Charlie Brown Christmas - Christmastime is here \rbr\rbr\rbr\rbr\rbrCharlie Brown -- Can anyone tell me what Chritmas is all about?\rbr\rbrLinus -- I can tell you what Christmas is all about.\rbr\rbrA Charlie Brown Christmas is a 1965 studio album by American composerconductor Vince Guaraldi (later credited to the jazz group the Vince Guaraldi Trio). The album was released in December 1965 in the United States by Fantasy Records. It is the soundtrack to the CBS Christmas television special of the same name. Guaraldi was contacted by television producer Lee Mendelson several years prior to compose music for a documentary on the comic strip Peanuts and its creator, Charles M. Schulz. Although the special went unaired, these selections were released in 1964 as Jazz Impressions of A Boy Named Charlie Brown. Coca-Cola commissioned a Christmas special based on Peanuts in 1965 and Guaraldi returned to score the special.\rbr\rbrChristmas Time Is Here is a popular Christmas song written by Lee Mendelson and Vince Guaraldi for the 1965 TV special A Charlie Brown Christmas, one of the very first animated Christmas specials produced for network TV in the United States. Since the song became a hit, two versions were included on the album A Charlie Brown Christmas: an instrumental version by the Vince Guaraldi Trio and a vocal version as sung by the choir of St. Pauls Episcopal Church in San Rafael, California.\rbr\rbrMany versions of the song have been recorded throughout years.