| This is an American test pressing of "I Wish It Could Be Christmas
Everyday" with Rock 'n' Roll Winter on the other side.It only got as far
as a test pressing,and was never released !
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| Here is the pic sleeve for the release in Holland
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| Don't know if this is supposed to be white or if someone at Harvest just forgot to put more green and yellow ink in the printing machine!
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| Well,December 1995 saw another release for this classic song,This time
it was a 'Live' recording of The Roy Wood Big Band and it managed to get
to 59 in the charts (Here in the UK we have a mid week chart that is not
published,I heard from 'Inside information' that it got to number 41 in
that chart).Also included on the CD is "Santa Clause is coming to town"
sung by The Naylor Twins and a new song by Roy called "Lion's Heart".The
sleeve was designed by Gill/Magic Arts
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| In December 2000,Roy teamed up with The Wombles to record "I Wish It
Could Be A Wombling Merry Christmas Everyday" a mixture of the Wizzard
Christmas hit and the Wombles hit "Wombling Merry Christmas".There were
two CD singles released,Here are the promo copies.
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| These are the 'normal' releases of the single,which made it to Number
22 in the UK charts,CD 1 also includes a video of the single,as well as
the Big Band's live version of "I wish it could be Christmas everyday" and
The Wombles Christmas hit from 1974 "Wombling Merry Christmas".CD 2 has
"The Fat Boy Furry crucial dub groovy acid burrow garage mix" of I wish it
could a Wombling Merry Christmas Everyday,as well as a Wombles track (and
video) called "Wombles on Parade" The photo on CD 1 was taken by Gill from
The Official Roy Wood site
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| Since I started doing this site,I've had lots of e mails from people
saying how much they have enjoyed seeing my collection.A while ago I got
one from a guy called Nick DeBenedetto,who said he had some publicity
photos from United Artists Records that Woody fans might find interesting
and would I like them,not only for you to see,but to keep in the clinc
with all my other stuff !! Well I didn't like to say no (cough).This one
went out with promo copies of The Move's "Split Ends" compilation....What
can I say but Thanks a lot Nick !
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| The UA publicity photo for "No Answer"
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| I always thought the American sleeve and sound quality of Wizzard Brew
was much better than the UK version.
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