The Beatles Christmas Time Is Here Again 2005 BFB-43

Artist: The Beatles
Title Of Album: Christmas Time Is Here Again Anthology
Venue: Mix of all the Beatles Christmas Releases all in one!!!
Year Of Release: 2005
Label: Rapple Corp BFB-43 Discs 1-4
Genre: Classic Rock
Format: FLAC (Original Tapes > Releases over the years > All Christmas recordings compiled > you)
Quality: Lossless
Total Time: 3 H 49 Min 46 Sec
Total Size: 1.24 GB

What can I say; this is a legendary group with a legendary holiday selection. You can listen to this any time!!

Tracks:

Disc-1:
01-The Beatles Christmas Record
02-Another Beatles Christmas Record
03-The Beatles Third Christmas Record
04-Pantomime - Everywhere It's Christmas
05-Christmas Time (Is Here Again)
06-Christmas 1968
07-Happy Christmas 1969
08-Christmas Time (Is Here Again) 1995 maxi single
09-Christmas Time (Is Here Again) version 1
10-Christmas Time (Is Here Again) version 2
11-Christmas Time (Is Here Again) monitor mix

Disc-2:
01-Christmas Time (Is Here Again) short version
02-ITV News interview
03-A Saturday Club Christmas
04-Newsreel interview
05-Hello Dolly
06-Speech (Take 1)
07-Speech (Take 2)
08-Speech (Take 3)
09-Speech (Take 4)
10-Speech (Take 5)
11-Another Beatles Christmas Record (alternate)
12-Christmas Show interview
13-1965 Christmas Outtakes (part one)
14-1965 Christmas Outtakes (part two)
15-Ringo's Christmas message
16-Christmas For The Pirates (1966)
17-Christmas Time (Is Here Again) longest version
18-Jingle Bells
19-Jock And Yono
20-Onceuponapooltable
21-Christmas Greeting From London (1969)
22-Ringo´s Christmas plea for the blind
23-Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da - Christmas Time medley
24-Christmas Time (Is Here Again) (1995 b-side)
25-Christmas Love Me Do)

Disc-3:
01-Christmas Greetings from Ascot (message 1)
02-Christmas Greetings from Ascot (message 2)
03-Happy Christmas (John´s original demo)
04-Happy Christmas
05-Happy Christmas
06-Happy Christmas (3 different rough mixes)
07-Happy Christmas (John's Anthology version)
08-Happy Christmas (1971 single version)
09-Listen To The Snow Falling
10-Happy Christmas
11-Ding Dong, Ding Dong (George's studio demo version)
12-Ding Dong, Ding Dong (promo Mono single edit)
13-Ding Dong, Ding Dong (promo Stereo single edit)
14-Ding Dong, Ding Dong (regular single version)
15-I Don't Care Anymore
16-Wonderful Christmas Time (live version)
17-Wonderful Christmas Time (1979 single)
18-Ruddolf The Red Nosed Reggae
19-The Great Work
20-Happy New Year From John
21-All You Need Is Adrian's Love
22-Stop And Listen To This Ringo Greeting
23-Paul's Christmas message
24-George's Christmas message
25-A Nelson Wilbury Christmas Greeting
26-Another Christmas Greeting (Paul)
27-Jingle Bells (Paul)

Disc-4:
01-Come On Christmas, Christmas Come On
02-Winter Wonderland
03-I Wanna Be Santa Claus
04-The Little Drummer Boy
05-Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
06-Christmas Eve
07-The Christmas Dance
08-Christmas Time (Is Here Again)
09-Blue Christmas
10-Dear Santa
11-White Christmas
12-Pax Um Biscum (Peace Be With You)

The Band:
Paul McCartney - Vocals, Bass (Left Handed), Piano, Guitar
John Lennon - Vocals, Lead Guitar
George Harrison - Vocals, Guitar, Sitar
Ringo Starr - Drums

NOTES FOR THE BEATLES CHRISTMAS RARITIES:
All recordings are sourced from The Ultimate Beatles Christmas Collection (Vigotone) except where noted.

17 December 1963 - Playhouse Theatre, London: Saturday Club "Crimble Medley"

20 December 1963 - Astoria Cinema, London: From an interview for ITV News during rehearsals for The Beatles Christmas Show
Christmas Greetings ("Garry Crimble To You" and "Doo-dah, The Red Nosed Reindeer")

9 February 1964 - Studio 50 New York City: From a brief newsreel interview outside The Ed Sullivan Theater White Christmas

26 October 1964 - EMI Studios London (reel E54380): This appears as though it might be the entire reel. See the EMI tape list below.
Sourced from The Seven Years Of Christmas (Yellow Dog), Christmas Message [aka "Hello Dolly"] (take 1), Speech (take 1), Speech (take 2),
Christmas Message (takes 3 and 4) and Marching - According to Barrett's notes (see below), "Marching" should follow take 2 but I have chosen to sequence it as it is on the Yellow Dog release. (take 5) EDITED - This features a longer "marching" intro and features an edit used for the 1983 presentation The Beatles At Abbey Road then reinserted in the wrong place. It also includes an announcement "take 1" which is odd because the final edit is documented as "take 5".
21-24(?) December 1964 - Hammersmith Odeon, London: Backstage Christmas show interview

19 October 1965 - Marquee Studio, London (see this reel - here): Sourced from The Lost Beatles Message (No Label). Note that the intro word "Welcome" comes from a song titled "We're Not Going To Take It" by The Who (probably Keith Moon's voice) from the Tommy album. Outtakes 1 Sourced from a short internet auction sample of a 26 minute tape. Outtakes 2

6 December 1966 - EMI Studios (reel E62554) This off-line recording comes from a John Barrett playback session in 1983. See further details below. Sourced from The Seven Years Of Christmas (Yellow Dog) Christmas Messages For Radio London and Radio Caroline (excerpts of takes 1 and 2) Sourced from the "Free As A Bird" single which mixes the 1966 excerpts with the 1967 song "Christmas Time Is Here Again".
Sessions/Anthology mix (oopsed) Oopsing removes most of the background music

28 November 1967 - EMI Studios (reel E66908): This off-line recording comes from the 1976 EMI "boardroom tape". It first surfaced on the vinyl bootleg File Under: Beatles. All CD sources were copied from the vinyl. In 2002, a tape source surfaced complete
on As It Happenend Baby! (Darth Disc) and slightly incomplete on The Seven Years Of Christmas (Yellow Dog).
Regrettably, I only have the Yellow Dog release so the last minute or so of the recording presented here has
been edited from The Ultimate Beatles Christmas Collection (Vigotone). In addition, four seconds of unique intro
has been added from the Sessions LP mix found on Another Sessions...Plus (Vigotone). Those four seconds
are sourced from the studio multitrack tape. The Sessions mix was released in 1995 on the Free As A Bird
single but it edited out the four second intro.
Christmas Time Is Here Again (complete)

November 1968 - Kenwood: Excerpts from John's home recordings used for the 1968 Christmas record Jock and Yono Onceuponapooltable

Circa November - early December 1968 - E.M.I. or Trident Studios? This is simply a re-edit of Paul's musical portion of the 1968 Christmas record. John Winn speculates that this was recorded during the late 1968 Mary Hopkin session at E.M.I. or Trident Studios and, indeed, it sounds like a studio recording.

Paul's Happy Christmas 1968 re-edited

Circa November - early December 1969 - Tittenhurst: This is simply one of John and Yoko's recordings from the 1969 Christmas record with Ringo's "Merry Christmas/Magic Christian" segment removed to reunite the John and Yoko portion. John and Yoko's Happy Christmas sketch re-edited.

15 December 1969 - Apple Studio, London: Interviewer is Kenny Everett. Ringo's British Wireless For The Blind Fund Christmas message

November 1970 - Tuttenhurst Park, Ascot: Sourced from Compositions (Vigotone). John and Yoko's Christmas Message 1. John and Yoko's Christmas Message 2.

1971 St. Regis Hotel, New York City: Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - home demo.

17 October 1963 E50887 2T: Various Messages - Speech. Another Message: These are the raw tape segments. The mix tape is not documented.

26 October 1964 [Lewisohn's date] E54380 A: Christmas Message (TK1). Speech (TK1-TK2). Marching Message (TK3-TK4) b. (TK5) EDITED B
COPIED AND SENT TO 'LINTON RECORDS'. These are the raw tape segments. It's not clear which reel was used for the final mix. Since the available copies of takes 3 and 4 are so short, it seems as though they might have been edited to create take 5. However, Lewisohn states, "Editing: Another Beatles Christmas Record (from takes 1-5)". In the available recordings, as listed above, the matching follows take 4.

8 November 1965 E57721 4T: Christmas Message (TK1-TK3) (TO BE EDITED). These are the raw tape segments.

9 November 1965 E57728 A: Christmas Message (RM1) B. This is the mix as released on the flexi-disc.

6 December 1966 E62554 A: RADIO CAROLINE + LONDON CHRISTMAS MESSAGE (REJECT) (TK1-2+TK1-2) B. (ORIGINAL CHRISTMAS MESSAGE (M) TAKEN BY TONY BARROW ON 2 DEC 1966). Lewisohn writes, "These were logged on the tape box and recording sheets as two takes each but several dozen short messages were actually recorded."

24 November 1967 E66904 4T: Christmas Party Noises (TK1). Knocking Noises (TK1). Electronic Noises (TK1). Celeste (Children's Hour) (TK1-TK3). Lewisohn states that some of the recordings from 24 and 28 November were John, alone, making recordings for the National Theatre production of his play The John Lennon Play: In His Own Write, Scene Three, Act One. So it isn't clear exactly what was used for the Christmas record. Barrett does not document a mix tape which Lewisohn states was done on 29 November.

24 November 1967 E66903 4T: Sound Effects Etc.

28 November 1967 E66907 A: Speech Tracks. Sound Effects Etc. John Lennon Play (EDITS + SPEECH TRACKS).

28 November 1967 E66908 4T: Christmas Time Is Here Again (TK1) B. Speech Tracks (TK1-TK2) B. (TK6-TK7) (TK6) B. Speech Tracks (TK10) B.

28 November 1967 E66909 A: Speech Tracks + S.I. OF EFFECTS (TK1-TK10).

5 September 1968 E69888 A: Beatles Xmas Message (1964), (1965).

9 September 1968, (MONO TAPE COPY): It's not clear what the purpose of this reel is. Barrett does not list a tape log for the 1968 or 1969 Christmas records.

23 April 1976, E11552 Z:  Xmas Record (MONO) It's not clear what the purpose of this reel is or which Christmas record it is.

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