Happy Anniversary, Charlie Brown is a TV documentary that celebrates 25 years of the Peanuts comic strip. The special first aired January 9, 1976. Carl Reiner

Carl Reiner

Carl Reiner is an American actor, film director, producer, writer and comedian. He has won nine Emmy Awards and one Grammy Award during this career...

 hosted.

Voice actors

• Duncan Watson: Charlie Brown
• Lynn Mortensen: Lucy Van Pelt
• Liam Martin: Linus Van Pelt
• Bill Melendez
  Bill Melendez
  José Cuauhtémoc "Bill" Meléndez was a Mexican-American character animator, film director, voice artist and producer, known for his cartoons for Warner Brothers, UPA and the Peanuts series...
  
  : Snoopy & Woodstock
• Gail M. Davis: Sally Brown
• Greg Felton: Schroeder
• Stuart Brotman
  Stuart Brotman
  Stuart N. Brotman is an American government policymaker; management consultant; lawyer; educator; author and editorial adviser; and non-profit organization executive. He is recognized as the private sector’s leading authority on The National Broadband Plan.- Biography :After graduating summa cum...
  
  : Peppermint Patty
• James Ahrens: Marcie

1989 GRP Records release

In 1989, to celebrate the strip's 40th anniversary, GRP Records

GRP Records

GRP Records is an American jazz record company, owned by Universal Music Group and operates through its Verve Music Group. The company's name has had different meanings. In its early days, it stood for "Grusin/Rosen Productions," after the founders...

 released a soundtrack album

Soundtrack album

A soundtrack album is any album that incorporates music directly recorded from the soundtrack of a particular feature film or television program. In some cases, not all the tracks from the movie are included in the album; however there are rare cases of songs in the trailers that do not appear in...

 with the same title as the TV special. The soundtrack contains versions of music and songs from the TV specials, as well as some original compositions, performed by various jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 artists, such as David Benoit

David Benoit

David Benoit, is an American jazz fusion/smooth jazz pianist, composer and producer from Los Angeles, California. He has been nominated for five Grammy Awards...

, Dave Grusin

Dave Grusin

David Grusin is an American composer, arranger and pianist. Grusin has composed many scores for feature films and television, and has won numerous awards for his soundtrack and record work, including an Academy award and 12 Grammys...

, Lee Ritenour

Lee Ritenour

Lee Mack Ritenour is an American jazz guitarist who has recorded over 42 albums, appeared on over 3000 sessions, and has charted over 30 instrumental and vocal contemporary jazz hits since 1976. One of his most popular songs was the smash hit, “Is It You” in 1981. Ritenour is considered to be a...

 and Kenny G

Kenny G

Kenneth Bruce Gorelick , better known by his stage name Kenny G, is an American, adult contemporary and smooth jazz saxophonist. His fourth album, Duotones, brought him breakthrough success in 1986...

.

Voice actors on the CD

• Charlie Brown: Kaleb Henley
• Linus: Brandon Stewart
• Lucy: Jennifer Banko
• Peppermint Patty: Nichole Buda