Saturday, June 21, 2008

Another Beatles Christmas Record by The Beatles - ****

First released: 1964

"A Beatles Christmas Record" from 1963 was popular enough for the UK crowd, so the next year a new message was recorded in basically the same way with the four huddled around a mike and “adlibbing” a message to The Beatles Fan Club. Although these seem totally off-the-cuff, they were scripted to some extent and outtakes do exist featuring The Beatles singing "Hello Dolly", which would still have needed copyright clearance. The recording was included in 1970 on "The Beatles Christmas Album".

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