CHRISTMAS IN AUGUST

Dear Readers,

RUMOR has it that Bob Dylan, well-known American folksinger, is planning to release his first Christmas CD this coming holiday season.

Dylan, best known for his 1965 novelty hit, I Like The Rolling Stones, hasn't officially disclosed the yuletide numbers he plans to record, but a Tea With S.B. top- secret source has forwarded to us a partial list of the songs being considered for recording. They include:

Tangled Up In Blue Wrapping Paper

Snowy Day Women # 12 & # 35

Hey, Mr. Tangerine Man

Girl From The North Pole

All I Really Want To Do For Christmas

It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A New Train Set To Cry

Bob Dylan's 115th Present

From: A Buick 6, To: Aunt Sadie, Merry Christmas

Thanks For The Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat

One More Cup Of Egg Nog

The band being assembled for the project is said to include Jack White, Ravi Shankar, Yahoo Serious, That one-armed drummer guy from Def Leppard, Yoko Ono and Conductor Zubin Mehta. The site of the recording is supposed to be secret, but we found that out too - Soldier Field, Chicago.

Oh, and by the way, Happy Birthday to our Nation's 36th President, Lyndon 'Brains' Johnson who would have been 101 years young today - had he not fallen over dead in 1973.