Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
"Linus and Lucy" is a popular instrumental jazz standard written by American jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi. It serves as the main theme tune for the many Peanuts animated specials and is named for the two fictional siblings, Linus and Lucy Van Pelt .
"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.
Colin Bailey – drums ("Linus and Lucy", "Greensleeves") Children's chorus for the songs "Christmas Time Is Here", "Hark, The Herald Angels Sing" and when the kids all shout "Merry Christmas Charlie Brown" was the Children's choir of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in San Rafael, California.
The AOL.com video experience serves up the best video content from AOL and around the web, curating informative and entertaining snackable videos.
In particular, the version of "Linus and Lucy" stands out due to the incorporation of the East Bay Sound, a funk-influenced style of drumming, brought to the session by Clark. Clark was known for his pioneering work in this style, which added a more rhythmic and modern feel to the track.
Guaraldi left the group early in 1959 to pursue his own projects full-time. He might have remained a well-respected but minor jazz figure had Guaraldi not written an original number to fill out his covers of Antonio Carlos Jobim/Luiz Bonfá tunes on his 1962 album, Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus, inspired by the French/Brazilian film Black Orpheus.
Bang cited the arrangement of "Linus and Lucy," as "smokin'", adding that the song is "dominated by Guaraldi's percussive piano attack in the foreground, augmented by harpsichord shading in the background.
Linus and Lucy: The Music of Vince Guaraldi is the tenth album by pianist George Winston, released in 1996. It features covers of songs composed by jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi, including several written for the Peanuts animated television specials. It was reissued on Dancing Cat Records in 2008.