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Each Christmas from 1963 through 1969, The Official Beatles Fan Club sent free 7-inch Christmas records to their fan club members, which contained skits, messages and brief songs which were otherwise unavailable. The records were flexi discs manufactured by Lyntone, each supplied in a special picture sleeve. These special records were never available for sale in stores. At the end of 1963, the Fan Club was unprepared for the large number of additional subscriptions it received, so in addition to the multiple thousands of Christmas records it mailed out in December, they also made a complete extra run of the flexi discs 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 records made, both with and without sleeves, was just over 30,000 copies. |
| TITLE | "FROM THEN TO YOU" THE BEATLES CHRISTMAS RECORD, 1970 | ||||
| CATALOG NUMBER | LYN. 2153 / 2154 | ||||
| RELEASE DATE | 18th December 1970 / Not for Sale: Fan Club Members Only | ||||
| TRACK LISTING | SIDE 1 | SIDE 2 | |||
| 1963 (The Beatles Christmas Record) | 1967 (Christmas Time Is Here
Again) |
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| 1964 (Another Beatles Christmas Record) | 1968 (Christmas 1968) | ||||
| 1965 (The Beatles Third Christmas
Record) |
1969 (Happy Christmas 1969) | ||||
| 1966 (Pantomime Everywhere It's Christmas) | |||||
| FRONT --> Click! | BACK --> Click! | SIDE 1 --> Click! | SIDE 2 --> Click! | DISC | |
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| INNER SLEEVE | FRONT & BACK COVER CLOSE-UP | BACK COVER CLOSE-UP | |||
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The front cover has a white
background, with the LP title printed in black above a
reproduction of the 1963 U.K. Christmas flexi sleeve. The
back cover shows the sleeves of the remaining six Christmas
flexi discs. |
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The Official Beatles Fan Club address and the designer's name were printed on the back cover. | |
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The printer's name "West Brothers" was printed on the back cover. | ||||
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The text "An E.M.I. Recording" was printed on two lines, with a small "33 1/3" speed marking. | ||
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| "Recordings first published: 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969 The Official Beatles Fan Club" was printed at the bottom of the label. | The discs have Lyntone matrix numbers LYN. 2153 and LYN. 2154 on each label. | Matrix
Nos.: Side-1: LYN 2154 Side-2: LYN 2153 |
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| LABEL | Apple label Type-4 | ||||
| MIX | MONO | ||||
| MATRIX No. | SIDE 1 | LYN 2154 | |||
| SIDE 2 | LYN 2153 | ||||
| VINYL COLOR | BLACK | ||||
| RECORD COMPANY'S NAME | Apple Records | ||||
| CENTRAL REMARK "SOLD IN U.K..." |
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| RECORDING PUBLISHED CREDIT | Recordings first published: 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969 | ||||
| COVER FORM | Single-pocket sleeve with a laminated front. | ||||
| PRINTER CREDIT | Printed in England by West Brothers - Printers - Ltd, London, SW19 | ||||
| COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES | Cover Artwork: Joint Effort | ||||
| INNER SLEEVE | Apple black sleeve | ||||
| PRODUCER | Official Beatles Fan Club | ||||
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COMMENTS
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On 18th December 1970,
The Beatles Fan Club still existed although the Beatles had
officially announced the breakup of the band earlier in the
year. Since recording activity had halted for the group as a
collective unit, there would be no chance of a new Christmas
flexi being prepared. Therefore, The Beatles Fan Club
released a 12-inch vinyl compilation mailed out to its
members entitled "From Then To You" in LP form. The catalog
number for this LP is LYN 2153/54. "From Then To You" was
only released in the United Kingdom. The front cover consists of a white background with the LP title written in black above a reproduction of the 1963 U.K. Christmas flexi sleeve. The back cover also has a white background with the remaining six front covers of the Fan Club Christmas flexis in black and white. Below the sleeve images, the following words were printed: "The Beatles Fan Club Christmas Record 1970". A 1970 copyright statement and the Beatles Fan Club's Liverpool address were also printed. This copy came with a black Apple inner sleeve. Other copies are found with white paper EMI or Apple Records inner sleeves. |
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