The Works (Queen album) 19 November 1984, and promotional copies were indeed pressed ("QUEEN 5") and sent out (b/w "Keep Passing the Open Windows"), but the band opted for a Christmas single ("Thank God It's Christmas"). The fifth track on "The Works", "Machines (Or 'Back to Humans')", came about as an idea by Taylor, and May collaborated with him and finished it. Producer Reinhold Mack programmed the synth-"demolition" using a Fairlight CMI II Sampler, and the song is sung as a duet between a double-tracked Mercury (singing in harmony with himself), and a robotic Taylor (using a Roland VP330 Vocoder). The instrumental remix of
The Andy Williams Christmas Album 1963 (for the weeks ending November 30, 1963 through December 28, 1963), "The Andy Williams Christmas Album" was the number one selling Christmas album, while Williams' cover of "White Christmas" was the number one selling Christmas single. "The Andy Williams Christmas Album" spent three weeks as the number one selling Christmas album during the holiday season of 1964, and one week as the number one selling Christmas album during the holiday season of 1965. It charted on "Billboard"'s Christmas Albums chart at least one week for each of the years that the chart was published. In 2018, when separate Christmas