The Stingiest Man in Town (1978)

This cartoon version of A Christmas Carol hails from the production house of Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass--the team that brought you just about every other Christmas special you saw as a kid (including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer). Reinvented as a 49-minute musical ghost story, it stars the voice of Walter Matthau as the bedeviled Scrooge and Tom Bosley as the Jiminy Cricket-type narrator, B. Humbug, Esq.

The movie The Stingiest Man in Town, released in 1978, features 14 songs from artists like Tom Bosley , Chorus and Orchestra, Tom Bosley and Chorus, Dennis Day and Walter Matthau and Theodore Bikel. What is your favorite song from The Stingiest Man in Town?

Songs from The Stingiest Man in Town

A Christmas Carol/Overture

Tom Bosley , Chorus and Orchestra

An Old Fashioned Christmas

Tom Bosley and Chorus

Humbug!

Dennis Day and Walter Matthau

The Stingiest Man in Town

Tom Bosley and Chorus

I Wear a Chain

Theodore Bikel

Golden Dreams

Debra Clinger and Robert Morse

It Might Have Been

Debra Clinger and Robert Morse

The Christmas Spirit

chorus

Yes, There is a Santa Claus

Debra Clinger and Bobby Rolofson

Birthday Party of The King

Tom Bosley and Chorus

One Little Boy

Paul Frees and Walter Matthau

You Wear a Chain

male chorus

The Christmas Spirit (reprise)

Walter Matthau and Chorus

Mankind Should Be My Business

Walter Matthau