Hello, my name is Tim Hedgepeth and my many Christmas traditions include 'A Charlie Brown Christmas.'
My brother and father and I watched the very first broadcast, must've been in the mid-60s. And I don't think a Yuletide has gone by since then where my Christmas has not been marked by watching that really wonderful show. It is, in many respects, the TV special that defined my life.
I have the music on CD. Let's say this--let's say the music is the sound track to my life. That is the best music ever recorded, I think, for a television program.
And I was listening to it this morning driving over to the studio, so there you have it!
My Christmas trees are quite often as ugly and pathetic as Charlie Brown's and that makes them more special.