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Obscure/Neglected Holiday Cartoon Specials

nightfly61 said:
mleach said:
nightfly61 said:
Surprised the Royal Guardsmens' label never got with Charles Shultz to make a "Snoopy vs. The Red Baron to complement "A Charlie Brown Xmas".
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LOL...actually there is a reason why that never happened. Charles Schulz HATED The Royal Guardsmen and that tune "Snoopy & The Red Baron". Forgot who wrote the book but the title was called "60s" and the author interviewed Schulz and asked him about the band and that tune. Lets say Schulz wasn't a happy camper..yeah it was over money. The band made money over something Peanuts related and Schulz and company didn't received a dime from it at least not with "Snoopy & The Red Baron". Now the other RG Snoopy tunes like "Snoopy's Christmas", I believe Schulz did got some money out of that only because Schulz had got his lawyers in motion. People always talk about how Disney is with copyrights and such, well Charles Schulz was just as bad.
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Which also brings to mind if he ever went after the Coasters for "Charlie Brown". :) ???
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Makes me wonder if he ever took any notice of a one-hit wonder group, The Sopwith Camel? They were best known for a 1966 chart climber, "Hello-Hello" (singing-Would you like some of my tangerine?...)

They had all of one hit and one album, but they have a website!

http://www.sopwithcamel.com/index.html
 
Yogi Bear's All Star Comedy Christmas Caper
Was that the one with Yogi's girlfriend (Cindy?) seducing Boo-Boo? As Earl Pitts, Uhmerikun, would say, "GYAWWWWDDDD!!!"

Back to Charles Schulz And His Legal Team, the old "Charlie And Harrigan" morning shows on KLIF and some of the other McLendon stations were hosted by Irving Harrigan and Charlie Brown. Was that ever a bone of contention?
 
There were a couple of "new" Yogi episodes that I believe Cartoon Network ran in the late 90s...they were very strange. One had Boo-Boo reverting to the wild.
 
I wonder if the Charlie Brown of Brown and Harrigan
ever worked at WKIX Raleigh? That Charlie Brown
was always introduced as "the fattest man in Raleigh
town...what's his name, boys? CHARLIE BROWN!"

There's one Charlie (actually, Charles) Brown that
Schulz couldn't go after...an r&b singer who had a
Yuletide hit in 1949, "Merry Christmas, Baby." That
was the year before "Peanuts" began appearing on
the nation's comics pages.
 
I should have been more clear on "Charlie Brown" and "Irving Harrigan"...They were airnames. 2 of the more famous people to play those roles, so to speak, were Dallas radio legend Ron Chapman and Specs Howard (of the broadcast school that bears his name).

Just thought of another long-forgotten Christmas cartoon: "Christmas Is", featuring Benji and Waldo, the Missouri Synod Lutherans' answer to the American Lutheran Church's Davey and Goliath.
 
I've always had the feeling that Charles Schulz and the Coasters were somehow referring to two different Charlie Browns.

FWIW, there was also a star running back at Missouri in the 60s named Charlie Brown. In a game against UCLA in L.A., the Bruin student section repeatedly yelled "GOOD GRIEF CHARLIE BROWN!"
 
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