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Present - The Weather Channel 2000 => Local Forecast => Topic started by: G2003 on August 13, 2007, 05:34:13 PM
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Is he still alive? I know he wrote the Charlie Brown Christmas sometime in the late 1950s or early 1960s...
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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Guaraldi ...
Vince Guaraldi (July 17, 1928 – February 6, 1976) was an American jazz musician and pianist best known for composing music for animated adaptations of the Peanuts comic strip. Guaraldi was born in San Francisco, California. He graduated from Lincoln High School, attended San Francisco State College, and served as an Army cook in the Korean War.
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Early Death
Guaraldi died of a sudden heart attack at age 47 on February 6, 1976. He was found in a room at the Red Cottage Inn, relaxing between sets at Butterfield's nightclub in Menlo Park, California. Guaraldi had just finished recording the soundtrack for It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown earlier that afternoon. Guaraldi was buried at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, California.
After Guaraldi's death, the music for the Peanuts series was composed by noted jazz musician David Benoit, who has often credited Guaraldi and the original Peanuts Christmas special music for his interest in jazz.
In 2003 a heretofore unknown live performance of the eight-part "Charlie Brown Suite" was released, restored from tapes in private collections.
He died in the 1970s. He was pretty young when he died.
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Oh that sucks :(
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Yeah unfortunately he's long gone. His Christmas tunes are timeless though. And so were the non-Christmas tunes TWC used. He was an excellent musician.
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Yeah he's got some pretty great music. My fav will always be "Linus And Lucy" 8)