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Several years ago, the band went into a recording studio and made a Christmas record! Actually, they started singing Merry Christmas to the tune of ... Well if you want to find out, click on the relevant icon below and have a listen.

The sounds are taken from a flexi-disc that was given out free to fans at shows. Thanks to Bob Miller, who spotted a copy being auctioned on Ebay, and e-mailed me the details. I managed to bid for it (at enormous expense), so here it is:

 Download Suths Xmas 1972 in mp3 format

The use of this audio file has been done with full permission of Gavin Sutherland. I am grateful for his co-operation. Please treat this kindness in the way it was meant and do not use the recording for anything other than home entertainment and personal enjoyment.

For those of you who have slow speed downloads, here's a couple of smaller excerpts from the Christmas song:

 Start of Xmas flexi-disc and Middle section.

As a bit of fun, listen to these two clips and decide - which brothers are which?

 Arms of Mary version 1 and Arms of Mary version 2

And keeping the fun going, which live version of Sailing is which?

 Sailing version 1 and Sailing version 2

Once you've listened to them, go to the foot of the page for the answers.

Answers:

Mary1 = Everly Brothers; Mary2 = SBQ

Sail1 = Rod Stewart at Glastonbury 2002; Sail2 = SBQ at Glasgow Apollo 1976.