Vince Guaraldi | A Charlie Brown Christmas (Walmart Exclusive) Snowflake Picture Disc
- Brand new/sealed
- Blue Snowflake Picture Disc
- Walmart Exclusive Variant Released 11/1/2019
A Charlie Brown Christmas is a 1965 studio album by American composer/conductor Vince Guaraldi. The album was released in December 1965 in the United States by Fantasy Records. It is the soundtrack to the CBS Christmas television special of the same name. Guaraldi was contacted by television producer Lee Mendelson several years prior to compose music for a documentary on the comic strip Peanuts and it's creator, Charles M. Schulz. A Charlie Brown Christmas features several originals ("Christmas Time Is Here", "Linus and Lucy") as well as covers of well-known Christmas songs ("The Christmas Song", "O Tannenbaum"). The score for the special was largely cut at recording sessions at Glendale, California's Whitney Studio. Much of this material was re-recorded by Guaraldi at three sessions later in the year at Fantasy Recording Studios in San Francisco, alongside a choir of children culled from St. Paul's Episcopal Church in nearby San Rafael. Released a week prior to the broadcast premiere of the special, A Charlie Brown Christmas sold well, and became increasingly famous in the ensuing decades.
Track Listing:
Side 1
1. "O Tannenbaum" (5:07)
2. "What Child Is This" (2:24)
3. "My Little Drum" (3:10)
4. "Linus & Lucy" (3:04)
5. "Christmas Time Is Here" (instrumental) (6:02)
Side 2
1. "Christmas Time Is Here" (2:46)
2. "Skating" (2:22)
3. "Hark, The Herald Angels Sing" (1:55)
4. "Christmas Is Coming" (3:25)
5. "Fur Elise" (1:05)
6. "Christmas Song" (3:17)
7. "Greensleeves" (5:28)