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"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 ...
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.
A Charlie Brown Christmas was voted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2007, [31] and added to the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry list of "culturally, historically, or aesthetically important" American sound recordings in 2012. [32] "I have always felt that one of the key elements that made that show was the music," said ...
The quintessential Christmas crush song, Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" finally hit No. 1 in 2019—25 years after its initial release! 2. Nat King Cole, "The Christmas Song"
However, it gained its greatest exposure as part of the Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack the following year. Since then, it has been reissued multiple times. To date, it has been included on the following soundtracks and compilations: [7] A Charlie Brown Christmas (soundtrack) (1965) Greatest Hits (1980) Charlie Brown's Holiday Hits (1998)
Kansas City Jazz Orchestra — ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ Just listening to the familiar strains that Vince Guaraldi wrote for Linus, Snoopy and Charlie Brown warms me up inside.
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 ...
“A Charlie Brown Christmas Reunion.” This 2012 riff by Animation Domination High Def fast-forwards the Peanuts gang into their adult years, with some significant WTF developments including ...