How Sacramento set the course for "A Charlie Brown Christmas" to become a holiday classic ...Middle East

While Charlie Brown looked for the meaning of Christmas, a local writer said how Sacramento may have started the whole jingle ball of wax. "I remember watching 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' when it debuted on December 9, 1965," said Derrick Bang, the author of "Vince Guaraldi at the Piano." It is a Christmas sound that's world-renowned. "As much as I loved the show, I was also transfixed by the music," Bang said. Bang wrote the book on Bay Area jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi. For 60 years, Guaraldi's "A Charlie Brown Christmas" has served as a holiday tradition.

TV producer Lee Mendelson heard it and asked Guaraldi to provide the music for a special on "Peanuts" creator Charles Schulz. "Having just mounted a television special on baseball great Willie Mays, decided that since he'd done a special on the world's greatest baseball player, he should then turn his attention to the world's worst baseball player, who, of course, was poor old Charlie Brown." Like Charlie Brown on the mound, that special flopped. What came next was holiday perfection. "He knew right then that they were going to have a franchise," Bang said. From boyhood fan to biographer, this local writer discovered how Sacramento set the course for a Christmas classic. "I hear from people constantly," Bang said, "who tell me that they decorate their trees, open their presents on Christmas day while listening to Guaraldi's soundtrack to 'A Charlie Brown Christmas.' It is ubiquitous." Guaraldi died in 1976. In 2021, Billboard listed 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' as its greatest Christmas album of all time.

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