It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown soundtrack to be released March 21, 2025

It's the depths of winter now, but an exciting sign of the forthcoming spring has arrived - the complete original Vince Guaraldi soundtrack for the 1974 television special It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown will be hatching on March 21, 2025.

The album is available for pre-order on CD and black vinyl at Amazon and the MVD Shop, as well as other online retailers and your local record store.  It will also be released digitally.

An "Easter Purple" colored vinyl variant of the full LP, limited to 2000 individually numbered BioVinyl copies, will be available only at independent record stores - check with your local store to reserve or buy a copy.  (You can see a list of select stores at the Record Store Day website, but not all stores are listed, so give your preferred store a call even if they aren't on that list.)

As with previous Guaraldi soundtrack releases from Lee Mendelson Film Productions, the Easter Beagle tracks have been mastered from the original 2-inch session tapes, and the booklet will include liner notes from producers Sean and Jason Mendelson, and Guaraldi historian Derrick Bang.

This latest album has a special bonus track: a medley of "Woodstock" tunes performed nearly 50 years later by David Benoit (piano) with original Guaraldi sidemen Seward McCain (Bass) and Mike Clark (drums), recorded at the same Hyde Street studio where the Easter Beagle soundtrack was originally recorded in San Francisco. (David Benoit composed the soundtracks to several Peanuts specials in the 1990's and 2000's.)

More information:

• The full It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown soundtrack press release
• The Lee Mendelson Film Productions webpage for the album
• Short preview samples for several tracks on Soundcloud
• Listen to the full "Woodstock's Dream" track by following one of the links here.

A few Easter Beagle tracks have appeared previously on compilation albums, but this is the first time the entire score will be available; most of it has never been released before.

In addition to the full album, on Record Store Day (April 12, 2025), there will be a special egg-shaped 10" vinyl, titled Selections from It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown. It features the "eight best tracks" from the full soundtrack album.  The limited edition, individually numbered, egg-shaped vinyl will be available in five different colors - but like a true Easter egg hunt, which color you get will be a surprise; the color isn't revealed on the packaging... so you won't know which color you've got until you open it. You can read the official press release for the egg-shaped exclusive here.

Here's the full track list for the upcoming It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown album:

1. Peppermint Patty
2. Easter Theme / Easter Theme (Reprise)
3. Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 3 in C Major, Op. 2 No. 3 - I. Allegro con brio
4. Snoopy and Woodstock
5. Linus and Lucy
6. Woodstock's Dream
7. Snoopy's Gumballs / Sally and Linus
8. Woodstock's Dream (Reprise)
9. Marcie's Song (Kitchen Music)
10. Linus and Lucy (Reprise)
11. Woodstock's Pad
12. Woodstock's Dream (2nd Reprise)
13. Music Box Dance (Minuet in G Major, BWV Anh. 116)
14. Woodstock's Dream (3rd Reprise)
15. Easter Egg Soup (Kitchen Music 2)
16. Linus and Lucy (2nd Reprise) / Linus and Lucy (3rd Reprise)
17. Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92 - II. Allegreto
18. Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92 - I. Poco sostenuto - Vivace
19. Salting Eggs / Linus and Lucy (4th Reprise)
20. Bonus Track: Woodstock Medley (Woodstock's Wake-Up / Little Birdie / Woodstock's Dream / Thanksgiving Theme / Little Birdie (Reprise))

And the track list for the egg-shaped exclusive vinyl is:

SIDE A

1. Peppermint Patty

2. Snoopy and Woodstock

3. Woodstock's Dream

SIDE B

1. Marcie's Song (Kitchen Music)

2. Linus and Lucy (Reprise)

3. Woodstock's Pad

4. Easter Egg Soup (Kitchen Music 2)

5. Salting Eggs / Linus and Lucy (4th Reprise)