The Beatles Pantomime Everywhere is Christmas
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Nov 10, 2009 Sold Date
Nov 3, 2009 Start Date
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Please check out my other auctions i have other Beatles offical fan club LP's up for auction and many more great LP's as having a mass clear out many thanks..

 

A VERY RARE BEATLES 7" FLEXI DISC


 1966 UK Fan Club Christmas Message



THIS IS AN INCREDIBLY RARE RECORD IN ANY CONDITION

Recorded on November 25, 1966 and released on December 16, 1966 (Lyntone LYN 1145) "Pantomime - Everywhere It's Christmas" includes a Monty Python-like recording, with amongst other things "Everywhere It's Christmas," "Orowanya," "Please Don't Bring Your Banjo Back" and the dramatic mini-play "Podgy the Bear and Jasper Visit Felpin Mansions." This also includes the four page, National Newsletter No. 6 Insert. Starting in 1963, the Beatles started recording and releasing a special 6 or 7 minute christmas single, in the shape of a 7 inch flexidisc (looks like a single, but is thinner and made of plastic), These 1-sided Flexi Disc records are very rare today and difficult to find in great condition. The Beatles Christmas Messages were sent to the official Fan Club Members of Great Britain once a year, free of charge, between 1963 and 1969: not Christmas songs per se, they mostly consisted of just the lads clowning around in the studio, creating Christmas, and other improvised and scripted songs and obligatory Holiday Wishes. "Pantomime - Everywhere It's Christmas" was not sold in stores. Copies were not available at any price to people who did not belong to The Official Beatles Fan Club Of Great Britain. These Christmas records had a very LIMITED press run and remain an exclusive collectors gem whose value to Beatle Collectors will only increase with each year that passes.

ORIGINAL UK FAN CLUB FLEXI DISC

Ever wondered who thought up of the idea for the Beatles Christmas Fan Club messages? Well, it wasn't the Beatles themselves, that's for sure. Nor was it Brian Epstein. In fact the person who came up with the idea was Tony Barrow. The great moment of inspiration came about in a number of ways: first off, the Beatles Fan Club had a deluge of fan mail where on average they were three weeks behind in answering back to the fans. This created problems in terms of "efficiently responding back" to those fans as well their own 80,000 "Official Fan Club Members." Tony Barrow became acutely aware of the problem, so what to do? Well, Tony recalled how the Queen always delivers her Christmas message to her subjects every year on the December 25th. Presto! Why not have the Beatles do the same for their fans but send it out on a record just before Christmas?

Tony Barrow decided to approach Brian Epstein on the idea. Brian more or less shunned it down because he felt it was going to "cost the Beatles" more in the long run to finance the singles as a gift to their fan club members. However, Tony was not disheartened by Epstein's opinion on the matter. Tony then decided to talk to the Beatles about the proposal to which all four musicians thought it a great idea! The Beatles then talked to Brian Esptein about the merits concerning Tony's idea. Needless to say, Brian had no choice but to now agree since it was being sanctioned by John, Paul, George and Ringo.

And so the Beatles UK Fan Club Members got their first Beatles Christmas Message in 1963. Bet you all thought (for those who have heard it) that the Beatles wrote the the message themselves for their fans? Wrong! In fact the first three Xmas messages were more or less scripted by Tony Barrow with the idea that the Beatles "ad-lib humor" might prevail along the way as they're reading it (ie: one of the boys goosing another one or whistling the queens anthem are a couple of examples Tony refers to).

RECORD:  The Flexi-Disc is in Great condition.
LABEL: The label is extremely clean. There is No writing, No stickers, No rips or tears and almost No wear. In Excellent condition.

 


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