Ho, Ho, Ho!
For the last pre-Christmas post, here's the peppy Henry Mancini score for the biggest Christmas flop of all time, 1985's Santa Claus: The Movie. Producer Richard Salkind (Superman) thought he had a perennial hit on his hand thanks to a lavish budget and a cast featuring Dudley Moore (as an elf) and John Lithgow, but alas, 'twas not meant to be. The movie's kind of fun in the right frame of mind, though, and Mancini's score hits all the right notes while incorporating a few carolling standards into the mix. Of course, this being the mid-'80s, Sheena Easton even pops up for a singing cameo, too. Happy holidays, one and all!Santa Claus: The Movie
1. Main Title: Every Christmas Eve and Santa's Theme
2. Arrival Of The Elves
3. Making Toys
4. Christmas Rhapsody
5. It's Christmas Again
6. March Of The Elves
7. Patch, Natch!
8. It's Christmas (All Over The World) (with Sheena Easton)
9. Shouldn't Do That
10. Sleigh Ride Over Manhattan
11. Sad Patch
12. Patch Versus Santa
13. Thank You, Santa
Labels: 1980s
posted by 7 Black Notes at 9:29 PM
9 Comments:
I was going to thank you so much for saving me the work of recording this off my EMI cassette (this is a vinyl rip, correct?), then I started listening and the most important song on the album...the Sheena Easton tune....SKIPS right when she gets to the main lyrics ("When Santa's flyin' in his magic sleigh"). Haven't listened to the rest of the album, though. :-(
Whoops, sorry about that; guess a skip got by me when I was converting it. I'll post a corrected version of the song when I'm back to my turntable (on the 28th).
In the meanwhile, here's the rip I did off my cassette of the soundtrack, done at the same bitrate you did the album from:
http://soundtrackrarities.blogspot.com/2006/12/santa-claus-movie-its-christmas-all.html
Hi 7!
What another great (Christmas) share! Have a great holiday and thank you so much for all the wonderful music you've shared over the year! Have a wonderful 2007! :))
hi
please release the POLTERGEIST 2 COMPLETE Score. two CDS.
I have been looking for this EVERYWHERE!!!! You are so awesome- thank you!
Well, think again....someone on my blog posted "Track 3 has skipping problems throughout. Tracks 5 and 10 skip once near the ends as well."
REJOICE, folks....I just found a CLEAN version of this one! Appears to have been done either from the foreign (forget the country it was released in) CD, or done darn well from tape/cassette (checked it out carefully and couldn't find any indications that it was ripped from LP)!
The page it was on was here (a Mancini page):
http://miarroba.com/foros/ver.php?foroid=1138711&temaid=5260844
The direct download link is here:
http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/208941/HMSantaClaus.rar
Time to get rid of any other version you have and grab this one!
So very happy to have found this and so very sad links no longer exist.
Great work, just the same!
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