tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4573360361737643693.post3520930490416675238..comments2024-02-12T16:34:53.860-06:00Comments on Twelve Months of Christmas: Wonderful BeatmasThe Tone Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05311052674384460727noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4573360361737643693.post-89753995360228907292008-02-02T06:06:00.000-06:002008-02-02T06:06:00.000-06:00I love your sit but I have a minor correction: Rub...I love your sit but I have a minor correction: Rubber Band isn't a Swedish band but a Danish one. Check out their website at http://www.rubberband.dk/<BR/><BR/>CU dewdzAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4573360361737643693.post-10182142418646177652007-12-15T02:28:00.000-06:002007-12-15T02:28:00.000-06:00Very interesting! You are right...I am too young!...Very interesting! You are right...I am too young!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4573360361737643693.post-86803426276886959292007-12-10T22:57:00.000-06:002007-12-10T22:57:00.000-06:00Why you shouldn't be surprised at the lack of Beat...Why you shouldn't be surprised at the lack of Beatles Christmas output.<BR/><BR/>I'm not sure how old you are. If you're in your late thirties, for example, you're too young and if you're in your late fifties, you're too old. Too old or too young to remember the impact the Kennedy Assassination had on Christmas music. Kennedy was shot in November 63, just about the time Phil Spector was readying his Holiday Opus. <BR/><BR/>Spector's album tanked. Nobody was in the mood to rock and roll to Christmas music with Kennedy taken the way he was. It put an absolute pall over the season and the music that, with little exception, remained for ten years.<BR/><BR/>Sure, occasionally artists would take the shot. For the most part, their efforts tanked, too. I'm fairly certain that the only Christmas songs that were charting during that time were White Christmas and the Chipmunks. Maybe the Beach Boys got some airplay here and there, but it just wasn't done. It was marketing death.<BR/><BR/>So the fan club records were probably the band's idea, a way to give a treat to the fans who lived for them without sending the record execs into appoplectic shock.<BR/><BR/>In those times, would a Beatles Christmas album have sold? We'll never know. But having grown up in those years, I can tell you it would have been a far more open question than you might imagine. In the 6o's, I'd even say the odds were solidly against them in this country.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com