The The music in Home Alone strikes a careful balance between original film score and song score.

This is the soundtrack show. The Oh, oh, oh, oh, walking. Walking around the Christmas tree at the Christmas Party Hop.

Mistletoe on the way you can see every couple tries to stop. Welcome back to the soundtrack show. I'm your host David W Collins and in this

episode we are still home alone listening to the music from this holiday

comedy classic by John Williams.

In our last episode we talked about some of the history behind this movie

and took an in-depth look at some of the film's main themes, covering three light motifs.

The themes turned songs called Somewhere in My Memory. And Star of Bethlehem. As well as that theham shining bright,

bathing the world in

every one. As well as that classic musical word for doom and gloom the fore-note phrase

traditionally known as D.S. Erie which is Latin for Day of Wrath

Judgment Day which is Latin for Day of Wrath, judgment day.

We even saw how it transformed into Carol of the Bells,

which features the D.S. Array as its main repeating melody.

Heart, how the bell, sweet silver bells all seem to say,

throw cans away.

This messes in rainy the gym.

But my friends, that's just the beginning. We're going to discuss more themes and actually

listen to musical highlights from the film. We'll even take a listen to music that was replaced

or omitted altogether and talk about the important role that music plays in making Home Alone a holiday classic.

Let's take it from the top.

We mentioned that the movie opens with just a fragment of Somewhere in My Memory,

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