Vince Guaraldi Trio: A Charlie Brown Christmas (2022 gold foil limited edition) [CRAFT]

Why you'll love it

This limited 2022 edition wraps the jacket in gold foil, with the Peanuts gang and their little tree embossed. The soundtrack is in the Grammy Hall of Fame and the National Recording Registry, and Billboard named it the greatest holiday album of all time in 2021.

This edition

• Gold foil jacket
• Embossed artwork
• Limited edition
• Bonus track

About the album

The Vince Guaraldi Trio's score for the 1965 holiday special A Charlie Brown Christmas (originally commissioned by the Coca-Cola company, if you're into trivia) is one of our perennial best-sellers here at Kops Records, right up there with evergreens like Fleetwood Mac's Rumours and Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. And it's easy to see why. Jazz pianist Guaraldi's soundtracks to the TV shorts based on Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts comic strip are inseparable from the cartoons at this point, and none more so than this one: those tinsel-twinkling piano lines, nimble basslines and weightless rhythms have come to sound like Christmas to generations who grew up watching that ageless little show every year.

Most of the score is Guaraldi's own, although he did bring in a children's choir (paid in ice cream) to sing a few standards like "O Tannenbaum" and "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" to leaven the jazzbo vibe here and there, and despite being rather unconventional for the time it has struck enough of a chord, year in and year out, to become conventional. "Linus and Lucy" and "Christmas Time Is Here" are the ones everybody hums.

It's now certified six times platinum in the US, making it the best-selling jazz album of all time. You'll get no argument from us.

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Tracklist

Listen

On Fantasy / Craft, a reissue of the 1965 soundtrack.