History Trivia / VinceGuaraldi

* AuthorExistenceFailure: After hiring Music/TheShermanBrothers to compose the music for ''WesternAnimation/SnoopyComeHome'', Charles Schulz hoped to bring Guaraldi back to work on the music for WesternAnimation/RaceForYourLifeCharlieBrown. Unfortunately, Guaraldi died shortly before the movie went into production.

* BreakthroughHit: "Cast Your Fate to the Wind", inspired by the film ''Black Orpheus'', became a massive hit in the early '60s. The jazz scene at large, not entirely enamored with the concept of jazz becoming "hit music", didn't like that at all, leading some to refuse to take him seriously as an artist. Some jazz critics maintain this opinion even today, though to much lesser extent than in Guaraldi's day.

* DoingItForTheArt: The jazz mass he performed and recorded at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral in 1965.

* ScullyBox: The cover of ''The Latin Side...'' features Vince cozying up to his comparatively StatuesqueStunner girlfriend of the time, standing on nothing less than a box of Brazilian coffee to make up for the height difference.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: A constant theme in his career with record labels. An audit showed that Fantasy was only giving him around 5% of his royalties, so he sued them, eventually winning a higher percentage and a release from his contract. Then he moved to WarnerBrosRecords, but after ''Oh, Good Grief!'' got some sales, they did absolutely nothing to promote his next two albums and unceremoniously dropped him after that.

** His Fantasy Records material is readily available, but the only album released between his 1967 departure from Fantasy and his death that's remained in print is ''Oh, Good Grief!''. ''San Francisco Boys' Chorus'', ''The Eclectic Vince Guaraldi'' and ''Alma-Ville'' all had CD reissues in the 2000s, but copies have become scarce and have been known to command triple-digit figures online.

* ScullyBox: The cover of ''The Latin Side...'' features Vince cozying up to his comparatively StatuesqueStunner girlfriend of the time, standing on nothing less than a box of Brazilian coffee to make up for the height difference.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: His score for ''It's Arbor Day...'' features almost exclusively cues that sound similar to his earlier work, if titled differently. [[HarsherInHindsight It's been posited that his poor health at the time may have played no small part in this.]]

** A full music-only soundtrack album for the 1969 ''Peanuts'' movie ''WesternAnimation/ABoyNamedCharlieBrown'', featuring Guaraldi's music, other incidental cues by arranger John Scott Trotter and Rod [=McKuen=]'s songs, was assembled in the early 2000s and very nearly got released, but [[ScrewedByTheLawyers rights issues]] wound up scuttling it. Read more about it [[http://impressionsofvince.blogspot.com/2012/06/soundtrack-that-almost-was.html here]].

** He played guitar on some of his work, notably on the funky theme for ''It's a Mystery...'', as well as on a few cues from ''It's the Easter Beagle...''.

* HeAlsoDid: Guaraldi did the music for ''Bicycles Are Beautiful'', an educational short film hosted and narrated by Creator/BillCosby about bicycle[[note]]Or [[ItIsPronouncedTroPay "BI-[=CY-cle=]"]] as he constantly pronounces it in the film.[[/note]] safety.

** His Fantasy Records material is readily available, but the only album released between his 1967 departure from Fantasy and his death that's remained in print is ''Oh, Good Grief!''. ''San Francisco Boys' Chorus'', ''The Eclectic Vince Guaraldi'' and ''Alma-Ville'' all had CD reissues in the 2000s, but copies have become scarce and have been known to command triple-digit figures online.

** A full music-only soundtrack album for the 1969 ''Peanuts'' movie ''ABoyNamedCharlieBrown'', featuring Guaraldi's music, other incidental cues by arranger John Scott Trotter and Rod [=McKuen=]'s songs, was assembled in the early 2000s and very nearly got released, but [[ScrewedByTheLawyers rights issues]] wound up scuttling it. Read more about it [[http://impressionsofvince.blogspot.com/2012/06/soundtrack-that-almost-was.html here]].

* HeAlsoDid: Guaraldi did the music for ''Bicycles Are Beautiful'', an educational short film hosted and narrated by Creator/BillCosby about bicycle[[note]]Or [[ItsPronouncedTroPay "BI-[=CY-cle=]"]] as he constantly pronounces it in the film.[[/note]] safety.

* HeAlsoDid: Guaraldi did the music for ''Bicycles Are Beautiful'', an educational short film hosted and narrated by Creator/BillCosby about bicycle[[note]]Or "BI-[=CY-cle=]" as he constantly pronounces it in the film.[[/note]] safety.

** His Fantasy Records material is readily available, but the only album released between his 1967 departure from Fantasy and his death that's remained in print is ''Oh, Good Grief!''. ''San Francisco Boys' Chorus'', ''The Eclectic Vince Guaraldi'' and ''Alma-Ville'' all had limited CD reissues in the 2000s, but they're a bit scarce and have been known to command triple-digit figures online.

* HeAlsoDid: Guaraldi did the music for ''Bicycles Are Beautiful'', an educational short film hosted and narrated by Creator/BillCosby about bicycle[[note]]Or "BI-[=CYcle=]" as he constantly pronounces it in the film.[[/note]] safety.

* HeAlsoDid: Guaraldi did the music for ''Bicycles Are Beautiful'', an educational short film hosted and narrated by Creator/BillCosby about bicycle[[note]]Or "BI-CYcle" as he constantly pronounces it in the film.[[/note]] safety.

* HeAlsoDid: Guaraldi did the music for ''Bicycles Are Beautiful'' an educational short film hosted and narrated by Creator/BillCosby about bicycle[[note]]Or "BI-CYcle" as he constantly pronounces it in the film.[[/note]] safety.

* HeAlsoDid: Guaraldi did the music for "Bicycles Are Beautiful" an educational short film hosted and narrated by Creator/BillCosby about bicycle[[note]]Or "BI-CYcle" as he constantly pronounces it in the film.[[/note]] safety.

** His Fantasy Records material is readily available, but the only album released between his 1967 departure from Fantasy and his death that's remained in print is ''Oh, Good Grief!''. The others were given CD reissues in the 2000s, but even those are rather scarce if you didn't happen to buy them when they first came out.

** His Fantasy Records material is readily available, but the only album released between his 1967 departure from Fantasy and his death that's remained in print is ''Oh, Good Grief!''. The others were given limited CD reissues in the 2000s, but even those are rather scarce if you didn't happen to buy them when they first came out.

** His Fantasy Records material is readily available, but the only album released between his 1967 departure from Fantasy and his death that's remained in print is ''Oh, Good Grief!''. The others were given limited CD reissues in the 2000s, but even those are fairly scarce if you didn't happen to buy them when they first came.

* FatalMethodActing: Vince died (reports vary on whether it was from a heart attack or an aortic aneurysm) during an intermission at a gig.

** A full music-only soundtrack album for the 1969 ''Peanuts'' movie ''A Boy Named Charlie Brown'', featuring Guaraldi's music, other incidental cues by arranger John Scott Trotter and Rod [=McKuen=]'s songs, was assembled in the early 2000s and very nearly got released, but [[ScrewedByTheLawyers rights issues]] wound up scuttling it. Read more about it [[http://impressionsofvince.blogspot.com/2012/06/soundtrack-that-almost-was.html here]].

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: "Oh Good Grief" has the same melody as "Down at Papa Joe's", a 1963 hit by The Dixiebelles. However, that particular piano line is a StandardSnippet that predates both songs by many decades.
** "My Little Drum" is close musical cousin of "The Little Drummer Boy".
** He did it to himself as well. "Detained in San Ysidro" is a rewrite of "Treat Street".