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Vince Guaraldi: It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown/Charlie Brown's All Stars
by Joshua Weiner
The series of complete Peanuts television special soundtracks put out by Lee Mendelson Film Productions continues with a delightful disc coupling music from 1976's It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown with seven brief cues from 1966's Charlie Brown's All Stars. Vince Guaraldi's inimitable compositions and Latin jazz piano stylings first brought Charles Schulz's comic strip world of Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the gang to animated life in 1965 with the evergreen A Charlie Brown Christmas. Apart from its crucial role in ...
Continue ReadingVince Guaraldi Trio: Charlie Brown's Holiday Hits
by Douglas Payne
This nice little holiday gift is easily confused with the popular soundtrack to the 1964 TV special,A Charlie Brown Christmas. But don't be fooled. Nine of the 14 tracks included here are culled from the 15 Peanuts holiday specials Vince Guaraldi scored before his untimely death at age 47 in 1976--and have never been released on disc before.Some will even startle Vince Guaraldi fans. The lovely, melodic waltzes you can hum along to are all here. But it's ...
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