There were plenty of reasons Vince Guaraldi's soundtrack to ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ shouldn't have worked. charliebrownchristmas christmas kprc2 click2houston entertainment holidays
This image released by Peanuts Worldwide shows promotional art for the 1965 animated TV special A Charlie Brown Christmas. The soundtrack has sold more than five million copies. scribbled some lyrics to jazz musician Vince Guaraldi's composition “Christmas Time is Here” for an animated TV special featuring the “Peanuts” gang in 1965.
The special itself was a bit of an oddity: a cartoon story of the meaning of Christmas soundtracked by a sophisticated, mostly instrumental jazz trio of piano, bass and drum. “I just remember, back in the days of three channels and scheduled programming, that was one of those things we were excited about because we knew it was coming on and we were familiar with it,” said Harry Connick Jr., who covered “Christmas Time is Here” for his own holiday disc just out.
The music Guaraldi created for the soundtrack is ambiguous and more complex than most holiday music, Sloan said. Tied to warm feelings forclassic comic page characters, time has made it traditional holiday music. Animation is time-consuming, so the team had a tight deadline to make it onto television. It was Mendelson who decided that “Christmas Time is Here” was missing something without lyrics. He asked several songwriters to take on the task, but the deadline was too daunting.“I've always loved the music and the melody, but I really didn't understand how beautiful the lyrics were until I recorded it,” said Norah Jones, who included her take on the song on a disc released last year.
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