Word: musically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...music is charming, heart-warming, and endearing. The main singer, who does the Snoopy parts, sounds exactly like the lead from Pure Prairie League--very clean-cut, young, rural, smalltown America. Lots of fun. Clever lyrics, like...
Inspiring. We all know Bing is dead. It's hard to listen to the music of a dead man, especially because on this album, he sounds so alive, just like he almost did when he was alive. He could be standing right next to you. Same crooning voice, sincerely telling you to "do drugs"--which you hear in the background if you play the cut "When You Trim Your Christmas Tree" super loud and with the bass turned down...
...Christmas children's music goes, this stuff is pretty funky, definitely Motown Santa. Even some semi-'50s tunes. Stevie puts his heart into these songs, singing verses like "pa-rum-pum-pum-pum, ra-pa-pa-pum" on "The Little Drummer Boy" with so much feeling that you almost think he means it. Or on the title cut, where he sings, "This is Santa's big scene. It's Christmas time in the city." Wow. Took my breath away...
...music is charming, heart-warming and endearing, carrying the album, especially when the Pope isn't singing. Grin and bear it in the Christian spirit. Appreciate it for the moments when you can hear the Pope warbling away. He has a very appealing voice...charming...he's especially hear-warming and endearing during "On a December Night." A very convincing account of the birth of Jesus...
Credit for the show's success must go not only to the actors, but to director Reiffel, who also designed the music, lighting, and sparse but functional set. Only in the first scene of "Garden" when Norman enters carrying his pajamas, does Reiffel's staging falter. As Norman slinks about and Tom stalks a lost cat, the pacing is off, and the scene drags...