Entertainment For Lively Minds
A Christmas Carol
Posted by Dave Amitri on 19 December 2009 - 12:57am.
My favourite Christmas carol opens my favourite version of my favourite story. I hope it is as evocative of Christmas's past for you as it is for me.
**EDIT I've added the other 3 parts in comments. I now feel completely ready for Christmas**
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God rest ye Sir..
..vying with Good King Wenceslas for my personal seasonal button pusher.
Just to clarify..
..that I meant button pusher in a positive sense. Not very well phrased that, (my verbal instincts being blunted by an excess of sherry and eggnog).
thanks for that
- it's my favourite version too - I'll endeavour to watch it all this weekend. Compliments of the season to you, Mr Ross.
Radio humbug
Spotify users can also enjoy versions of "A Christmas Carol" by Sir Lawrence Olivier (narrator and Scrooge), or Orson Welles (narrator), Lionel Barrymore (Scrooge) and Campbell's Soup (sponsor):
http://open.spotify.com/track/3hNaHoe1RWWLKH9fYgJ4bx
http://open.spotify.com/track/4u1T0uJyILHxjaq6dNrqba
Part 2
Part 3
4th and final part
As I remember
Isn't this the version where they have those 2 emaciated kids under the gown of The Ghost of Christmas Present? I only saw it once years ago. Scared the Bejaysus out of me. And as for The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come... This is better than "Scrooge" or any of those lame-brained efforts with that bloke off of "Star Trek" who's just been knighted. I'll warrant it's better than Jim Carey's version an' all. Like "Dracula", I'm still looking for a perfect version. Perhaps they'll never exist, nor should they, but this is damn close.