BEATLES - ORIGINAL US Fan Club 1967 Cardboard CHRISTMAS MESSAGE - SUPER RARE

$

222

This Auction Ends Monday March 27th

EXTREMELY RARE!!

ORIGINAL 1967 

US BEATLE FAN CLUB RELEASE 

7" X 8" FULL CARDBOARD RECORD

1967 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE RECORD

"SEASON'S GREETINGS FROM THE BEATLES"

    Beginning in 1963, the Beatles started a holiday tradition of recording Christmas messages for their fans. The recordings were edited and issued on flexi-discs through the Official Beatles Fan Club in England. The records were not available for sale, but were distributed free to fan club members.

    In 1964, Beatles (U.S.A.) Ltd., the official national Beatles fan club in the United States, began sending the annual Christmas records to its members. This tradition continued through 1969, although the last two Christmas records were not group efforts, but rather were a series of separately recorded messages from each of the Beatles.

   As was the case in 1966, the American Fan Club issued the 1967 Christmas message on a 7 inch by 8 1/2 inch postcard with a vinyl record coated on one side and text on the other. The record label's silver text is identical to that of the 1966 label, except that it is undated.The text side has "The Beatle Bulletin" for Christmas, 1967, which has information about the Christmas record and the Magical Mystery Tour film and album.

   The Christmas message was recorded on Tuesday 28th November 1967 in Abbey Road studios. Includes the rocking "Christmas Time is Here Again," (later released in conjunction with the Anthology-project) "Plenty of Jam Jars" (performed by fictional band the "Revellers"), and finally John's poem "When Christmas Time is Over."

    This was the last Christmas fan club recording where all four Beatles were in the studio together.

                                                        Source: http://yokono.co.uk/collection/beatles/usa/flexi/xmas_flexi.html

THIS COPY IS THE ORIGINAL FULL CARDBOARD RECORD AS SEEN IN THE PICTURES.

THE RECORD ITSELF IS FLEXIBLE CARDBOARD. I NO LONGER HAVE A RECORD PLAYER SO I DO NOT KNOW HOW IT SOUNDS. VISUALLY IT DOES NOT HAVE SCRATCHES, etc. -- NICE!! 

Little Hand Written ".50" on back upper right

VERY, VERY LOW STARTING BID!!

I WILL COMBINE SHIPPING

Sold "AS IS"

I have had this in my collection since 1969

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I AM SELLING MY RECORD COLLECTION AFTER HOLDING ON TO IT FOR ALMOST 45 YEARS. I WILL BE POSTING MANY MORE ITEMS (MOSTLY SCARCE BEATLE/SOLO BEATLES) RECORDS THAT I COLLECTED FROM AROUND THE WORLD. RARE STUFF YOU DO NOT NORMALLY SEE. IN ALMOST ALL CASES I PLAYED THE RECORD POSSIBLY ONCE, IF EVER (TRUE COLLECTOR!!)--IT'S IN THE SAME CONDITION I GOT IT IN. ALL GRADINGS ARE VISUAL GRADINGS. ALMOST EVERYTHING IS MINT OR VG+ AND I WILL TRY MY BEST TO PUT A CONSERVATIVE GRADE ON ALL.

 Sold "As is"

Buyers outside the United States pay $24 postage and handling ($44 for 3+ Records),   and all payment for foreign orders must be by PayPal services only.

***BUYERS OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES SHALL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR SHIPMENTS ONCE THEY ARE SHIPPED--UNLESS YOU REQUEST AND PAY FOR TRACKING (WHEN AVAILABLE). I CAN NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR PACKAGES ONCE THEY LEAVE THE UNITED STATES. I WILL BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THE CUSTOMS DECLARATION FORM NUMBER BUT THAT USUALLY IS NOT TRACKABLE***I WILL NOT SHIP TO CROATIA--SORRY***.

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