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Piano Accompaniment (Other Songs): Merle Sharff. Columbia Records CL-950 (12” 33 1/3 RPM / Mono) Humbug's song "Birthday Party of the King". “Stingiest Man” Songs: “Holly Ho! A Christmas Carol: The Musical starring Kelsey Grammer as Scrooge. I didn’t realize that there was the original live action version that came out in 1956 until I was listening to West Covina’s radio station KGRB/KBOB back in the early 1980’s during their annual Christmas season broadcast called “The Sounds of Christmas” and during the broadcast they would play the entire soundtrack of the 1956 version of The Stingest Man on Earth as a Christmas treat for their loyal listeners. That was based on a Broadway musical, which was based on a record (was it ever performed live?) Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2020, Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2008. This album was reissued on vinyl in 1974 (and also used for radio broadcast) with added narration by John Carradine, but the songs were cut, major musical sections were omitted and the sound was manipulated to “simulate” stereo.

Music Supervision (“Stingiest Man”): Maury Laws. Mr Scrooge (broadcasted on CBC in Canada).

Running Time: 51 minutes.

As noted in the article, it was expanded into a stage version and performed by local theater groups. Janice Tore wrote the lyrics, which is unusual, Jules Bass wrote the lyrics for most of the Rankin/Bass specials. I would purchase from this vendor again. AN OLD-FASHIONED CHRISTMAS MY CHILDREN LOVED IT AND NOW I AM PASSING IT ON TO MY GREAT NIECES AND NEPHEWS. GIVE A LITTLE LISTEN Please try again. It wasn’t until The Stingiest Man in Town was presented live on The Alcoa Hour that A Christmas Carol was given the full-blown Broadway “book musical” treatment, in the style of Rodgers and Hammerstein or Lerner and Loewe. TV Broadcast Director: Dan Petrie. Selections from The Stingiest Man in Town & Other Favorites The vocies, the songs, the music, LOVE THEM ALL!!! But since the cartoonists downplayed the scariness of the ghosts and the cute songs just slow the action, the cartoon's intended youthful audience may be end up feeling a bit restless. “An Old-Fashioned Christmas”. Speaking of radio, Basil Rathbone played Scrooge in an episode of CBS Radio’s Stars Over Hollywood that Columbia adapted into a 78 RPM album, later reissued on LP. Directed by Daniel Petrie. I was aware of the TV version, having spotted a captioned photo of Basil Rathbone as Scrooge in a book about early television. Selections from “The Stingiest Man in Town”. Sorry in case anyone got my “who narrated” goof.:-). It wasn’t until The Stingiest Man in Town was presented live on The Alcoa Hour that A Christmas Carol was given the full-blown Broadway “book musical” treatment, in the style of Rodgers and Hammerstein or Lerner and Loewe. Remove all; Disconnect; The next video is starting stop. which was based on books of collected newspaper columns by Don Marquis. Dedicated To Classic Cartoons: Past, Present & Future, Spumco’s “Son Of Stimpy” (1993) – aka Stimpy’s First Fart, https://www.amazon.com/Shinbone-Alley-Broadway-Cast-Eartha/dp/B000050SYD/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1482252037&sr=8-1&keywords=shinbone+alley+cd. This is my most favorite Christmas story ever. Visit gregehrbar.com for more. The 1956 production was a 90-minute telecast, so the songs are generally longer than they are in the 60-minute Rankin/Bass version–so much so that the 1956 cast album is roughly the same length as the entire 1978 animated special! TV Cast from “The Alcoa Hour” (A Christmas Carol),” “Humbug,” “The Stingiest Man in Town,” “Yes, There is a Santa Claus,” “The Christmas Spirit,” “An Old-Fashioned Christmas,” “The Birthday Party of the King,” “Holly Ho! The Original Christmas Classics Collection (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer / Santa ... Veggietales (The Little Drummer Boy / The Star of Christmas / Its a meaningful life... Super Why 4 Pack: Humpty Dumpty / Hansel and Gretel / Jack and the Beanstalk /Twas'... To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. A favorite part is B.A.H. Humbugs! Guitar Accompaniment (Other Songs): Lorenzo Rodriguez. This cartoon version of A Christmas Carol hails from the production house of Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass--the team that brought you just about every other Christmas special you saw as a kid (including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer). I was only disappointed a bit in the condition of the VHS carton, which was taped on one side and had some frayed edges...not quite the "like new" condition that had been indicated.

While this is mostly the Scrooge story that we all know so well, there are some nice ideas thrown in to make it stand out and work well in it's musical format. I better correct myself on the narrator celebrity issues before anyone else corrects my post..Walter Matthau was SCROOGE…NOT the narrator as I wrongly mentioned, but Tom Bosley WAS the (still, as I cited), onscreen narrator, Humbug! With The Alcoa Singers I looked forever for this movie and finally found here. Running Time: 44 minutes. Please try again. Vocal Arrangements (Other Songs): Eleanor Glockner, Clark Glassman, Hawley Ades, John Cacavas. Greg has worked on content for such studios as Disney, Warner and Universal, with some of Hollywood’s biggest stars. In the style of stage musicals like Oklahoma! Additional VHS Tape, Animated, Color, HiFi Sound options. Love it and my kids love it. Listen for the powerful opening, soaring strings and distinctive brass punctuations in this arrangement, so reminiscent of the musical “house style” that Maury Laws created for Rankin/Bass specials, series and movies. Songs: “A Christmas Carol,” “An Old-Fashioned Christmas,” “Humbug,” “The Stingiest Man in Town,” “I Wear a Chain,” “Golden Dreams,” “It Might Have Been,” “The Christmas Spirit,” “Yes, There is a Santa Claus,” “One Little Boy,” “The Birthday Party of the King,” “Mankind Should Be My Business” by Fred Spielman, Janice Torre. Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2013. Find release information for The Stingiest Man in Town (1978) - Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. on AllMovie https://www.amazon.com/Shinbone-Alley-Broadway-Cast-Eartha/dp/B000050SYD/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1482252037&sr=8-1&keywords=shinbone+alley+cd, Besides The Stingiest Man in Town there were other musical versions (both live action and animated) that were based on A Christmas Carol that I’ve seen …, Mr Magoo’s Christmas Carol (featuring Gerald McBoingBoing in a rare speaking role), Scrooge (1970) starring Albert Finney, Alec Guinness and Dame Edith Evens, The Muppet Christmas Carol with Michael Caine as Scrooge. And I also had no significant knowledge, either of the original, as I was born in 1960 and only the R-B version was run in my lifetime. Aluminum Company of America (Manufactured by Columbia Records) 44-4184-J (12” 33 1/3 RPM / Stereo). CD Reissue: Jasmine Records JASMCD-2607 (2006).

Features the voices of Walter Matthau, Tom Bosley, Theodore Bikel, Robert Morse and Dennis Day. Unable to add item to List.

In many ways, the album is “tighter” and smoother because it had the luxury of editing, which was not possible on the live shows (this is true even today, when comparing some performances on live network musical broadcasts to those on their pre-recorded, easily edited cast albums). I don’t know when it first became available, but a children’s theater group I worked with did it in the late 70s. Performers: Basil Rathbone (Scrooge); Vic Damone (Young Scrooge); Johnny Desmond (Nephew Fred); Patrice Munsel (Belle); Robert Weede (Marley’s Ghost); Betty Madigan (Martha Cratchit); Martyn Green (Bob Cratchit); Robert Wright (Christmas Present); Jack Bittner (Christmas Past); Philippa Bevans (Mrs. Dilber). As her son Christopher Torre Perky writes in the excellent DVD release of the live show from Video Artists International (VAI): “My mother, who had written the lyrics to the song “Merry Christmas” for Judy Garland for the film In the Good Old Summertime, thought the Dickens classic A Christmas Carol would lend itself well to being retold in musical form…but after writing the first version of The Stingiest Man in Town, she came to believe that there was little or no market for such a grand production…it wasn’t until 1954 that the success of television inspired her to pull it back off the shelf.”. How the hell did this fly under my radar? TV Producers: Arthur Rankin, Jr., Jules Bass. Other Songs: “Let There Be Peace On Earth” by Sy Miller, Jill Jackson; “The Little Drummer Boy” by Katherine Davis, Henry Onorati, Harry Simeone; Public Domain Songs: “O Holy Night” by Adolphe Adam; “Go Tell It On the Mountain,” “Here We Come A-Wassailing,” “Lullay, Thou Tiny Child,” “Fum, Fum, Fum,” “Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming,” “Jingle Bells,” “God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen,” “Sunshine Christmas (Medley).”. Alcoa sponsored the 1978 version, just as they did in 1956. I especially enjoy Tom Beasley as 'voice' for "B.A.H. The only difference between both the live action and the animated version was that the original version had the singing group The Four Lads as the quartet of carolers singing about the plot while singing “Holly ho, holly ho ho ho.” While the late Tom Bodley (Harry Boyle in Wait Till Your Father Comes Home) as H.U.M.. bug the storyteller. But Scrooge only began singing his own show tunes in the baby boomer era, when most of network TV was live. Released in 1956. Orchestral Arrangements (“Stingiest Man”): Bernard Hoffer. Arrangements: Ray Ellis, Maury Laws. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in.

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