Here's a Xmas song so nice they put it on the album twice. Though some sheltered souls didn't grow up watching the classics (i.e. Erin, who just saw the Grinch for the first time - the real one, not the Ron Howard/Jim Carrey/Mr. Noodle freakfest), for me it wouldn't be the holidays without "A Charlie Brown Xmas" - or at least the soundtrack.
In the years before the CBX CD became a ubiquitous staple of year-end commerce, getting a dub of the vinyl on cassette as a kid was like finding buried treasure. When I went to college, there was an awesome record store in the Commons that acted as a source for many a classic album. This was the first of three Vince Guaraldi albums I picked up there; shockingly it was the only Peanuts-related one.
We were just at the Commons; the store is no longer there. Probably the most upsetting death that occurred in this decade was that of the independent record vendor. Of course, the death of good popular music didn't help that.
"What Child Is This" is the truncated version of "Greensleeves", which closes out the original album in a grand 5 1/2 minute cut. If I was trapped on a deserted Xmas island, as long as I had CBX, John Denver and the Muppets, and Andy, I'd be chilling. But I'd probably just end up putting Vince on repeat. Infinitely listenable.
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