I wasn’t a terribly big fan of my seventh grade English teacher, but one good thing she did was make us watch Scrooge, the musical version of A Christmas Carol, with Albert Finney as old Ebenezer. Of course, being the jaded world-wise young man I was then (translated: know-it-all little schmuck), I made fun of the movie without realizing its charms. Here’s one of the songs, which erupts when Scrooge meets the Ghost of Christmas Present, who turns out to be fond of life.

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