So it s no surprise that the influences of Lynne, the Electric Light Orchestra leader who also produced Full Moon Fever, are all over from the driving drums and timpani fills to the horns and bridge, which slow-walks just long enough before the driving beat crashes in once more.It s rock-and-roll Christmas at its best." "In 1992, Tom Petty was in the middle of a prolific period that included the release of Full Moon Fever three years earlier and a four-year campaign with Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, George Harrison and Jeff Lynne in The Traveling Wilburys. Robert Earl Thomas (DecemVents online magazine) I've loved this song since I first heard it during Home Alone 2 as a kid." "My favorite Petty period ist he late 80s when he teamed up with Jeff Lynne, and in a nod to their fellow Wilbury, I did Christmas All Over Again with a George Harrison vibe. Patrik Guttenbacher, Marc Haines, & Alexander von Petersdorff (1996 - Unexpected Messages) Jeff had co-produced, played bass, bells, timpani, sang background vocals and could be heard at the very end where he also wishes to get a Chuck Berry songbook by saying 'I'd like one of them', when Tom lists all the items he wishes to get for Christmas." "Christmas '92 saw Jeff being involved in his first Christmas record when Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers recorded Christmas All Over The World for the A Very Special Christmas 2 Various Artists album, also released in the US as soundtrack to Home Alone 2. And I've always been happy because every Christmas I do hear it on the radio and I really like it.'"īill Flanagan (1995 liner notes for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Playback) I think Jeff had a good idea for a stop at one point where we put in that long drum fill that really made it happen. I called Jeff Lynne and he came and helped me redo the lead vocal and tidy it up just a little bit. It was a lot of fun, but when I finished with it, it was pretty much a mess. We had a harp and a harpsichord, Jim Keltner and Stan playing drums as well as percussionist, we had two bass players, four acoustic guitars, just crazy shit going on. There's a really good film that's quite long of us doing that session and you'll see the whole thing, me taking five people aside at a time and teaching them their part and then going to the next four and teaching them. Then I told Jimmy what I wanted to do and he said, 'Wow, okay.' So he booked all the musicians. I think Howie was out of town so Scott Thurston was playing the bass. When I got back we had a rehearsal with the Heartbreakers. I took the ukelele with me to my house in Florida in the middle of summer and wrote this Christmas song. The ukelele is a really cool instrument, even though it doesn't have that image. George Harrison had come by and given me a ukelele and spent a whole afternoon teaching me the chords. The funny thing is I wrote the song on a ukelele. So we thought we'd do something like that, eighteen guys, cut it all live. To me and Mike there's only one Christmas album in the pop field and that's Phil Spector's- that was the only one we could relate to. I didn't want to do somebody else's song. " 'Jimmy Iovine had been after me since I don't know when because he'd done one Very Special Christmas album already and I never came through for him. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Christmas All Over Again
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