Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)

Desperate Times Songbook Series: Part 2 (In Our Ongoing Series)

Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home): Sung by Darlene Love from the 1963 Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector. The song was written by Phil Spector, along with Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, with the intentions of being sung by Ronnie Spector of The Ronettes. According to Darlene Love, Ronnie Spector was not able to put as much emotion into the song as needed. Instead, Love was brought into the studio to record the song which became a big success over time and one of Darlene Love's signature tunes.

The song was also used during the main titles for the film Gremlins.

Watch Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home) as performed by Joe Iconis and his merry band of musical theatre punks (Annie Golden, Jason "Sweettooth Williams, Lance Rubin, Matt Hinkley, Brent Stranathan, Ian Kegey, Nick Blaemire, Jason Tam, Krysta Rodriguez, Lauren Marcus, Katrina Rose Dideriksen, Lorinda Lisitza, A.J. Shively, Badia Farah, Melanie Field, Rich Krakowski, Jeremy Morse, Eric William Morris, The Kissin Kazoo Sisters (Sarah Glendening & Liz Lark Brown), and yours truly Jared Weiss) at The Joe Iconis Christmas Spectacular @ Ars Nova on 12/17/08.