Brett Banter

For the 25 days leading into Christmas, Brett Inc. is talking music. Christmas music. Sit back and enjoy.

Who doesn’t love “Snoopy and the Red Baron,” the snappy little song detailing Charlie Brown’s dog battling the WWI German flying ace? Well, apparently Peanuts creator Charles Schultz who sued the band its producers over copyright infringement case in 1966. Well, Schultz was in the right as the band—a Florida-based group known by the British sounding Royal Guardsmen – tool the plot of a Peanuts story line and put it in song form.

Well, Schultz wasn’t an entirely bad dude and later let The Royal Guardsmen create other Snoopy songs. Still, it is a pretty cool ditty. And note the different start to this version.