The Holiday Music Fest 2021
Continuing our Music Fest and getting back to the main intent -- little-known but wonderful holiday songs -- how could I possibly let the season go by with a song from my beloved Pickwick, starring my fave Harry Secombe. And being a musical based on Dickens, of course there's a song about Christmas.
The song comes near the beginning of the show -- told in flashback, after Pickwick has been released from debtor's prison for refusing to pay after losing a "breach of promise" suit, because he never proposed, but his widow landlady Mrs. Bardell misinterpreted his words. Pickwick reminisces back at home with his valet Sam Weller about when they first met. The score is by Leslie Bricusse (who usually wrote with Anthony Newley) and Cyril Ornadel, who did the music.
This is Harry Secombe, Teddy Green and the fellow-debtors singing "That's What I'd Like for Christmas," from the original London cast recording
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