Lee Mendelson, the longtime producer of 'Peanuts' TV specials who wrote the lyrics for the yuletide classic 'Christmas Time Is Here,' died on Christmas Day at the age of 86
. “It wasn’t great for us, but to have him pass on Christmas really ties into his history and legacy,” his sons said.creator Charles Schulz after the cartoonist saw Mendelson’s documentary about baseball legend Willie Mays in 1963.
The plan originally was for Mendelson’s production company to make a documentary about theA Charlie Brown ChristmasMendelson is also credited with hiring Vince Guaraldi, a fellow Bay Area resident who caught Mendelson’s era with a jazz tribute to the Golden Gate Bridge, to do music for the television special. The result was one of the most beloved Christmas albums;
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