StreamingSoundtracks.com - The Muppet Christmas Carol - Paul Williams, Muppet Brass Buskers, Miles Goodman, Chris Caswell

#	Track Listing	Length	Played
01	Overture Paul Williams	2:28	68
02	Scrooge Paul Williams	2:26	136
03	Room In Your Heart Paul Williams	1:47	34
04	Good King Wenceslas Muppet Brass Buskers	1:04	90
05	One More Sleep 'Til Christmas Paul Williams	2:48	53
06	Marley And Marley Paul Williams	3:11	112
07	Christmas Past Miles Goodman	1:07	30
08	Chairman Of The Board Paul Williams	1:50	29
09	Fozziwig's Party Chris Caswell	2:20	85
10	When Love Is Gone Paul Williams	3:36	39
11	It Feels Like Christmas Paul Williams	2:40	57
12	Christmas Scat Paul Williams	0:21	40
13	Bless Us All Paul Williams	2:48	34
14	Christmas Future Miles Goodman	1:44	30
15	Christmas Morning Miles Goodman	0:55	29
16	Thankful Heart Paul Williams	2:15	45
17	Finale - When Love Is Found, It Feels Like Christmas Paul Williams	3:59	50
18	When Love Is Gone (Martina Mcbride) Paul Williams	3:45	40

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Reviewers Rating

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Muppets and A Christmas Carol, together at last!

By:	LadyInque
Date:	8 Feb 2011
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In 1992 (was it really almost 20 years ago?) the Muppets released their version of A Christmas Carol, complete with songs by Paul Williams, the author of “Rainbow Connection” and other Muppet favorites. The soundtrack album has all the tunes from the film, and a few that didn’t quite make the final cut.

This album gets requested a lot around the holidays (and the rest of the year as well) so you may have your favorite songs already identified. Frankly, I think the songs could have been so much better, which I think is a shame for a Muppet movie. “Bless us All” bores me, and while “Chairman of the Board” is kinda funny if you understand the character of Sam the Eagle, it’s not memorable. “Scrooge” and “Marley and Marley” are decent character songs. “One More Sleep Till Christmas” is okay if you can accept Steve Whitmire taking over for Jim Henson as the voice of Kermit. I prefer the “Christmas Scat” duet version of the song. “Room in Your Heart” didn’t make it into the movie, but that one I do like, especially for fans of Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker.

The score for this film was written by Miles Goodman and, as is usual with this type of film and soundtrack, is often overlooked. It’s nothing groundbreaking, but worth a listen. The overture is a pleasant instrumental collection of the songs from the film, plus some traditional carols. “Christmas Past” begins with feathery harps, S.O.P. for flashbacks and fantasy sequences. “Christmas Future” starts feathery but gets serious fast, with low strings and horns providing a suitably ominous sound. Once the nightmare is over, “Christmas Morning” gives us a bouncy instrumental treatment of Scrooge’s finale number, “With a Thankful Heart.” My favorite among the non-vocal tracks is “Good King Wenceslas.” It’s a traditional brass quartet arrangement of a traditional Christmas tune, and the kind of thing without which I feel the holiday is incomplete.

Request: “Room in Your Heart” “Christmas Scat” “Good King Wenceslas”
Avoid: “When Love is Gone,” especially the single version at the end of the album. The song is cliché, and the second version isn’t even sung by the characters.

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