Genre: Pop, Apple Records
Places I remember: NZ pressing from The Music Box (Hastings), US pressing from a swap with Noel Forth
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Darlene Love
Gear costume: Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - The Crystals
Active compensatory factors: Something of a Christmas classic, this is another weird one for Apple to put out as it was a retitled reissue of Phillies Records album A Christmas Gift For You from 1963.
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Darlene Love
Gear costume: Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - The Crystals
Active compensatory factors: Something of a Christmas classic, this is another weird one for Apple to put out as it was a retitled reissue of Phillies Records album A Christmas Gift For You from 1963.
Phil's size tens are all over these tracks and the final one has him doing a weird voice over. It's hard not to factor in the strangeness of Phil Spector while listening, but Darlene Love et al manage to do that each time via their sheer force of nature-ness.
I've used 'weird' a few times in this post, but it's an apposite adjective to use on this Christmas celebration.
Where do they all belong? That completes the Apple Records corner of my collection for both CDs and vinyl.
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