Day 7, Christmas music. Jazzed-up Peanuts Posted by linkmeister on 8 December 2012, 6:00 am Vince Guaraldi had already won a Grammy for his 1962 composition “Cast Your Fate to the Wind” when television producer Lee Mendelsohn heard it and got the pianist’s phone number. Mendelsohn needed a pianist to compose and play a score …
“Christmastime is Here” is a relatively recent Christmas song. It was written by Vince Guaraldi and Lee Mendelson for the original “A Charlie Brown Christmas” in 1965. This version is sung by Marc Martel and appears on his 2018 album The Christmas Collection.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Ms. Anita Baker. She had a rather odd career, filled with arguments with record companies and subsequent absences from the charts and radio. Her biggest hit was her second album, Rapture, released in 1986. A collection of “adult R&B”, it sold 8 million copies. She announced her retirement via Twitter in January …
Here’s Sarah McLachlan singing the Vince Guaraldi/Lee Mendelsen composition which first appeared in the TV special “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” It’s from McLachlan’s Wintersong album. The accompanist is Diana Krall. “>