When television producer Lee Mendelson heard jazz pianist/composer Vince Guaraldi's hit single "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" on his car radio, he thought he had found the right composer for the ...

By the 1960s, cartoonist Charles Schulz's Peanuts - featuring Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy and Linus Van Pelt, Schroeder and other alternately heartwarming and heartbreaking characters - had become a ...

In the early 1960s, budding filmmaker Lee Mendelson made a documentary about baseball player Willie Mays that aired on NBC. When he was looking for his next project, he turned to the newspaper. “I was ...

In 1964, one year before A Charlie Brown Christmas brought cartoonist Charles M. Schulz’s PEANUTS® to TV screens across America, the Vince Guaraldi Trio breathed life into its beloved characters ...

Craft Recordings announces two vinyl reissues to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Charles M. Schulz's beloved PEANUTS comic strip, which debuted in seven newspapers across the country on October 2, ...

Pianist George Winston plays for "Peanuts." "Winston's latest album, "Love Will Come," is a tribute to Vince Guaraldi, the California jazz pianist whose score work is synonymous with Charles Schulz's ...