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Why does this title link to the 1933 Betty Boop cartoon? NBK1122 (talk) 03:13, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mariah Carey

I'm surprised there's no reference to Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You in this article. It is self evidently 'inspired' (cough cough) by the Christmas Album and uses many Wall of Sound production techniques. --Ef80 (talk) 14:15, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The same can be said of Elton John's 1973 holiday single, "Step Into Christmas", as I've read that he and producer Gus Dudgeon had the Spector "wall of sound" used on A Christmas Gift for You from Philles Records in mind for the recording of that track. I'm not opposed to content being added to this article that mentions either or both the Carey and John tracks. Sliv812 (talk) 18:41, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I guess your implication is correct, and that just about every Christmas single made since 1963 has stolen ideas from the Christmas Album. It really did define a genre, and we can't include all the derivatives here. --Ef80 (talk) 22:38, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ballard MacDonald

I beleive Ballard MacDonald wrote the lyrics for parade of the wooden soldiers as mentioned on the parade of the wooden soldiers page. Should he receive a writing credit with Leon Jessel. OneSixtyNine (talk) 18:04, 4 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Musicians

I removed the unsourced section of personnel (after noticing someone on twitter bragging that they'd added themselves as a theremin player on the article a year ago). I'm getting the CD from the library and will re-add musicians per the liner notes. Schazjmd (talk) 19:45, 12 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

List updated and restored, citing the liner notes. There were a few in the old list not supported by the liner notes and few in the liner notes not listed in the article, but should be synch'd now. Schazjmd (talk) 21:53, 22 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]