While the Peanuts comic strip appeared daily in newspapers across the world, Vince Guaraldi's music helped bring the gang to wider audiences through his jazzy Peanuts television and film soundtrack recordings. In early 1964, when Lee Mendelson began work on a television documentary about the world of Peanuts, he heard Guaraldi's Grammy(R) Award-winning instrumental hit 'Cast Your Fate to the Wind' on the radio, while crossing the Golden Gate Bridge. Mendelson knew he'd found precisely the right musical foil for Peanuts. Over the next decade, Guaraldi composed and performed scores for numerous Peanuts TV specials - including the evergreen A Charlie Brown Christmas - along with a feature film, A Boy Named Charlie Brown. Concord release Peanuts Greatest Hits, a 12-song survey of some of the most popular music from the Guaraldi Peanuts soundtracks.
Peanuts Greatest Hits features 12 of the most memorable recordings from the beloved animated Peanuts television specials, all with the sophisticated, yet accessible jazz stylings of the Vince Guaraldi Trio, including such classics as “Linus and Lucy,” “Christmas is Coming” and “Little Birdie.” This new picture disc format of the album is released to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Peanuts and features a classic image of Linus and Lucy on one side and the album cover image on the other.
Peanuts Greatest Hits features 12 of the most memorable recordings from the beloved animated Peanuts television specials, all with the sophisticated, yet accessible jazz stylings of the Vince Guaraldi Trio, including such classics as “Linus and Lucy,” “Christmas is Coming” and “Little Birdie.” This new picture disc format of the album is released to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Peanuts and features a classic image of Linus and Lucy on one side and the album cover image on the other.
