The Complete Warner Bros.–Seven Arts Recordings
The Complete Warner Bros.–Seven Arts Recordings is a double CD compilation of songs by American jazz pianist/composer Vince Guaraldi released by Omnivore Recordings on July 6, 2018. It contains 30 tracks, containing remastered versions of Guaraldi's complete recorded output for Warner Bros.-Seven Arts ("Oh Good Grief!", "The Eclectic Vince Guaraldi", "Alma-Ville"), plus four bonus tracks. Background. Vince Guaraldi's final three albums released during his lifetime were recorded for Warner Bros.-Seven Arts after spending considerable time struggling to extricate himself from Fantasy Records. Warner signed Guaraldi to a three-record deal , and insisted that his inaugural release consist of his "Peanuts" songs. This was done in part to help fill the void left by a lack of soundtrack albums to accompany the successful television specials, "Charlie Brown's All Stars!", "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown", "You're in Love, Charlie Brown" and "He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown". Guaraldi responded with new renditions of eight of his most popular scores from those programs on his first release, "Oh Good Grief!". Guaraldi was then given complete artistic control over his sophomore, self-produced Warner effort, "The Eclectic Vince Guaraldi", resulting  in an unfocused and overindulgent album that was not well received by both critics and consumers. At Warner's insistence, arranger Shorty Rogers was recruiter to produce Guaraldi's final album, "Alma-Ville". Though deemed a focused improvement over the previous album, Warner lost interest in Guaraldi and did not promote the album. Both "The Eclectic Vince Guaraldi" and "Alma-Ville" fell into obscurity, with "Oh Good Grief!" remaining in print and a steady seller due to the perpetual popularity of the "Peanuts" franchise. Production. "The Complete Warner Bros.–Seven Arts Recordings" was compiled by prestige label Omnivore Recordings and produced  by Grammy Award-winning Cheryl Pawelski. Pawelski recruited audio archivist Michael Graves (who worked on previous Guaraldi remastering efforts) to perform a high-definition 24-bit mix. In addition to a double-CD release, "Oh, Good Grief!" was issued on translucent red vinyl. Track listings. All tracks written by Vince Guaraldi, except where noted. Personnel. Credits adapted from CD liner notes. Oh, Good Grief The Eclectic Vince Guaraldi Alma-Ville Bonus tracks Additional musicians for Disc 2, Tracks 1 and 2 are unknown.