Number Four is Wizard and I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday. There are few songs more Christmassy than this classic, a real sing-a-long... OK you lot, take it!
"I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" is a popular Christmas song in the UK, first released in 1973 by Wizzard, when it reached #4 in the singles chart, famously beaten to #1 by Slade's "Merry Xmas Everybody" which remained there for five consecutive weeks. As with the vast majoritry of Wizzard songs, it was penned and produced by Roy Wood, who played most (if not all) of the instruments too.
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.
Many children actually thought that Roy Wood was indeed Santa Claus as he had the white hair and beard in the music video.
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. The Warner Brothers singles are quite rare.
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