Christmas Song of the Day-Linus and Lucy

The Vince Guaraldi Trio, a west-coast jazz group whose biggest hit was a few years previous with "Cast Your Fate To The Wind" became indelibly associated with Peanuts and Charlie Brown when they scored the classic "Charlie Brown Christmas" in 1965. The network suits were aghast at the jazz music that Charles Schultz, Bill Melendez and Lee Mendleson wanted to use. But the creators of the special stuck to their guns and were vindicated by history. "Linus and Lucy" which many people call "the Peanut's Theme" and all the music on the Vince Guaraldi soundtrack became, for many, the Sound of Christmas. Buyer's alert: A four CD box of Vince Guaraldi's Peanut's music has just been released. I give it 5 Snoopy Paws Up!