Screenwriter and songwriter Leslie Bricusse's 1970 movie {#Scrooge}, a musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' {-A Christmas Carol}, was not particularly well received at the time of its release, but, like many holiday entertainments, managed to maintain perennial interest, and more than two decades later, Bricusse further adapted it to the stage, writing an additional handful of songs in the process. As such, the theater version of {+Scrooge} is a more formidable musical work, and, in its initial ...   [ read more ]

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Somehow, in the flurry of recordings that the Beach Boys made during the mid-'60s, the band found time to issue an entire album of Christmas songs, nearly half of them originals written by Brian Wilson. Released in October of 1964, The Beach Boys' Christmas Album remains one of the few holiday recordings that merits serious discussion as an album of new work, even warranting an expanded reissue with bonus cuts in 1991. However, that original work is beyond the scope of this review. {^Merry C...   [ read more ]

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