How Vince Guaraldi's seriously swingin' "Linus & Lucy" became a Christmas classic

Like many of a certain age, I've always had a gooshy soft spot in my heart for the Vince Guaraldi Trio's A Charlie Brown Christmas. To me, if Christmas had a soundtrack, this would be it for me.

This piece on American Songwriter provides some of the backstory on how this the track "Linus & Lucy," and the rest of this album, came about. — Read the rest