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A Boy Named Charlie Brown Complete Soundtrack v3.1 (12/04/1969)
Original music composed by Vince Guaraldi Sextet, Rod McKuen and John Scott Trotter
"Well the world is full of lots of people,
Here and there and all around.
But people after all,
Start out as being small,
We're all A Boy Named Charlie Brown."
see below
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SYNOPSIS
Poor Charlie Brown. He can't fly a kite, and he always loses in baseball.
Having his faults projected onto a screen by Lucy doesn't help him much either.
Against the sage advice and taunting of the girls in his class, he volunteers for the class spelling
bee...and wins! Next, it's the school spelling bee. Once again, a winner! Good grief! Now the pressure is
on as he is off to New York City for the televised national spelling bee. With Snoopy and Linus present
for moral support, can Charlie Brown spell his way to a national championship?
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ABOUT THE SOUNDTRACK
A Boy Named Charlie Brown, includes several original songs, some of which boasted vocals for the first time:
"Failure Face", "I Before E Except After C" and "Champion Charlie Brown.
The instrumental tracks interspersed throughout the movie were composed by Vince Guaraldi and arranged by
John Scott Trotter (who also wrote "I Before E Except After C").
The music consisted mostly of uptempo jazz tunes that had been heard since some of the earliest
Peanuts television specials aired back in 1965; however, for A Boy Named Charlie Brown, they were
given a more "theatrical" treatment, with lusher horn-filled arrangements. Instrumental tracks
used in the film included "Skating" (first heard in A Charlie Brown Christmas) and "Baseball Theme"
(first heard in Charlie Brown's All-Stars).
Guaraldi and Trotter were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score for their work on
A Boy Named Charlie Brown.
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THE COMPLETE SOUNDTRACK - "The Soundtrack That Almost Was" part 1
What's new in this version 3?
The audio is High quality for most tracks; You'll love the way it sounds!
- I creditted Ingolf Dahl for playing that beautiful Beethoven Track "#27 Path�tique Sonata in C minor Op. 13".
For all of you Beethoven finatics, you may notice that a portion of the (fast paced) third movement is played first
(only about 49 seconds). Briefly pausing, the (slower) second movement is then played; this of course
was Guaraldi's original arrangement to match the psychadelic film images floating by.
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THE COMPLETE SOUNDTRACK (part 2)
- Track "#46 Champion Charlie Brown (unused jazz version)" by the Vince Guaraldi Sextet is unusual in that
Rod McKuen had written the original as a vocal, but here Vince plays it in his typical jazzy style.
- Track #48 Skating (complete unused version)"; I was finally able to locate Vince Guaraldi's extended
version of "Skating" from this movie (without the "Blue Puck" interruption).
You'll notice immediately the instrumentation is quite different from the movie version and is quite long.
- Track "#49 Something For Snoopy" was originally written by Rod McKuen as an instrumental for the movie,
but was eventually not used in the film. Rod also supplied his own "Piano" style interpretations of
"Failure Face", "Champion Charlie Brown" and a laid back version of "A Boy Named Charlie Brown"
(not to be confused with the movie version you know and love).
- Track "#57 Bus Wheel Blues (ext. no harp)" by John Scott Trotter is an extended version,
without the annoying harp.
_________________________________
P.S.
For all of you Guaraldi / Peanuts fans, here is a link to an article from the Internet
http://impressionsofvince.blogspot.com/2012/06/soundtrack-that-almost-was.html
written by Derrick Bang that goes into great detail explaining the history of every track on
"A Boy Named Charlie Brown" soundtrack.
You may notice that sometimes my track names and/or song combinations do not match Derrick's exactly.
The reasoning is this: the review sometimes lists 2-3 songs grouped together ex. a,b,c since they have
a common thread. I elected to keep each track separate (whenever possible) to facilate the timeline
in my track list below.
I do, however want to thank Derrick for providing the template and the inspiration to produce this album.
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INFILM TRACK
00:00 01. Champion Charlie Brown (logo) - Rod McKuen (00:13.975)
00:15 02. Cloud Dreams - John Scott Trotter (00:59.520)
01:21 03. Champion Charlie Brown (Main Title) - Rod McKuen (00:44.904)
02:03 04. A Boy Named Charlie Brown (vocal movie version) - Rod McKuen (02:45)
04:45 05. Kite Music (Lucifer's Lady sax version) - Vince Guaraldi Sextet (01:54.712)
06:39 06. Charlie Brown And His All-Stars - Vince Guaraldi Sextet (01:51.909)
08:32 07. Star Spangled Banner - Vince Guaraldi Sextet (01:01.100)
09:32 08. Percussion Swinger, Baseball Theme - Vince Guaraldi Sextet (01:13.250)
11:40 09. Baseball Theme2 - Vince Guaraldi Sextet (02:01.159)
14:11 10. Baseball Theme3 - Vince Guaraldi Sextet (01:35.036)
15:44 11. A Boy Named Charlie Brown (We Lost Again) - Rod McKuen (02:28.401)
18:13 12. Air Music, The Red Baron Strikes Again, Air Music2 - Vince Guaraldi Sextet, John Scott Trotter (02:43)
20:55 13. Blue Charlie Brown - Vince Guaraldi Sextet (04:04.793)
26:36 14. Blue Charlie Brown2 - Vince Guaraldi Sextet (00:26)
27:07 15. Champion Charlie Brown (dirge) - Rod McKuen (00:21.968)
27:25 16. Linus & Lucy (slow, Time To Go To School) - Vince Guaraldi Sextet (01:19.464)
28:45 17. Champion Charlie Brown (I Only Dread One Day At A Time) - Rod McKuen (01:37.008)
30:21 18. Failure Face (children vocal) - Rod McKuen (00:48.509)
31:09 19. Catatonic Blues (By Golly I'll Show Em) - John Scott Trotter (00:28.995)
35:09 20. 'I' Before 'E' (vocal) - John Scott Trotter, Bill Melendez (03:35.693)
40:07 21. 'I' Before 'E' (mouth harp echo) - John Scott Trotter, Bill Melendez (00:15.047)
40:35 22. Champion Charlie Brown (children vocal) - Rod McKuen (01:09.936)
45:54 23. Oh Good Grief - Vince Guaraldi Sextet (00:50.136)
46:44 24. Champion Charlie Brown (traveling music) - Rod McKuen (01:13.769)
47:57 25. Champion Charlie Brown (bus takes off), Boy Named Charlie - Rod McKuen (00:32.235)
48:32 26. A Boy Named Charlie Brown (checks into his room) - Rod McKuen (00:31.776)
49:03 27. Path�tique Sonata in C minor Op. 13 3rd movement, 2nd movement) - Ingolf Dahl, Ludwig Von Beethoven (04:27.728)
53:49 28. Linus and Lucy (minor key, I've Got To Get My Blanket Back) - Vince Guaraldi Sextet (01:25.992)
55:24 29. Bus Wheel Blues (no harp) - John Scott Trotter (01:13.800)
56:38 30. A Boy Named Charlie Brown (Big City) - Rod McKuen (01:37.392)
58:19 31. Champion Charlie Brown (march-style fanfare, Snoopy & Linus Arrive) - Rod McKuen (00:12.979)
60:39 32. Linus and Lucy (minor-key, Searching The City) - Vince Guaraldi Sextet (00:56.304)
61:54 33. Skating, Blue Puck, Skating2 (Snoopy on Ice) - Vince Guaraldi Sextet, John Scott Trotter (03:20.208)
65:15 34. Linus and Lucy (flutes minor-key, Where Is It) - Vince Guaraldi Sextet (01:21.972)
68:10 35. Linus and Lucy (upbeat, Found Blanket) - Vince Guaraldi Sextet (01:02.615)
69:09 36. Champion Charlie Brown (big band swing) - Rod McKuen (01:21.763)
70:51 37. Blue Charlie Brown3 (watch on television) - Vince Guaraldi Sextet (00:29.178)
76:38 38. A Boy Named Charlie Brown (saddest-yet instr.) - Rod McKuen (00:28.908)
77:11 39. Bus Wheel Blues Reprise (harp) - John Scott Trotter (00:47.681)
78:09 40. A Boy Named Charlie Brown (dirge-like instr., Homecoming) - Rod McKuen (02:05.208)
80:11 41. Charlie Brown And His All-Stars2 (electric guitar, Never Going To School Again) � Vince Guaraldi Sextet (02:00.576)
82:12 42. A Boy Named Charlie Brown (happier instr., Welcome Home Charlie Brown) - Rod McKuen (01:09)
83:21 43. A Boy Named Charlie Brown Reprise (vocal movie version) - Rod McKuen (02:33)
----- BONUS TRACKS -----
..... 44. Linus & Lucy (Found Blanket alt.) - Vince Guaraldi Sextet (00:23.562)
..... 45. Champion Charlie Brown (alt.) � Rod McKuen (00:13.959)
..... 46. Champion Charlie Brown (unused jazz version) � Vince Guaraldi Sextet, Rod McKuen (01:01.580)
..... 47. 'I' Before 'E' (instr.) � John Scott Trotter, Bill Melenendez (03:35.102)
..... 48. Skating (ext. unused version) - Vince Guaraldi Sextet (01:34.902)
..... 49. Something For Snoopy (instr.) � Rod McKuen (01:41.625)
..... 50. Champion Charlie Brown (alt. vocal1) � Rod McKuen (02:27.548)
..... 51. Champion Charlie Brown (alt. vocal2 echo) � Rod McKuen (02:17.021)
..... 52. Failure Face (alt. instr.) � Rod McKuen (02:04.090)
..... 53. Failure Face (alt. vocal) � Rod McKuen (02:01.504)
..... 54. A Boy Named Charlie Brown (alt. vocal) � Rod McKuen (02:41.001)
..... 55. Champion Charlie Brown (logo alt.) - Rod McKuen (00:23)
..... 56. Air Music, The Red Baron Strikes Again (alt.) - Vince Guaraldi Sextet, John Scott Trotter (02:11)
..... 57. Bus Wheel Blues (ext. no harp) - John Scott Trotter (02:07)
..... 58. Champion Charlie Brown (transition) - Rod McKuen (00:17)
..... 59. Skating, Blue Puck, Skating2 (Snoopy on Ice alt.) - Vince Guaraldi, John Scott Trotter (06:24)
..... 60. Sonata in C Minor Opus 13 3rd movement - Ludwig Von Beethoven, Vince Guaraldi Sextet (00:29)
..... 61. Dialogue (Linus, Charlie Brown) - Glenn Gilger, Peter Robbins (00:19)
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Original music composed by Vince Guaraldi Sextet, Rod McKuen and John Scott Trotter
"Well the world is full of lots of people,
Here and there and all around.
But people after all,
Start out as being small,
We're all A Boy Named Charlie Brown."
see below
_________________________________
SYNOPSIS
Poor Charlie Brown. He can't fly a kite, and he always loses in baseball.
Having his faults projected onto a screen by Lucy doesn't help him much either.
Against the sage advice and taunting of the girls in his class, he volunteers for the class spelling
bee...and wins! Next, it's the school spelling bee. Once again, a winner! Good grief! Now the pressure is
on as he is off to New York City for the televised national spelling bee. With Snoopy and Linus present
for moral support, can Charlie Brown spell his way to a national championship?
_________________________________
ABOUT THE SOUNDTRACK
A Boy Named Charlie Brown, includes several original songs, some of which boasted vocals for the first time:
"Failure Face", "I Before E Except After C" and "Champion Charlie Brown.
The instrumental tracks interspersed throughout the movie were composed by Vince Guaraldi and arranged by
John Scott Trotter (who also wrote "I Before E Except After C").
The music consisted mostly of uptempo jazz tunes that had been heard since some of the earliest
Peanuts television specials aired back in 1965; however, for A Boy Named Charlie Brown, they were
given a more "theatrical" treatment, with lusher horn-filled arrangements. Instrumental tracks
used in the film included "Skating" (first heard in A Charlie Brown Christmas) and "Baseball Theme"
(first heard in Charlie Brown's All-Stars).
Guaraldi and Trotter were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score for their work on
A Boy Named Charlie Brown.
_________________________________
THE COMPLETE SOUNDTRACK - "The Soundtrack That Almost Was" part 1
What's new in this version 3?
The audio is High quality for most tracks; You'll love the way it sounds!
- I creditted Ingolf Dahl for playing that beautiful Beethoven Track "#27 Path�tique Sonata in C minor Op. 13".
For all of you Beethoven finatics, you may notice that a portion of the (fast paced) third movement is played first
(only about 49 seconds). Briefly pausing, the (slower) second movement is then played; this of course
was Guaraldi's original arrangement to match the psychadelic film images floating by.
_________________________________
THE COMPLETE SOUNDTRACK (part 2)
- Track "#46 Champion Charlie Brown (unused jazz version)" by the Vince Guaraldi Sextet is unusual in that
Rod McKuen had written the original as a vocal, but here Vince plays it in his typical jazzy style.
- Track #48 Skating (complete unused version)"; I was finally able to locate Vince Guaraldi's extended
version of "Skating" from this movie (without the "Blue Puck" interruption).
You'll notice immediately the instrumentation is quite different from the movie version and is quite long.
- Track "#49 Something For Snoopy" was originally written by Rod McKuen as an instrumental for the movie,
but was eventually not used in the film. Rod also supplied his own "Piano" style interpretations of
"Failure Face", "Champion Charlie Brown" and a laid back version of "A Boy Named Charlie Brown"
(not to be confused with the movie version you know and love).
- Track "#57 Bus Wheel Blues (ext. no harp)" by John Scott Trotter is an extended version,
without the annoying harp.
_________________________________
P.S.
For all of you Guaraldi / Peanuts fans, here is a link to an article from the Internet
http://impressionsofvince.blogspot.com/2012/06/soundtrack-that-almost-was.html
written by Derrick Bang that goes into great detail explaining the history of every track on
"A Boy Named Charlie Brown" soundtrack.
You may notice that sometimes my track names and/or song combinations do not match Derrick's exactly.
The reasoning is this: the review sometimes lists 2-3 songs grouped together ex. a,b,c since they have
a common thread. I elected to keep each track separate (whenever possible) to facilate the timeline
in my track list below.
I do, however want to thank Derrick for providing the template and the inspiration to produce this album.
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INFILM TRACK
00:00 01. Champion Charlie Brown (logo) - Rod McKuen (00:13.975)
00:15 02. Cloud Dreams - John Scott Trotter (00:59.520)
01:21 03. Champion Charlie Brown (Main Title) - Rod McKuen (00:44.904)
02:03 04. A Boy Named Charlie Brown (vocal movie version) - Rod McKuen (02:45)
04:45 05. Kite Music (Lucifer's Lady sax version) - Vince Guaraldi Sextet (01:54.712)
06:39 06. Charlie Brown And His All-Stars - Vince Guaraldi Sextet (01:51.909)
08:32 07. Star Spangled Banner - Vince Guaraldi Sextet (01:01.100)
09:32 08. Percussion Swinger, Baseball Theme - Vince Guaraldi Sextet (01:13.250)
11:40 09. Baseball Theme2 - Vince Guaraldi Sextet (02:01.159)
14:11 10. Baseball Theme3 - Vince Guaraldi Sextet (01:35.036)
15:44 11. A Boy Named Charlie Brown (We Lost Again) - Rod McKuen (02:28.401)
18:13 12. Air Music, The Red Baron Strikes Again, Air Music2 - Vince Guaraldi Sextet, John Scott Trotter (02:43)
20:55 13. Blue Charlie Brown - Vince Guaraldi Sextet (04:04.793)
26:36 14. Blue Charlie Brown2 - Vince Guaraldi Sextet (00:26)
27:07 15. Champion Charlie Brown (dirge) - Rod McKuen (00:21.968)
27:25 16. Linus & Lucy (slow, Time To Go To School) - Vince Guaraldi Sextet (01:19.464)
28:45 17. Champion Charlie Brown (I Only Dread One Day At A Time) - Rod McKuen (01:37.008)
30:21 18. Failure Face (children vocal) - Rod McKuen (00:48.509)
31:09 19. Catatonic Blues (By Golly I'll Show Em) - John Scott Trotter (00:28.995)
35:09 20. 'I' Before 'E' (vocal) - John Scott Trotter, Bill Melendez (03:35.693)
40:07 21. 'I' Before 'E' (mouth harp echo) - John Scott Trotter, Bill Melendez (00:15.047)
40:35 22. Champion Charlie Brown (children vocal) - Rod McKuen (01:09.936)
45:54 23. Oh Good Grief - Vince Guaraldi Sextet (00:50.136)
46:44 24. Champion Charlie Brown (traveling music) - Rod McKuen (01:13.769)
47:57 25. Champion Charlie Brown (bus takes off), Boy Named Charlie - Rod McKuen (00:32.235)
48:32 26. A Boy Named Charlie Brown (checks into his room) - Rod McKuen (00:31.776)
49:03 27. Path�tique Sonata in C minor Op. 13 3rd movement, 2nd movement) - Ingolf Dahl, Ludwig Von Beethoven (04:27.728)
53:49 28. Linus and Lucy (minor key, I've Got To Get My Blanket Back) - Vince Guaraldi Sextet (01:25.992)
55:24 29. Bus Wheel Blues (no harp) - John Scott Trotter (01:13.800)
56:38 30. A Boy Named Charlie Brown (Big City) - Rod McKuen (01:37.392)
58:19 31. Champion Charlie Brown (march-style fanfare, Snoopy & Linus Arrive) - Rod McKuen (00:12.979)
60:39 32. Linus and Lucy (minor-key, Searching The City) - Vince Guaraldi Sextet (00:56.304)
61:54 33. Skating, Blue Puck, Skating2 (Snoopy on Ice) - Vince Guaraldi Sextet, John Scott Trotter (03:20.208)
65:15 34. Linus and Lucy (flutes minor-key, Where Is It) - Vince Guaraldi Sextet (01:21.972)
68:10 35. Linus and Lucy (upbeat, Found Blanket) - Vince Guaraldi Sextet (01:02.615)
69:09 36. Champion Charlie Brown (big band swing) - Rod McKuen (01:21.763)
70:51 37. Blue Charlie Brown3 (watch on television) - Vince Guaraldi Sextet (00:29.178)
76:38 38. A Boy Named Charlie Brown (saddest-yet instr.) - Rod McKuen (00:28.908)
77:11 39. Bus Wheel Blues Reprise (harp) - John Scott Trotter (00:47.681)
78:09 40. A Boy Named Charlie Brown (dirge-like instr., Homecoming) - Rod McKuen (02:05.208)
80:11 41. Charlie Brown And His All-Stars2 (electric guitar, Never Going To School Again) � Vince Guaraldi Sextet (02:00.576)
82:12 42. A Boy Named Charlie Brown (happier instr., Welcome Home Charlie Brown) - Rod McKuen (01:09)
83:21 43. A Boy Named Charlie Brown Reprise (vocal movie version) - Rod McKuen (02:33)
----- BONUS TRACKS -----
..... 44. Linus & Lucy (Found Blanket alt.) - Vince Guaraldi Sextet (00:23.562)
..... 45. Champion Charlie Brown (alt.) � Rod McKuen (00:13.959)
..... 46. Champion Charlie Brown (unused jazz version) � Vince Guaraldi Sextet, Rod McKuen (01:01.580)
..... 47. 'I' Before 'E' (instr.) � John Scott Trotter, Bill Melenendez (03:35.102)
..... 48. Skating (ext. unused version) - Vince Guaraldi Sextet (01:34.902)
..... 49. Something For Snoopy (instr.) � Rod McKuen (01:41.625)
..... 50. Champion Charlie Brown (alt. vocal1) � Rod McKuen (02:27.548)
..... 51. Champion Charlie Brown (alt. vocal2 echo) � Rod McKuen (02:17.021)
..... 52. Failure Face (alt. instr.) � Rod McKuen (02:04.090)
..... 53. Failure Face (alt. vocal) � Rod McKuen (02:01.504)
..... 54. A Boy Named Charlie Brown (alt. vocal) � Rod McKuen (02:41.001)
..... 55. Champion Charlie Brown (logo alt.) - Rod McKuen (00:23)
..... 56. Air Music, The Red Baron Strikes Again (alt.) - Vince Guaraldi Sextet, John Scott Trotter (02:11)
..... 57. Bus Wheel Blues (ext. no harp) - John Scott Trotter (02:07)
..... 58. Champion Charlie Brown (transition) - Rod McKuen (00:17)
..... 59. Skating, Blue Puck, Skating2 (Snoopy on Ice alt.) - Vince Guaraldi, John Scott Trotter (06:24)
..... 60. Sonata in C Minor Opus 13 3rd movement - Ludwig Von Beethoven, Vince Guaraldi Sextet (00:29)
..... 61. Dialogue (Linus, Charlie Brown) - Glenn Gilger, Peter Robbins (00:19)
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