Five years ago, 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' producer Lee Mendelson and soundtrack drummer Jerry Granelli spoke to us about the enduring seasonal fave
aired 50 years ago, on December 9th, 1965. Over the years, the special has become a perennial classic: the 25-minute story of wistful Charlie Brown and his struggle to find the true meaning of Christmas in the face of holiday-season commercialism. “I almost wish there weren’t a holiday season,” he sighs, at the story’s beginning. “I know nobody likes me.
“We went in and did it in three hours,” recalls Granelli, who was only 24 at the time. “That’s just the way jazz records were recorded. I think we even went to work in a club that night.” Some of the songs were already part of the group’s repertoire. “We were improvising all the time, so each night, the song kind of evolved.”
, it is the centerpiece of the soundtrack, capturing a moment when inner anxieties subside and the season feels fleetingly fine. “My playing is really very simple on that record, but it’s exactly what captures the story,” says Granelli. “It moves the music forward doing very little. Just the way the brush starts on ‘Linus and Lucy,’ so it doesn’t conflict with the bass line, and then it goes to the Latin part, and then it goes back to the left hand, the conga drum part.
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