A “Camp”-y Film: The 45th Anniversary of “Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown”
The New York Times called the film “…a series of droll blackout sketches, many of them ending with the obligatory ‘Good Grief!’
The New York Times called the film “…a series of droll blackout sketches, many of them ending with the obligatory ‘Good Grief!’
Our instruments are beginning to give indication that we are nearing our final destination.
Pencils down. Those of you who have reached this stage may consider yourself as achieving a passing grade. Class dismissed!
What better way to celebrate Peanuts than with fine jazz artists playing music from and inspired by the animated specials and the comic strip from which they sprang forth?
A look at the Emmy-nominated Peanuts TV special as brought to a wide selection of recorded products in the late 1970s as part of Disney’s Charlie Brown Records line.
Charlie Brown and Snoopy were so part of the national zeitgeist, they were included in the Apollo project, and the fact and whimsy was captured on two very different 1969 records.
The classic Peanuts TV special about the ending of summer was also the last of the 1960’s specials and the penultimate release in the line of Charlie Brown Records.
I got the “Great Pumpkin” record album! I got the cassette! I got the new “Peanuts Movie” CD soundtrack! I got a vinyl one! …I got a rock.
“The spin is in” for a lesser-known 1973 TV cast album based on an even lesser known NBC TV presentation of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. YOU’RE A GOOD…
Who were the first people to play Charlie Brown and Lucy before the TV specials? Who played the singing Snoopy and Linus before the stage show? Charles M. Schulz was…
