(my copy is on Apple, btw. The first version to get issued in the UK)
― Mark G, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 12:25 (nine years ago) link
Later pressings were titled ..."from Phil Spector" rather than ..."from Philles Records" as not to let Lester Sill share any of the glory
― Lee626, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 12:33 (nine years ago) link
Darlene helped put a new song in the Xmas canon, so that.
― Jeff W, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 14:42 (nine years ago) link
Parade of the Wooden Soldiers - The Crystals
Don't hear this one out and about much.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 14:48 (nine years ago) link
I don't want to live in a world where this isn't "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)"
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 15:19 (nine years ago) link
^this
― Murdstone From The Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 15:19 (nine years ago) link
Verges on being overplayed but still the greatest.
― Murdstone From The Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 15:20 (nine years ago) link
Non-poll version of this thread: OPO: A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector
― Murdstone From The Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 15:22 (nine years ago) link
I just got this on vinyl!
And yeah, I'll go the obvious (but correct) route and vote "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)." The Ronettes's "Frosty the Snowman" as the runner-up.
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 15:51 (nine years ago) link
listened to this last weekend -- the winner here is hal blaine. the drumming is so good.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 15:55 (nine years ago) link
my copy has this midly unsettling artwork
http://mydadsalbums.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/034.jpg
― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 15:59 (nine years ago) link
mildly*
I didn't realize that Baby Please Come Home was an oldie. I had gotten it in my head that it was a faux-60s song created specifically for the Gremlins soundtrack.
― the mooney tanuki (how's life), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 16:01 (nine years ago) link
And then Bono did his cover..
― Mark G, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 16:03 (nine years ago) link
Darlene has sung it every Christmas for 25+ years on the Letterman show
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 16:10 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfurmGiKZ5k
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 16:12 (nine years ago) link
Don't they usually get an upright player to play on that as well, Jay Leonhart, maybe?
― Murdstone From The Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 16:14 (nine years ago) link
There's also Johnny (Baby Please Come Home), the non-Christmassy version cut at the same time (and also great)
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 16:16 (nine years ago) link
when i bought my Mum the reissued CD, i took her tatty vinyl copy. originally she got a 'Greatest Hits' free with it, as the spiel at the top confirms!
http://eil.com/images/main/Phil-Spector-Greatest-HitsChri-414425.jpg
astonishingly it was all the original songs! the 80s were weird man.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 16:26 (nine years ago) link
i mean..
http://eil.com/images/main/Phil-Spector-20-Greatest-Hits-240654.jpg
― piscesx, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link
My 1974 reissue looks like this:http://eil.com/images/main/Phil-Spector-Phil-Spectors-Chr-564609.jpg
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 16:51 (nine years ago) link
^^^alternate movie poster for Silent Night, Deadly Night
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:37 (nine years ago) link
this album is so great that even songs i normally hate are somehow wonderful here, like "marshmallow world." ronnie even manages to make "i saw mommy kissing santa claus" sound kind of poignant. but of course it's the obvious one, just for the way darlene sings "they're singing deck the halls."
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
Goodfellas must have helped to make this album more famous for a Gen X crowd? actually when DID this album start getting its due props? popular theory is it flopped (released the same week as JFK etc). i'm sure we have an expert amongst us.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
Back to Mono box set
voted Silent Night because it's such a weirdly creepy way to end the album
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:28 (nine years ago) link
Think Greil Marcus had it in the "Treasure Island" section of Stranded, if nothing else.
― Murdstone From The Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:35 (nine years ago) link
http://www.muzieklijstjes.nl/GreilMarcusTreasureislandalbums.htm
― Murdstone From The Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:40 (nine years ago) link
Speaking of "weirdly creepy" Silent Nights. I was most frightened just now to find out that somebody had quoted my WFMU blog appraisal in the youtube comments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCmUmRhpumU
― Vic Perry, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:23 (nine years ago) link
There goes "Winter Wonderland" on ITV now.
― Mark G, Thursday, 18 December 2014 07:27 (nine years ago) link
actually when DID this album start getting its due props?
I think it may have come back to prominence in the mid to late nineties. We had it in HMV on import in 1997 for about £17, if memory serves. Fast forward twenty years and it was on the counter top, £3 with any purchase.
― Supposed Former ILM Lurker (WeWantMiles), Thursday, 18 December 2014 10:20 (nine years ago) link
"Sleigh Ride" for me, but then again that's always been one of my favorite Christmas songs.
― Jazzbo, Thursday, 18 December 2014 12:42 (nine years ago) link
^^^ this
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 18 December 2014 14:57 (nine years ago) link
Can we be shown weirdos + Darlene Love?
― I Am Not Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 December 2014 15:22 (nine years ago) link
http://www.wwd.com/images/processed/wwd/2010/12/23/landscape/01-large/darlene.jpg
― Mark G, Thursday, 18 December 2014 15:31 (nine years ago) link
sorry: Open Goal.
― Mark G, Thursday, 18 December 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link
Lol 'pretty good'.
― campreverb, Friday, 19 December 2014 16:39 (nine years ago) link
Final Letterman appearance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzj3S2p2W44
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Saturday, 20 December 2014 14:27 (nine years ago) link
first Letterman appearance (1986):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-8ZERV_D_Q
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 20 December 2014 16:31 (nine years ago) link
I've got the same vinyl issue as Merdeyeux. Got it around 1980 or '81, I think. I posted this on a Greil Marcus thread:
http://greilmarcus.net/2014/12/19/a-christmas-gift-for-you/
Definitely "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)."
― clemenza, Saturday, 20 December 2014 16:42 (nine years ago) link
Played it today.
"The bells of St Mary" is one that will get zero, but is pretty great.
― Mark G, Saturday, 20 December 2014 18:05 (nine years ago) link
so 'back to MONO' was a 'thing' of his from years back, judging by the badge. i thought it was just the title of his 1991 box set.
― piscesx, Saturday, 20 December 2014 19:07 (nine years ago) link
Just looked, its on the Apple L.p. Front cover.
― Mark G, Saturday, 20 December 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link
.. Which was issued in 1972
― Mark G, Saturday, 20 December 2014 19:10 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 22 December 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
Our Alice is repping for "Marshmallow World"
― Mark G, Monday, 22 December 2014 09:07 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
"The bells of St Mary" is one that will get zero, but is pretty great.― Mark G, Saturday, December 20, 2014 1:05 PM (2 days ago)
― Mark G, Saturday, December 20, 2014 1:05 PM (2 days ago)
― I Am The Cosmos Factory (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 23 December 2014 01:08 (nine years ago) link
I only this year noticed the Ronettes version of "Sleigh Ride" excises over half the song, chopping out both the "wonderland of snow" and "perfect ending of a perfect day"/"pumpkin pie" verses.
― Lee626, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 00:35 (four months ago) link
This is amazing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGzO1ghRKp4
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 26 December 2023 00:56 (four months ago) link
“Sleigh Ride” at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 now, the Ronettes best placing since 1963
― Josefa, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 01:34 (four months ago) link
Is there a good section on one of the Spector books about the making of this album? I know there was a MOJO mag piece maybe ten years ago. I’d love to read more.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 27 December 2023 04:33 (four months ago) link