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CIA Recordings
accordion, vocals Tommy Banner
brass The Brassholes
design Phil Johnson
executive-producer, management Sil Willcox
lead vocals Pete Budd
recorded by, engineer, producer Louie Nicastro
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Copyright (c) CIA Ltd
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Record Company Universal
Glass Mastered At Sony DADC, Southwater
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.

A similar version is The Wurzels Christmas Album
Barcode: 5 037300 773506 (Text)
Matrix / Runout: ABSCIACD018 01
Mastering SID Code: IFPI LY33
Mould SID Code: IFPI AWE22



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