Vince Guaraldi

Vince Guaraldi

Vince GuaraldiVincent Anthony "Vince" Guaraldi (July 17, 1928 – February 6, 1976) was an Italian American jazz musician and pianist noted for his innovative compositions and arrangements and for composing music for animated adaptations of the Peanuts comic strip. Guaraldi was born in San Francisco, California. He graduated from Lincoln High School, attended San Francisco State University, and served as an Army cook in the Korean War.

While searching for just the right music to accompany a planned Peanuts television documentary, Lee Mendelson (the producer of the special) heard a single version of "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" by Vince Guaraldi's trio on the radio while traveling in a taxicab on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California. Mendelson contacted Ralph J. Gleason, jazz columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and was put in touch with Guaraldi. He proposed that Guaraldi score the upcoming Peanuts Christmas special and Guaraldi enthusiastically took the job, performing a version of what became "Linus and Lucy" over the phone two weeks later. The soundtrack was recorded by the Vince Guaraldi Trio, whose other members were Puzzy Firth standing in bassist for band member Fred Marshall, who was ill at the time, and drummer Jerry Granelli. Guaraldi went on to compose scores for sixteen Peanuts television specials, plus the feature film A Boy Named Charlie Brown as well as the unaired television program of the same name.

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Total 103 sheet(s) found, listing between 0 - 20.
Song Added By Pages Instruments Sheet Type File
Christmastime is Here jameswhy (3)
2033d ago
3 Piano, Guitar, Vocal Original
The Easy Peanuts Illustrated Songbook bagish207 (216)
3415d ago
112 Piano Book
Linus and Lucy bagish207 (216)
3425d ago
8 Piano Book
Linus and Lucy inzanesuave (17)
3895d ago
8 Piano Original
Linus and Lucy inzanesuave (17)
3895d ago
4 Piano Transcription
Linus and Lucy inzanesuave (17)
3895d ago
5 Piano Original
Charlie Brown Christmas bachrockshard (7)
4490d ago
35 Piano, Vocal Book
A Charlie Brown Christmas visconti.chic (10)
4501d ago
35 Piano Book
Linus and Lucy elfena (9)
4724d ago
4 Piano Other
Linus and Lucy jshthor (5)
4879d ago
8 Piano Transcription
cHARLIE bROWN THEME rhendo (1)
4897d ago
3 Piano Original
Christmas Time is Here zuvesta (16)
4925d ago
4 Piano Original
Ginza Samba Jochembraat (5)
4932d ago
2 Piano, Guitar Transcription
Charlie Brown Theme Song cmh0114 (1)
4958d ago
3 Piano, Guitar Other
Main Theme SinginSarahB (5)
4971d ago
3 Piano Fake
Linus & Lucy amandah (19)
4997d ago
5 Piano Original
Cast your fate to the wind dalekar333 (7)
5018d ago
2 Guitar Transcription
Cast Your Fate To The Wind sooperjed (53)
5037d ago
3 Piano, Guitar Original
Linus and Lucy annhtran2000 (19)
5045d ago
4 Piano Original
Linus and Lucy pianoplayuhh (1)
5052d ago
4 Piano Original