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Peanuts Greatest Hits is the seventh compilation album by jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi (credited to the Vince Guaraldi Trio) released by Fantasy/Concord Records on July 31, 2015. The album gathers Guaraldi's most iconic compositions featured in the animated television specials based on the Peanuts comic strip by Charles M. Schulz .
Aren further noted that, although true jazz enthusiasts might find the short cues unsatisfactory, this brevity likely contributed to the music's broad appeal and distinctly reflects the early 1970s. Aren also notes that Guaraldi, then aged 45, strategically collaborated with younger musicians in their twenties, thereby infusing the work with ...
Jazz for Peanuts: A Retrospective of the Charlie Brown TV Themes is a compilation album released in the U.S. by Peak Records in October 2008. The album is credited to David Benoit and contains a mix of previously released material plus newly recorded songs featured in prime-time animated television specials based on the Peanuts comic strip by Charles M. Schulz.
A Boy Named Charlie Brown: Selections from the Film Soundtrack is the first of two soundtrack albums issued for the film, released in early 1970. The soundtrack was a commercial success and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score, ultimately losing to The Beatles' Let It Be. [2]
In the mid-2000s, Dave Guaraldi discovered recordings from seven 1970s-era Peanuts television specials composed by his father, Vince Guaraldi.He curated select tracks to compile the first of two volumes of previously unreleased musical cues, sourced from his father's personal recording session reel-to-reel tapes.
It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown was the last Peanuts special to feature original music composed by Vince Guaraldi (except where noted), who was best known for the Peanuts signature tune, "Linus and Lucy." 47-year-old Guaraldi died suddenly on February 6, 1976, several hours after completing the soundtrack for this special.
Play It Again, Charlie Brown is the seventh prime-time animated TV special based upon the comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. It originally aired on CBS on March 28, 1971. [1] This was the first Peanuts TV special of the 1970s, airing nearly a year and a half after It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown.
Guaraldi historian and biographer Derrick Bang noted that the songs are "presented in a manner wholly unlike the quieter trio sound found on [Jazz Impressions of] A Boy Named Charlie Brown and A Charlie Brown Christmas," noting that the album contains, "the jazziest, swinging-est collection of his Peanuts themes