A question or two about "it's the Great Pumkin Charlie Brown'

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I just watched it and I’m wondering about the music Schroder plays at the party for Snoopy.

He plays four different songs. The first song is It’s a long way to Tiporary (sp) and the third song is Pack up your Troubles. These songs make Snoopy happy. The second and fourth song make Snoopy sad. What are those two songs. The second song sounds familar but I can’t place it and the fourth song just donsn’t mean anything to me.
Where do you think Linus got his belief in the Great Pumkin?

and finally

Have you or anyone you known ever cut some holes in a white sheet and go as a ghost for Halloween?
Huummmmm

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I did the white sheet ghost thing for Halloween one year. I think it was about 1976, when I was 11. I just couldn’t be bothered trying to come up with a cool fancy costume, and figured “hey, it’s a classic”. I only cut two eye holes, not 20 like Charlie Brown.

I always thought Linus just invented the Great Pumpkin on his own, confabulating Santa Claus and maybe even the Easter Bunny onto a different holiday. I think we have all known (or been) kids that get strange notions that they can’t be dissuaded from.

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Oh, can’t help with the music. Sorry.

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My son is currently addicted to this video so I’ve seen it 30 times in the last few weeks. But I don’t know anything about the music.

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I did the multiple eye hole ghost one year in college. Complete with a goody bag that contained only rocks. Only one person got the joke… Philistines.

BTW, the sheet ghost is a HOT costume (temperature-wise) in a party environment.

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I like to think I would recognize the songs, but I haven’t seen the show in so many years that I don’t have an memory of the scene. You can probably assume that they are from the same WWI/doughboy era, though.

As for Linus’ belief in the Great Pumpkin, Schulz himself said that it arose out of a confusion over Santa Claus. Although I remember reading a strip in which Linus specifically denies this when Charlie Brown (unless it was Lucy) suggests it.

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I didn’t see the show the other night, but I’m pretty sure that one of those songs is “Roses of Picardy” and it’s the one Schroeder plays with a tremolo in the melody. I’m not sure about the last one. It might be “There’s a long, long trail.” You can hear both of these and other songs of WWI here:

http://www.geocities.com/~worldwar1/music.html

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*Originally posted by Zebra *
**I just watched it and I’m wondering about the music Schroder plays at the party for Snoopy.

He plays four different songs. The first song is It’s a long way to Tiporary (sp)**

rowrrbazzle named them, although “Roses of Picardy” was the last song played, at least according to this handy guide to the music of “Peanuts” specials:

http://www.peanutscollectorclub.com/cuesheet.html