You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown Read Along Cassette and Book

 

 In October 1975, CBS aired its 14th Peanuts animated Special, "You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown." Soon after, you could buy this Read Along Book and Tape. Here's the experience of those tapes and the book via YouTube. Enjoy this pre-VHS, pre-DVD, pre-streaming way of home media from fifty years ago.

 

 

This was the last special to air during Peanuts composer Vince Guaraldi's life.

Via Wikipedia:

"Music score

"You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown was the last Peanuts television special to air during Vince Guaraldi's lifetime. Guaraldi died of a sudden heart attack on February 6, 1976, several hours after he had finished recording music cues for the television special It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown. That special aired posthumously on March 16, 1976. You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown was also the last Peanuts special conducted and arranged by John Scott Trotter, who died on October 29, 1975 — one day after the special was broadcast.^[3] Trotter had worked in conjunction with Guaraldi on every Peanuts television special starting with It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966).^[4]

"The music score for You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown was something of a departure from Guaraldi's other scores as the music fused his jazz style with the funk, disco and pop music of the 1970s that was popular at the time coupled with the use of the Minimoog and ARP String Ensemble synthesizers.^[3]

"All music cues were composed by Guaraldi^[5] and recorded by the Vince Guaraldi Trio on September 12 and 24, 1975, at Wally Heider Studios, featuring Seward McCain (electric bass) and Mark Rosengarden (drums).^[6]

"The program's theme song, "Motocross" is performed in eight different variations.^[5] As the variations are difficult to distinguish, scene descriptions in which they appear are added to help differentiate.^[3][5]"