Carry On Christmas Specials Christmas special, "Carry On Christmas". Talbot Rothwell made a return as the writer, as did Sid James. This was the only special to have a modern-day setting, featuring Sid James as a department store Father Christmas, although it did feature historical sketches. It would be ten years before the next Christmas special. "Carry On Laughing's Christmas Classics" saw Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor introduce some of the funniest moments from the later Carry On films, in a format very similar to the film "That's Carry On!". In 2005, the first four specials were released on DVD, featuring interviews with film
Bless This House (song) Walk Alone" and the Perry Como album "I Believe", as well as in many Hymnals. It was a favourite of Vera Lynn, British WW2 "Forces Sweetheart" and appears on her album "Favourite Sacred Songs" (1972). Australian duo Generation Gap (Australian tenor Jim Hopkin and pianist Stephen Lightbody) also recorded a version of the song which appears on their 2009 album "A New Beginning". Other singers to record it include Gracie Fields, Peter Dawson, Jan Peerce, Beniamino Gigli, Josef Locke, Benjamin Luxon, Leontyne Price, Steve Conway, Harry Secombe (for his album "Sacred Songs"), Rosemary Clooney, Lesley Garrett and Bryn Terfel. Bless