THE PEANUTS THEME SONG SIGNED BY CHARLES SCHULTZ RP

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"The Peanuts" You are bidding on a color copy of the ENTIRE signed sheet music from the TV show "The Peanuts". The music sheet is entitled "Linus and Lucy". These are the signatures of: Charles Schultz ... Writer Charles Monroe Schulz (November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000) was an American cartoonist best known worldwide for his Peanuts comic strip Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz , which ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000 (the day after Schulz's death), continuing in reruns afterward. The strip is considered to be one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium, with 17,897 strips published in all, [1 ] making it "arguably the longest story ever told by one human being", according to Professor Robert Thompson of Syracuse University . At its peak, Peanuts ran in over 2,600 newspapers, with a readership of 355 million in 75 countries, and was translated into 21 languages. [2 ] It helped to cement the four-panel gag strip as the standard in the United States, [3 ] and together with its merchandise earned Schulz more than $1 billion. [1 ] Reprints of the strip are still syndicated and run in many newspapers. Peanuts achieved considerable success for its television specials , several of which, including A Charlie Brown Christmas [4 ] and It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown [5 ] won or were nominated for Emmy Awards . The holiday specials remain quite popular and are currently broadcast on ABC in the United States during the corresponding season. The property is also a landmark in theatre with the stage musical , You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown , being an extremely successful and often performed production. It has been described as "the most shining example of the American success story in the comic strip field", ironically based on the theme of "the great American unsuccess story", since the main character, Charlie Brown , is meek, nervous and lacks self-confidence, being unable to fly a kite, win a baseball game and kick a football (with the exception of " It's Magic, Charlie Brown " when he kicked the football while invisible). In the 1960s, the strip began to focus more on Snoopy. Many of the strips from this point revolve around Snoopy's active, Walter Mitty -like fantasy life, in which he imagined himself to be a World War I flying ace or a bestselling suspense novelist , to the bemusement and consternation of the other characters who sometimes wonder what he is doing but also at times participate. Snoopy eventually took on many more distinct personas over the course of the strip, notably college student "Joe Cool". Schulz continued to introduce new characters into the strip, particularly including a tomboyish, freckle-faced, shorts-and-sandals-wearing girl named Patricia Reichardt, better known as " Peppermint Patty ." "Peppermint" Patty is an assertive, athletic but rather obtuse girl who shakes up Charlie Brown's world by calling him "Chuck", flirting with him, and giving him compliments he is not so sure he deserves. She also brings in a new group of friends (and heads a rival baseball team), including the strip's first black character, Franklin , a Mexican-Swedish kid named José Peterson, and Peppermint Patty's bookish sidekick Marcie , who calls Peppermint Patty "Sir" and Charlie Brown "Charles". (Most other characters call him "Charlie Brown" at all times, except for Eudora , who also calls him "Charles"; Charlie Brown's sister Sally Brown , who usually calls him "big brother"; and a minor character named Peggy Jean in the early 1990s who called him "Brownie Charles" after he could not remember his own name. Also, Snoopy calls his owner, Charlie Brown, "that round-headed kid." At one point, in A Charlie Brown Christmas , Lucy calls Charlie Brown "Charlie.") Several additional family members of the characters were also introduced: Charlie Brown's younger sister Sally, who is fixated on Linus; Linus and Lucy van Pelt's ... read more

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