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This article is about the jazz standard. For the characters referenced by the title, see Linus van Pelt and Lucy van Pelt.

"Linus and Lucy" is a popular jazz piano tune written by Vince Guaraldi appearing in many of the Peanuts animated television specials. Named for the fictional siblings Linus and Lucy van Pelt, it was released in 1964 on the Vince Guaraldi Trio's album Jazz Impressions of a Boy Named Charlie Brown. A Charlie Brown Christmas introduced the song to a television audience of millions of children beginning in 1965.[1] Since that special, the song has introduced most of the Peanuts TV specials, with the exceptions of the specials and other TV programs produced between 1979 and 1992.

The song was played to the crew of Space Shuttle Endeavour as wake-up music on Day 2 of the STS-123 mission on March 11, 2008. It was also used as background music for The Weather Channel's local forecasts starting in 1999,[2] and on advertisements for banking firm ANZ.

The song is in the key of A-flat major.

Other versions

References

  1. ^ The Christmas classic that almost wasn't
  2. ^ The Weather Channel Local Forecast Music Play List Holiday Season 1999
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