A 1970 monster from one of those very rare X-mas rex that're actually okày nay great in their entirety: the v/a cd "In The Christmas Groove (Original Stone Cold Soul, Funk And Rare Grooves From Christmas Past)" (2009, Strut cat. no. STRUT052CD). The sleeve's a pastiche of James Brown's "In The Jungle Groove" 2lp (1986), incidentally.
http://www.inthechristmasgroove.com/
http://www.strut-records.com/node/228
Yes indeed Strut is back, via !K7 ... rebonjour Quinton!

& for those of you into the acquired taste of HC ... check their yuletide melodrama at http://www.arawa.fm/2009/12/hot-chocolate.html or just go yo ho ho (tnx Baf) with: