Thanks to 1965’s A Charlie Brown Christmas and its enduring Vince Guaraldi Trio soundtrack, we’ve long associated the Peanuts gang with Christmas. Now, Snoopy is getting in on the yuletide action with Snoopy Presents: 12 Days of Snoopy, which arrives Friday (Nov. 13) on Apple TV — and Billboard Family has an exclusive clip that features Laufey‘s new cover of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.”
Laufey’s jazz sensibilities are the perfect addition to the Peanuts musical canon, with her warm vocals bringing a cozy Christmas glow to the snowy clip. In Billboard‘s exclusive preview, we see the gang sledding down a snow-dusted hill — some using gift boxes or wreaths as their sleighs — as well as Schroeder playing his red piano under a Beethoven-topped Christmas tree, Marcie and Peppermint Patty decorating an ornate gingerbread house, and Lucy reading bedtime stories to Linus and Rerun in matching PJs.
Watch the exclusive clip below:
In the new special, Snoopy lands on Santa’s naughty list — but as we learn at the end of the Laufey-soundtracked clip, the beagle finds his way off just in time to get a new hockey stick so he can hit the ice with Woodstock and the rest of the birds.
Snoopy Presents: 12 Days of Snoopy is scored by Emmy-nominated composer Jeff Morrow and, alongside Laufey’s Spencer Stewart-produced “Christmas” cover, features original music from John Legend (“Get Ready,” produced by Raphael Saadiq) and Kamasi Washington (“Trying to Get There,” featuring Leon Bridges).
“Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” was originally written for the 1944 movie musical Meet Me in St. Louis by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane and performed by Judy Garland in the film. It has been covered countless times since, including by Frank Sinatra, the Carpenters, Michael Bublé, Christina Aguilera and Garland’s daughter Lorna Luft.
12 Days of Snoopy is produced by Peanuts and WildBrain and is executive produced by Josh Scherba, Stephanie Betts, Logan McPherson, Paige Braddock, Chris Bracco and Mark Evestaff.
