As all my friends and family knows I am a huge Beatles fan and 2009 was an awesome year for the Beatles. They got their own video game, had all album digitally remastered and re-released and Paul McCartney popped the cherry for CitiField concerts. Although I have listened to almost all of their songs, (I have 94 Beatles songs on my iPod, not including solo work.)I never knew much about their annual Christmas albums.
Basically from 1963 until 1969, the Beatles would release an annual Christmas record to members of their fan club. The record would come in a flexidisc packet and members in the UK and US received it. Unfortunately, there were a lot more delays for members in the U.S. The discs would contain a few songs, answers to fan mail and occasionally some skits. Each disc would end with a Christmas message from the Beatles. For the last few years when there was a lot of tension between the Beatles, many of the segments were recorded separately. The most popular song from the discs was Christmas Time (Is Here Again), which would be re-recorded by Ringo during his solo years. I originally intended to post this song but I was able to find all flexidisc records on youtube so as a holiday treat for all Beatles fans, here are the Beatles Christmas Albums.
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
Hope you enjoy and regardless if your holiday has already passed, I wish you a happy holidays.
This has been Ian K. Feldman speaking words of wisdom.
1 comment:
Good finds. It's hard to go wrong with the Beatles.
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