Christmastime is here again is such a sad, wistful song.
It perfectly captures the mood of a cold winter Christmas, but it always depresses me a little bit to hear it.
Guaraldi could really capture moods. It was so sad he never got his due as a very, very good composer until after he passed. If you haven’t heard “Cast Your Fate to the Wind” then you haven’t heard what I consider to be the most pure piano number of all time (that’s for readers of the thread — I am sure you have, cb).
There was a story on NPR that the guy who was making a special on Charles Schultz heard "Cast your fate.." on the radio while driving over the Golden Gate bridge. He thought it was perfect, and that led to the creation of the Charlie Brown Christmas.
Interesting how the free market works.