Phil Spector fired his own wife Ronnie from the session for this gem, because she was supposedly unable to convey the same depth of emotion that Darlene Love brings here. It's hard to argue with the result. This is possibly the only Christmas song you can listen to any time of year without being some kind of Christmas nut. It doesn't sentimentalize Christmas too much, but uses it as a backdrop, calling up the emotional connections we have to the Holidays without dipping too deep into cliche. In the end, like any Phil Spector song, it's about an innocent enough type of love and longing. Terrific.
Merry Christmas, kids. Keep on rockin'.
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