PHIL SPECTOR'S Christmas Album VG+ 1972 Apple 1ST PRESSING SW-3400 RONETTES
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Vinyl: VG+ Play graded. Sounds Great! Side 2 song 3 has a mark that causes a soft repeating tick sound way in the background (I had to listen on headphones to hear it). The record also has some other marks that don't affect the sound quality. This is the 1972 Apple 1ST PRESSING! SW 3400. NO BARCODE! Apple photo Labels are Clean and Bright. This is the 1972 Apple SW-3400 1ST PRESSING! This is the audiophile acclaimed pressing, pressed at Capitol's Jacksonville, FL pressing plant! This is the GENUINE ARTICLE! It's not to be confused with the Warner Brothers Reissue, but it is the audiophile acclaimed remastered release made by The Beatles' Apple Corps., who loved the original 1963 compilation and jumped at the chance to put it out on their own label. By this time, Spector was involved heavily with Lennon and Harrison, producing or coproducing their albums, and of course he had recently produced "Let It Be". This is truly a feel good record, with righteous upbeat Christmastime rockers from the likes of Ronnie Spector and the Ronettes, The Crystals, Darlene Love and Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans...have a groovy Christmas!!!
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Cover: VG+ (see photos) Nice high gloss on cover. Front and back of cover artwork and text are rich, clear and bright, with some shelf wear. Seams are solid and clean, with some wear. No splits. No writing. Spine print is mostly readable.
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Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album? First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl. Why experience the worse elements of both formats? These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared. They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound. There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm. First or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and dynamics. The sound staging is wider. Subtle instrument nuances are better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive. Inner details are clearer. On first and early pressings, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant. The physics of sound energy is hard to clarify and write about from a listening perspective, but the best we can describe it is to say that you can 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.
From Wikipedia
A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector (originally released as A Christmas Gift for You from Philles Records) is an album of Christmas songs, produced by Phil Spector, and originally released as Philles 4005 in 1963. 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. The album peaked at No. 13 on Billboard magazine's special, year-end, weekly Christmas Albums sales chart in December 1963.[1]
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. This version of the album went to No. 6 on Billboard's special Christmas Albums sales chart in December of that year, which was its highest chart ranking.[1] It was also in 1972 that the album made its debut on the UK Albums Chart; it would re-chart in 1983, peaking at No. 19. On the week ending December 15, 2018, A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector entered the main Billboard 200 albums chart for the first time (at position No. 48),[2] eventually peaking at No. 12 three weeks later.[3] 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. 26 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. 13 on the week ending January 2, 2021.[4] The album itself returned to its No. 12 peak position on the Billboard 200 chart on the week ending January 2, 2021.[5]
In 2003, the album was voted No. 142 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time,[6] maintaining the rating in a 2012 revised list.[7] In 2017, it was ranked the 130th greatest album of the 1960s by Pitchfork.[8] In 2019, it was ranked the greatest Christmas album of all time by Rolling Stone.[6] Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys has cited this album as his favorite of all time.[9] The album was included in Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.[10]
Recording and production
Further information: Wall of SoundThe album was recorded during September and October 1963.[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.[11] 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. Phil Spector had her sing background vocals for the entire Christmas album. 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.
RECEPTION
The album, released in the United States on November 22, 1963—the same day that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated—was a relative failure at the time.[14] Original pressings are scarce and collectable, now selling for $400–$500 in excellent condition.[15]
In subsequent years, especially after its reissue on Apple, the album grew in popularity and is considered now to be a holiday classic. Several of its tracks became iconic Christmas songs for generations, such as Darlene Love’s “Marshmallow World”, the original (and flop) single "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)," and the well-known "Ring-a-ling-a-ling Ding-dong-ding" background vocals in the Ronettes' "Sleigh Ride". 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. The Ronettes' versions of "Frosty The Snowman" and "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" also usually get some radio airplay during the holiday season.
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