Talk:You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown

Production credits
(( added to article in 2014, removed in 2016 ))
 * Created and Written by Charles M. Schulz
 * Directed by Bill Melendez
 * Produced by Lee Mendelson and Bill Melendez
 * Executive Producer: David H. DePatie
 * Original Music Composed and Performed by Vince Guaraldi
 * Music Supervision by John Scott Trotter
 * Animators: Bob Carlson, Emery Hawkins, Sam Jaimes, Bill Littlejohn, Don Lusk, Bob Matz, Al Pabian, Jim Pabian, Phil Roman, Rod Scribner, Frank Smith, Hank Smith, Jacques Vausseur, Rudy Zamora
 * Layout: Evert Brown, Bernard Gruver, Ed Levitt, Ernie Nordli
 * Backgrounds: Ellie Bogardus, Bob Singer, Dean Spille
 * Effects Animator: Harry Love
 * Checking: Carole Barnes, Eleanor Warren
 * Ink and Paint Supervisor: Beverly Robbins
 * Ink and Paint: Faith Kovaleski, Joanne Lansing, Adele Lenart, Joice Lee Marshall, Celine Miles, Chandra Poweris, Lou Robards, Dawn Smith, Carla Washburn, Manon Washburn, Debbie Zamora
 * Film Editing: Robert T. Gillis, Charles McCann, Rudy Zamora
 * Camera: Dickson/Vasu
 * Voices - Coast Recorders, Radio Recorders
 * Music - Wally Heider Recording
 * Dubbing - Producers' Sound Service, Don Minkler
 * Production Manager: Robert T. Gillis
 * Production Assistants: Carolyn Klein, Sandy Claxton, Susan Scheid
 * A LEE MENDELSON/BILL MELENDEZ Production
 * In Association With UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE, INC. and CHARLES M. SCHULZ CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Warren Lockhart, president)
 * THE END
 * "You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown"
 * ©1972 United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
 * All Rights Reserved — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.174.187.182 (talk) 18:47, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

Vince Guaraldi vocalist - sings "Joe Cool"

 * www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/little-birdie-the-best-thanksgiving-tune/Content?oid=1577166
 * www.tvguide.com/news/question-artist-66067/
 * Televisionary: Composer-musician Vince Guaraldi, who wrote and played the classic Peanuts music, also handled the vocal duties on "Joe Cool" (1972's You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown) and "Little Birdie" (1973's A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving).

-71.174.187.182 (talk) 18:48, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

Which title used for 1972 premiere?
Article reads: "This special first aired under the title You're Elected Charlie Brown. It was subsequently changed after Charles Schulz realized that Charlie Brown was neither elected nor does he run. This explains why there is a caret between the words "You're" and "Elected" on the chalkboard (there was no time to redo the entire cel)"

In the 2008 short documentary film "The Polls Don't Lie: The Making of You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown" producer Lee Mendelson says the idea to change the title came from CBS President William S. Paley.

I contacted one of the foremost Peanuts experts, and he says the viewers saw "Not Elected" for the premiere in 1972. He says they were able to make that change in the actual show despite the fact that it was too late to revise the advertising or publicity. He says this and he is a careful researcher, but still there are doubts.

If the title was indeed changed on the screen for the debut broadcast Oct 29 1972, Boston Globe TV critic Percy Shain didn’t know it when he used the original title in his review of the show the next day. Nielsen didn’t know it when they used the original title to report the ratings for that week. And the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences didn’t know it when they announced the show’s Emmy nomination under its original title in April 1973.

What chronological evidence is there for the “Not”? According to its ISBN number, the hardcover book came out in January 1973 as “Not,” although this is called the “library edition” while the “trade edition” publication date is given as December 1973. When the special was rerun in Canada on Sept 16 1973, the Winnipeg edition of TV Guide did not include the “Not,” neither in the regular listings nor in the Close Up feature. The Ottawa Journal TV listing however did include the “Not.”

So assuming the show as first broadcast had “Not” on the screen, there are several possibilities: the media, including Nielsen and the Emmys, didn’t notice the change…or they did notice the change but chose not to use the new name for some reason…perhaps in the belief that the inserted “Not” was there simply to poke fun at Charlie Brown, and not meant to be an actual title change. Or else the original broadcast did not include the “Not” and it was added later, perhaps as early as January 1973 for the book, or as late as Sept 1973 for the Canadian repeat.

74.104.189.176 (talk) 15:04, 1 July 2021 (UTC)