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Article: Good grief! Tree farmers say customers are pining for `Charlie Brown trees'.(The Providence Journal)
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- December 8, 2000
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For some people, the perfect Christmas tree doesn't have sturdy branches and thick, soft needles.
It's the scraggliest, scrawniest tree on the lot _ the one that looks like even the birds snubbed it for nest-building.
These trees are known as "Charlie Brown trees," based on the ugly little tree that Peanuts character Charlie Brown chose in the holiday TV special A Charlie Brown Christmas.
Since it premiered on Dec. 9, 1965, the Emmy and Peabody-award winning show has aired every year reaching generations of children. The jazz soundtrack by pianist Vince Guaraldi contributed Christmas music standards such as "Linus and Lucy" and "Christmas Time ...