MERRY CHRISTMAS CHARLIE BROWN!

My dad was a TV repairman when I was a little girl.  We lived in a big 2 story house and his shop was in the front room.  If he could not fix someone's TV, stereo or record player at their house, he would bring it home to fix it.  He had a station wagon (yes the name was painted on the side) and could lay the back seat down to slide the broken item in.  To fix a record player, he would play an album to see if it needed a new needle, had a busted speaker, etc... then proceed to fix it.  Now he had a few 'records' that were his favorites and he would use these for testing.  During any other time of the year, it could be Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn or somebody else.  BUT for Christmas it was Buck Owens.  It had a green album cover with a red stocking on the front.  I guess you are wondering how I remember that.  It made its way to my house when my mother passed away a few years ago.  But my sister and brother-in-law made sure years earlier that I had a cassette tape of it also.  When my kids were growing up, we played that while we decorated our tree.  It was tradition and yep, Georgia has heard it for the past 2 years.  Drew's turn will be next week and I am sure that he will give me a Granddaddy Peanut look as Buck sings 'Santa looked a lot like Daddy'.

Years ago, people bought furniture, appliances or other things on credit from the local stores.  My dad had a contract with one of the furniture companies here in town to fix the above mentioned 'electronics'.  There was a broken TV (big floor model) that needed to be fixed that made its way to our house.  At Christmas.  Just in time for Charlie Brown.   My brother has told me that when daddy brought the TV home, we watched the program in color.  And the TV never made its way back to the store. 

I am so glad that Charlie Brown is still being shown, despite it being religious.  The Little Drummer Boy, Nestor the Long Eared Donkey and a few others have survived the test of time when everyone has to be politically correct. 

I will be watching next week when Linus, Lucy, Sally, Violet, Pig-Pen and Schroder take the decorations off of Snoopy's dog house and decorate the sad little tree.  And I will say along with the group 'MERRY CHRISTMAS CHARLIE BROWN'!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0UTEVtDm0M