(Original Air Date – December 24th, 2017)

Join Will & Wend for their first Christmas Score Guide! In their final episode of 2017 they merrily explore a childhood classic, the 1990 comedy chrimbo movie, Home Alone, composed and conducted by masterful maestro, John Williams.

Your festive hosts shall be pulling back the composer’s christmassy curtain for you our loyal listener, to reveal themes, identify leitmotifs, and gush over instrumentation and all those sparkling musical moments that make this soundtrack so well-loved the world over.

Crowbars up, snow shovels at the ready, let’s feel that gingerbread feeling!

Merry Christmas everyone!

ReleaseHome Alone 25th Anniversary Limited Edition La-La Land Records (2015)TimestampsIntro Tag: Xander StobbsDisc One6:15 – 1. Home Alone (Main Theme)9.57 – 2. Go Pack Your Suitcase/Introducing Marley/In Good Hands14:50 – 3. Banished to the Attic16:44 – 4. We Slept In/Hard Count18:43 – 5. Making the Plane19:44 – 6. The Basement23:35 – 7. Target Practise/Sledding on the Stairs26:49 – 8. Lights On/Guess Who’s Home/Paris Arrival30:47 – 9. The Man of the House/Police Check32:44 – 10. The Bookshelf34:48 – 11. Phone Machine/Drug Store/Escape Across the Ice38:45 – 12. Follow That Kid! [Film Version]41:47 – 13. Listening to Carson42:41 – 14. Cleaning Clothes/Kitchen44:10 – 15. Scammed by a Kindergartner [Film Version]46:55 – 16. Somewhere in my Memory (Walking Home) [Film Version]49:34 – 17. O Holy Night [Film Version]52:19 – 18. Star of Bethlehem [Film Version]54:05 – 19. Carol of the Bells56:03 – 20. Setting the Trap1:01:22 – 21. The Attack Begins1:03:37 – 22. Marv Enters the Basement/A Hot Hand/Sore Head1:04:09 – The Chess Game (Harry Potter and the INSERT NAME Stone)1:05:14 – 23. Paint Cans1:06:41 – 24. Clothesline Trapeze/Marley to the Rescue1:09:06 – 25. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas [Film Version]1:09:58 – 26. The Next Morning/Mom Returns/Finale1:14:04 – 27. We Wish You a Merry Christmas/End Title [Film Version]LinksAnthony O’Toole’s Transcription & Analysis of Setting the Trap