THE BEATLES CHRISTMAS TIME IS HERE AGAIN FAN CLUB Flexi-disc U2508z RARE 7”
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Description
Recorded: 28 November 1967.
Location: Studio Three EMI Studios, London.
Writer: The Beatles.
Producer: George Martin.
Issued: 15 December 1967.
Label: Lyntone, LYN 1360.
Flexi disc: 7", 1 side, 33⅓ RPM.
Total time: 6:06.
An elaborate production, Christmas Time Is Here Again! was developed around the concept of several groups auditioning for a BBC radio show. The title song, "Christmas Time (Is Here Again)", serves as a refrain throughout the record.
The Beatles portray a multitude of characters, including game show contestants, aspiring musicians ("Plenty of Jam Jars", by the Ravellers), and actors in a radio drama ("Theatre Hour"). At the end Lennon reads a poem, "When Christmas Time Is Over." This offering was likely a deliberate homage to/continuation of the broadly similar "Craig Torso" specials produced for BBC Radio 1 that same year by the Beatles' friends and collaborators the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, and also shares much in common with their then-unreleased track "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)", recorded six months previously.
While UK fans received a flexi-disc in an elaborate sleeve, North American fans received a postcard similar to that of 1966. The cover sleeve was design made by John Lennon, Julian Lennon (Lennon's first son) and Ringo Starr.
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