Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas (Reissue, Remastered)
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Description
A Charlie Brown Christmas is a 1965 studio album by American jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi (later credited to the Vince Guaraldi Trio). The album was released in December 1965 in the U.S. by Fantasy. It is the soundtrack to the Christmas television special of the same name.
Guaraldi was contacted by television producer Lee Mendelson to compose music for a documentary on the comic strip Peanuts and its creator, Charles M. Schulz. Although the special went unaired, these selections were released in 1964 as Jazz Impressions of "A Boy Named Charlie Brown". Coca-Cola commissioned a Christmas special based on Peanuts in 1965 and Guaraldi returned to score the special.
Guaraldi composed most of the music, though he included versions of traditional carols such as "O Tannenbaum". He recorded some of the score at Whitney Studio in Glendale, California, then re-recorded some of it at Fantasy Records Studios in San Francisco with a children's choir from St. Paul's Episcopal Church in nearby San Rafael. The sessions ran late into the night, with the children rewarded with ice cream afterward.
Bassist Fred Marshall and drummer Jerry Granelli have been credited as performing on the album. It was voted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and added to the National Recording Registry of the Library Congress
On August 19, 2016, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified the album quadruple platinum for sales of four million copies. In November 2014, it was the tenth best-selling Christmas/holiday album in the United States during the SoundScan era.
Release Info
Label: Fantasy 8431
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered
Country: US
Released: 2012
Genre: Jazz, Stage & Screen
Style: Contemporary Jazz
Tracklist
A1 O Tannenbaum
A2 What Child Is This
A3 My Little Drum
A4 Linus And Lucy
A5 Christmas Time Is Here (Instrumental)
B1 Christmas Time Is Here (Vocal)
B2 Skating
B3 Hark, The Herald Angels Sing
B4 Christmas Is Coming
B5 Für Elise
B6 The Christmas Song
B7 Greensleeves
