It’s a hip record. Forget the seasonal-only listening, as The Vince Guaraldi Trio’s soundtrack to Charles Schultz’s “Peanuts” classic “A Charlie Brown Christmas” is and forever will be great ...

When television producer Lee Mendelson heard jazz pianist/composer Vince Guaraldi's hit single "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" on his car radio, he thought he had found the right composer for the ...

That’s even less likely now, as jazz recedes into the history books or the background of dinner parties, said Nathaniel Sloan, musicologist at the University of Southern California and co-host of the ...

NEW YORK — The Mendelson family would love to find the envelope where their father, Lee, scribbled some lyrics to jazz musician Vince Guaraldi's composition "Christmas Time is Here" for an animated TV ...

What songs put you instantly in the Christmas mood?<BR><BR>For me, it's the Peanuts Christmas Song from the cartoon special.<BR>There's just something so slow and melancholy about it. It makes me ...

Maybe this is the reason why you can't hear the adults on Peanuts TV specials. By Ashley Iasimone A local community theater director, accurately portrayed by Martin Short, comes in to critique a ...

A mere 56 years separate “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” a television classic, from Apple TV+’s new “Snoopy Presents: For Auld Lang Syne,” a television special. (Snoopy is the brand leader now.) The ...

For almost 50 years, Charles M. Schulz wrote and drew the Peanuts comic strip, which introduced the world to Charlie Brown, his dog, Snoopy, and their supporting cast of memorable characters. However, ...