The thirty-seventh album: #37 Phil Spector - A Christmas Gift For You
Today we have a bit of a coincidence - we were putting up the Christmas tree and happened to put this album on. Two songs in, I realised what it was, and here we are...
Phil Spector always goes for big productions, showy, and it shows here even if it tries to pull back a few times. It mostly works, creating some classic interpretations of these songs, but the Silent Night - which has a spoken introduction - sounds weirdly unconfident because of it. It certainly gets you into a Christmas mood.
If you ask me, as a Christmas album, it's not the best, but when looking at it from the perspective of the artists and the time, it really works well.