BONUS CHRISTMAS SONG: An elaborate production, Christmas Time is Here Again! released on December 15, 1967 was developed around the concept of several groups auditioning for a BBC radio show. The title song serves as a refrain throughout the record.[8] The Beatles portray a multitude of characters, including game show contestants, aspiring musicians (Plenty of Jam Jars, by the Ravellers), and actors in a radio drama (Theatre Hour). At the end John reads a poem, When Christmas Time Is Over. This offering was likely a deliberate homage to/continuation of the broadly similar Craig Torso specials produced for BBC Radio 1 that same year by the Beatles friends and collaborators the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, and also shares much in common with their then-unreleased track You Know My Name (Look Up the Number), recorded six months previously. While British fans received a flexi-disc in an elaborate sleeve, American fans received a postcard similar to that of 1966. https://youtube/watch?v=wt7O2s4I5yM
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