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12-06-2021, 04:55 PM
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As a followup to the Christmas Carol roundup...
The Disney Christmas Carol record that was later remade as Mickey's Christmas Carol I've known about this for awhile, but never heard it. Alan Young is great as usual, but whoever did Mickey was awful (as it turns out it was also Alan Young). This was during the limbo between Jimmy MacDonald and Wayne Allwine as the voice of Mickey. Alan Young also voiced Merlin/Ghost of Christmas Past, which was another bad performance. The original voice for Merlin, Karl Swenson, died in 1978, four years after this record. I wonder if he was unavailable or Disney was just being cheap (probably the latter). The musical numbers are unnecessary. Scrooge's muddling of the syllables in words seems like an odd trait for the character. That's Willie the Giant's job. Walker Edmiston did a valiant job as Willie the Giant, but he'll never match Billy Gilbert. Overall, it's a valiant effort at telling the story, but it falls short in so many ways.
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