I only just learned that yesterday, 11/26, would have been Charles Schultz 100th birthday. Most of the comics I read online had tributes to Schultz yesterday or today. Unfortunately, Schulz passed away in 2000 at age 77. I saw this cartoon on Townhall.com - it's also on GoComics.com.
As soon as I started looking at the cartoon, this tune started playing in my head. While I think of it as being from the annual Halloween special, "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," the song's name is Linus and Lucy, by the great Vince Guaraldi Trio, and it appears in other shows.
Yeah, I grew up on the Peanuts comic strip like many of you; it was one of my favorites. I still have a soft spot for it. Old strips are still available.
He had quite a fight with the network (I have read) to get his Christmas special on as it was, but he didn't budge. They wanted Santa, he wanted Christmas.
ReplyDeleteI hear the song, to! Quite a catchy piano riff....
ReplyDeleteA man who can never be copied, only adored. I sure miss him.
ReplyDeleteMy Dad (RIP) purchased an entire boxed set of Charles Schultz Peanuts of books. Two sided, where one book was flipped over and another book was set back to back. I spent hours reading them, smiling and laughing out loud. Printed by Mattel (toy company), about nine volumes. None of the really old, but still - a bunch of great strips, fun for young and old.
ReplyDeleteI went out and tried to read a bunch of the memorials on GoComics.com. They were good. I do miss Charles Schultz's wit and humor.
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