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A Charlie Brown Christmas is the eighth studio album by the American jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi (later credited to the Vince Guaraldi Trio). It was released in December 1965 by Fantasy Records to coincide with the television debut of the television special A Charlie Brown Christmas featuring the Peanuts comic characters.
Charlie Brown's Holiday Hits is a compilation soundtrack album by jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi (credited to the Vince Guaraldi Trio) released by Fantasy Records in 1998. The album was the first of several posthumous releases containing a mix of previously released material in addition to nine previously unavailable songs featured in prime-time animated television specials based on the Peanuts ...
Despite the wealth of Peanuts material Guaraldi recorded, only A Charlie Brown Christmas and A Boy Named Charlie Brown (both the unaired documentary and feature film) received official soundtrack releases during his lifetime. [24] "I have always felt that one of the key elements that made A Charlie Brown Christmas was the music," said Mendelson ...
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 .
In 2011, Vince Guaraldi’s iconic soundtrack for “A Charlie Brown Christmas” was inducted into the Library of Congress Music Registry for its cultural significance.
The Definitive Vince Guaraldi (2009) Peanuts Portraits (2010) The Very Best of Vince Guaraldi (2012) Peanuts Greatest Hits (2015) Guaraldi included variations of his signature tune in most subsequent Peanuts television specials he worked on after A Charlie Brown Christmas through You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown in 1975.
Guaraldi reunited with Budwig and Bailey, who had previously collaborated with him on the scores for A Charlie Brown Christmas and the unreleased A Boy Named Charlie Brown documentary. [5] The session was supervised by composer, arranger, and conductor John Scott Trotter, who had served as music director for Bing Crosby. Trotter brought an ...
"Christmas Time Is Here" was composed by jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi to accompany the opening of the 1965 television special A Charlie Brown Christmas. It was originally written as an instrumental, but producer Lee Mendelson decided that the song needed lyrics. Mendelson recalled, "When we looked at the show about a month before it was to go on ...