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1LP Vinyl – F-8431 (Green Wax)

This album is the unlikely classic from Jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi, asked in 1965 to do a small side-project – some soundtrack music to accompany an upcoming short animated movie based on Charles' Schulz's popular "Peanuts" cartoon strips. The resulting film and it's music became a beloved classic, particularly in the US.

For me, it's the quite possibly the best Christmas-themed music ever made. It has a melancholic, bitter-sweet feel that is wintery, festive and lamenting, and it holds together so well as an album – enough variety to hold interest, (including some vocals here and there), yet enough similarity to flow as one body of work.