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Great release! Varese did, I believe the LP contents, but I just bought this new expanded one. Well done best buddy of mine!
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On the one hand, I'm very happy to see a Guaraldi score get the red-carpet treatment, and I hope this sells well. I've always had mixed feelings about the score itself though. While it's noteworthy as the only Peanuts film to actually feature Guaraldi music, I've never been crazy about the way it was treated in the movie - the souped up orchestral arrangements always felt like they missed the low-key, affectively cryptic point of Guaraldi's music. And McKuen's title song is such a terrible saccharine misread of everything that makes Schultz' characters work ("We're all a little boy named Charlie Brown"? - %#*@ you!). Like Shaun, I'd be happiest if this lead to other music from the franchise seeing the light of day - both from Guaraldi and from the Bogas/Munsen scores that followed Guaraldi's death. I'm not a huge fan of Race for Your Life Charlie Brown (I never got over the fact that he loses the race and yet still gets to live at the end of the movie), but I'd love to see their baby's-first-John-Barry-score to Bon Voyage Charlie Brown see the light of day.
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Great release! Varese did, I believe the LP contents, but I just bought this new expanded one. Well done best buddy of mine!
Actually they didn't do the LP contents - that's never been on CD. You guys did the Rod McKuen Stanyan version which is a re-recording and nothing like the soundtrack - I like it, though.
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Not to put to fine a point on it: FAN-FREAKING-TASTIC!
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Very nice samples, and I'm looking forward the CD!
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Anyone know which is the best home video release for A BOY NAMED CHARLIE BROWN? I have not seen the film since its original release. I have read that there were problems with the various DVDs & Blu-ray regarding aspect ratios, run times (I believe the film was cut following its original release) and the inclusion and exclusion of bonus features.
I want to reacquaint myself with the movie and look forward to this CD!
Thank you!
The US Blu-ray release of A Boy Named Charlie Brown is the one to get. It is the full, unedited film (86 minutes), presented in undistorted full-frame open matte 4:3. And the picture quality is decent, all things considered.
The US DVD release is unedited in regards to running time, but the picture has been cropped down to widescreen (16:9). Now, perhaps the movie was matted for widescreen when it was projected, but the plain fact is the 16:9 cropping looks very cramped. A full 4:3 frame was animated, and that's what's on the Blu-ray... which looks a lot better.
VHS releases, and some TV showings, were an edited version that cut out 7 minutes of the film (down to 79 minutes). Thankfully, that edited version seems to be history now.
(And the Australian Blu-ray release had the 4:3 full frame image, incorrectly stretched to 16:9. The US Blu-ray does not have this problem.)
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I dont think I've ever seen this one...I've been waiting decades for the Great Pumpkin Halloween music.
There's a bit of Great Pumpkin on the Holiday Hits cd. http://amzn.to/2n6Pomk
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I'm not a huge fan of Race for Your Life Charlie Brown (I never got over the fact that he loses the race and yet still gets to live at the end of the movie),
Nice work. It's the Peanuts movie I watched the most as a kid, so that folksy theme just makes me happy. Your failing opinions are weak. Weak. Sad!
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Great release! Varese did, I believe the LP contents, but I just bought this new expanded one. Well done best buddy of mine!
Actually they didn't do the LP contents - that's never been on CD. You guys did the Rod McKuen Stanyan version which is a re-recording and nothing like the soundtrack - I like it, though.
So glad to know this. I had listened to the Stanyan on Spotify and was mystified why you kept talking about narration when I hadn't heard any. Now I know - different album!
Very pleased to see this come out, and genuinely surprised at how much stuff from my early years has come out in the past few weeks. Talk about sentimental favorites! (I even have most of the fantagraphic collections of Peanuts strips, so I'm hardcore.)
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I'm not a huge fan of Race for Your Life Charlie Brown (I never got over the fact that he loses the race and yet still gets to live at the end of the movie),
Nice work. It's the Peanuts movie I watched the most as a kid, so that folksy theme just makes me happy. Your failing opinions are weak. Weak. Sad!
I actually love the song - it's the tedious "funny" music that plays whenever Peppermint Patty and Lucy are acting terrible that sets me on edge.
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This looks great, but I'm still waiting for a COMPLETE CD two-fer that
features IT's THE GREAT PUMPKIN CHARLIE BROWN & A CHARLIE BROWN THANKSGIVING.
Perhaps someday?:-)
If this does as well as it appears to be doing, anything is possible.
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Mar 17, 2017 - 3:03 PM
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Anyone know which is the best home video release for A BOY NAMED CHARLIE BROWN? I have not seen the film since its original release. I have read that there were problems with the various DVDs & Blu-ray regarding aspect ratios, run times (I believe the film was cut following its original release) and the inclusion and exclusion of bonus features.
I want to reacquaint myself with the movie and look forward to this CD!
Thank you!
The US Blu-ray release of A Boy Named Charlie Brown is the one to get. It is the full, unedited film (86 minutes), presented in undistorted full-frame open matte 4:3. And the picture quality is decent, all things considered.
The US DVD release is unedited in regards to running time, but the picture has been cropped down to widescreen (16:9). Now, perhaps the movie was matted for widescreen when it was projected, but the plain fact is the 16:9 cropping looks very cramped. A full 4:3 frame was animated, and that's what's on the Blu-ray... which looks a lot better.
VHS releases, and some TV showings, were an edited version that cut out 7 minutes of the film (down to 79 minutes). Thankfully, that edited version seems to be history now.
(And the Australian Blu-ray release had the 4:3 full frame image, incorrectly stretched to 16:9. The US Blu-ray does not have this problem.)
thank you!
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