Santa Claus is coming to Town picture sleeve

Donn

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Does anyone know why there are two different picture sleeves for this 1974 Christmas single? Were they issued at the same time?
 
I just looked at both of mine. Each one has Printed in the USA on the lower right corner.
 
The “US” sleeve with Santa on it was also issued in the UK as I have a UK 45 (doesn’t say anywhere where the 45 or sleeve were printed, but the 45 has the UK music publishers for both songs on the label rather than the American publishers. Also the Center hole is the 33 center hole rather than the American 45 center hole.). The sleeve is also very matte, and printed on what seems to be a heavy acid-free paper—-I haven’t seen the American version, but considering their other American singles had glossy, heavy magazine pulp style paper, the UK cover is quite different.
 
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