Album · Darlene Love
A Christmas Gift for You From Phil Spector by Darlene Love
A Christmas Gift for You From Phil Spector is an album by Darlene Love, released in 1963. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 1 countdown appearance in total. The biggest is “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)”, on 1 list with a best position of #1733.
A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector, first issued by Philles in November 1963 as A Christmas Gift for You from Philles Records, is Spector's whole stable of voices, Darlene Love among them, set loose on mostly secular Christmas standards at Gold Star Studios. Spector pours every carol into his Wall of Sound, and holiday music has never sounded so enormous.
Love's "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" is the heart of it, a gospel-strength plea that she would go on to sing on David Letterman's late-night shows every holiday season from 1986 until 2014. A month after release the album peaked at No. 13 on Billboard's special Christmas Albums chart, but its reputation only grew: No. 142 on Rolling Stone's 500 greatest albums list in 2003 and again in 2012, the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998, and Rolling Stone's pick as the greatest Christmas album of all time in 2019.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from A Christmas Gift for You From Phil Spector on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) | 1 | #1733 | – | 2020 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.