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I know, I know, it's the upcoming Holiday Season and yet another plea for a label to release the first ever cd version of Leslie Bricusse and Ian Fraser's score to the 1970 film of 'SCROOGE'. Is it too late for this year? Thank You Very Much, Thank You Very Much,That's The Nicest Thing That Anyone's Ever Done For Me...
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SCROOGE! is playing on the big screen here in Minneapolis at the Heights Theatre, on 2 DEC 07.
I am SO there!
(Also, I actually had the title role in this musical, once upon a time...one of my most treasured memories, actually.)
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It's also playing in Los Angeles at the Aero on Dec 10th - I think it's the 10th
This year it's December 20th at the Egyptian in Hollywood.
Mr. Bricusse and Mr. Fraser both want to have the score released and we've discussed it many times, but the Columbia album combined with the movie now being controlled by Paramount make for a lot of red tape. The existence of original tracks is also a question mark at the moment. Keep it on your Christmas lists each year and we'll see what happens.
Mike
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I HAVE to watch this around Christmas time, it is in my top 3 of all time favorite Christmas films. The score and songs are just perfect in every sense!!
A CD release of this would be a damn dream!
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If you subscribe to HDNet you can look forward to a high definition broadcast of a lovely widescreen print as per the following schedule. I know it will stay on my DVR at least until Feb/Mar!:
Scrooge - Closed Captions
Rating: NR
Year: 1970
Cast: Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans
Director: Ronald Neame
Synopsis: Musical adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens'A Christmas Carol.
Run Time: 1:52
Air Dates: Mon, Dec 1st - 12:20 AM ET / Sun, Nov 30th - 9:20 PM PT
Sun, Dec 21st - 7:45 PM ET / 4:45 PM PT
Sun, Dec 21st - 11:35 PM ET / 8:35 PM PT
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I'd love to see a CD release of this one too. I hope it comes up on TCM Europe over the festive period.
Niall.
NP Adeste Fideles Cond. by Marco Frisina from Laudate Dominum.
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I'd love to have a CD of this!
I've tried several CD-R transfers of this album, both from LP and from reel-to-reel tape, and there seems to be a major problem with Kenneth More's vocals and the major portion of Finney's. They sound very, very muddy and, in a number of sections, very hard to understand. This may be a fault of the original recording, the album re-mixing, or over-zealously applied reverb---or it may just be that these two original mediums didn't reproduce the original tracks well.
If it IS reissued, someone needs to look into these album tracks carefully and see if they can be made to sound better. (The orchestra is glorious.)
We once had a lengthy thread about this score here some years ago.
Thor, where are you ?!
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This is my favorite Christmas movie by far. I saw it once on TV maybe 15 years ago and loved it, but didn't pick up the DVD until fairly recently. I've got very few complaints about the film, and so much of the music is marvelous. The sound mix on the DVD is great and very directional. Directional dialog is rare these days and makes me wonder if it's a port of the 70mm 6-track? The film credits CTS London so I guess that's why the orchestra sounds so brilliant. Who was the engineer, I wonder?
I agree the vocals could sound better, and they sound downright bad in the first rendition of "Thank You Very Much" where Finney and More have this awkward reverb added. Is there a chance they were EQed or something to make them sound a bit less jarring compared to dialog in the film?
Anyhow, I'd buy a soundtrack CD in an instant. I might make my own in the meantime.
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