Roy Wood's face-painted orchestra-cellos in tinsel, horns in harmony, See My Baby Jive like Phil Spector snorted glitter. They built walls of sound taller than Slade's platforms. More beardy brass blasts weekly.
Wizzard crowned best British single – Roy Wood’s wall-of-sound triumph! Wizzard’s See My Baby Jive, a one-page article in Record Mirror, December 29, 1973. More Wizzard poll victories added weekly.
Roy Wood races to finish the new Wizzard album – Christmas deadline looms! Wood 'N' Wizzard, a two-page article in Disc, December 8, 1973. Quote from Roy: “This new album has got to be finished by Christmas, so once again we’ve had to rush it, but in spite of this, it’s looking as though it’s going to be a nice one. Naturally we’ve had problems like me not getting the time to write suitable songs for it, so we just had to get into a studio and work out the music. That’s done
A Glam Xmas No. 4 Evergreen Released as a 7-inch vinyl single in the UK on November 30, 1973, on Harvest Records (catalogue: HAR 5079), Wizzard’s “I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday” was Roy Wood’s glam Christmas anthem. Backed with “Rob Roy's Nightmare (A Bit More H. A.),” this choir-backed festive rocker — with The Stockland Green Bilateral School First Year Choir and The Suedettes — peaked at No. 4 on the Official Singles Chart for 9 weeks. Issued in gatefold sleeve (Wa
