A rare 1964 television performance captures Vince Guaraldi playing “Linus and Lucy” for the first time on TV as part of The Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant Music Fillers Programs. Courtesy of WNET Group, the clip features Guaraldi on piano, joined by Tom Beeson on bass and John Rae on drums. Unseen for more than six decades, this early broadcast presents the trio in a stripped-down studio setting, documenting the television debut of a composition that would soon become inseparable from the Peanuts legacy.


