The Alcoa Singers - An Old-Fashioned Christmas
Are you a fan of Schoolhouse Rock ? Do you find yourself humming its catchy song " Conjunction Junction "? You probably will after reading this next yuleblog entry. The album you see to the right was released in 1979 by the Alcoa Singers in conjunction with the rebroadcast of the 1978 Rankin-Bass animated TV special " The Stingiest Man In Town " - a musical based on Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" written by Fred Spielman and Janice Torre. The album features selections from the animated TV special that were originally sung by the likes of Dennis Day, Tom Bosley, Robert Morse, and (in the title role of Scrooge) Walter Matthau. More on the Alcoa Singers and their album later. This wasn't the first time these songs were sung on television. When I found this album by The Alcoa Singers, immediately behind it was an album that conjuncts (if such a word exists) with everything described so far! The second album I found was the ORIGINAL soundtrack