Looking for Christmas Time is Here

Looking for the lead sheet (melody and chord symbols) of 'Christmas Time is Here.' This was played by Vince Guaraldi in 'A Charlie Brown Christmas.'

I have checked my fake books and in our local library but can not locate a copy. I also checked Google to no avail.

If anyone has a source or info where to get a copy, I'd appreciate it.

See http://www.halleonard.com (search there for Christmas Time is here) for several variations of the printed music available. I dont see a fake book format, but click the Series link there (on each publication) for a sample of that printed form. The Easy Piano and P/V/G formats also show chord and guitar symbols.

Local music/piano/guitar stores were full of these a couple of weeks ago.

Amazon.com and similar has some of these (verify which via ISBN number).

'The Peanuts Illustrated Songbook' Hal Leonard Corporation ISBN 0-634-03090-6

You can also try The Easy Christmas Fake Book : 100 Songs in the Key of C by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation (Paperback - July 2002)

It includes a pleasant little arrangement of that song that I enjoyed playing over the holidays.

Dennis

The Hal Leonard 'Artist Transcriptions' series, Vince Guaraldi Collection, has a note-for-note version, including chord symbols (starts easy, gets hard). (catalog HL00672486)

Gerald C

My son learned a version this season from Hal Leonard's Easy Piano _Ultimate Christmas - 100 Seasonal Favorites_ (ISBN 0-7935-0944-0) after a year and a half of lessons. It's got some nice chord voicings that you can probably work off of.

I've been working on the original artist transcription from Hal Leonard's _The Vince Guaraldi Collection_ (ISBN 0-634-03099-X) after having worked on 'Cast Your Fate To The Wind' in the same collection. It has everything sans percussion and bass solo. If you take this route I suggest you listen to a recording of Guaraldi's performance, unless you happen to be comfortable doing rhythms of 30-note riffs in a 3/4 measure.

I love the original transcriptions book. I noticed that some measures were missing in 'Cast Your Fate to the Wind', but overall it's great stuff. I only regret that it didn't include his renditions of 'The Christmas Song' and 'Skating'.

Thanks to everyone for interesting sources and ideas.

Dave C.