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Vince Guaraldi: It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown/Charlie Brown's All Stars

by Joshua Weiner
April 8, 2026

The series of complete Peanuts television special soundtracks put out by Lee Mendelson Film Productions continues with a delightful disc coupling music from 1976's It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown with seven brief cues from 1966's Charlie Brown's All Stars. Vince Guaraldi's inimitable compositions and Latin jazz piano stylings first brought Charles Schulz's comic strip world of Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the gang to animated life in 1965 with the evergreen A Charlie Brown Christmas. Apart from its crucial role in ...