A Charlie Brown Christmas
Vince Guaraldi (1965)
Top Tracks: “Linus and Lucy”, “Christmas Time is Here”, “O Tannenbaum”Vince Guaraldi (1965)
So, here’s the weird thing: I don’t have any soundtrack albums on this list (or any live albums or compilations, but whatever), and this would seem to be a soundtrack. But is it? It stands alone as a Vince Guaraldi record, and it’s as important to me as anything from a musical perspective. I’ve often felt that two super early influences — Vince’s work on the animated Peanuts specials, and Johnny Costa’s work on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood — were probably the two things that really set me in motion to want to play music. This is still on my “must listen” list each holiday season, and I often have it playing while making various Christmas food treats (June 2020).
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