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 bassist Fred Marshall (who later married Bev Bivens of the folk-rock group We Five) and drummer Jerry Granelli. Guaraldi went on to compose scores for sixteen Peanuts television specials and the full-length movie "A Boy Named Charlie Brown."
Thank you very much for re-adding me! As always, this is great tribute site for Vince! Also - did you happen to see the short documentary about Vince, included in the "Peanuts - 1960s Collection" boxset? It was excellent!
A damn good version of The Half-Blood Prince holding his Advanced Potions book. I would be in Advanced Potions with him. Lots of love and kisses to you. ~Donna
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