Reddit mentions of A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Original Sound Track Recording Of The CBS Television Special

Vince Guaraldi Trio's album A Charlie Brown Christmas

...and can I just say that the soundtrack is by far the best Chrsitmas album I own.

In my more-than-humble opinion, the only Christmas album worth listening to--in any genre--is the timeless original Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack.

In no particular order, my favorite Christmas albums are:

• A Charlie Brown Christmas - Vince Guaraldi Trio
  
  
• We Three Kings - The Roches
  
  
• When My Heart Finds Christmas - Harry Connick, Jr.
  
  
• Barenaked For The Holidays - Barenaked Ladies
  
  
• Oy to the World: A Klezmer Christmas - The Klezmonauts
  
  
• Christmas With The Puppini Sisters - The Puppini Sisters
  
  
• A Wintery Mix - The Raleigh Ringers
  
  
• Christmas in the Caribbean: Holiday Songs Performed on Steel Drums
  
  
• A Christmas Album - Amy Grant
  
  
• A Christmas Album - James Taylor

I am convinced that the acute need to buffer the onslaught of horrible, horrible holiday music is why Apollo and the muses cast Vince Guaraldi into the fray, all old-school Clash of the Titans styled. (At least that's what his biography on wikipedia used to say...)

Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack #ftw

My personal favorite.