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TITLE
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Sincere Good Wishes for Christmas and the New Year from the Beatles | |||
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RELEASE DATE
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6th December 1963 | |||
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| The Official Beatles Fan Club of Great Britain operates from special offices in Central London. National Secretaries Anne Collingham and Bettina Rose have a hard-working staff of full-time assistants to help run the club's affairs. | ||||
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Each recording was pressed onto a 7" flexi disc and mailed free to the British members of the Fan Club. |
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The words "Not for sale. Issued free
of charge to fan Club Members in December 1963" were
printed on the label.
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OTHER ITEM
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CATALOG NUMBER
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LYN 492 | |||
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LABEL
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Lyntone | |||
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MIX
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Mono | |||
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VINYL COLOR
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BLACK | |||
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PRODUCER
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COVER DESIGN/
PHOTO/ NOTES
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Notes: Bettina Rose, Anne Collingham | |||
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RECORD COMPANY'S
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Lyntone Company | |||
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PUBLISHER'S NAME
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The Official Beatles Fan Club | |||
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PRINTER'S NAME
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COMMENTS
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Gatefold type. These special records were never available for sale in stores. At the end of 1963, the Fan Club was unprepared for the tons of extra subscriptions it received, so in addition to the multiple thousands of Christmas disks it mailed out in December, they also made a complete extra run of the flexi-disks without the sleeves (to save time), mailing them out early February 1964 with a letter of apology and an explanation from the Club. The total of 1963 Christmas disks made, both with and without sleeves, was just over 30,000 copies. The flexi comes in a plain yellow card sleeve that opens out with the record tucked into a stapled area. No newsletter came with this first edition. It was printed in the inner sleeve. The back cover has a picture of the Beatles at the Fan-club headquarters with Bettina Rose and Anne Collingham, with below, a picture of the fab four being presented to the Queen Mother at the Royal Variety Performance. Amongst christmas greetings and other things other things a comical rendition of "Good King Wenceslas" and towards the end the chorus from "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" Lyntone is not a record label, but a manufacturer. Lyntone was the European licensee of the flexi-disc procossed that was developed and patented Eva-Tone Soundsheets. All flexidiscs record were made by Eva-Tone or one of their licencees (such as Lyntone). Due to low demand, Eva-Tone stopped making flexidiscs several years ago. However, Erika Records in Southern California has obtained the rights to manufacturer this format now. (According to "Discogs") |
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