![]() ![]() ![]() Its nostalgia-fueled popularity has only grown, getting a crucial boost in 1998 when Starbucks began selling it in stores, and fed steadily by new products. ![]() The soundtrack has sold more than five million copies. A children's choir adds charm to "Christmas Time is Here." "O Tannenbaum" shifts from the traditional carol to a bass-driven groove. Guaraldi's cascading piano evokes both motion and lightly falling snow on "Skating." The driving melody of "Linus and Lucy" is the eternal backdrop to a swinging party. ![]() The special itself was a bit of an oddity: a cartoon story of the meaning of Christmas soundtracked by a sophisticated, mostly instrumental jazz trio of piano, bass and drum. Christmas just doesn't feel like Christmas without hearing that album in the background," said Derrick Bang, author of the biography "Vince Guaraldi at the Piano." Instead, "A Charlie Brown Christmas" became an indelible holiday tradition and so, too, has Guaraldi's music - perhaps even more so. No one even knew, once the special aired, whether it would ever be seen again. The producer always said it had taken less than half an hour to write, and he likely tossed the scrap of paper away. ![]()
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