Alan Menkin's Christmas Carol*

I kind of fell in love with Christmas Carol after a long moratorium... Alan Menkin can put the adorable into anything.  

I recorded this a month or so ago for a friend who's putting up the show this coming weekend.  She wanted the instrumental tracks for the show, so I recorded the piano tracks.  280 pages of music took me about 60 hours.  Am professional musician?  Can haz cheezburger?

I am a God!

Even though I was sick as a dog, I started recording the voices (basically so I knew where I was on the track as I was editing it) but ended up doing harmonies and everything, just for funzies.  And my mic decided to break halfway through, so the recording quality is not great.  

The player below decided to put the songs into whatever order it felt like.  Here's the list chronologically:



No.4 (Pt.1&3) - Nothing To Do With Me

No.4 (Pt.2) - You Mean More to Me

No.4 (Pt.5.5) Grace Smythe - "Let the Stars"

No.4 (Pt.6) - Damn this Silly Season

No.7 - The Lights of Long Ago

No.8 - Fezziwig's Annual Xmas Ball

My voice is the worst in this one...  My fav. is the line that is "Where do Vicars make a holy noise," and it sounds like "rapists..."

No.9 - A Place Called Home

Fun harmonizing in this one.  :)

No.12 - Christmas Together

This one took FOREVER to record.

No.15 - Yesterday, Tomorrow, & Today

Dang - my voice goes really low in this one.  Singing starts at 1m07.

Menkin, Dickens... you're both BAMFs.  I have learned to love this story because of Menkin's delightful melodies.  And I think Dickens appreciates with age.  (My age.) I HATED "Great Expectations" and always hated "Chrismas Carol,"until a bit of revisiting thanks to my good buddy Alan Menkin.  Still hate Great Expectations.  Menkin, I dare you. <3 <3 <3