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Phil Spector Definitive Collection |  | Artist: Various Artists
Label: U.M.T.V.
Category: Music
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 721
Format: Box set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Running Time: 94 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.9
UPC: 602517155886
EAN: 0602517155886
ASIN: B000K2Q8DQ
Release Date: December 4, 2006
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Disc 1
| • | Da Doo Ron Ron The Crystals | | • | Be My Baby The Ronettes | | • | Hes Sure The Boy I Love The Crystals | | • | Hes A Rebel The Crystals | | • | Uptown The Crystals | | • | Theres No Other Like My Baby The Crystals | | • | A Fine, Fine Boy Darlene Love | | • | Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah Bob B. Soxx And The Blue Jeans | | • | Why Do Lovers Break Each Others Hearts? Bob B. Soxx And The Blue Jeans | | • | (The Best Part Of) Breakin Up The Ronettes | | • | Not Too Young To Get Married Bob B. Soxx And The Blue Jeans | | • | (Today I Met) The Boy Im Gonna Marry Darlene Love | | • | Wait Till My Bobby Gets Home Darlene Love | | • | Baby, I Love You The Ronettes | | • | Then He Kissed Me The Crystals | | • | Do I Love You? The Ronettes | | • | Walking In The Rain The Ronettes | | • | Born To Be Together The Ronettes | | • | Youve Lost That Lovin Feeling The Righteous Brothers | | • | Unchained Melody The Righteous Brothers | | • | River Deep, Mountain High Ike Tina Turner | | • | Spanish Harlem Phil Spector |
Disc 2
| • | White Christmas - Darlene Love | | • | Frosty The Snowman - The Ronettes | | • | The Bells of St. Mary - 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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Back To Mono! December 12, 2006
T. Clark (Sunny Southend)
45 out of 45 found this review helpful
I bought this as a Christmas present for my dad, my way of apologising for stealing his vinyl copy of Echoes Of The 60s many years ago. This is a superb collection of Phil's finest moments. It's unusual to see a one disc Spector retrospective on compact disc so if you're not ready to jump on the Back To Mono 4 disc boxset I strongly advise you buy this. The sound is absolutely pristine as you might expect - Phil would never let it be released otherwise. Good packaging which I was impressed to see includes details of who played what on these miraculous mini-symphonies. It's a cliche but they really don't make 'em like this anymore. Genius.
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br /The Christmas album is included as a seperate cd which has been widely available for a few years. It's magic! Let your cynicism be blown away by the goddess Darlene Love.
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Not "definitive", but probably the best value Spector compilation of all time April 29, 2008
Bob Sherunkle (London, UK)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This release gives you, at a bargain price, most of the Spector masterpieces that the average person would want. In the days of vinyl, I had the Christmas album and a "best of the rest" with a very similar listing to the second CD of this set. In the absence of such a collection on CD, a few years ago I bought the "Back to Mono" box set, which is more of a "definitive" collection, and priced accordingly. If this double set had been available then, I would have bought it instead.
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br /Buy while it's still on the catalogue. Bargain Spector compilations like this don't appear very often. You can, of course, buy the Christmas album on its own at any time, for not much less (and sometimes a bit more) than the price of this set.
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Double CD of glorious pop and festive joy December 16, 2006
russell clarke (halifax, west yorks)
39 out of 44 found this review helpful
Phil Spector the oh so slightly unhinged producer is credited with pioneering the wall of sound approach to making music, which is where this collection gets its name from. That basically means that Spector threw as much as possible into the mix. Thundering percussion, strings with more layers than an armadillo on a firing range, harmonies so glutinous they would put a class of five year old off sweets for weeks, and Spector was never a believer of less is more. Indeed it's fair to say he was a believer of more is more then some more should be chucked on top in case the original more wasn't enough.
br /However this is no easy thing to do and make it sound as wondrous a much of the material on here does. It could be a dicophonous disaster but Spector knew what he was doing and what's more he had the songs and the artists to pull it off. This is pop music so gaudily effervescent, so giddily emphatic that it makes even the lushest of contemporary music -Girls Aloud at their capricious best say- sound like Bonnie Prince Billy. Next to Spectors corpulent beauties virtually everything else is reduced to a size zero non-entity.
br /T o hear The Ronettes peerlessly perform "Baby I Love You" or "Be My Baby" is to hear pop at its zenith -so melodious and sonically impelling that you could be stood in the middle of a minefield, foot hovering over potential oblivion, and still become caught up in the song. The same goes for The Crystals "Then He Kissed Me" while "River Deep, Mountain High" is one of the most staggering moments of halcyon pop ...well ever. Tina Turner may have gone on to be a lumbering embarrassment but here she is incendiary. I love "You've Lost That Lovin Feeling" as well which is ironic because the other Righteous Brothers track here is the now hideously over-exposed "Unchained Melody" which has been reduced via karaoke ciphers to something I have lost that lovin feeling for.
br /The second CD is re-issue of the 1963 Christmas album which for many people is the definitive Christmas album and they are right, because for two weeks out of fifty two this is the most evocative festive celebration on the planet. This album along with "The Fairytale Of New York " , "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" and "Snow" by the Cocteau Twins is the spirit and magic of the consumer madness that Christmas has become aurally restored to something approximating it's original spirit.
br /Curiously the previously un- released song here, "Silent Night" is sung by Spector with only an acoustic guitar as backing. Proof that even this flawed genius needed to drop that wall of sound every once in a while.
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Essential March 26, 2008
Richard (Blackpool England)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
There's been millions of words written about the Spector productions and that's not counting the reviews.
br /Originally the Charistmas Gift LP was a flop in the States and most of the copies were returned to the warehouses then discovered in the 80s when the vinyl was going for silly money.Ha! Ha! Ha!
br /Phil Spector was a master copyist using everybody elses idea to make his mark in the music business.
br /Which is a plus factor in my opinion as I love copycats.
br /His original source for launching himself into the music business was the Aquatones-the first white doowoppers to use a girl lead.Ironically they have lasted longer than him and are now the New Aquatones after Lyn Nixon passed away and a new girl took her place who sounds just like her.
br /Anyway this led to the Teddy Bears and once they'd run their course Phil copied the Fleetwoods for the Spectors 3.
br /The first Crystals single was modelled on the Chantels but Phil was lucky with He's a Rebel when Vikki Carr's superior original was stolen by the man when it was a demo.Fortunately Vikki's original topped the charts in Australia.
br /On this CD is at least one rareity-Spanish Harlem-here we have Phil as a singer who clearly needs lessons from Fabian
Genius Does Not Even Begin To Describe The Talent That Is Phil Spector October 20, 2008
Ben Corr (Castlerock, N.Ireland.)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Allow your self to travel to a past when music was for pure escapism and there were not the computerised sounds of today and enjoy the waves of sound as they wash over you created by the greatest recording producer ever!
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br /This compilation offers everything from the majestic Ronettes - Baby, I Love You, I defy any one to listen to this 2 minute 50 second pop symphony and not sway to the sound and join in the chorus, to the relentless pace that takes your breath away of Da Doo Ron Ron by The Crystals this is quite simply a fantastic compilation that is a must for anyone who loves music.
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br /Spector was not only a highly innovative, pioneering record producer but co wrote timeless classics such as You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin by the Righteous Brothers, Spanish Harlem made famous by Ben E King and Then He Kissed Me by the Crystals.
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br /The sheer breadth of Spector's talent knows no boundaries and listening to this will bombard your senses with what became known as 'the wall of sound', and take you to a place of boundless euphoria.
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br /Spector was to influence many and none greater than the unique talent that is Brian Wilson who was himself to be a genius who inspired future generations!
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br /If you are to be a castaway go for the Back to Mono Box Set, with its four disc's and fantastic booklet but for a fun packed odessey into the magicial world of Phil Spector this is fantastic value and a must buy as you also get what is simply the greatest Christmas album of all time with 13 classic songs to follow the 22 absolute gems on Disc 1.
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