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A Boy Named Charlie Brown
1969 · Film · 86 min
Directed by Bill Melendez
Poor Charlie Brown. He can't fly a kite, and he always loses in baseball. Having his faults projected onto a screen by Lucy doesn't help him much either. Against the sage advice and taunting of the girls in his class, he volunteers for the class spelling bee.
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It's debatable whether it was first recorded in '63 or '64.
The genesis of Guaraldi's involvement was a 1963 documentary "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" which has nothing to do with the 1969 animated feature.
This was produced for TV but never aired, and recently surfaced on Youtube: https://youtu.be/UGAs5fZUvBM&t=425s
To complicate things further, Guaraldi released "Jazz Impressions of A Boy Named Charlie Brown" (once again, based on the 1963 documentary) but these recordings are not the same as the cues used in the documentary.
If you ever saw the first full-length Charlie Brown movie -- "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" -- it was Rod McKuen who wrote all the songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO-KyszcA74