Album UK 2011 on CIA label
Pop, Folk, World and (Folk)
Lead Vocals & mince pies by Pete Budd. Accordion, vocals and mulled cider by Tommy Banner. Festive fretboarded thingymijigs and tuned turkey baster by Sedge Moore. Tubs tickled, thumped and licked by Amos Morgan. A festive smörgåsbord of other rusty-stringed bits of fire wood played by Phillip St Norton. Stinky guitar solo on Santa Claus Is Coming To Town by Clinton Charterhouse. The Brassholes featured Matt Bourne-Jones, Ben Waghorn and Savio Pacini all dressed up in Santa outfits getting their fluffy beards stuck down their blow holes. Lovely girly vocal on Fairytale of New York by Claire Miller. Extra biscuit tin hits and brass band on When A Child Is Born supplied by Spanky Mendip. Backing vocals, squawks, whimpers, shouts, moo's, snorts, whinnies, clucks, quacks, monkey noises, ho ho ho's, barks, brays, baa's, sleigh bells, gobbles, dings and gongs by The Wurzelettes who feature Lexy 'Long Load' Jones, Leanna 'Little Load' Jones, Jon Monie, Scott 'Cackleberry' Biggs, Sharon 'Mendips' Meade, Sedge Moore, Pina Brown, Louie Gribble, Phillip St Norton, Spam the Horse, Dougie Gribble, Brian and Beanbag the cows, Cheryl the pig, Dot the duck, Shish the sheep and Sil Willcox. Special thanks to the amazing mini Wurzelletes featuring the dinky voices of Louis Brown, Issy Brown, Jago Brown who all appeared courtesy of their yummy mummy Rachel. Additional thanks to the ever reliable Marcus Tripp & Jonathan Conibere. Management by Sil Willcox and Al Hale for Cruisin Music Management. Cover and artwork by Festive Phil Johnson. The entire thing was recorded, produced, planted, watered, nurtured, spread, grown and cut using some yoghurt pots, tinsel, a stuffed bird and three dictaphones from Tandy in a pig sty somewhere in Somerset by Louie Gribble.
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Tommy Banner p, voc, acc, GB accordion, vocals | |
The Brassholes brass | |
Pete Budd g, voc, bj, GB lead vocals |
Phil Johnson design |
Sil Willcox executive-producer, management |
Louie Nicastro recorded by, engineer, producer |
No | Title | Artist | Composer | Duration | |
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1 | White Christmas | The Wurzels | Irving Berlin | ||
2 | Santa Claus Is Coming To Town | The Wurzels | Haven Gillespie, J. Fred Coots | ||
3 | Mery Christmas Everybody | The Wurzels | Jim Lea, Noddy Holder | ||
4 | Sleigh Ride | The Wurzels | Leroy Anderson | ||
5 | Let It Snow | The Wurzels | Jule Styne And Sammy Cahn | ||
6 | Fairytale Of New York | The Wurzels | Jem Finer, Shane MacGowan | ||
7 | I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday | The Wurzels | Roy Wood | ||
8 | Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree | The Wurzels | Johnny Marks | ||
9 | Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer | The Wurzels | Johnny Marks | ||
10 | When A Child Is Born | The Wurzels | Ciro Dammicco, Fred Jay | ||
11 | Winter Wonderland | The Wurzels | Dick Smith, Felix Bernard | ||
12 | Happy Xmas (War Is Over) | The Wurzels | John Lennon & Yoko Ono |
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