Cast Your Fate To The Wind

by: Vince Guaraldi

Fun fact: this was the song by Vince Guaraldi that prompted Peanuts producer to approach Guaraldi to compose the soundtrack for the unreleased 1963 documentary A boy named Charlie Brown. It was there that the later designated theme song Linus and Lucy would come to fruition.

 

The song Cast Your Fate To The Wind, before triggering an epic stream of music for the Peanuts cartoons, was a hit on its own.  

 It won the 1963 Grammy for best original jazz composition. It was taken from the 1962 album Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus, which drew inspiration and played tribute to the music from the 1959 Brazilian / French / Italian production Black Orpheus, containing some of Brazil’s bossa nova royalty in its soundtrack.