Christmas Time Is Here

"Christmas Time Is Here"
US 7" single
Single by Vince Guaraldi
from the album A Charlie Brown Christmas
B-side"What Child Is This?"
ReleasedDecember 1965 (1965-12)
RecordedSeptember–October 1965
GenreJazz, Christmas music
Length6:05 (instrumental version)
2:43 (vocal version)
LabelFantasy
Composer(s)Vince Guaraldi
Lyricist(s)Lee Mendelson
Vince Guaraldi singles chronology
"Theme to Grace"
(1965)
"Christmas Time Is Here"
(1965)
"I'm a Loser (live)"
(1966)

"Christmas Time Is Here" is a popular Christmas standard written by Vince Guaraldi and Lee Mendelson for the 1965 television special A Charlie Brown Christmas,[1] one of the first animated Christmas specials produced for network television in the United States.

Two versions were included on the album A Charlie Brown Christmas: an instrumental version by the Vince Guaraldi Trio and a vocal version by choristers from St. Paul's Episcopal Church in San Rafael, California, who had previously performed with Guaraldi on At Grace Cathedral (1965).

  1. ^ "The BMI Holiday Countdown: Vince Guaraldi Trio, "Christmas Time is Here"". BMI. December 20, 2011. Retrieved December 7, 2016.