Word: song
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...look like that nun, and I guess he wasn't perfectionist enough to go on a starvation diet. The second problem is that Finney can't sing. He may sing well enough in his normal voice, but he can't even manage the Rex Harrison method of speaking a song when he puts on Scrooge's old, gruff voice...
Unfortunately, Briscusse feels obliged to make practically everyone else sing a lot. The ever so cute street urchins with the absolutely charming Cockney accents have a comic song, and Bob Cratchit sings a merry Christmas tune, and Tiny Tim gives us a wistful little solo, and Fezziwig's daughter, in Christmas past, has a beautiful love song, none of which make me want to buy the sound track. Aside from the mediocrity of the music, the problem is that Dickens is already about as full of sentimentality as a writer can be without being positively offensive, and this kind...
...occurs in the romance of the young Scrooge and Fezziwig's daughter. Dickens only gives us a scene in which a woman (not Miss Fezziwig) returns her engagement ring to Scrooge because he has a new passion, for Gain. Briscusse shows the whole courtship to the background of a song called "Happiness Is," or something like that. Pure, thick soup. The level of intelligence is nowhere near an old version of A Christmas Carol, with Alistair Sim, in which the Fezziwig episode was padded much more effectively by having Scrooge ruin Fezziwig and heartlessly take over his business...
...alma mater question. I take full responsibility for suggesting to Fenno Heath that each group sing its own. It was my opinion that until such time as women are officially admitted to Harvard College, the official song representing the institution should be sung...
...RECORD presents many subtleties of whale song, starting out on solos, moving on to duets and then a very long trio. The first side begins with a solo, which bears a strong resemblance for the first few minutes to a badly squeaking door. During the song, which the record jacket assures us has not been speeded up or slowed down, there are some long high creaks. Band two plays these calls at one-quarter speed, showing the musical subtleties of a long high creak...