You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown soundtrack coming July 11, 2025

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Emmy-award winning show You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown, Lee Mendelson Film Productions have announced that the complete Vince Guaraldi soundtrack to the 1975 Peanuts animated special will be released on July 11, 2025.

In You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown, Charlie Brown and Peppermint Patty compete in a charity motocross race, trying to overcome the challenges of crashes, mud, and the strangely familiar Masked Marvel.

The soundtrack album will feature 14 tracks that make up the complete Vince Guaraldi score for the show, together with a bonus track of unused cues intended for the beginning of the special.

As an additional bonus, the album will also include four additional tracks of music that Guaraldi composed, and his trio performed, for Bicycles Are Beautiful, a 1974 non-Peanuts film promoting bicycle riding produced by Lee Mendelson.

All tracks have been mastered from the original session tapes for excellent stereo sound; total runtime will be 28 minutes.

The soundtrack will be available on CD, vinyl, and digitally, and can be pre-ordered from the MVDShop, Amazon and other stores now.

The vinyl for You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown will also have a built-in bonus feature.  The record will be a Zoetrope album - a picture disc where animated scenes from the cartoon come to life as the record spins. (You may need special lighting for best results - the album will come with a QR code taking you to instructions for viewing the Zoetrope effect.) Sounds nifty - and it looks pretty cool even when it's not spinning!

(The Zoetrope will be the only version of the vinyl; there will be no regular black version and no store exclusive color variants.)

The physical albums will include track-by-track analysis from album producer Sean Mendelson, notes from album producer Jason Mendelson, an essay giving historical context for the special and soundtrack by Guaraldi historian Derrick Bang, and an essay from Charles Schulz's son Craig Schulz about the special's inspiration, along with images from the special and rare photographs.

More information:

• The full You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown press release
• The Lee Mendelson Film Productions webpage for the album
• Short preview samples for several tracks on Soundcloud
• Listen to the full "Motocross" track on YouTube

A few You're a Good Sport 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.

Here's the full track list for the You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown album:

Show Score

1. Motocross
2. Peppermint Patty
3. You’re a Good Sport, Charlie Brown (Centercourt)
4. Fanfare / Fanfare (Alternate Take) / Hospital Scene / Hospital Scene (Bonus)
5. Bass Blues
6. Linus and Lucy
7. Motocross (Reprise)
8. You’re a Good Sport, Charlie Brown (Unused Opening Cues) - BONUS TRACK
9. The Great Pumpkin Waltz
10. Motocross (2nd Reprise)
11. Motocross (3rd Reprise)
12. Motocross (4th Reprise)
13. Motocross (5th Reprise Extended with Additional Piano)
14. Lunch Theme / Motocross (6th Reprise)
15. You’re a Good Sport, Charlie Brown (Reprise)

Bonus Tracks from Bicycles are Beautiful

16. Bicycles are Beautiful (Reprise)

17. Bicycle Ballad (Medley)
18. Bicycle Bounce (and Reprise)
19. Bicycle Wizard (and Reprise)