At number 12 Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)The only original song on the classic Phil Spector Christmas album, it's arguably more of a Christmas blues song than "Merry Christmas Baby." Darlene Love's singing makes this one tough to cover, but in recent years many new versions have been done
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I've been watching the Phil Spector trial on Court TV, seeing his hands tremble as he watches the first prosecution witnesses recount nightmarish stories about being terrorized at gunpoint. He looks frozen, possibly medicated, in that silly blond wig.And I've been reading Mick Brown's new biography of Spector, a well-researched but largely redundant telling of the Spector story, brought up to d...
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The Fleshtones' Stocking Stuffer (Yep Roc) aims to be the rawkingest yuletide disc of 2008 and it almost succeeds. The classic East Coast garage band delivers new originals (mostly penned by frontman Peter Zaremba) and a few covers, while stretching the boundaries of what they usually do to include proto-metal ("Six White Boomers" actually sounds like an offshoot of Free's "All Right Now"). Co...
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My threshold for holiday music is pretty low, but there are a handful of Christmas songs that this Jew actually enjoys hearing around this time. While I was all set to share Darlene Love's annual stunning performance of Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) from The Late Show with David Letterman along with Jay Thomas' hilarious [...]by Some Dude
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