Vince Guaraldi's Charlie Brown release debuts at #5 on the Billboard Kids Albums chart!

I received this timely media release from MVD Entertainment Group this morning. Great to see how composer/pianist Vince Guaraldi's music continues to resonate so many years after his untimely passing in 1976...Robert Kinsler

We are thrilled to announce that It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown by San Francisco jazz legend Vince Guaraldi has debuted on the Billboard Kids Albums Chart at #5!

 

Lee Mendelson Film Productions (LMFP) released  - for the first time ever, from recently rediscovered tapes - the complete Vince Guaraldi soundtrack to "It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown," the timeless 6th animated Peanuts® special, from writer and creator Charles Schulz, director Bill Melendez and producers Melendez and Lee Mendelson. Originally the special aired in September 27, 1969 on CBS-TV.

 

The album includes the original recordings that comprise the cues from the Special across twenty-six tracks, plus another 6 alternative tracks that have never been released or heard before.

 

Guaraldi lovingly created the soundtrack for the summer camp adventure where Charlie Brown and his gang face off against the girls camp lead by Peppermint Patty. The large jazz combo album also includes the best rendition of Guaraldi classic, "Love Will Come (Nova Bossa)" as well as the first use of additional percussion in Victor Feldman.

 

The recording features Guaraldi (piano), Monty Budwig (double bass), Jack Sperling (drums), Conti and Pete Candoli (trumpet), Frank Rosolino (trombone), Victor Feldman (percussion), Herb Ellis (guitar), Willian Hood and Peter Christlieb (woodwind), and John Scott Trotter as the orchestra leader. The soundtrack was produced by Sean and Jason Mendelson and restored and re-mastered by Vinson Hudson.