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  • Audio CD (4 Dec 2006)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: Box set
  • Label: U.M.T.V.
  • ASIN: B000K2Q8DQ
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 945 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Disc 1:

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Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Da Doo Ron RonThe Crystals 2:18£0.79
Listen  2. Be My BabyThe Ronettes 2:39£0.79
Listen  3. He's Sure The Boy I LoveThe Crystals 2:43£0.79
Listen  4. He's A RebelThe Crystals 2:30£0.79
Listen  5. UptownThe Crystals 2:20£0.79
Listen  6. There's No Other Like My BabyThe Crystals 2:28£0.79
Listen  7. A Fine, Fine BoyDarlene Love 2:45£0.79
Listen  8. Zip A Dee Doo DahBob B Soxx & The Blue Jeans 2:50£0.79
Listen  9. Why Do Lovers Break Each Others HeartsBob B Soxx & The Blue Jeans 2:48£0.79
Listen10. Best Part Of Breakin' UpThe Ronettes 3:02£0.79
Listen11. Not Too Young To Get MarriedBob B Soxx & The Blue Jeans 2:29£0.79
Listen12. (Today I Met) The Boy I'm Gonna MarryDarlene Love 2:46£0.79
Listen13. Wait Til My Bobby Gets HomeDarlene Love 2:24£0.79
Listen14. Baby I Love YouThe Ronettes 2:49£0.79
Listen15. Then He Kissed MeThe Crystals 2:37£0.79
Listen16. Do I Love You?The Ronettes 2:55£0.79
Listen17. Walking In The RainThe Ronettes 3:14£0.79
Listen18. Born To Be TogetherThe Ronettes 2:58£0.79
Listen19. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'The Righteous Brothers 3:42£0.79
Listen20. Unchained MelodyThe Righteous Brothers 3:35£0.79
Listen21. River Deep Mountain HighIke & Tina Turner 3:34£0.79
Listen22. Spanish HarlemPhil Spector 2:10£0.79


Disc 2:

Samples
Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. White ChristmasDarlene Love 2:57£0.79
Listen  2. Frosty The SnowmanThe Ronettes 2:20£0.79
Listen  3. The Bells Of St MaryBob B Soxx & The Blue Jeans 2:58£0.79
Listen  4. Santa Claus Is Coming To TownThe Crystals 3:28£0.79
Listen  5. Sleigh RideThe Ronettes 3:05£0.79
Listen  6. Marshmallow WorldDarlene Love 2:26£0.79
Listen  7. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa ClausThe Ronettes 2:41£0.79
Listen  8. Rudolph The Red-Nosed ReindeerThe Crystals 2:34£0.79
Listen  9. Winter WonderlandDarlene Love 2:30£0.79
Listen10. Parade Of The Wooden SoldiersThe Crystals 2:58£0.79
Listen11. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)Darlene Love 2:49£0.79
Listen12. Here Comes Santa ClausBob B Soxx & The Blue Jeans 2:07£0.79
Listen13. Silent NightPhil Spector and Artists 2:14£0.79

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5.0 out of 5 stars Back To Mono!, 12 Dec 2006
By T. Clark (Sunny Southend) - See all my reviews
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I bought this as a Christmas present for my dad, my way of apologising for stealing his vinyl copy of Echoes Of The 60s many years ago. This is a superb collection of Phil's finest moments. It's unusual to see a one disc Spector retrospective on compact disc so if you're not ready to jump on the Back To Mono 4 disc boxset I strongly advise you buy this. The sound is absolutely pristine as you might expect - Phil would never let it be released otherwise. Good packaging which I was impressed to see includes details of who played what on these miraculous mini-symphonies. It's a cliche but they really don't make 'em like this anymore. Genius.

The Christmas album is included as a seperate cd which has been widely available for a few years. It's magic! Let your cynicism be blown away by the goddess Darlene Love.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Not "definitive", but probably the best value Spector compilation of all time, 29 April 2008
By Bob Sherunkle (London, UK) - See all my reviews
This release gives you, at a bargain price, most of the Spector masterpieces that the average person would want. In the days of vinyl, I had the Christmas album and a "best of the rest" with a very similar listing to the second CD of this set. In the absence of such a collection on CD, a few years ago I bought the "Back to Mono" box set, which is more of a "definitive" collection, and priced accordingly. If this double set had been available then, I would have bought it instead.

Buy while it's still on the catalogue. Bargain Spector compilations like this don't appear very often. You can, of course, buy the Christmas album on its own at any time, for not much less (and sometimes a bit more) than the price of this set.
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39 of 44 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Double CD of glorious pop and festive joy, 16 Dec 2006
By russell clarke "stipesdoppleganger" (halifax, west yorks) - See all my reviews
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Phil Spector the oh so slightly unhinged producer is credited with pioneering the wall of sound approach to making music, which is where this collection gets its name from. That basically means that Spector threw as much as possible into the mix. Thundering percussion, strings with more layers than an armadillo on a firing range, harmonies so glutinous they would put a class of five year old off sweets for weeks, and Spector was never a believer of less is more. Indeed it's fair to say he was a believer of more is more then some more should be chucked on top in case the original more wasn't enough.
However this is no easy thing to do and make it sound as wondrous a much of the material on here does. It could be a dicophonous disaster but Spector knew what he was doing and what's more he had the songs and the artists to pull it off. This is pop music so gaudily effervescent, so giddily emphatic that it makes even the lushest of contemporary music -Girls Aloud at their capricious best say- sound like Bonnie Prince Billy. Next to Spectors corpulent beauties virtually everything else is reduced to a size zero non-entity.
T o hear The Ronettes peerlessly perform "Baby I Love You" or "Be My Baby" is to hear pop at its zenith -so melodious and sonically impelling that you could be stood in the middle of a minefield, foot hovering over potential oblivion, and still become caught up in the song. The same goes for The Crystals "Then He Kissed Me" while "River Deep, Mountain High" is one of the most staggering moments of halcyon pop ...well ever. Tina Turner may have gone on to be a lumbering embarrassment but here she is incendiary. I love "You've Lost That Lovin Feeling" as well which is ironic because the other Righteous Brothers track here is the now hideously over-exposed "Unchained Melody" which has been reduced via karaoke ciphers to something I have lost that lovin feeling for.
The second CD is re-issue of the 1963 Christmas album which for many people is the definitive Christmas album and they are right, because for two weeks out of fifty two this is the most evocative festive celebration on the planet. This album along with "The Fairytale Of New York " , "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" and "Snow" by the Cocteau Twins is the spirit and magic of the consumer madness that Christmas has become aurally restored to something approximating it's original spirit.
Curiously the previously un- released song here, "Silent Night" is sung by Spector with only an acoustic guitar as backing. Proof that even this flawed genius needed to drop that wall of sound every once in a while.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Nostalgia
I bought this CD for my husband. He is extrememly pleased with it and plays it constantly in the car. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Y. M. Walls

5.0 out of 5 stars Spector at his best!
He may be in jail where he deserves to be for killing a girl but as with all artists you have to distinguish between the artist and his work. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Existentialist.

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful collection
This inexpensive album contains all the best songs from the remarkable Phil Spector - a musical genius!
Published 9 months ago by Phil

5.0 out of 5 stars Long lost classic
Worth it just for track 22 - Phil Spector's original recording of Spanish Harlem. Buy it for this and get the rest as a bonus.
Published 12 months ago by Dmavon

5.0 out of 5 stars Genius Does Not Even Begin To Describe The Talent That Is Phil Spector
Allow your self to travel to a past when music was for pure escapism and there were not the computerised sounds of today and enjoy the waves of sound as they wash over you created... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Ben Corr

4.0 out of 5 stars Back to mono? Bah.
The only problem with Phil Spector stuff is the production. The singers, especially Darlene Love and Ronnie Spector, are incredible. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Bucket

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential
There's been millions of words written about the Spector productions and that's not counting the reviews. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Richard

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