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A Christmas Carol - Franz Waxman
It's A Wonderful Life - Dimitri Tiomkin
Home Alone - John Williams
The Nutcracker - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Not including any songs here, because then we would have a lot more: "Holiday Inn" with the most successful pop song of all times (at least until now), "Meet Me In St. Louis",...
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Santa Claus the Movie
Prancer
Christmas With A Capital C
Gremlins
The Homecoming (The Walton’s)
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There is a very sharp Canadian thriller from the late 70s called The Silent Partner, set during the Christmas season. The score by Oscar Peterson is pretty good, but it's a good thing he didn't quit his day job.
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#05. Scrooged - Dan(ny) Elfman;
04. Gorky Park - James Horner (not Christmas inspired, but I absolutely love to listen to this score during the first snows of December);
03. Home Alone- John Williams;
02. Batman Returns - Danny Elfman;
01. Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer (M) - Maury Laws/Johnny Marks;
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The Little Drummer Boy (Maury Laws)
Rudolph (Johnny Marks/Laws)
It's a Wonderful Life (Tiomkin)
White Christmas & Holiday Inn (Berlin)
The Stingiest Man in Town (Fred Spielman)
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I think I'm filling my whole list with Polar Express.
Honorable mention to Home Alone.
YES Die Hard is a Christmas Movie.
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Dec 9, 2019 - 11:01 AM
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filmusicnow
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Mine are:
#05. Fitzwilly - John(ny) Williams
FITZWILLY? Never thought of that as a Christmas score, but it's been ages since I saw the film, so it might have some of those elements.
If I were to name five, I'd pick maybe:
John Williams: HOME ALONE 1 & 2 (I count these as one)
Danny Elfman: THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS
Alan Silvestri: THE POLAR EXPRESS & A CHRISTMAS CAROL (I count these as the same side of a coin too)
Howard Blake: THE SNOWMAN
Franz Waxman: A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Honourable mentions to FAMILY MAN (Elfman), JUL I FLÅKLYPA (Haugen), SCROOGED (Elfman), MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET (Broughton), THE LION IN WINTER (Barry)
Then there are those scores with a "Christmassy" vibe that aren't necessarily Christmas scores, like EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, HARRY POTTER, GREMLINS, old Disney scores etc. Didn't include those in the evaluation.
The Gimbel's robbery that takes place in the film's climax is on Christmas Day, thus qualifying it as a Christmas film. "Fitzwilly" was my first exposure to John(ny) Williams via the rerecording of "Fitzwilly (Make Me Rainbows)" on the "Ten Golden Years" 2 L.P. set (I would get both the Varese Sarabande Club edition C.D. and the Archival Edition C.D. from Music Box). And yes, I did see the feature film. Happy Holidays!!!
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service/John Barry
Santa Clause The Movie/Henry Mancini
The Homecoming-The Walton's/Jerry Goldsmith
Donovan's Reef/Cyril J. Mockridge
Home Alone 2/John Williams
and...
Prancer/Maurice Jarre
That's six, what the heck it's Christmas after all!
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