards to his " Wall of Sound" treatment, and the selections feature the vocal performances of Spector's regular artists during this period. on the week ending January 5, 2019; it then re-charted during the 2019 and 2020 holiday seasons and attained an overall peak position of No. This one is co-credited "Spector Records International" and features the slightly different international artwork, it features the same mastering as the Rhino CD. The album also appeared as the fourth disc of ABKCO's 1991 Spector box set, Back to Mono, and as the second disc of the 2006 UK-only ABKCO compilation The Phil Spector Collection. Sony Music took over distribution rights to the Philles Records catalog in 2009 and re-released the mono album, remastered by Bob Ludwig, on its Legacy Recordings imprint on October 27 of that year.Also, when Darlene Love didn't show up for the session, Spector had her record background vocals for " You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" by The Righteous Brothers. 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. In 2012, Legacy Recordings released a two-disc set in the UK only, containing a new remastering of the mono album by Vic Anesini on the first disc and a selection of non-Christmas Spector hits and rarities on the second disc. In subsequent years, especially after its reissue on Apple, the album grew in popularity and is considered now to be a holiday classic.