View basket “Rollins Plays For Bird (mono)” has been added to your basket. A Charlie Brown Christmas Vince Guaraldi Trio SKU: 7226460 Barcode: 0888072264601 26.00 £26.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Craft Recordings Released Date: 1st October 2021 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Ahead of the 2021 holiday season, Craft Recordings is pleased to announce a special vinyl edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas – the Vince Guaraldi Trio’s enduring soundtrack to the 1965 Peanuts animated special. This collectible release reimagines the album’s classic jacket, wrapping it in an elegant silver foil. The embossed Peanuts characters on the cover, meanwhile, have never been more striking as they gather around the Christmas Tree. It all began in 1964 when producer Lee Mendelson set out to make a TV documentary about cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, the creator of the immensely popular Peanuts comic strip. For the film’s score, he hired Bay Area jazz artist Vince Guaraldi, a fast-rising star who had recently earned a Grammy for his instrumental crossover hit, “Cast Your Fate to the Wind.” Although A Boy Named Charlie Brown never made it to the airwaves, Mendelson was struck by Guaraldi’s sophisticated cues and the soundtrack for the unaired documentary was released on Fantasy Records. The pair had the chance to collaborate again just one year later when A Charlie Brown Christmas was greenlit for holiday programming. Working primarily with bassist Fred Marshall and drummer Jerry Granelli, Guaraldi brought the animated characters to life with his music, pairing inspired interpretations of traditional yuletide fare (“O Tannenbaum,” “Hark, the Herald Angels Sing,” “What Child Is This”) with original compositions, including the iconic “Linus and Lucy” theme, “Skating,” and “Christmas Time Is Here.” The latter song, available as both an instrumental and vocal track, featured young choral singers from St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in San Rafael, CA. While TV executives were wary of the unconventional special, which featured the voices of child actors, a jazz score, and no laugh track (among other concerns), their worries proved to be unfounded – and then some. Airing December 9, 1965, A Charlie Brown Christmas captured nearly half of the nation’s TV audience and garnered broad critical acclaim. Over 55 years later, the Emmy- and Peabody-winning special, continues to be a holiday tradition and has spawned more than two dozen subsequent Peanuts specials. Guaraldi’s soundtrack, meanwhile, has since become one of the best-selling jazz albums in history, second only to Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue, and regularly ranks among America’s top-selling holiday albums every December. In 2016, A Charlie Brown Christmas was certified 4x platinum by the RIAA, while last year, A Charlie Brown Christmas entered the Billboard 200’s Top Ten for the very first time – 55 years after its initial release. The album has also been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and added to the Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry. Guaraldi, who continued to score Peanuts specials until his death in 1976, had an immeasurable impact on the generations of young people who watched or listened to A Charlie Brown Christmas. “Guaraldi showed how a piano, bass, and drums can capture a feeling and character in living color, particularly if those feelings are complex, conflicted, or even simply too beautiful for words,” wrote Los Angeles Times in 2012. “It’s the kind of realization that, even unconsciously, opens the door for later discoveries in Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk, Robert Glasper, and everything beyond.” Ranking the album at No. 4 in their 2019 round-up of the Greatest Christmas Albums of All Time, Rolling Stone added that the album has “become some of the most visually evocative American music.” Artist Vince Guaraldi Trio Genre Jazz , Soundtrack Label Craft Recordings Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings O Tannenbaum What Child Is This My Little Drum Linus & Lucy Christmas Time 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