"Dicken's Christmas Carol" - Ireene Wicker (The Singing Lady) (1949) - Part 1

Dicken's Christmas Carol (1949)
Director: Joseph Leib
Scrooge: Ireene Wicker 

The short version of "A Christmas Carol" by Claude Rains aimed at the kiddie market brings to mind this earlier version, which is even shorter!

It's performed by Ireene Wicker, known to young radio listeners back in the day as "The Singing Lady."

One of her specialties was telling stories (often fairy tales) where she narrated and acted out all the parts and added singing as necessary.

She often had just a piano accompaniment with no sound effects.

Her style translated very well to records, so she made a bunch of them starting in the 1930s.

Fortunately for our purposes, when she was laying down some Christmas tracks for Regal Records in 1949, one of the things she recorded was a very condensed version of "A Christmas Carol" in her typical style.

You can listen to both sides below:

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