Original Score by Vince Guaraldi Trio
Original Broadcast October 28, 1975
Featuring Seward McCain (Bass) and Mark Rosengarden (Drums).
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SYNOPSIS
The story finds Charlie Brown, the famous sports failure, competing against Peppermint Patty and the Masked Marvel (alias Snoopy) in a charity motocross race.
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THIS SOUNDTRACK
The music score for "You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown" was something of a departure from Guaraldi's other scores as the music fused his jazz style with the funk, disco and pop music of the 1970s that was popular at the time coupled with the use of the ARP String Ensemble synthesizer that was used on many pop songs of the era.
This was one of the weakest of the Guaraldi scores. The majority of the show was dominated by repetitive percussive refrains of the vamp-until-ready cue that accompanied the story's central motocross race, which Charlie unwisely entered.
Guaraldi added some minor bits of melodic business on electric keyboard a few times, but for the most part the music behind the race was monotonous; the long synthesizer chords Guaraldi held behind the melodic tidbits were grating and quite annoying. Guaraldi fared better with a variation on "Peppermint Patty", where at least his acoustic piano work could be heard above the irritating electric sound effects (courtesy Derrick Bang).
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YOUTUBE TRACKLIST (courtesy Wikipedia)
00:00 01 Motocross version 1 (Cold Open) (01 : 03)
01:03 02 Peppermint Patty, Linus and Sally (Tennis) (00 : 59)
02:02 03 Centercourt (03 : 46)
05:49 04 Fanfare (00 : 04)
05:54 05 Bass Blues (alternate rendition of Woodstocks Dream) (00 : 21)
06:15 06 Football (02 : 52)
09:08 07 Motocross version 2 (Charlie Brown and Linus Purchase Motorbike) (01 : 24)
10:33 08 Motocross version 3 (Marcie Interviews Contestants, Charlie Brown and Snoopy Wipe Out aka Cue 9) (03 : 46)
14:19 09 Great Pumpkin Waltz (00 : 20)
14:40 10 Motocross version 4 (Charlie Brown and Snoopy Re-enter Competition) (00 : 30)
15:11 11 Lemonade Break (00 : 26)
15:37 12 Motocross version 5 (Three Contestants Left) (01 : 39)
17:16 13 Motocross version 6 (Snoopy Converts Tennis Ball Launcher Into Motorbike) (01 : 05)
18:22 14 Lunch Theme (00 : 17)
18:39 15 Motocross version 7 (Final Lap) (01 : 17)
19:57 16 Motocross version 8 (Charlie Brown's New Beginning) (00 : 53)
20:51 17 Motocross version 9 (End Credits) (00 : 33)
21:24 END
