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Re: How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)

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Post by tjr » Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 4:28 AM UTC

thrdbndndn wrote: post #29

analog31 wrote: post #15

I'm a musician, and something I've noticed is that children no longer recognize the "peanuts" theme song.

Snoopy or Peanuts in general is (was) very famous in my country (at least for my age) but I only read it in comic. So no idea what the song is about, unfortunately. I don't even know it has animation version.

The earlier Peanuts animated specials had marvelous jazz soundtracks by Vince Guaraldi (and later others, after Vince's passing). Not sure if jazz trio is the most obvious music to accompany cartoons, but somehow this music blended exquisitely with the characters.

Re: How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)

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Post by golson_kindmind » Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 4:29 AM UTC

“I'm talking only about the minor everyday problems in life. Leo Tolstoy dealt with the major problems of the world. I'm only dealing with why we all have the feeling that people don't like us."

I felt that in my bones.

Re: How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)

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Post by analog31 » Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 4:32 AM UTC

thrdbndndn wrote: post #29

analog31 wrote: post #15

I'm a musician, and something I've noticed is that children no longer recognize the "peanuts" theme song.

Snoopy or Peanuts in general is (was) very famous in my country (at least for my age) but I only read it in comic. So no idea what the song is about, unfortunately. I don't even know it has animation version.

Aha. I'm showing my age. I didn't know there was a "Peanuts" movie. I was talking about the tune "Linus and Lucy" which was the theme for the original animated TV show "A Charlie Brown Christmas."

(And I shouldn't have called it a song, as there are no words).

Re: How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)

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Post by phkahler » Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 4:37 AM UTC

analog31 wrote: post #15

I'm a musician, and something I've noticed is that children no longer recognize the "peanuts" theme song.

The Thanksgiving and Christmas specials aired every year, and might still. But who has an antenna any more? I do.

Re: How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)

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Post by phkahler » Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 4:39 AM UTC

konfusinomicon wrote: post #9

snoopy is the perfect dog name

Thanks. I never thought about the word "snoop" as part of the name until just now.

Re: How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)

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Post by analog31 » Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 4:43 AM UTC

tjr wrote: post #31

thrdbndndn wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Snoopy or Peanuts in general is (was) very famous in my country (at least for my age) but I only read it in comic. So no idea what the song is about, unfortunately. I don't even know it has animation version.

The earlier Peanuts animated specials had marvelous jazz soundtracks by Vince Guaraldi (and later others, after Vince's passing). Not sure if jazz trio is the most obvious music to accompany cartoons, but somehow this music blended exquisitely with the characters.

Indeed from what I've read, the network was originally skeptical that jazz trio made any sense in a children's animated show, but it was remarkably successful. A couple of other tunes from the show, "Skating" and "Christmas time is here" are recognizable jazz standards to this day.

Re: How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)

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Post by kridsdale1 » Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 4:50 AM UTC

AntiRush wrote: post #2

The Charles Schulz museum in Santa Rosa, CA is a must visit if you’re in the area! https://schulzmuseum.org/

Is that the airport?

Re: How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)

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Post by ssl-3 » Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 4:51 AM UTC

analog31 wrote: post #33

thrdbndndn wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Snoopy or Peanuts in general is (was) very famous in my country (at least for my age) but I only read it in comic. So no idea what the song is about, unfortunately. I don't even know it has animation version.

Aha. I'm showing my age. I didn't know there was a "Peanuts" movie. I was talking about the tune "Linus and Lucy" which was the theme for the original animated TV show "A Charlie Brown Christmas." (And I shouldn't have called it a song, as there are no words).

Perhaps-fun stuff:

Linus and Lucy was recorded by the Vince Guaraldi Trio back in 1964.

They're all dead now, which is a shame.

But there's a brilliant modern recording, from 2016, that features the original drummer, Jerry Granelli: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OODA_K5hxyc

And it's definitely worth spending some time to give it a watch/listen. There's a lot more to that little tune than most people probably realize.

Re: How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)

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Post by mikeg8 » Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 5:18 AM UTC

kridsdale1 wrote: post #37

AntiRush wrote: post #2

The Charles Schulz museum in Santa Rosa, CA is a must visit if you’re in the area! https://schulzmuseum.org/

Is that the airport?

No, there is an airport 10 minutes from the museum but the museum itself is closer to downtown.

Re: How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)

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Post by eru » Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 5:28 AM UTC

MPSimmons wrote: post #22

eru wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Garfield was conceived from the get go as a cash grab devoid of artistic merit. (And that's fine by me, nobody is forcing anyone to consume Garfield.)

Interesting, you know more about it than I do, I suppose. Do you know of any source for Jim discussing how/why he started Garfield?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfield#History is probably a good start.

Wikipedia is a bit coy and trying to be neutral. But even just from there you can see that the author decided to make strips about cats, because Snoopy had already cornered the dog market.