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==Music score==
==Music score==
The music cues for ''Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown'' was composed by [[Vince Guaraldi]] (except where noted) and performed by the Vince Guaraldi Sextet.<ref name=Banglist>{{Cite web | url= http://www.fivecentsplease.org/dpb/cuesheet.html | title = Vince Guaraldi's Peanuts Song Library | last= Bang |first=Derrick |date= |website= fivecentsplease.org |publisher= Derrick Ban, Scott McGuire |access-date= 9 March 2020 |quote= }}</ref> The program's theme song, "Heartburn Waltz" (Track 15,) is performed in over seven different variations.<ref name=Banglist/>
The music cues for ''Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown'' was composed by [[Vince Guaraldi]] (except where noted) and performed by the Vince Guaraldi Sextet.<ref name=Banglist>{{Cite web | url= http://www.fivecentsplease.org/dpb/cuesheet.html | title = Vince Guaraldi's Peanuts Song Library | last= Bang |first=Derrick |date= |website= fivecentsplease.org |publisher= Derrick Ban, Scott McGuire |access-date= 9 March 2020 |quote= }}</ref> The program's theme song, "Heartburn Waltz" (Track 15) is performed in over seven different variations.<ref name=Banglist/>


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#"Freddie's Mood" (Paw Pet Theater music)
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No official soundtrack for ''Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown'' was released. However, a version of "Heartburn" was first released in 1998 on ''[[Charlie Brown's Holiday Hits]]'', marking the first time any music cues from the special received a general release.
No official soundtrack for ''Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown'' was released. However, a mono version of "Heartburn Waltz" was first released in 1998 on ''[[Charlie Brown's Holiday Hits]]'', marking the first time any music cues from the special received a general release.<ref>
{{cite web |url= http://fivecentsplease.org/dpb/ |title= Vince Guaraldi on LP and CD | last= Bang |first=Derrick |date= |website= fivecentsplease.org |publisher= Derrick Bang, Scott McGuire |access-date= 9 March 2020 |quote=}}</ref>
{{cite web |url= http://fivecentsplease.org/dpb/ |title= Vince Guaraldi on LP and CD | last= Bang |first=Derrick |date= |website= fivecentsplease.org |publisher= Derrick Bang, Scott McGuire |access-date= 9 March 2020 |quote=}}</ref>


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Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown
GenreAnimated television special
Created byCharles M. Schulz
Written byCharles M. Schulz
Directed byPhil Roman
Voices ofDuncan Watson
Melanie Kohn
Stephen Shea
Lynn Mortensen
Linda Jenner
Greg Felton
Bill Melendez
Linda Ercoli
Theme music composerVince Guaraldi
Production
Executive producerLee Mendelson
ProducerBill Melendez
EditorsChuck McCann
Roger Donley
Running time30 min.
Original release
NetworkCBS
ReleaseJanuary 28, 1975

Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown is a 1975 American animated television special, the 13th based upon the comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. It originally aired on the CBS network on January 28, 1975 and aired annually on CBS from 1975 to 2000. It has aired annually on ABC since 2001 and has been paired with A Charlie Brown Valentine since 2009.

Plot

Linus is fond of his teacher, Miss Othmar. To show his love, he buys her a huge heart-shaped box of chocolates. However, Sally warns him it is probably not smart to fall in love with a teacher. When Linus leaves, Sally believes that he bought the candy for her and decides to make him a valentine in return. Later, Lucy goes to a puppet show held by Snoopy. At the concession stand, Lucy asks for popcorn. However Snoopy cannot understand Lucy and he gives her first candy, then soda, and finally popcorn. With Charlie Brown narrating the show, Snoopy tells a story about true lovers (which ends up being a little too interactive for Lucy's taste).

Valentine's Day then comes and the gang brings valentine cards for everybody. At Birchwood School, Schroeder explains a box labelled "VALENTINES FOR THOSE WE LOVE" with a slot for putting the cards in. Charlie Brown brings a briefcase hoping he will get lots of valentines. However, after the cards are passed out, it turns out Charlie Brown got nothing. He got nothing except for a candy heart (which reads "FORGET IT, KID!"). Angry by that (after reading the message on the heart candy), Charlie Brown throws the valentine box out the classroom window. Linus is also upset as he was unable gave his candy to Miss Othmar (having left with her boyfriend). Sally, who still believes the box of candy is for her, is dismayed when Linus attempts to go after Miss Othmar to give her the candy. Charlie Brown and Linus vent their heartbreak in different ways: Linus throws his chocolates off a bridge, not knowing that Snoopy and Woodstock are under it catching and eating every chocolate he throws off; Charlie Brown slams his briefcase on his mailbox and kicks his mailbox, only to accidentally hurt his foot in the process. The next day, Violet gives Charlie Brown a used valentine (she struck her own name from it) as an apology, despite Schroeder berating her for dropping by the day after Valentine's Day and acting out of guilt. As Charlie Brown and Linus meet at the brick wall later, Charlie Brown expresses hope that Violet's pity valentine will start a trend and he will get more valentines the following year.

Voice cast

Peppermint Patty, Marcie, Shermy, Franklin, Pig-Pen, 5, and Patty make cameo appearances, but are silent.

Music score

The music cues for Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown was composed by Vince Guaraldi (except where noted) and performed by the Vince Guaraldi Sextet.[1] The program's theme song, "Heartburn Waltz" (Track 15) is performed in over seven different variations.[1]

  1. "Heartburn Waltz" (piano version)
  2. Heartburn Waltz" (variation)
  3. "Valentine Interlude No. 1"
  4. "Linus and Lucy"
  5. "Never Again"
  6. "Piano Sonata No. 10 in G Major, Opus 49, No. 2" (Ludwig van Beethoven)
  7. "Heartburn Waltz" (Latin shuffle version)
  8. Linus and Lucy"
  9. "Paw Pet Overture" (Lucy and the Concession stand)
  10. "Freddie's Mood" (Paw Pet Theater music)
  11. "Heartburn Waltz" (variation)
  12. "Never Again"
  13. Minuet in G Major, BWV Anh. 116 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
  14. "Woodstock's Mambo"
  15. "Heartburn Waltz" (Theme to Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown)
  16. "Jennie L."
  17. "Heartburn Waltz" (variation )
  18. "Valentine Interlude No. 2"
  19. "Heartburn Waltz" N (different cue than that of cue 15 above despite identical title)
  20. "There's Been a Change" (keyboard/guitar version)
  21. "Woodstock's Revenge"
  22. "Heartburn Waltz" (aka "Charlie Brown's Wake-Up")
  23. "Heartburn Waltz" (variation)
  24. "Freddie's Mood" (Paw Pet Theater music)

No official soundtrack for Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown was released. However, a mono version of "Heartburn Waltz" was first released in 1998 on Charlie Brown's Holiday Hits, marking the first time any music cues from the special received a general release.[2]

In the mid-2000s, recording session master tapes for seven 1970s-era Peanuts television specials scored by Guaraldi were discovered by his son, David Guaraldi. Additional music cues from Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown were subsequently released in 2008 on the compilation album, Vince Guaraldi and the Lost Cues from the Charlie Brown Television Specials, Volume 2.[3]

Home media

Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown was released on VHS in the 1980s by Kartes Video Communications, Media Home Entertainment and its Hi-Tops Video subsidiary through the "Snoopy's Home Video Library" collection. That release cut out the part in the opening scene where Snoopy keeps shooting arrows, then in 1994 by Paramount Home Entertainment. Paramount released the special in 2003 on DVD with You're in Love, Charlie Brown and It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown. It was rereleased on January 15, 2008 by Warner Bros. Home Video in a "remastered deluxe edition" with a new bonus featurette, "Unlucky in Love: An Unrequited Love Story". Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown has also been released on laserdisc, and is available on iTunes.

References

  1. ^ a b Bang, Derrick. "Vince Guaraldi's Peanuts Song Library". fivecentsplease.org. Derrick Ban, Scott McGuire. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  2. ^ Bang, Derrick. "Vince Guaraldi on LP and CD". fivecentsplease.org. Derrick Bang, Scott McGuire. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  3. ^ Bang, Derrick. "Vince Guaraldi on LP and CD". fivecentsplease.org. Derrick Bang, Scott McGuire. Retrieved February 25, 2020.
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