“Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” by Darlene Love

"Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" is Darlene Love's big moment on A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector, the 1963 holiday compilation that first appeared as A Christmas Gift for You from Philles Records. Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry and Spector wrote it, Spector produced, Jack Nitzsche arranged it and Larry Levine engineered, and Love tears into it like the whole season depends on somebody walking through that door.

It went nowhere when it first came out. Over the decades, though, it grew into a Christmas standard, and in December 2018 it finally made the Billboard Hot 100, eventually climbing as high as 14, while Billboard's Holiday 100 has had it as high as seven.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.