DAVE BRUBECK: Quiet As The Moon - Music from The Peanuts TV Special "This Is America, Charlie Brown"

1 Bicycle Built For Two  03:35

2 Linus And Lucy 04:53

3 Forty Days 06:51

4 When I Was A Child  06:31

5 Quiet As The Moon 05:18

6 Cast Your Fate To The Wind 05:31

7 Benjamin 03:48

8 Looking At A Rainbow 03:46

9 The Desert And The Parched Land (arranged from "To Hope! A Celebration" for The Peanuts TV special "This Is America, Charlie Brown") 05:21

10 Travelin' Blues 08:41

11 Unisphere 03:23

12 When You Wish Upon A Star 07:21

 

In 1988, Lee Mendelson, producer of the Peanuts television specials, approached me, along with several other jazz musicians, to create the background music for his primetime cartoon series "This is America, Charlie Brown". Each of us was given a story in which the Peanuts gang was involved in a significant episode in American history. I was assigned the show dealing with the NASA space station. With a preliminary story board before us, Lee and his wife, Desiree, and I sat one afternoon in Russell Gloyd's home in California, looking at the sketches and playing over some tunes, which we thought might fit the mood of the scenes. When we reached the recording studio we had a rough timing for the length of each cue. Expanded versions of these original short segments were recorded immediately following the soundtrack session. "Unisphere" and "Forty Days" were recorded with my sons, Daniel, Chris and Matthew, when Matt was home for a Christmas visit. Early this spring, Bobby Militello joined Jack Six, Randy Jones, Matthew and me for a final session in San Francisco.