THE BEATLES SIXTH CHRISTMAS RECORD 1968 FAN CLUB FLEXI 7” RARE
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Description
Recorded: November–December 1968.
Location: various.
Writer: The Beatles.
Producer: Kenny Everett.
Issued: 20 December 1968.
Label: Lyntone, LYN 1743/4.
Flexi disc: 7", 2 sides, 33⅓ RPM.
Total time: 7:48.
The first Beatles Christmas fan-club disc to be recorded by the individual Beatles separately, the 1968 offering is a collage of odd noises, musical snippets and individual messages.
McCartney's song "Happy Christmas, Happy New Year" is featured, along with Lennon's poems "Jock and Yono" and "Once Upon a Pool Table". Also notable is a rendition of "Nowhere Man" by the ukulele-playing Tiny Tim, which Harrison recorded in New York.
Also included is a sped-up snippet of the Beatles' own "Helter Skelter" and a brief snippet of Perrey & Kingsley's "Baroque Hoedown", which was used three years later in Disneyland's Main Street Electrical Parade. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da", "Yer Blues" and "Birthday" are also heard in the background for part of the message.
The dialogue and songs for the flexi-disc were organised and edited together by DJ and friend of the Beatles, Kenny Everett.
Finally, the US fans got a flexi-disc for Christmas in 1968, but it came in a modified version of the 1967 UK sleeve.
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