CHRISTMAS 2016

YULETIDE WASSNAMES!

May as well make a start with some Seasonal Nonsense as I usually do . . . . . . . .

these will raise a smile . . . .from Big O where else?!

A BEATLES COMPLETE COLLECTION

Big O says : 

THE BEATLES
Complete Christmas Collection 1963-1969 [Yellow Dog YD031, 1CD]
All seven Christmas messages plus bonus outtakes. Originally sourced from flexi discs. Very good studio soundboard.

all music says - 

From 1963 until 1969 the Beatles  put together single-sided flexi discs with a Christmas message that were distributed to their fan club members. All seven of these were included in a 12″ LP and sent as a final farewell to members in 1970. Various bootlegs of that limited LP have been floating around for years, and with assorted outtake material and rehearsal chatter included, plus the complete acetate of “Christmas Time (Is Here Again),” that is what has been assembled here in this festive boot from Yellow Dog Records. Aside from “Christmas Time,” which is a pretty good holiday song by any standards, nothing reaches serious artistic heights, but the sheer zany joy of the Beatles  is pretty irresistible as they joke and pun their way through short skits and fractured Christmas carols.
By 1965 everything gets drenched in reverb and quick edits, and tape loops by 1967 make these recordings in their own way as experimental as any of the group’s serious material. John Lennon’s genius for wordplay is rampant everywhere, and odd horn blasts and snippets of songs dart in and out. By 1969 the four Beatles were recording their holiday messages separately, and the sequence was edited together for unity, and yes, Yoko is there, too. As a sort of alternate history of the Beatles told through holiday tidings, The Complete Christmas Collection is fascinating and fun, and makes one wish that it could have gone on forever.

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This is great fun and worth listening all the way through for those who haven't heard these before in which case I must say if you haven't heard any of these then I really don't know here you bin but it's worth revisiting old favourites . . . . . . .  

Also they posted this which is later but has a missing Beatles fan club message from the first lot . . . . 

THE BEATLES - Introducing Martha!

Aaah these take me back and of course we miss George and John . . . so much