A Charlie Brown Christmas Soundtrack • Vince Guaraldi

Christmas Song of the Day: A Charlie Brown Christmas Soundtrack (Today is Christmas Songs Day 4)

Day 3 was Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, performed by Judy Garland.

Today, Day 4, we lighten the mood a little with a focus on the 1965 TV Special, A Charlie Brown Christmas. And more specifically, we focus on the Soundtrack, which has become a Christmas classic.

A Charlie Brown Christmas is the eighth studio album by American jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi (later credited to the Vince Guaraldi Trio). The album was released in December 1965 in the U.S. by Fantasy Records and was Guaraldi's final studio album for the label. It is the soundtrack to the Christmas television special of the same name.

A Charlie Brown Christmas is a 1965 animated television special, and is the first TV special based on the comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. The program made its debut on CBS on December 9, 1965. In this special, Charlie Brown, finds himself depressed despite the onset of the cheerful holiday season. Lucy suggests he direct a neighborhood Christmas play, but his best efforts are ignored and mocked by his peers.

After Linus tells Charlie Brown about the true meaning of Christmas, Charlie Brown cheers up, and the Peanuts gang unites to celebrate the Christmas season.

On August 19, 2016, the Recording Industry Association of America certified the Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack album quadruple platinum for sales of four million copies.

A Charlie Brown Christmas first appeared on a Billboard magazine music sales chart on the week of December 19, 1987, when it debuted and peaked at No. 13 on the Billboard chart.

Christmas Albums sales chart. The album charted on the Billboard Christmas Albums chart every Christmas/holiday season from 1988 through 2003, peaking as high as No. 8 in both 2001 and 2002. The album also charted on other Billboard charts during the Christmas/holiday season every year from 1991 through 2003, peaking as high as No. 6 in 2001. In November 2014, it was the tenth best-selling Christmas/holiday Album in the United States during the SoundScan era.

A Charlie Brown Christmas was also the tenth best-selling holiday album of 2011, a year that marked the sixth time since 2001 that the album had ranked among the year's top 10 Christmas albums. It was also the ninth best-selling album of 2013.

I think you get the idea. Many of us grew up with this music, and it has become a delightful and treasured and sentimental part of each Christmas season. If you haven’t taken time to listen to that wonderful album in a while, I hope you’ll add it to your Playlist for Christmas this year. It will warm your soul.