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By Anita Garner<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We know every word, every scene and every song in A Charlie Brown Christmas by heart.\u00a0 Sure we could watch it anytime on DVD but it’s fun to gather around our electronic hearth to watch together every year, even if we have to record it for later playback when everyone’s available.<\/p>\n

This year, A Charlie Brown Christmas is on ABC tomorrow, December 6th.<\/p>\n

The soundtrack’s so familiar now, it’s hard to believe the producer had to fight the network to hire Vince Guaraldi to do the music.\u00a0 The network\u00a0 and the sponsor who was paying for the whole thing hadn’t heard of Vince and didn’t believe jazz would be the right fit for a show about kids.<\/p>\n

In The City By The Bay, musician friends who worked with Vince told me he kept going out on gigs, the way they all did, playing every spot available, sometimes with his own Vince Guaraldi Trio, sometimes with the more-famous-at-the-time, Cal Tjader.<\/p>\n

In the early 60’s Vince had a moderate hit with “Cast Your Fate To The Wind.”\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em>Bay Area Producer Lee Mendelson heard it on the radio in his car while crossing the Golden Gate Bridge on his way to Sebastopol in Sonoma County for a meeting with Peanuts creator, Charles Schulz.\u00a0 Lee liked Vince’s style.\u00a0 He thought Vince would be the perfect fit for the show. Boy, was he ever!<\/p>\n

Somebody on You Tube made a sweet little montage of scenes set to “Christmas Time Is Here.”<\/a><\/p>\n

******<\/strong><\/p>\n

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