It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown / Charlie Brown All Stars!
Available March 20, 2026, on Vinyl, CD, and Digital
TWO SOUNDTRACKS on One Album, Plus Bonus Tracks not used in the Peanuts Animated Specials
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of 1976’s It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown AND the 60th Anniversary of the second Peanuts special, 1966’s Charlie Brown All Stars!, this Extended Soundtrack is Perfect for Any Peanuts or Guaraldi Fan.
2026 marks the 75th Anniversary of Vince Guaraldi starting his professional music recording career, and it has also been 50 years since Guaraldi passed away unexpectedly on February 6, 1976, the same day he recorded Arbor Day.
It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown / Charlie Brown All Stars! (Original Soundtrack Recordings) (50th Extended and 60th Anniversary Editions)” is sure to be another classic album. It joins the beloved and expanding Guaraldi Peanuts discography, which includes A Charlie Brown Christmas, the 5x platinum-certified album that Billboard called the “greatest holiday album of all time,” and:
Available March 20, 2026, on Vinyl, CD, and Digital
TWO SOUNDTRACKS on One Album, Plus Bonus Tracks not used in the Peanuts Animated Specials
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of 1976’s It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown AND the 60th Anniversary of the second Peanuts special, 1966’s Charlie Brown All Stars!, this Extended Soundtrack is Perfect for Any Peanuts or Guaraldi Fan.
2026 marks the 75th Anniversary of Vince Guaraldi starting his professional music recording career, and it has also been 50 years since Guaraldi passed away unexpectedly on February 6, 1976, the same day he recorded Arbor Day.
It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown / Charlie Brown All Stars! (Original Soundtrack Recordings) (50th Extended and 60th Anniversary Editions)” is sure to be another classic album. It joins the beloved and expanding Guaraldi Peanuts discography, which includes A Charlie Brown Christmas, the 5x platinum-certified album that Billboard called the “greatest holiday album of all time,” and:
- It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (2022)
- A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (2023)
- It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown (2024)
- You’re Not Elected, Charlie Brown (2024)
- Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown (2025)
- It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown! (2025)
- You’re a Good Sport, Charlie Brown (2025)
Available on 12” 33 RPM Black BioVinyl LP in a Gatefold Jacket, CD and digitally
Also Available on Forest Green 12” 33 RPM BioVinyl LP And CD
Lee Mendelson Film Productions (LMFP) is thrilled to announce the first-ever release of Vince Guaraldi’s complete soundtrack for It’s Arbor Day, Charlie Brown, the 15th animated Peanuts special, from writer and creator Charles Schulz, director Phil Roman, and producers Bill Melendez and Lee Mendelson. Originally airing fifty years ago on March 16, 1976, on CBS-TV, the special went on to be nominated for the Emmy for Outstanding Children’s program.
The album also includes the first-ever release of Guaraldi's soundtrack for 1966's Charlie Brown's All Stars!, the second animated Peanuts special, a summer baseball-themed follow-up to 1965’s A Charlie Brown Christmas. It aired June 8, 1966 on CBS-TV, and was also nominated for the Emmy for Outstanding Children's program. Both specials are currently available for streaming on Apple TV.
The full soundtrack album includes 24 tracks comprising the scores from both specials: 17 tracks from “Arbor Day,” including two bonus alternate tracks of “Jay Sterling Morton Jazz” and “Happy Arbor Day Charlie Brown," and the “Charlie Brown’s All Stars!” score mixed into 7 tracks. Both scores include “Rain, Rain, Go Away,” one of the most beautiful compositions Guaraldi ever wrote, and through their book-ended presentation, allow the listener to experience the evolution of Guaraldi across the over ten years that he composed and performed for Peanuts.
“Rain, Rain, Go Away (Rain Gentle Rain)” on the “Arbor Day album was one of the final songs Guaraldi ever recorded. Laid down on the afternoon of February 6, 1976 at Wally Heider Studio in San Francisco, he unexpectedly passed away while performing at Butterfield’s in Menlo Park only a few hours later. Guaraldi was only 47. His music and legacy are preserved in the specials, and in his recordings.
Now 50 years later, you can hear his great compositions and performances from 13 years of making Peanuts music, for the first time on record, CD, and in digital presentations of the music.
Across the two soundtracks, there are 24 tracks of music all composed and performed by Vince Guaraldi.
On All Stars, Guaraldi is joined by the Vince Guaraldi Sextet: Guaraldi on piano, Eugene “Puzzy” Firth on bass, Eddie Duran on guitar, John Coppola and Frank Snow on trumpet, and Lee Charlton on drums. This was recorded at Sound Recorders in San Francisco on May 13, 1966.
Vince Guaraldi returns to his original jazz trio roots on Arbor Day, performing with the Vince Guaraldi Trio: Guaraldi on piano, Seward McCain on bass, and Jim Zimmerman on drums. Long time bassist Seward McCain returns to upright bass for this score. They recorded at Wally Heider Studios in San Francisco on January 28, February 3 and 6, 1976.
The soundtrack was produced by Sean Mendelson and Jason Mendelson; Arbor Day was mixed at WonderWorld Studio by Grammy and Emmy Award-Winning mixing engineer Clark Germain, and both Arbor Day and All Stars were restored and re-mastered by Vinson Hudson (who has mastered all the LMFP releases).
To help celebrate Arbor Day and Earth Day, the Gatefold version of the record is made from BioVinyl sourced from used cooking oil or industrial waste gases to reduce our carbon footprint, and with sustainably forested paper in a compostable PLA bag. LMFP is proud to partner with the Arbor Day Foundation: for every physical copy of this album purchased in 2026, LMFP will plant one tree in a forest of need with the Arbor Day Foundation, with a minimum annual support of 12,000 trees planted. Purchases of the album will not be tax deductible.
