1964: Another Beatles Christmas Record
Writer and Producer: Tony Barrow
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Here I stand head in hand
Turn my face to the wall
If she's gone I can't go on
Feeling two-foot small
Everywhere people stare
Each and every day
I can see them laugh at me
And I hear them say
Hey you've got to hide your love away
Hey you've got to hide your love away
How can I even try
I can never win
Hearing them, seeing them
In the state I'm in
How could she say to me
Love will find a way
Gather round all you clowns
Let me hear you say
Hey you've got to hide your love away
Hey you've got to hide your love away
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Recorded on Oct. 26, 1964 / Released on Dec. 18, 1964.
Recorded in Studio Two Abbey Road.
Label: Lyntone // Total Time: 3:58
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The song "Jingle Bells" is sung, followed by individual messages to the fans. John mocks the prepared statement,
doing an imitation of Paul Harvey and includes his own pseudo-words and ad-libbing. When Paul asks him if he wrote
this himself, he says, "No it's somebody's bad hand-wroter. It's been a busy year Beople peadles, one way and another,
but it's been a great year too. You fans have seen to that. Page two ... Thanks a lot folks and a happy-er Christmas
and a Merry Grew Year. Crimble maybe." (The statement is apparently handwritten as at various points in the recording,
Paul reads "making them" as "melting them" before correcting himself and George reads "quite a time" as "quiet time"
before correcting himself with "great time" as well.) Finishing up the record is a brief rendition of the traditional
song "Oh Can You Wash Your Father's Shirt?" Another Beatles' Christmas Record was not sent to American fans. Rather,
at Christmas time 1964, US fans received an edited version of The Beatles' Christmas Record, which had been sent to
British fan-club members in 1963. Also, as opposed to using flexi-discs, the US fan-club sent the message in a
tri-fold cardboard mailer, with the "record" embedded in one of the flaps of cardboard.
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