Songs Written by Roy Wood - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday, Flowers in the Rain, California Man, Blackberry Way, Brontosaurus (Paperback)

Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Chapters: I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday, Flowers in the Rain, California Man, Blackberry Way, Brontosaurus, Fire Brigade, See My Baby Jive, Wild Tiger Woman, Dance Around the Maypole, Angel Fingers, Cherry Blossom Clinic, When Alice Comes Back to the Farm, Chinatown, I Can Hear the Grass Grow, Curly, Night of Fear, Tonight. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 45. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" is a popular Christmas song, first released in 1973 by the English glam rock band Wizzard. It reached number four in the UK singles chart. The song was famously beaten to Christmas number one by Slade's "Merry Xmas Everybody" which remained there for five consecutive weeks. As with most Wizzard songs, it was penned and produced by Roy Wood. The song features the lead vocals of frontman Roy Wood but also contains backing vocals by "The Suedettes" as well as The Stockland Green Bilateral School First Year, with additional noises being produced by "Miss Snob and Class 3C," as credited on the sleeve. The single was actually recorded in the August so to create a wintry feeling, engineer Steve Brown decorated the studio with Christmas decorations and turned the air conditioning down to its coldest setting. Singer Roy Wood wore a woollen hat found in Lost Property. The first issue of the single was on Warner Brothers, as they had signed with them at the end of 1973, but this single proved to be the last EMI single, so the single was immediately issued on Harvest with the same picture sleeve. With the failure of its first release to reach #1 in 1973 - it was kept from number one by Slade's 'Merry Christmas Everybody' - it was re-released in 1981 (only reaching #41) and then again in 1984, this time with an additiona...http: //booksllc.net/?id=8592784