The Stingiest Man in Town (1978)
This cartoon version of A Christmas Carol hails from the production house of Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass--the team that brought you just about every other Christmas special you saw as a kid (including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer). Reinvented as a 49-minute musical ghost story, it stars the voice of Walter Matthau as the bedeviled Scrooge and Tom Bosley as the Jiminy Cricket-type narrator, B. Humbug, Esq.
The movie The Stingiest Man in Town, released in 1978, features 14 songs from artists like Tom Bosley , Chorus and Orchestra, Tom Bosley and Chorus, Dennis Day and Walter Matthau and Theodore Bikel. What is your favorite song from The Stingiest Man in Town?
Songs from The Stingiest Man in Town
- A Christmas Carol/Overture
- Tom Bosley , Chorus and Orchestra
- An Old Fashioned Christmas
- Tom Bosley and Chorus
- Humbug!
- Dennis Day and Walter Matthau
- The Stingiest Man in Town
- Tom Bosley and Chorus
- I Wear a Chain
- Theodore Bikel
- Golden Dreams
- Debra Clinger and Robert Morse
- It Might Have Been
- Debra Clinger and Robert Morse
- The Christmas Spirit
- chorus
- Yes, There is a Santa Claus
- Debra Clinger and Bobby Rolofson
- Birthday Party of The King
- Tom Bosley and Chorus
- One Little Boy
- Paul Frees and Walter Matthau
- You Wear a Chain
- male chorus
- The Christmas Spirit (reprise)
- Walter Matthau and Chorus
- Mankind Should Be My Business
- Walter Matthau