a charlie brown christmas soundtrack

christmas time is here (vocal version)

cannot possibly pick between Linus & Lucy and Skating

well, could possibly (will probably) pick Skating in a December poll just bcz it's more wintry, but, decision hurts

this is done p much every year, skating usually wins right

another vote for christmas time is here (vocal version)

unless I change my mind

regular ilx has some links to the big intranetz discussion over who actually played on these tracks

As beautiful as "Christmas Time Is Here" is, "Linus and Lucy" all the way. Which is as good a reason as any to link to this (which I'm quite sure everyone's seen by now--it keeps getting pulled from YouTube and reposted):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sKrwsHweGc

Anybody know the name of the guy dancing just to Snoopy's left? I only recently found out.

Für Elise is the Geir vote

this is the only good xmas music in the history of the world

so not true. christmas music > christ

Voted 'Skating,' but the vocal version of 'Christmas Time is Here' is gaining. Maybe next year.

Anybody know the name of the guy dancing just to Snoopy's left? I only recently found out.

Isn't that Sherman?

I thought the green shirt at the back was Sherman.

Oh man -- I'd never heard that Outkast mashup.

oh, then that's probably 5

Yeah, that's 5 but he was just a straight background character in this one, along with the twins. Who I think were only ever in the TV shows and not the strip itself.

Ah, no, I take it back -- leave it to Wikipedia:

5 had twin sisters, dark-haired girls named 3 and 4 and all three siblings appear in A Charlie Brown Christmas where they have non-speaking roles, but demonstrate distinctive 1960s dance moves during the dancing scene. 5's dance is the famous head-bobbing, side-to-side shuffle that has been widely parodied

And 5 had first appeared in the strip a couple of years before the special so it's clearly meant to be him as opposed to just generic kid.

okay lol:

Poochie was a female character who first appeared on January 7, 1973. She was almost the first person to adopt Snoopy but was distracted by an English sheepdog while Snoopy was fetching a stick Poochie threw; Snoopy held a grudge against Poochie for this for years afterward. In her sole physical appearance in the strip (she had been mentioned by name in previous strips), it was also revealed that it was she who had first started to call Snoopy's owner Charlie Brown.

His full name is 555 95472. Someone e-mailed me his picture, and I made the mistake of thinking it was Sherman.

my dad has the original book in which 5 is introduced. i recall him mentioning his sisters 3 and 4, but i don't think they actually appear there.

I seem to remember a character in the mid/late-80s who kept changing her name randomly. She sat behind Charlie Brown in class, he'd address her by what he thought her name was, and she'd say, "No, today my name is _____." Did this character actually have a consistent name? Or did I imagine this? It seemed incredibly bizarre at the time.

"Linus & Lucy"

search the Jodie Foster's Army cover

They totally effed up the newest remaster of this album.

"Linus & Lucy"

search the Jodie Foster's Army cover

Ha!--saw them play this live once.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwhP597-SW0

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I'm mystified at these results; having amassed a primary A-list collection of holiday music spanning some 8+ hours, the winning track presented here didn't even make it past the first cut. Yeah, it's a fine tune, but far too associated as the eternal Peanuts theme song to be included with the genre.

What's next, "Jingle Cats"?