Great Pumpkin Waltz (All Versions)

This video includes all known versions of the Vince Guaraldi track "Great Pumpkin Waltz". The original version of this track can be heard in four different iterations in the 1966 special "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" as the titular theme. The track would reappear in a unique, 'slower-paced' version in the 1968 album "Oh Good Grief". Oddly enough, the track would then appear in an even slower version found in the 1969 album "The Charlie Brown Suite" where it is incorrectly titled "Happiness is". The final rendition known in Peanuts media is the one found in the 1975 special "You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown".

[joebee]

Listening here and now as Fall approaches!!

[chazmann]

a sublime jazz waltz paired with a child's first Charlie Brown TV experience: perfect!

[charlmaynehawthorne]

I MISSED THE REGULAR CHARLIE BROWN SERIES, IT WAS CUT, HAEART WARMING, OF WHAT CHILDREN THROUGH 1960S, THANK, YOU ROBERT SCHULTZ FOR WHAT CREATED HERE, JUST FANSTATIC.

[craigmeister]

This cartoon is something I have to watch each October. I've done this since I was a kid. Thank you for providing this music. It helps me get out of a summer mindset & transition to a feeling of fall.

[brujeriadiosa]

i get to feel my heart for 14 minutes and 53 seconds.

[lincohyeah]

I find this so nostalgic and it makes me so happy

[dylanmcfarland]

Just one thing: You forgot the version heard on the game Snoopy Concert. Not to brag, but there does exist an arrangement of the track in there.

[David-ywlv]

When I was in the second grade my teacher taught us a song about the Great Pumpkin to the rune of White Christmas.I only remember the last verse:
I'm dreaming of the Great Pumpkin
With every pumpkin card I write
May your jack o lantern burn bright
When the Great Pumpkin visits you tonight.

[davep]

4:08 AND 9:42
THE ABSOLUTE BEST VERSION$ ! 😏

[gh]

The Pumpkin Waltz.
The Vince Guaraldi Trio.
Brilliant!

[northernevans]

I love this so much . Charles M. Schultz and Vince Guaraldi are a match made in Heaven . But the last one at the end " You're a Good Sport Charlie Brown " is cool for reasons I just can't put my finger on . 😊😊😊😊😊

[justjenn]

Yellow blue
Green
Yellow blue pink orange

[VinceGuaraldifans]

Thank you for including the last version recorded by Vince in YAGSCB

[marystrbac]

The great pumpkin thank you for mine each year.

[ColeWalker]

I’m surprised you didn’t include any of the alternate takes

[spetragl]

Very nicely done; I never realized there were so many versions.
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[clara]

🎃Halloween will be here soon!🎃I love all versions❤

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