Amoeba Music

Bring your family to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Peanuts with Lee Mendelson Film Productions at Amoeba SF on Saturday, July 12, at 2pm!

This exclusive listening party honors the 50th anniversary and premiere release of Vince Guaraldi’s You're A Good Sport, Charlie Brown!, which is being released on Zoetrope Vinyl. Hear the album, see the Zoetrope feature in action, and get albums signed by members of Lee Mendelson Film Productions. Festivities also include an introduction by record producers Jason and Sean Mendelson, Q&A, and an egg-citing raffle for a chance to win a limited edition Record Store Day 10" Mystery Egg, You're A Good Sport, Charlie Brown! on Zoetrope Vinyl, and more!

Lee Mendelson Film Productions is a Bay Area-based production studio founded by producer Lee Mendelson in 1963. The studio is best known for the Peanuts animated film productions (including A Charlie Brown Christmas, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, A Boy Named Charlie Brown, and many others), Garfield, and other documentary and live productions. Lee’s favorite song was Vince Guaraldi’s “Cast Your Fate to the Wind,” which Lee was listening to while crossing the Golden Gate Bridge en route to his first meeting with Charles Schulz. Lee called up Vince (who was also a Bay Area native) and asked him to score the first Peanuts Television programs. The rest is history. Along with Bill Melendez (animator), Mendelson, Schulz, and Guaraldi worked together for the rest of each of their lives on Peanuts.