While I'm not a big holiday music fan, my vote for best Christmas music of all-time is easily The Phil Spector Christmas album from the 60's. There is a youthful exuberance on that album, UNMATCHED on all others. There's a couple real clunkers on it, but for the most part it is supreme. When The Ronettes do "Sleigh Ride" it's a party. "March of the Wooden Soldiers" is awesome. The capper is Darlene Love (Danny Glover's wife in the Lethal Weapon movie series) doing "Christmas, Baby Please Come Home." When she plaintively wails for her man to come home it gets to me. Makes you want to find that boy and drag him home by the scruff of his neck.

Anybody else love this stuff as much as I do?

Toasted Almond

Heck yeah! It was part of the thing I loved about Christmas growin' up in the Sixties. Alot of RnR and R&B artists did Xmas singles and albums and the radio stations would play them right alongside the current hits. Great warm n fuzzy memories for me. To add to this and the Apple thread... John & Yoko's "Happy Xmas (War Is Over) was first released on green vinyl and has been reissued as such this year. Red Trumpet has it in stock.

Not a big John or Yoko fan here sir, but I share your missing growing up in the 60's (I'm a '52 model). Is it just me, or is everything today a remake of what WE grew up with?

I saw John and Yoko when Zappa invited them onstage to encore with him and The Mothers at the end of the Fillmore East's run.

Toasted Almond

Originally posted by Toasted Almond
The capper is Darlene Love (Danny Glover's wife in the Lethal Weapon movie series) doing "Christmas, Baby Please Come Home."


Wasn't Darlene Love with the Crystals?

Yes, and they have a few songs on the album too. Spector tried to make a solo star out of Darlene Love. Righfully so.

Toasted Almond