1967: Christmas Time Is Here Again!
Writer: The Beatles / Producer: George Martin
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Christmas time is here again
Christmas time is here again
Christmas time is here again
Christmas time is here again
Ain't been round since you know when
Christmas time is here again
O-U-T spells "out"
Christmas time is here again
Christmas time is here again
Christmas time is here again
Christmas time is here again
Ain't been round since you know when
Christmas time is here again
O-U-T spells "out"
Christmas time is here again
Christmas time is here again
Christmas time is here again
Christmas time is here again
Ain't been round since you know when
Christmas time is here again
O-U-T spells "out"
This is Paul McCartney here. I'd just like to wish you everything you'd wish yourself for Christmas
This is John Lennon saying, on behalf of The Beatles, have a very Happy Christmas and a good New Year
George Harrison speaking. I'd like to take this opportunity of wishing you a very Merry Christmas, listeners everywhere
This is Ringo Starr and I'd just like to say Merry Christmas and a really happy New Year to all listeners
And Christmas time is all
And your bonnie clay us through
Happy breastling to you people
All our best from me to you
When the beasty brangom
To the heather and little inn
And be strattened oot in ma tether
To yer arms once back again
Och away, ye bonnie
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Recorded on May. 19, 1967 / Released on Dec. 15, 1967.
Recorded in Studio Three EMI Studios, London.
Label: Lyntone // Total Time: 6:06
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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 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 John 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 British fans received a flexi-disc in an elaborate sleeve, American
fans received a postcard similar to that of 1966.
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