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A Charlie Brown Christmas Almost Wasn’t (2016)

bsanr2 6y ago
My father would play Vince Guaraldi's soundtrack for ACBC every fall and winter°, on his big tower speakers that were older than I was, loud enough to be heard around whatever house we happened to be living in at the time. Subsequently, I cannot imagine the holiday season without Charlie Brown (or at least the music). My first year out of college, I didn't have a tree and there was no family home anymore, but I was able to pull this up on YouTube and feel the spirit for a moment. °The title is a misnomer as it includes a couple of tracks from the Halloween and Thanksgiving specials, including the wistful, haunting Great Pumpkin Waltz
- nighthawk454 6y ago
  I was surprised to read that the ACBC soundtrack contained non-christmas-special tracks, as I never remembered that. According to wikipedia the tracks you mentioned are bonus tracks on the 2012 CD release. So I guess I'm just old. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Charlie_Brown_Christmas_(soundtrack)#Track_listing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Charlie_Brown_Christmas_(sou...
  - bsanr2 6y ago
    I'm surprised, I distinctly remember The Great Pumpkin Waltz being on the CD we had, which goes back at least to 2000.
- wkearney99 6y ago
  One of my favorite piano pieces is Guaraldi's Linus & Lucy. Enough that my kid took to effort at 8 to learn to play it on the piano for me. Took real reach to get his fingers to play it smoothly.
dehrmann 6y ago
Wait, A Charlie Brown Christmas was (sorta) created by an ad agency?!
- wkearney99 6y ago
  wait until you hear about Schoolhouse Rock...
dehrmann 6y ago
> They especially couldn’t understand why children would use such big words...despite the fact that for about 15 years, “Peanuts” characters had spoken with advanced vocabularies. Huh. It's like the South Park trick of using kids who are mostly more rational than the adults to communicate a message, or how Star Trek uses social issues on alien planets as allegories for current societal problems.
cmiller1 6y ago
> For many, one annual ritual will provide a welcome distraction: watching a depressed child get berated and mocked relentlessly Some won't even need Charlie Brown for that ritual!

My father would play Vince Guaraldi's soundtrack for ACBC every fall and winter°, on his big tower speakers that were older than I was, loud enough to be heard around whatever house we happened to be living in at the time. Subsequently, I cannot imagine the holiday season without Charlie Brown (or at least the music). My first year out of college, I didn't have a tree and there was no family home anymore, but I was able to pull this up on YouTube and feel the spirit for a moment. °The title is a misnomer as it includes a couple of tracks from the Halloween and Thanksgiving specials, including the wistful, haunting Great Pumpkin Waltz

nighthawk454 6y ago
I was surprised to read that the ACBC soundtrack contained non-christmas-special tracks, as I never remembered that. According to wikipedia the tracks you mentioned are bonus tracks on the 2012 CD release. So I guess I'm just old. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Charlie_Brown_Christmas_(soundtrack)#Track_listing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Charlie_Brown_Christmas_(sou...
- bsanr2 6y ago
  I'm surprised, I distinctly remember The Great Pumpkin Waltz being on the CD we had, which goes back at least to 2000.
wkearney99 6y ago
One of my favorite piano pieces is Guaraldi's Linus & Lucy. Enough that my kid took to effort at 8 to learn to play it on the piano for me. Took real reach to get his fingers to play it smoothly.

dehrmann 6y ago

Wait, A Charlie Brown Christmas was (sorta) created by an ad agency?!

wkearney99 6y ago
wait until you hear about Schoolhouse Rock...

dehrmann 6y ago

> They especially couldn’t understand why children would use such big words...despite the fact that for about 15 years, “Peanuts” characters had spoken with advanced vocabularies. Huh. It's like the South Park trick of using kids who are mostly more rational than the adults to communicate a message, or how Star Trek uses social issues on alien planets as allegories for current societal problems.

cmiller1 6y ago

> For many, one annual ritual will provide a welcome distraction: watching a depressed child get berated and mocked relentlessly Some won't even need Charlie Brown for that ritual!