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Written by: Lennon-McCartney-Harrison-Starkey
Recorded: 28 November 1967
Producer: George Martin
Engineer: Geoff Emerick
Released: 4 December 1995
John Lennon: vocals, bass drum
Paul McCartney: vocals, piano
George Harrison: vocals, acoustic guitar
Ringo Starr: vocals, drums, tap dancing
George Martin: vocals
Victor Spinetti: vocals, tap dancing
Mal Evans: spoken word
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14 May 2015
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Interestingly, Joe's discography above lists the songwriters in this order:
"Written by: Lennon-McCartney-Harrison-Starkey".
Meanwhile, the album credits for Ringo's 1999 album, I Wanna Be Santa Claus (as catalogued on the Discogs website), lists them like so:
"Written-By – George Harrison , John Lennon , Paul McCartney , Richard Starkey".
Was this Ringo's unassuming way of restoring the proper order of who was responsible for this song's writing?
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Ringo's is alphabetical, Joe's is in order of how they joined and the most common way when reciting their names. I doubt George was most responsible for the song.
Interesting alphabetically it's the same going by surname and forename when listing the Beatles in such a way.
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meanmistermustard said
Ringo's is alphabetical, Joe's is in order of how they joined and the most common way when reciting their names. I doubt George was most responsible for the song.Interesting alphabetically it's the same going by surname and forename when listing the Beatles in such a way.
One problem with that theory: some other songs on that same album on that same discography site don't list songwriter names alphabetically. Examples:
Winter Wonderland
Written-By – Richard B. Smith*, Felix Bernard
The Little Drummer Boy
Written-By – Harry Simeone, Henry V. Onorati*, Katherine K. Davis
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So I was just listening to this song, because I felt like it (even though there's still at least 50 days...)
I don't know of other versions, but the one from the Free As A Bird EP is the one I was listening to.
It sounds like a monitor mix - is it, and if so, was there ever an actual mix of it made, or was it only ever this mix?
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Remember very clearly in '67 playing along to this with my mum's knitting needles.... slapping out the simple drum pattern on a leather pouffe..... a very satisfying sound.
I recall thinking after packing cases and the like.......... Ringo should try the knitting needles and pouffe combination.
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The 1995 mix is not a monitor mix, @The Hole Got Fixed. It was newly created for the Anthology project, with Christmas greetings originally recorded for a couple of radio stations in 1966 clumsily "flown-in".
There is a mix of the song on bootleg that was done the day after recording by GM, and from which extracts were taken to edit together the 1967 Christmas fan-club flexi. This original mix has never been officially released.
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Ok, thank you @Ron Nasty. It's fairly poor quality, which led me to believe the only thing that existed was a monitor mix. Very interesting to learn, thank you very much.
Ron Nasty said
There is a mix of the song on bootleg that was done the day after recording by GM, and from which extracts were taken to edit together the 1967 Christmas fan-club flexi. This original mix has never been officially released.
Food for thought...
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Christmas Time Is Here Again could maybe have become a classic Christmas song, if the Beatles had worked more with it. The song was used on the Christmas record distributed to the members of the official Beatles fan club.
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EchoNov said
Christmas Time Is Here Again could maybe have become a classic Christmas song
It IS "a classic Christmas song"... would've closed out Side One of the 'Magical Mystery Tour ' album ahead of 'I Am The Walrus ' quite nicely... or, anywhere else on Side One for it's crystal clear where all of these, including 'Blue Jay Way ' and especially 'Flying ', blast off of from the Launchpad... the same 'Magical' ingredient when life was never the same again afterwards... "RINGO!!!"...:-)
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18 April 2013
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Ringo's version of the song on I Wanna Be Santa Claus is much better than the original.
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11 September 2018
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As it's nearly Christmas (!) I thought I should admit that this is the only Beatles song I've never heard (well, that and Carnival Of Light ).
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Tony Japanese said
As it's nearly Christmas (!) I thought I should admit that this is the only Beatles song I've never heard (well, that and Carnival Of Light ).
Merry Christmas
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