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A Charlie Brown Christmas is a 1965  by American composer/conductor  (later credited to the jazz group the Vince Guaraldi Trio). The album was released in December 1965 in the United States by . It is the  to the   . Guaraldi was contacted by television producer  several years prior to compose music for a documentary on the comic strip and its creator, . Although the special went unaired, these selections were released in 1964 as Jazz Impressions of "A Boy Named Charlie Brown".  commissioned a Christmas special based on Peanuts in 1965 and Guaraldi returned to score the special.

A Charlie Brown Christmas features several originals ("", "") as well as covers of contemporary Christmas songs ("", ""). The score for the special was largely cut at recording sessions at , 's Whitney Studio. Much of this material was later re-recorded by Guaraldi at three sessions later in the year at Fantasy Recording Studios in San Francisco, alongside a choir of children culled from St. Paul's Episcopal Church in nearby . The sessions ran late into the night, with the children rewarded with ice cream afterwards. Bassist Fred Marshall and drummer Jerry Granelli have been credited as performing on the album, although a host of musicians claim to have recorded the album.

Released a week prior to the broadcast premiere of the special, A Charlie Brown Christmas sold well, and became increasingly famous in the ensuing decades. It is among the most popular  in the United States, where it has been certified , having shipped at least three million copies. As of November 2014, A Charlie Brown Christmas is the tenth  during the era of music sales tracking (March 1991 – present), having sold 3,410,000 copies according to SoundScan.

The Vince Guaraldi Trio's A Charlie Brown Christmas has been voted into the  and added to the 's  list of "culturally, historically, or aesthetically important" sound recordings.