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A Christmas Gift For You from Phil Spector [Digitally Remastered By Phil Spector] | ![A Christmas Gift For You from Phil Spector [Digitally Remastered By Phil Spector]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BQ5RQClnL._SL160_.jpg) | Artist: Various Artists
Label: U.M.T.V.
Category: Music
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Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 420
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 044006651125
EAN: 0044006651125
ASIN: B00006RY1R
Release Date: October 26, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | White Christmas - Darlene Love | | • | Frosty The Snowman - Ronettes | | • | The Bells of St. Mary's - Bob B. Soxx The Blue Jeans | | • | Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - Crystals | | • | Sleigh Ride - Ronettes | | • | Marshmallow World - Darlene Love | | • | I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus - Ronettes | | • | Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer - Crystals | | • | Winter Wonderland - Darlene Love | | • | Parade of the Wooden Soldiers - Crystals | | • | Christmas - Baby Please Come Home - Darlene Love | | • | Here Comes Santa Claus - Bob B Soxx The Blue Jeans | | • | Silent Night - Phil Spector Artists |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
This lavish holiday set has been called the greatest rock roll Christmas album of all time. That's an opinion that's tough to argue with when you find yourself immersed in the massive sounds painstakingly crafted by legendary producer Phil Spector. His "wall-of-sound" technique is perfectly suited to the music of the season, as he proves with layer upon layer of piano, sleigh bells, buoyant percussion, and, of course, those legendary Spector sound harmonies. The Crystals turn their sassy interplay into sheer magic on "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town", The Ronettes stroll sweetly through numbers like "Sleigh Ride", while Darlene Love delivers areal knockout punch with her yearning version of "Christmas (Baby, PleaseCome Home)". Sure to become the soundtrack for your holidays. i--DavidSprague/i
Amazon.co.uk Review
This lavish holiday set has been called the greatest rock roll Christmas album of all time. That's an opinion that's tough to argue with when you find yourself immersed in the massive sounds painstakingly crafted by legendary producer Phil Spector. His "wall-of-sound" technique is perfectly suited to the music of the season, as he proves with layer upon layer of piano, sleigh bells, buoyant percussion and, of course, those legendary Spector sound harmonies. The Crystals turn their sassy interplay into sheer magic on "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town", The Ronettes stroll sweetly through numbers like "Sleigh Ride" and Darlene Love delivers a real knockout punch with her yearning version of "Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)". Sure to become the soundtrack for your holidays. --IDavid Sprague/I
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Phil Spector does a Wall of Sound Christmas album December 25, 2005
25 out of 26 found this review helpful
I was never enamored with the results when Phil Spector tried the Wall of Sound approach with the Beatles on Let It Be, but that failure was the exception that proves the rule. In 1963 Spector actually decided to use his approach to produce one of the great Christmas albums of all time. The goal was to have a holiday album that would stack up against both other Christmas albums and the pop albums produced by his quartet of artists: Darlene Love, the Ronettes, the Crystals, and Bob B. Soxx and The Blue Jeans. The artists split up the first dozen tracks on A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector, with everybody joining together for Silent Night as the album's grand finale.pDarlene Love was never really a success as a solo artist, although she did the lead vocals on She's a Rebel. But she gets to make or break this album by singing the opening track, White Christmas, and making it clear the song can work if not being crooned by Der Bingle. Marshmallow World is fun but a trifle, while her Winter Wonderland may be the best track on the album, with Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) a soulful plea not to be separated for the holidays. No wonder Love got the most tracks on the album. The Ronettes were sisters Veronica (Ronnie) and Estelle Bennett and their cousin Nedra Talley rock a bit more than usual with their version of Frosty the Snowman and keep the spirit going with Sleigh Ride and I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus. pThe change of pace offering on the album would definitely be Bob B. Soxx and The Blue Jeans doing The Bells of St. Mary, although Here Comes Santa Claus is certainly more in keeping with the rest of the record. This was Spector's studio group and compared to the rest of the album you can understand why they only got two tracks. The best effort by the Crystals is obviously Santa Claus is Coming to Town, which surely was the model for the better known rocking version by the Boss. Their version of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer does not work nearly as well (it is one of those songs where you would swear it is really one of Spector's Top 10 hits with different words, which simply shows the producer was creating the effect he wanted here). Parade of the Wooden Soldiers is in the same mode, but there is a sense in which the Wall of Sound is just effective. pSpector comes out to wish everybody the very merriest of Christmases and happiest of New Years for Silent Night, which is a reminder of when music groups used to talk directly to their fans on records. That seems a bit strange now, but what stands out more is how the simple musical arrangement at the end is such a complete change of pace from the rest of the album, so that A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector ends on a much quieter note. But up to that point this is certainly one of the high energy Christmas albums of all time and if you need a burst of musical energy to get you through decorating, cooking, or whatever, this one fits the bill.
Christmas Is Finally Here! January 1, 2004
20 out of 21 found this review helpful
Well this set is truly superb!pIt has that great Christmas feel to it and you can play it on repeat all day without getting fed up with it.pThe Ronettes and Darlene Love tracks are the standout tracks for me but saying that The Crystals `Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer` is the best yule hear!pDo a great deed and buy it- you will not regret it!
The soundtrack to all my Christmas's November 5, 2002
36 out of 39 found this review helpful
Who can't like this album? I grew up listening to this album every Christmas and it remains a firm favourite now. Containing the very best of Phil Spectors crop of talent, the versions of the songs on this album will always be considered definative(at least by me).pIf you remember this album from the past, buy it. Its still great.pIf you've never heard this album, buy it. I million times better then all the other Christmas compilations with the same tracks on.pThe best Christmas album in the world...ever!
A Christmas essential December 3, 2000
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is without a doubt the greatest Christmas album ever made. When listening to it you can tell that it wasn't made as a cynical money making machine (like a lot of Christmas albums) but as a celebration of the love of Christmas, music and as a testament to the genius of Phil Spector. I urge you to buy it, play it and when you do Christmas will never be the same without it again.
Christmas doesn#x27;t get any better than this! December 10, 2005
Sian E. Chetty (Neath South Wales)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Contender for the best Christmas album ever.brMany years ago I was given a lift home by a friend who started sneezing. I opened the glove compartment for a tissue and the cassette of this album was inside. I asked to borrow it so as I could tape it as Christmas was a few days away and the album wasn#x27;t available at the time, some years ago!brIt completely blew me away. I start listening to it from September to get in the mood and it never fails to get me feeling all #x27;tinsled up#x27;. brBuy it, you won#x27;t regret it.
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