Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End)
~ Recording by The Darkness
Appears on releases
| # | Title | Length | Track artist | Release title | Release artist | Release group type | Country/Date | Label | Catalog# |
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| 1.1 | Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) | 3:33 | The Darkness | Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) | The Darkness | Single |
| Atlantic (Warner Music imprint) | DARK02CD |
| 1.2 | Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) | 3:37 | The Darkness | Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) | The Darkness | Single |
| Atlantic (Warner Music imprint), Must…Destroy!! | 5050467-0882-9-0, DARK02DVD |
| 1.11 | Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) | 3:27 | The Darkness | Permission to Land | The Darkness | Album |
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| 1.3 | Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) | 3:35 | The Darkness | Christmas Hits: 60 Festive Favourites | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| BMG TV | 82876650602 |
| 1.3 | Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) | 3:35 | The Darkness | Christmas Hits | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| BMG UK & Ireland | 82876650602 |
| 1.4 | Christmas Time | 3:31 | The Darkness | NOW Christmas 2005 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
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| 1.11 | Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End) | 3:34 | The Darkness | Victoria's Secret Christmas Eve Christmas Morning Holiday Music | Various Artists | Album + Compilation | EMI Music Special Markets, Warner Custom Products, Madacy Entertainment | 09463-39682-2-6, OPCD-7834 | |
| 1.13 | Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) | 3:34 | The Darkness | Christmas Hits: 80 Festive Favourites | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label), Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Aug 5, 2004 – Oct 1, 2008) | 88697202612 |
| 1.13 | Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) | 3:33 | The Darkness | Christmas Hits | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Aug 5, 2004 – Oct 1, 2008) | |
| 1.21 | Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End) | 3:32 | The Darkness | The Platinum Collection | The Darkness | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across) | 5144275452 |
| 1.13 | Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) | 3:34 | The Darkness | Christmas Hits: Over 50 Festive Favourites | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Aug 5, 2004 – Oct 1, 2008) | 88697416292 |
| 1.16 | Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End) | 3:30 | The Darkness | Now Xmas | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| EMI (EMI Records, since 1972) | 264432 2 |
| 1.4 | Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End) | 3:36 | The Darkness | The Xmas Pop Album | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Crimson Productions (UK budget reissue label; imprint of Crimson Productions Ltd.) | CRIMCD533 |
| 1.19 | Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End) | 3:31 | The Darkness | Now That’s What I Call Xmas | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| EMI TV, Universal Music TV (UK, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited), Virgin TV | VTDCD 1017 |
| 2.13 | Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End) | 3:34 | The Darkness | NOW Christmas 2011 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| EMI Music Denmark | EMI 7302312 |
| 1.5 | Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) | 3:35 | The Darkness | Greatest Ever! Christmas Songs - The Definitive Collection | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Union Square Music | GTSTCD 072 |
| 1.17 | Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End) | 3:29 | The Darkness | Extra Hot Cakes Yuletide Edition | The Darkness | Album |
| [PIAS] Entertainment Group, Canary Dwarf Limited | |
| 3.2 | Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) | 3:32 | The Darkness | Christmas: The Collection | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | 825646397891 |
| 1.5 | Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End) | 3:30 | The Darkness | Top 100 Xmas Songs | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | 825646003686 |
| 1.10 | Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) | 3:30 | The Darkness | Christmas: The Collection (2017 version) | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | 0190295729127 |
| 3.1 | Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) | ?:?? | The Darkness | 100 Greatest: Christmas | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | 0190295734343 |
| 1.7 | Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) | 3:30 | The Darkness | Jingle Bell Rock | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across), X5 Music Group | |
| 1.9 | Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) | 3:30 | The Darkness | 100 Greatest Christmas Songs Ever (Top Xmas Pop Hits) | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | |
| 1.12 | Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End) | 3:30 | The Darkness | 100 Greatest: Xmas (2019 edition of the Rhino 100 Greatest: Christmas series) | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | |
| 5.13 | Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) | 3:31 | The Darkness | NOW 100 Hits: Christmas (2020 version) | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Universal Music on Demand, Sony Music (global brand, excluding JP, owned by Sony Music Entertainment) | 0194398184920, CDNNNOW100 |
| 2.7 | Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) | 3:30 | The Darkness | NOW That’s What I Call Christmas | Various Artists | Album + Compilation | Now! Music | ||
| 2.7 | Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) | 3:30 | The Darkness | NOW That’s What I Call Christmas | Various Artists | Album + Compilation | EMI (EMI Records, since 1972), Sony Music (global brand, excluding JP, owned by Sony Music Entertainment) | CDNNNOW132 | |
| 2.17 | Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) | 3:31 | The Darkness | Permission to Land… Again | The Darkness | Album |
| Atlantic (Warner Music imprint) | 5054197580505, ATL725324.2 |
| 3.13 | Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) | 3:31 | The Darkness | Permission to Land… Again | The Darkness | Album |
| Atlantic (Warner Music imprint) | 5054197570216 |
| 2.17 | Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) | 3:31 | The Darkness | Permission to Land… Again | The Darkness | Album |
| Atlantic (Warner Music imprint) | 5054197711367, 5054197711367-1, 5054197711367-2 |
| 1.33 | Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) | 3:31 | The Darkness | Permission to Land… Again (20th Anniversary Edition) | The Darkness | Album |
| Rhino (reissue label) | |
| 1.17 | Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) | 3:29 | The Darkness | Hitmachine, Volume 11 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation | |||
| 1.12 | Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) | 3:32 | The Darkness | Mastermix Christmas | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Music Factory (UK promotional remix service started in 1985) | CD491 |
| Promotion | |||||||||
| 2.6 | Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) | 3:34 | The Darkness | The Sun-Herald Greatest Christmas Hits | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Mana Music Productions Pty. Ltd. | |
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| 1.11 | Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) | 3:28 | The Darkness | Permission to Land | The Darkness | Album |
| Atlantic (Warner Music imprint) | |
| 1.19 | Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) | 3:37 | The Darkness | [unknown] | Various Artists | Album + Compilation | |||
Relationships
| assistant recording engineer: | Alex Scannell |
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| producer: | Bob Ezrin |
| bass guitar [bass]: | Frankie Poullain |
| drums (drum set): | Ed Graham |
| guitar: | Dan Hawkins (member of The Darkness and Stone Gods) Justin Hawkins |
| keyboard [keyboards] and percussion: | Bob Ezrin |
| choir vocals: | The Haberdashers’ Aske’s Hatcham College Choir |
| vocals: | Justin Hawkins |
| chorus master: | John W. Skinner |
| recorded at: | Abbey Road Studios in St John's Wood |
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| mixed at: | Abbey Road Studios in St John's Wood Scream Studios in Studio City, United States |
| music videos: | Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) |
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| recording of: | Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) |
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Related works
Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End)
| writer: | Daniel Francis Hawkins (member of The Darkness and Stone Gods) Francis Gilles Poullain-Patterson Edwin James Graham Justin Hawkins |
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