Even on my '90s era integrated turntable with extremely limited options, the output is dual-mono - it runs through both my speakers, crystal clear, and it sounds fanf*ckingtastic. 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.

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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 Ronettes' versions of "Frosty The Snowman" and "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" also usually get some radio airplay during the holiday season. 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.on Billboard's special Christmas Albums sales chart in December of that year, which was its highest chart ranking.

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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 November 1963. 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. Greatest Albums of All Time Rolling Stone's definitive list of the 500 greatest albums of all time". Several of its tracks became iconic Christmas songs for generations, such as the original 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. 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. 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 subsequent years, especially after its reissue on Apple, the album grew in popularity and is considered now to be a holiday classic. I know it's not entirely kosher to jump in here without hard facts, but to my ears, it seems stereophonic, thus, I'm not entirely convinced that this is a mono pressing.