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The Wurzels
The Wurzels Christmas Album

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.

     
Musicians
PortraitThe Wurzels , *1966 GB
album by
PortraitTommy Banner p, voc, acc, GB
accordion, vocals
The Brassholes
brass
PortraitPete Budd g, voc, bj, GB
lead vocals
Producers
Phil Johnson design
Sil Willcox executive-producer, management
Louie Nicastro recorded by, engineer, producer
Album Tracks   
No Title Artist Composer Duration
1White ChristmasThe WurzelsIrving Berlin
2Santa Claus Is Coming To TownThe WurzelsHaven Gillespie, J. Fred Coots
3Mery Christmas EverybodyThe WurzelsJim Lea, Noddy Holder
4Sleigh RideThe WurzelsLeroy Anderson
5Let It SnowThe WurzelsJule Styne And Sammy Cahn
6Fairytale Of New YorkThe WurzelsJem Finer, Shane MacGowan
7I Wish It Could Be Christmas EverydayThe WurzelsRoy Wood
8Rockin' Around The Christmas TreeThe WurzelsJohnny Marks
9Rudolph The Red-Nosed ReindeerThe WurzelsJohnny Marks
10When A Child Is BornThe WurzelsCiro Dammicco, Fred Jay
11Winter WonderlandThe WurzelsDick Smith, Felix Bernard
12 Happy Xmas (War Is Over)The WurzelsJohn Lennon & Yoko Ono

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