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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsA Charlie Brown Christmas is on tonight! -
on ABC "check your local time" etc.
meow2u3
(24,768 posts)Tuned in right now.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,839 posts)I have a particular attachment to "A Charlie Brown Christmas," since we did the play in school - and I was Charlie Brown. It was an all girls' school.
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)along with "Its The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown." We can watch it anytime and best of all, they're aren't cut for the modern commercial load. Each episode is 25:30 in length. How did networks ever survive with only four and half minutes of commercials per half-hour block?
Rhiannon12866
(205,839 posts)I could probably find it online, but it's not quite the same. I used to work with CBS and they had them all, Charlie Brown, The (animated) Grinch, etc., but I remember hearing they were selling them off. And I should probably consider owning it, too, since there is so little worth watching on network TV, these days, that it's no longer on my radar. :
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,839 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,458 posts)Here's the inspiration for all the music Vince produced for the Charlie Brown specials (It's hard to pick-up with the jazzy Christmas standards, but it's definitely there):
Boomerproud
(7,963 posts)Thanks so much for posting!
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,458 posts)I hope Brubeck, another native Californian jazz man made your list.
My list would include still another native Californian, Johnny Otis performing his signature song, Earle Hagen's Harlem Nocturne (Rene Bloch on Alto Sax totally nailed the Film noir sound).
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)aficionado. Yet at age 12 one of my first 45 rpm purchases was Cast Your Fate to the Wind by Sounds Orchestral.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)I love the Peanuts gang.