Posted on 12/10/2015 8:58:46 PM PST by WhiskeyX
A Charlie Brown Christmas is a 1965 studio album by American composer/conductor Vince Guaraldi (later credited to the jazz group the Vince Guaraldi Trio). The album was released in December 1965 in the United States by Fantasy Records. It is the soundtrack to the CBS Christmas television special of the same name. Guaraldi was contacted by television producer Lee Mendelson several years prior to compose music for a documentary on the comic strip Peanuts and its creator, Charles M. Schulz. Although the special went unaired, these selections were released in 1964 as Jazz Impressions of "A Boy Named Charlie Brown". Coca-Cola commissioned a Christmas special based on Peanuts in 1965 and Guaraldi returned to score the special.
A Charlie Brown Christmas features several originals ("Christmas Time Is Here", "Linus and Lucy") as well as covers of contemporary Christmas songs ("The Christmas Song", "O Tannenbaum"). The score for the special was largely cut at recording sessions at Glendale, California's Whitney Studio. Much of this material was later re-recorded by Guaraldi at three sessions later in the year at Fantasy Recording Studios in San Francisco, alongside a choir of children culled from St. Paul's Episcopal Church in nearby San Rafael. The sessions ran late into the night, with the children rewarded with ice cream afterwards. Bassist Fred Marshall and drummer Jerry Granelli have been credited as performing on the album, although a host of musicians claim to have recorded the album. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_G...
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I didn't mean to use those but have been, had two sets of them.
If you're interested, check out the USPS.com site. So much more selection and better than the lines at the post office where they never have the best commemorative stamps, a real grab bag.
My favorite album of all time.
ad nauseum
My fave at Christmastime, and watching "It's a Wonderful Life" :)
You’re kidding.
I’m a kid at heart. I can listen to that album 24/7 from Thanksgiving to New Years.
Christmastime is here.....
There’s a nice acoustic guitar version of “Christmas Time Is Here” on one of the Windham Hill CDs, titled “Holiday Guitar Collection”.
Thank you for this.
A personal favourite. I learned to play “Linus and Lucy” by ear when I was in high school.
A former co-worker of mine detested Christmas and everything associated with it. He made an exception for this album.
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Agree...plus the CB special itself of course.
We put the Guaraldi soundtrack on every Christmas morning. Goes perfectly with the coffee. Instrumentals don’t interfere with conversations either, which is nice.
I have noted with interest how many of the songs have become Christmas standards on public address systems to be played alongside the more traditional and topical songs.
I seem to remember reading that the network executives questioned the choice of a jazz soundtrack for a “children’s cartoon”. In retrospect it was a brilliant idea. A timeless classic.
An all-time favorite!
All of the Vince Guiraldi (sp) CDs are AWESOME. Don’t miss them!
I love it when, ‘Crusty Senior Freepers’ show their true colors!
*SMOOCH* :)
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