USA
Christmas Records

1976

This was initially sold via mail order to the Monkees Fan Club
in December 1976. But it was also available to retailers for sale
in stores as seen here in Billboard as "New Christmas Product".

 

Promo Mailer

 

Billboard

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No picture sleeve issued
for this version.

CDS 700-A/701-B

Christmas Is My Time Of Year/
White Christmas

 

CDS 700-A/701-B
Promo

Issued with this flyer; the B-side is blank

Ed Reilly, author of The Monkees: A Manufactured Image said that

"Chip [Douglas] had on hand (at the '84 Chicago Monkees Convention)
reissued copies of Christmas Is My Time of Year
on a 45 RPM with no picture sleeve but he did have the flyer."

So Chip was selling this single for years and
subsequently the stock copy is pretty easy to find.

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1986

Chip remixed both of these songs and it was initially sold at the
September 1986 Los Angeles Monkees Convention.

Both songs had their drum tracks heavily reverb'd with processed sound;
which was very much the style of production for the mid-to-late 1980's music scene.

White Christmas also added piano and strings.

In one interview, Chip Douglas said he did this partially in response to Michael Lloyds
remixed version of Arista's Daydream Believer (released October 1986).

CDS 702-A/703-B

Christmas Is My Time Of The Year/
White Christmas

 

Also released on cassette