aaaaah my favorite holiday with my favorite holiday music. does anybody else love this cd? i wish i could post some pics of charlie brown's big round head but alas i'm not so good. but let me try....

this is one of my sweetie's favorite christmas CDs, and i'm really warming up to it...it's nice and melodic and catchy, but at the same time it's not so obtrusive that you can't hold conversations or open presents while it's playing.

heybaby said:

i did it!

i did it!

Anxiety said:

eventhough it is simply thought of as a holiday cd, it is really done well. Even though some may not like kids singing "christmas time is here" is nice.

I posted a thread discussing this yesterday:


A Charlie Brown Christmas (Original Soundtrack): Often imitated, often covered, never duplicated. Timeless, arguably the best original Christmas album ever with so many original Christmas standards ("Christmastime Is Here," "Skating," "Linus and Lucy"). One of my favorite jazz albums of all time. Of each track on here, which is a classic, the greatest is the moving "Greensleeves" that closes the album. It can bring tears to your eyes.

I've had George Winston's version of this for years and it's become a Christmas favorite. That and his December album.

Warms the heart.

heybaby, great avatar! I LOVE The Peanuts.

Coincidentially, "A Charlie Brown Christmas" is on ABC right now.

i think i'm gonna watch "a charlie brown christmas" this weekend - my boyfriend has the dvd (and his parents just got him a gigantic charlie brown w/ winter clothes modelled after that cartoon, and it's hanging out under the tree).

Anxiety said:

He is so cute.

GangstaFam said:

can't disagree! i can't wait till christmas, when he realizes i found the motherlode of snoopy tchotchke shops.

JANFAN4L said:

me and my kids were watching it.

JANFAN4L said:

don'tcha just love his round head!

heybaby said:

Haha! I love it! Thanks for all the cute pictures in here. Brought back some great memories.

I wish "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" was on DVD.

JANFAN4L said:

isn't it? it seems like just about all of 'em are on DVD. it might be coupled with another peanuts cartoon and offered as an extra on one of the DVDs...?

Best Christmas music there is.


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Anxiety said:

This is the message I got from Amazon.com:

A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969)

Availability: NOT YET RELEASED: The studio is currently not producing this title on DVD, but to be notified when it is available, enter your e-mail address at right. You'll also be voting for this release; we'll let the studio know how many customers are waiting for this title.

iMDB: Same thing.

heybaby said:

I was flipping through the channels tonight and, what can I say, when I saw "A Charlie Brown Christmas" on...my grown ass stopped flipping channels. This is one my favorite Christmas shows for the music alone. I have Grover Washington, Jr.'s version of "Christmas Time Is Here", which I absolutely love, but I have seriously considered buying the "A Charlie Brown Christmas" CD.

vainandy said:

Vain, I am also going to be the Charlie Brown CD b/c it is a hell of a classic and Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without it. This CD always conjures up wonderful times during Christmas pasts when I was a child.

Same with me too. It never really felt like Christmas until I had seen the Charlie Brown, Rudolph, and Frosty shows each year.

It isn't quite Christmas without hearing "Christmas Time is Here"-the vocal or instrumental version, either one.

Dallas band Chomsky does a great cover of it btw:

http://www.randysrodeo.co.../index.php

MrSquiggle said:

i just found this. it's a website where you can hear the charlie brown christmas soundtrack.http://wilstar.com/xmas/cbxmas.htm i think you can download them-i'm not sure.
[Edited 12/8/04 9:05am]

heybaby said:

He's such a blockhead!

I love that soundtrack, I have it on tape, yep old school tape. I need to pull that out and play it.. I missed the cartoon last night tho. I always watch it around the holidays. Linus' speech about the true meaning always gets to me.

This CD has been in my holiday collection for awhile. It gets played on the regular this time of year. Vince Guaraldi's music captured Charles Schulz's vision perfectly. You just can't imagine a Charlie Brown cartoon without it.