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17 Dec 17 - 02:52 PM (#3894394) Subject: anybody interested in those recordings? From: keberoxu is it true that somebody is going to re-release the Beatles Fan Club Christmas recordings? Do they merit a Mudcat thread? It still cracks me up to hear John Lennon affecting a German accent while blundering his way through Good King Wenceslaus. Anybody else partial to the Beatles Christmas records? |
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17 Dec 17 - 04:18 PM (#3894408) Subject: RE: those Christmas parodies by the Beatles From: fat B****rd Did those fan club Christmas recordings not bring "Crimble" into common usage?. |
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18 Dec 17 - 02:12 PM (#3894552) Subject: RE: those Christmas parodies by the Beatles From: keberoxu from the very first Christmas release: Carry Mimble to you Carry Mimble to you Getty Bable Dear Christmas Happy Birthday Me Too I miss that man's zany sense of humo[u]r |
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18 Dec 17 - 03:36 PM (#3894567) Subject: RE: those Christmas parodies by the Beatles From: keberoxu Doesn't Crimble/Crimbo predate the Beatles? i'm North American / USA so I wouldn't know ... |
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19 Dec 17 - 07:07 AM (#3894654) Subject: RE: those Christmas parodies by the Beatles From: GUEST,guest Does anything predate the Beatles? Just a thought. Mind you in Australia they think Rudolph the red nosed reindeer is a Christmas carol - and that's just one example! |
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21 Dec 17 - 05:47 PM (#3895218) Subject: RE: those Christmas parodies by the Beatles From: JennieG We don't, you know....... |
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23 Dec 17 - 05:11 AM (#3895389) Subject: RE: those Christmas parodies by the Beatles From: GUEST,Guest Maybe you don't Jennie but the vast majority of Aussies do. I am trying to find a listing from a regional newspaper that would prove my point. There is some good news - Margaret Walters and friends have just held the second annual event in Sydney of a get together featuring the Sheffield Carols. A cracking time was had by all apparently. |
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24 Dec 17 - 01:49 AM (#3895582) Subject: RE: those Christmas parodies by the Beatles From: GUEST,Guest Whoops dyslexic finger. I've found that Australian "Christmas Carol" list and it is below. Coffs Coast Christmas Carols From the Coffs Coast Advocate 16th December 2017 The First Noel Run Run Rudolph O Holy Night Jingle Bell Rock Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Away in a Manger Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Santa Claus is Coming to Town Jingle Bells O come, o come, Emmanuel Silent Night O Come all ye Faithful What Child Is This? Six White Boomers Rocking Around the Christmas Tree Little Drummer Boy We Wish You A Merry Christmas |
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25 Dec 17 - 01:15 PM (#3895797) Subject: RE: those Christmas parodies by the Beatles From: keberoxu Christmas Time Is Here Again Christmas Time Is Here Again Christmas Time Is Here Again O U T spells OUT |
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28 Dec 17 - 06:49 AM (#3896099) Subject: RE: those Christmas parodies by the Beatles From: GUEST,Guest You're probably right keberoxu. Christmas really isn't funny. Bah humbug |
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22 Oct 20 - 06:49 PM (#4076488) Subject: RE: those Christmas parodies by the Beatles From: keberoxu The Mudcat Helps Me Solve Yet Another Beatles Fan Club Christmas Record Mystery! I lurk on a BS thread where the subject is cuisine, although the thread title doesn't use that word. There, two Mudcat members are reminiscing about service in Germany, and one of them mentioned BAOR. Ta - DAAAA! I forget which year it was, but on one Fan Club Christmas Record, John Lennon and Paul McCartney improvised a send-up of a greeting to "the boys in good old BAOR-ey," pronounced bee eh oh ree, and all these years I have been clueless. Although, of course, I knew well that the Beatles spent a lengthy period in Hamburg ... |
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22 Oct 20 - 11:42 PM (#4076505) Subject: RE: those Christmas parodies by the Beatles From: GUEST,henryp The BBC have just shown A Hard Days Night. I thought it was as fresh as ever and even cleverer than I remembered. And I've still got those Christmas records. |
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23 Oct 20 - 02:53 AM (#4076509) Subject: RE: those Christmas parodies by the Beatles From: BobL Some people think "Good King Wenceslas" is a Christmas carol... the CCA got that one right at least. |
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23 Oct 20 - 03:52 AM (#4076510) Subject: RE: those Christmas parodies by the Beatles From: Mo the caller Are you using the term 'Christmas Carol' to mean a Christmas hymn, an ancient song or what the majority of any population would call a carol - any Christmas song. Yes it does seem incongruous to find Jingle Bells next to Joy to the World in an alphabetical buskers list of tunes, but actually no stranger than religious songs blasted over a supermarket sound system. |
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23 Oct 20 - 04:18 AM (#4076514) Subject: RE: those Christmas parodies by the Beatles From: Jos I notice that, along with 'Good King Wenceslas', many other Christmas carols/songs NOT included in the Australian list - 'In the bleak midwinter', 'White Christmas', 'See amid the winter snow', 'Frosty the snowman' - describe a Christmas unknown to most Australians. |
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23 Oct 20 - 04:56 AM (#4076517) Subject: RE: those Christmas parodies by the Beatles From: GUEST,henryp It's a different culture; Christmas in Australia is Christmas in paradise, Christmas in Australia is basically 'Bloody Nice', Bruce goes steady with Sheila, And Sheila goes steady with Bruce, And if you don't have a Christmas suntan, You're a Pommie and you ain't no use From the wonderful Roaring Jelly |
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26 Oct 20 - 03:30 PM (#4076932) Subject: RE: those Christmas parodies by the Beatles From: keberoxu And from Australia back to England: The Beatles Fan Club Christmas Record 1963 |
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29 Oct 20 - 06:03 AM (#4077219) Subject: RE: those Christmas parodies by the Beatles From: GUEST BAOR - British Army of the Rhine. In the 50s and 60s there was a popular BBC radio programme called Two Way Family Favourites, which grew out of Forces Favourites, in which families requested records to keep in touch with relatives in the forces posted overseas. The abbreviations BAOR and BFPO were in everybody's vocabulary back then. Splott Man |