My favorite animated Christmas movie as a child. When I discovered the DVD many years ago, I bought them for my sister and brother who loved this film as well. This song is incredibly beautiful and makes me very sad. I kept hoping that Scrooge and Belle would eventually get together at the end of the movie.
I am a drummer/bandleader/announcer/broadcaster. As great as the "Rudolph" special was from 1964 (I even had composer Johnny Marks on my radio show talking with me about those songs); Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol was the one that really touched me like no other. I was 9 years old when it came out, and I was so mesmerized and charmed by it. The music and production of this "cartoon" were given the same kind of energy, effort, and delicate care that they would give to create a Broadway musical...not just a cartoon!!! I loved each of the songs in its own way, but this one (and Alone in the World), still gives me a lump in my throat. It is so wonderful hearing this full version by Jane Kean. Thank you. This song, to me, is a poignant, haunting musical "oil painting."
I, too, cannot express the wonder I feel in hearing this extended version. I understand there was a repertory cast that performed MMCC for an invited audience. This song, particularly as it is sung by ‘Trixie Norton’aka Jane Kean is as perfect as it could ever be. Thank you for sharing this with the world.
I watched this again tonight for maybe the 40th time. The strange Mr Magoo special is spectacular and sadly forgotten. This song doesn't fit the rest of the show, but is incredibly moving. This song and "All Alone in the World" are truly heart-wrenching.
not sure if you meant movie or show but it most certainly does fit the movie not sure where you would have gotten that connotation from but i am happy you even remember this movie it is so underrated and one of my favorite christmas carol adaptations ever it conveys so much emotion and is powerful and charming ☺! i agree alone in the world is my favorite
I think this song does fit in the show as it shows both the change and what Scrooge lost. I think what feels off is that it can get away with complicated singing as it doesn't have to fit Mr. Magoo's voice limits. ("We're Despicable" doesn't have him either, but that song is comic relief.)
What a lovely song.....to hear it without dialogue and fully complete moved me to tears right now. It brought me back to the first time I saw it on it's inaugural broadcast on NBC. Mom let all of us kids stay up to see it. And now, it is more precious to me as I let a lady love slip thorough my own fingers the same way Scrooge Magoo did.
I watched it at the age of ten when it first aired. I still watch it every Christmas and the music is certainly the thing that brings me back every time.
What makes this song 100x sadder is that losing Belle is what extinguished the little ember Scrooge had in his heart at that point in his life and caused it to completely freeze over.
@@caroldefender4144Scrooge was largely indifferent to Marley's death. But out of all the past events he relived, it was the episodes with Belle that caused hin to completely freak out.
One of the most heartbreaking songs ever written. It's beautiful in execution, but it's incredibly upsetting in tone. That's what was so powerful about the scene between Scrooge-Magoo and Belle. His younger self refused to put her over money and wealth, when he should have put her above EVERYTHING. Belle was the best thing in his life, a good woman, and he threw her away. I would want to beat the shit out of my younger self for making such a huge mistake. Unfortunately, we cannot change the past. That's why the ending of Christmas Carol is uplifting, no matter the version you watch. You live and learn, change for the better. It's never too late for you. For this, Scrooge found love in Bob's family. "Winter Was Warm" was Scrooge's lowest point, but it was necessary for his evolution and redemption in the final act.
It come as no surprise Jule Styne could write a song like this, the only thing that's surprising is that the producers of the Mr. Magoo Christmas Carol signed him to write a score, it's unusual considering no other widely known popular composer wrote music in those days for animated show except the Disney Company. I've always loved the Magoo Christmas Carol.
Well, yes, at least it WOULD, if they'd allow You to see the show as it was originally televised. Another case if money over tradition, in my case, at least!
I was unaware of this full version. Thank you for posting it. I have been somewhat obsessed with this song for several years. I have, so far, never heard it done better than Jane Kean did it. Judy Garland never recorded it. She could have done a great version. Sad that it was never done.
All the comments here capture the timeless nature of this song which so resonates since 2020. The loss of love and loss of loved ones is profound as Dickens knew and as this lovely classic conveys. Snow melts and is gone. Heartbreak leaves a scar. And how alone everyone in the world has felt at some point since 2020. So cherish this song and show’s score!
Winter was warm, summer soft that year The winter was warm without a sign of frost Like winter lost its way that year It seems as I recall No blossoms fell that fall May didn't leave at all Or did love paint an illusion? Now trees with a sigh stand and shiver While their dreams fall and die, and all my dreams are there Wrapped up somewhere in summer leaves Oh, what I'd give to be To be in love again This year the winter is cold Will it ever be warm as it was then?
Singing it, you can take the breath / pause ...GIVE TO BE IN LOVE AGAIN THIS YEAR / THE WINTER... or LOVE AGAIN / THIS YEAR. I preferred the former, though probably not what Merrill intended.
As a fanatical consumer of TV and film, I had LONG believed the music and lyrics of this show was TOP Notch. Although I am Not sufficently knowledgeable of music composition to tell you why it's great, or how it was made that way. I am Not a big consumer of Broadway shows. But, somewhere along the way, I saw these names Styne & Merrill. Which I immediately recognized and recalled from the credits of Mr. Magoo. (Yes, I AM one of the ONLY 17 people on earth who read film credits.) Then, upon researching this pair, I discovered that my "taste" and intuition was right. They were, at the time, among THE Leading Broadway show tune smiths. It was gratifying to have 3rd party proof of what I had suspected for decades ... that the producers of this gem pulled out all the stops. To make it as brilliant as possible. Since it really was a risky "experiment". The FIRST Ever made-for-TV Christmas Special. No one really knew, for sure, what to expect. Would the viewing public like it? So they had to go all out. And they certainly pulled off a GREAT Achievement. Something which has entered, indelibly, into our American culture and psyche. As attested by the various comments submitted. My I add that Jack Cassidy played the voice of Bob Cratchit. Both speaking and singing. Look at the visual character of Cratchet. He even Looks like Cassidy. He actually was a Broadway star (singer). Who made the transition to TV. (EX: in Columbo and Night Gallery). Tragically, he died in a fire, caused by Christmas Tree lights.
The tune sounds very much like it might have been composed with Garland in mind. She had already voiced a role in UPA's animated feature Gay Purr-ee (1962). Kean does a fantastic job with it--such a memorable song.
I suggested to the Saperstein family (which still owns the UPA catalog) some years back that they might commission a stage version of Magoo's Christmas Carol, but they were not interested. Magoo had made them affluent, but I think they were tired of him. Hank Saperstein was dead. Had he still been with us, I think this would have made it to the stage at last. As one colleague said of Hank at his funeral "I respected your Dad so much--he really knew how to milk a property..." Composer Julie Stein was at his peak during this time and delivered a score fit for the Broadway stage. Even the structure of this sixty-minute musical is much like a Broadway play--with the Cratchit family front and center as the chorus. This is why the Ghost of Christmas Present arrives first in this version--so the audience gets to know the Cratchits sooner and we have Jack Cassidy's show stopping Brightest Christmas song to cheer the audience right away. Cassidy, often dismissed as a lightweight and ham, steals the show immediately and is in fine voice. Dickens original novella starts out a bt grim, then gets sadder and more grim and only becomes upbeat after Scrooge's conversion. A theater audience couldn't bear to see the misery of the entire brilliant original brought to life. I am still terrified by the excellent British version (starring Alister Sim) when it plays during the holidays. It terrifies and brings a few tears, but it remains the definitive film version. And it's funny too. I have noticed a little touring stage production of Magoo's Christmas in California over the last few Yuletides--I doubt if such a small scale production bothered obtaining the rights to the original script or songs.
The British version is by far my favorite and I watch it every year, but mainly as someone who also loves the book, because Alistar Sim plays the part perfectly. Not just cold but vulnerable. The screenplay takes many bothersome liberties, Scrooge buy-out of Fezzwig, Fanns' death and Alice(belle) becoming an old maid to name a few. But to me Sim is Scrooge. Merry Christmas
A thought about the songs and their text: the character "Belle" in the _Christmas Carol_ book is believed to be named after Charles Dickens' lost love Maria Beadnell Winter, which might have inspired "Winter Was Warm". The section about Belle's married life, not found in the abridged edition, is where she is named at all, and also where her husband describes Scrooge, near the end of Marley's life, as "quite alone in the world, I daresay".
I just figured out that the song is in Eb. Such an unusual key - I wonder if this part of what makes it so engaging. In this extended version it modulates to E. I wonder if they dropped that part because it lessens the impact.
I always thought, before Internet, that Judy Garland did sing this song and was uncredited (the cartoon production company is the same that did Judy's Gay Purree cartoon), because Kean in her lower voice did bear a strong resemblance. Listening to this, it's clear it is Jane Kean and she is very good. I don't consider it loose but "subtle" and the best rendition. Sadly, your studio original master is not available as a CD and of course the DVD is shorter but at least it's available. Actually, too bad Jim Bailey never did perform this (as Judy Garland.) No one writes music like this any longer.
Why is it that Belle's song is always getting cut out? This and Belle's Song in the Muppet Christmas Carol. You need these songs to show the love she had for him and what he lost.
@@huckxblueberryfan This was cut out on TV. Most of Mr Magoo's Christmas Carol was cut out for time to make room for commercial. Atleast when I was growing up. Like that whole opening with him in the city.
Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol was a yearly tradition that was shown every year. I was sad when T.V. became so political .. just like so many things I guess ⏺️❗️🎄
EDIT 2021: I just got a full copy of this version of the soundtrack-- e-mail me at legotronn2 at gmail if anyone's interested. Wait, so-- were you lucky enough to snag the digital album before it got taken down? Is there any place you know where it could still be found? It seems like the company that was selling it has dissolved, and the audio on the actual Blu-Ray is so muted that it just doesn't do the recording justice... At any rate, thank you SO much for what you've shared here-- this is a serious miracle. : D If there's any chance of the rest of the album being shared now that it's not being sold, it'd be much, much appreciated.
"Belle, Belle, please don't go! Wait!" But it's in the immutable past. Can't blame Scrooge too much, as I'd like to change the outcome of a few things in the past. Wouldn't you?
Just watched the current Magoo's Christmas Carol. They cut this song. So disappointed. It was the most beautiful song of the production. Bah humbug to whoever butchered this wonderful movie.
@@mandelabutterfly9162 I remember the original version with the backstage comedy. Wish I could get my hands on a copy of that version. I have seen other abbreviated versions, but this is the first one that I noticed Winger was Warm was deleted. Magoo's Christmas Carol WAS a musical, and they had some good, original songs it it. But Winter was Warm was far and away the best song in the movie.
In the version I recorded off the air, all the songs were abridged, this one among them. I'd have been really annoyed to find this song missing entirely. BTW, Belle referred to a sleighride, but how can you go on one of those in a Winter lacking snow?
For a brief time the soundtrack was available to buy as digital files, and I found it on a site that apparently forgot to remove it as as soon as I posted about it on Facebook, it was removed. I've sung "Winter" a few times, always loved it, and got the sheet music from the Styne Office (who were thrilled anyone knew of it) which had the complete version before I had ever heard it. Still ridiculous that there hasn't been an issue of the complete score with the demos, must be some legal nonsense involved of some kind.
That digital soundtrack wasn't complete either, I dubbed the Overture off the bonus doc on the DVD, and the chorus is somehow left off of the closing number leaving Backus's voice in particular exposed. Douglas Sills did a concert version, there's a sampler video on TH-cam - I would love to hear the whole thing, with Magoo's songs really sung.
All the comments here capture the timeless nature of this song which so resonates since 2020. The loss of love and loss of loved ones is profound as Dickens knew and as this lovely classic conveys. Snow melts and is gone. Heartbreak leaves a scar. And how alone everyone in the world has felt at some point since 2020. So cherish this song and show’s score!
It's 60 years since I first heard this beautiful song and it still never fails to make me cry....
For me as a kid, Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol was the greatest thing about Christmas. I own a DVD copy and have always loved it, especially this song.
THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS FROM MY YOUTH. IT STILL MAKES ME CRY.
The most recent issues on DVD and BR have wonderful extras, including music NOT issued on that briefly available soundtrack LP.
Totally agree with you!
My favorite animated Christmas movie as a child. When I discovered the DVD many years ago, I bought them for my sister and brother who loved this film as well. This song is incredibly beautiful and makes me very sad. I kept hoping that Scrooge and Belle would eventually get together at the end of the movie.
Beautiful voice...Beautiful song...don't make em like that anymore
As a child, I had no appreciation for this scene and song.
As a man, this is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.
SAME HERE!!!!!
Me too! Now it's one of my favorite scenes and songs.
Me too. It has memorable but unexpected chord changes and Kean was a perfect singer.
Fact
Simply one of the most beautiful and deeply moving songs I have ever heard.
I am a drummer/bandleader/announcer/broadcaster. As great as the "Rudolph" special was from 1964 (I even had composer Johnny Marks on my radio show talking with me about those songs); Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol was the one that really touched me like no other. I was 9 years old when it came out, and I was so mesmerized and charmed by it. The music and production of this "cartoon" were given the same kind of energy, effort, and delicate care that they would give to create a Broadway musical...not just a cartoon!!! I loved each of the songs in its own way, but this one (and Alone in the World), still gives me a lump in my throat. It is so wonderful hearing this full version by Jane Kean. Thank you. This song, to me, is a poignant, haunting musical "oil painting."
@@MyDsmall Great to know. Yes, let's hope so. Thank you very much for your wonderful comment here. 😃
Good stuff, Joe❤ This song gets me, every time & yet as much as it hurts 💔 this soothes.💐🍀
I, too, cannot express the wonder I feel in hearing this extended version. I understand there was a repertory cast that performed MMCC for an invited audience. This song, particularly as it is sung by ‘Trixie Norton’aka Jane Kean is as perfect as it could ever be. Thank you for sharing this with the world.
The pure emotion in her voice tugs at my heart.Makes me cry 😢
The change at "Oh what I'd give to be . . . to be in love again" is so moving.
This is the winter song I listen to when I need a good cry.
I watched this again tonight for maybe the 40th time. The strange Mr Magoo special is spectacular and sadly forgotten. This song doesn't fit the rest of the show, but is incredibly moving. This song and "All Alone in the World" are truly heart-wrenching.
That middle act was heartbreaking, all the way through to the refrain at his gravesite.
not sure if you meant movie or show but it most certainly does fit the movie not sure where you would have gotten that connotation from but i am happy you even remember this movie it is so underrated and one of my favorite christmas carol adaptations ever it conveys so much emotion and is powerful and charming ☺! i agree alone in the world is my favorite
I think this song does fit in the show as it shows both the change and what Scrooge lost. I think what feels off is that it can get away with complicated singing as it doesn't have to fit Mr. Magoo's voice limits. ("We're Despicable" doesn't have him either, but that song is comic relief.)
Simply put:
This is the most beautifully written and sung song about loss of a love.
What a lovely song.....to hear it without dialogue and fully complete moved me to tears right now. It brought me back to the first time I saw it on it's inaugural broadcast on NBC. Mom let all of us kids stay up to see it. And now, it is more precious to me as I let a lady love slip thorough my own fingers the same way Scrooge Magoo did.
A spectacular beautiful song worthy of a Broadway play
I LOVED this song, as a wide-eyed 10-year-old, when watching this holiday classic, in 1965. I've grown to love it even more now, in 2020 ESPECIALLY. ♥
Why would Judy Garland have needed to record it? Jane already knocked it out of the park, imo.
Judy would have brought a little more edge to this song as she was all about pain and suffering.
She is perfectly suited to pull every tear out of your heartbreak.
Jule Styne's music for this show was really some of the best ever.
I watched it at the age of ten when it first aired. I still watch it every Christmas and the music is certainly the thing that brings me back every time.
Overstates the case considerably. Loved the song, though
Well, I never thought I’d say this about a Mr. Magoo cartoon, but HOLY SHIT!
oh that violin solo ... breathtaking
It's too bad that some versions cut this song out. It adds to the backstory so much. As a little kid, I understood this perfectly.
It's the heart of the show. And in the original they cut the song in half.
According to Dicken's little book, Belle met another man, married, & had a large, happy family.🫂👨👩👧👦
Oh Magoo...you’ve done it again!
Lovely, lovely song. and beautifully sung by Jane Kean.
My favorite whimsical and sentimental Christmas cartoon musical since childhood. Beautiful score.
Beautiful voice work
What makes this song 100x sadder is that losing Belle is what extinguished the little ember Scrooge had in his heart at that point in his life and caused it to completely freeze over.
Marley's death: Am I a joke to you?
@@caroldefender4144Scrooge was largely indifferent to Marley's death. But out of all the past events he relived, it was the episodes with Belle that caused hin to completely freak out.
One of Styne's loveliest.
It's right up there with People from Funny Girl. He was a master.
This Sunday - Dec 18, 2022 - is 60 years since the first broadcast of the show! If you haven't got it available, TH-cam has it to rent or purchase.
One of the most heartbreaking songs ever written. It's beautiful in execution, but it's incredibly upsetting in tone. That's what was so powerful about the scene between Scrooge-Magoo and Belle. His younger self refused to put her over money and wealth, when he should have put her above EVERYTHING. Belle was the best thing in his life, a good woman, and he threw her away. I would want to beat the shit out of my younger self for making such a huge mistake. Unfortunately, we cannot change the past.
That's why the ending of Christmas Carol is uplifting, no matter the version you watch. You live and learn, change for the better. It's never too late for you. For this, Scrooge found love in Bob's family. "Winter Was Warm" was Scrooge's lowest point, but it was necessary for his evolution and redemption in the final act.
Luu Sapphire the artwork was outstanding.
I'm crying at your eloquent moving comment. Perhaps many,of us have made a love mistake like Scrooge. We lost our Belles. The song resonates.
Beautiful beautiful words... we aren't beyond redemption if we try and make right choices...
One song I wish I had written....
@@windstorm1000 Thank you, and as we approach Christmas again, it's time to rewatch this masterpiece again. To always hold it's message in our hearts.
Crying. Beautiful.
This song just breaks my heart
Mine too
It come as no surprise Jule Styne could write a song like this, the only thing that's surprising is that the producers of the Mr. Magoo Christmas Carol signed him to write a score, it's unusual considering no other widely known popular composer wrote music in those days for animated show except the Disney Company. I've always loved the Magoo Christmas Carol.
For the longest time, I thought this was Judy Garland.
It would have been ideal for her, and Dolores Gray. But Jane is lovely.
So haunting, so perfect. Love this full version!
Still makes the tears fall like rain even all these years.
I agree 🙏🙏❤️
Well, yes, at least it WOULD, if they'd allow You to see the show as it was originally televised. Another case if money over tradition, in my case, at least!
Was my favorite part of Magoo's Christmas Carol💞
Yup well said!😭😭😭
@@petergant8767 you said it, brother
What a beautiful song.
Beautiful! Makes me cry every time.
Me too! 😭😭😭😭
This song is touching, as is the song when Scrooge meets himself as a young boy
I was unaware of this full version. Thank you for posting it. I have been somewhat obsessed with this song for several years. I have, so far, never heard it done better than Jane Kean did it. Judy Garland never recorded it. She could have done a great version. Sad that it was never done.
I think Felicia Sanders and Frances Langford could have done it justice too.
Actually Jane Kean is doing Jim Bailey doing Judy Garland.
Heard this song on NPR for a bit on this movie and I was sure this was Judy Garland. Well done.
One of my fav songs from the movie...there were a lot of good ones weren't there?
I'm All Alone In The World still makes me cry.
We're Despicable is another favorite. It's funny, and yet it's creepy!
I Love them all!!!
Mister Magoo's Christmas carol oh I love it! The song is beautiful. And I love the song that mr. Magoo sings when he was a little kid in school.
All the comments here capture the timeless nature of this song which so resonates since 2020. The loss of love and loss of loved ones is profound as Dickens knew and as this lovely classic conveys. Snow melts and is gone. Heartbreak leaves a scar. And how alone everyone in the world has felt at some point since 2020. So cherish this song and show’s score!
Beautiful 🤍⛄️🤍
Reminds me of when my momma would watch it with me
Belle was So beautiful!
It's too bad that Christmas songs are all filterd for happy happy joy joy. This would be a lovely addition to the annual repertoire.
Check out "Snow" sung by Harry Nilsson and written by Randy Newman.
Yeah, radio stations really *should* start playing this song annually!!
Winter was warm, summer soft that year
The winter was warm without a sign of frost
Like winter lost its way that year
It seems as I recall
No blossoms fell that fall
May didn't leave at all
Or did love paint an illusion?
Now trees with a sigh stand and shiver
While their dreams fall and die, and all my dreams are there
Wrapped up somewhere in summer leaves
Oh, what I'd give to be
To be in love again
This year the winter is cold
Will it ever be warm as it was then?
Singing it, you can take the breath / pause
...GIVE TO BE IN LOVE AGAIN THIS YEAR /
THE WINTER...
or
LOVE AGAIN /
THIS YEAR.
I preferred the former, though probably not what Merrill intended.
Brought a tear to my eye
I think of this song when I feel sad 😭
As a fanatical consumer of TV and film, I had LONG believed the music and lyrics of this show was TOP Notch. Although I am Not sufficently knowledgeable of music composition to tell you why it's great, or how it was made that way.
I am Not a big consumer of Broadway shows. But, somewhere along the way, I saw these names Styne & Merrill. Which I immediately recognized and recalled from the credits of Mr. Magoo. (Yes, I AM one of the ONLY 17 people on earth who read film credits.)
Then, upon researching this pair, I discovered that my "taste" and intuition was right. They were, at the time, among THE Leading Broadway show tune smiths. It was gratifying to have 3rd party proof of what I had suspected for decades ... that the producers of this gem pulled out all the stops. To make it as brilliant as possible. Since it really was a risky "experiment". The FIRST Ever made-for-TV Christmas Special.
No one really knew, for sure, what to expect. Would the viewing public like it? So they had to go all out. And they certainly pulled off a GREAT Achievement. Something which has entered, indelibly, into our American culture and psyche. As attested by the various comments submitted.
My I add that Jack Cassidy played the voice of Bob Cratchit. Both speaking and singing. Look at the visual character of Cratchet. He even Looks like Cassidy. He actually was a Broadway star (singer). Who made the transition to TV. (EX: in Columbo and Night Gallery). Tragically, he died in a fire, caused by Christmas Tree lights.
Thanks for sharing. One of my favs!
Beautifull song.
The tune sounds very much like it might have been composed with Garland in mind. She had already voiced a role in UPA's animated feature Gay Purr-ee (1962). Kean does a fantastic job with it--such a memorable song.
I suggested to the Saperstein family (which still owns the UPA catalog) some years back that they might commission a stage version of Magoo's Christmas Carol, but they were not interested. Magoo had made them affluent, but I think they were tired of him. Hank Saperstein was dead. Had he still been with us, I think this would have made it to the stage at last. As one colleague said of Hank at his funeral "I respected your Dad so much--he really knew how to milk a property..."
Composer Julie Stein was at his peak during this time and delivered a score fit for the Broadway stage. Even the structure of this sixty-minute musical is much like a Broadway play--with the Cratchit family front and center as the chorus. This is why the Ghost of Christmas Present arrives first in this version--so the audience gets to know the Cratchits sooner and we have Jack Cassidy's show stopping Brightest Christmas song to cheer the audience right away. Cassidy, often dismissed as a lightweight and ham, steals the show immediately and is in fine voice. Dickens original novella starts out a bt grim, then gets sadder and more grim and only becomes upbeat after Scrooge's conversion. A theater audience couldn't bear to see the misery of the entire brilliant original brought to life. I am still terrified by the excellent British version (starring Alister Sim) when it plays during the holidays. It terrifies and brings a few tears, but it remains the definitive film version. And it's funny too. I have noticed a little touring stage production of Magoo's Christmas in California over the last few Yuletides--I doubt if such a small scale production bothered obtaining the rights to the original script or songs.
The British version is by far my favorite and I watch it every year, but mainly as someone who also loves the book, because Alistar Sim plays the part perfectly. Not just cold but vulnerable. The screenplay takes many bothersome liberties, Scrooge buy-out of Fezzwig, Fanns' death and Alice(belle) becoming an old maid to name a few. But to me Sim is Scrooge. Merry Christmas
A thought about the songs and their text: the character "Belle" in the _Christmas Carol_ book is believed to be named after Charles Dickens' lost love Maria Beadnell Winter, which might have inspired "Winter Was Warm". The section about Belle's married life, not found in the abridged edition, is where she is named at all, and also where her husband describes Scrooge, near the end of Marley's life, as "quite alone in the world, I daresay".
Warm Memories!!
I just figured out that the song is in Eb. Such an unusual key - I wonder if this part of what makes it so engaging.
In this extended version it modulates to E. I wonder if they dropped that part because it lessens the impact.
Mr. Magoo is the best Scrooge and this the best score for a setting of "A Christmas Carol," followed by "Scrooge" with Albert Finney.
I miss being a little innocent kid,by in the awesome 60's
I always thought, before Internet, that Judy Garland did sing this song and was uncredited (the cartoon production company is the same that did Judy's Gay Purree cartoon), because Kean in her lower voice did bear a strong resemblance. Listening to this, it's clear it is Jane Kean and she is very good. I don't consider it loose but "subtle" and the best rendition. Sadly, your studio original master is not available as a CD and of course the DVD is shorter but at least it's available. Actually, too bad Jim Bailey never did perform this (as Judy Garland.)
No one writes music like this any longer.
Why is it that Belle's song is always getting cut out? This and Belle's Song in the Muppet Christmas Carol. You need these songs to show the love she had for him and what he lost.
This song wasn’t cut out! Only in Muppets Christmas Carol!
@@huckxblueberryfan This was cut out on TV. Most of Mr Magoo's Christmas Carol was cut out for time to make room for commercial. Atleast when I was growing up. Like that whole opening with him in the city.
@@mandelabutterfly9162 Okay
Crying...
Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol was a yearly tradition that was shown every year. I was sad when T.V. became so political .. just like so many things I guess ⏺️❗️🎄
It sounds like Judy garland.
"Was it so long ago?"
EDIT 2021: I just got a full copy of this version of the soundtrack-- e-mail me at legotronn2 at gmail if anyone's interested.
Wait, so-- were you lucky enough to snag the digital album before it got taken down? Is there any place you know where it could still be found? It seems like the company that was selling it has dissolved, and the audio on the actual Blu-Ray is so muted that it just doesn't do the recording justice... At any rate, thank you SO much for what you've shared here-- this is a serious miracle. : D If there's any chance of the rest of the album being shared now that it's not being sold, it'd be much, much appreciated.
"Belle, Belle, please don't go! Wait!" But it's in the immutable past. Can't blame Scrooge too much, as I'd like to change the outcome of a few things in the past. Wouldn't you?
Just watched the current Magoo's Christmas Carol. They cut this song. So disappointed. It was the most beautiful song of the production. Bah humbug to whoever butchered this wonderful movie.
They been doing that for years. Damn the commercials. Show the whole thing.
@@mandelabutterfly9162 I remember the original version with the backstage comedy. Wish I could get my hands on a copy of that version. I have seen other abbreviated versions, but this is the first one that I noticed Winger was Warm was deleted. Magoo's Christmas Carol WAS a musical, and they had some good, original songs it it. But Winter was Warm was far and away the best song in the movie.
Jane Kean at one time was Jim Backus sister in law .
In the version I recorded off the air, all the songs were abridged, this one among them. I'd have been really annoyed to find this song missing entirely. BTW, Belle referred to a sleighride, but how can you go on one of those in a Winter lacking snow?
For a brief time the soundtrack was available to buy as digital files, and I found it on a site that apparently forgot to remove it as as soon as I posted about it on Facebook, it was removed. I've sung "Winter" a few times, always loved it, and got the sheet music from the Styne Office (who were thrilled anyone knew of it) which had the complete version before I had ever heard it. Still ridiculous that there hasn't been an issue of the complete score with the demos, must be some legal nonsense involved of some kind.
That digital soundtrack wasn't complete either, I dubbed the Overture off the bonus doc on the DVD, and the chorus is somehow left off of the closing number leaving Backus's voice in particular exposed.
Douglas Sills did a concert version, there's a sampler video on TH-cam - I would love to hear the whole thing, with Magoo's songs really sung.
Goodbye, Ebenezer
Belle! Dont leave....Belle..Dont..Dont leave. Spirit, show me no more!
All the comments here capture the timeless nature of this song which so resonates since 2020. The loss of love and loss of loved ones is profound as Dickens knew and as this lovely classic conveys. Snow melts and is gone. Heartbreak leaves a scar. And how alone everyone in the world has felt at some point since 2020. So cherish this song and show’s score!