This is an iHeart Podcast. Hey, it's Bobby from the Bobby Bone Show. I had an incredible time at this year's iHeartRadio Music Festival and even got the chance to hang out with Diplo and Bailey Zimmerman while I was there. How did Ashes come together, Diplo? I pulled up real quick.
He was about to leave on tour. You're about to jump in your tour bus, and we had like three hours. It was really cool. He literally just like randomly showed up to my house. I'm like, oh, hey, Diplo, what are you doing?
He's like, I have a song that I want to show you. And I was like, okay. You can listen to the full episode out now wherever you get your podcast. And big shout out to my friends at Hyundai for making this possible. At a blast, cruising around the festival weekend in the all-new Palisade Hybrid.
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This is your seasonal reset. Uh And we continue with our American stories. This one, how a Charlie Brown Christmas Came to Be. It almost didn't. Americans fell in love with the show when it first aired.
on television back in 1965. It's been a part of our lives ever since. But the story of how Charles Schultz's A Charlie Brown Christmas came to be is itself an American classic.
So too is the story of how it almost didn't. Come to be. But first things first... The 30-minute Christmas special wasn't birth. By the creative urge.
It was commissioned by a commercial sponsor looking to turn the nation's most beloved newspaper cartoon strip. into an animated T V special. Here's Lee Mendelssohn, who produced the special, Telling the story of how this special came to be. Would your creative group be interested in doing a Christmas special for Coca-Cola? Have you thought about doing one?
I said, oh, absolutely, we think about it all the time. And he said, well, we need an outline down in Atlanta on Monday. It was Wednesday.
So send us what you have and we'll see what happens.
So I call Mr. Schultz on the phone, I call Mr. Melendez. Because we'd worked together on the documentary two years before. And I said, I think I just sold a Charlie Brown Christmas.
And they said, what's that? And I said to Schultz, that's something you're going to write tomorrow.
So Bill flew up from Hollywood, and I drove up from San Francisco. He did write it on a Thursday. Those days we sent it by Western Union on a Friday. And Monday they call up and said, okay, let's do a Charlie Brown Christmas. The team worked fast.
They had only three months to create a script. Record it, make a soundtrack. and create thirty thousand animation cells from scratch. and this was all before the days of computer animated design. When the special was finished, It wasn't a hit with network executives.
The first problem was the laugh track. or the lack thereof. It was unimaginable to produce TV comedy without it back in the 1960s. Schultz thought more highly of the viewers. He didn't believe they needed to be cued to laugh.
at predetermined moments. Another disagreement involved the voice working. CBS executives wanted to use adult actors who pretended to be kids. Schultz believed that using children gave the characters more authenticity. The CBS executives also had a problem with the jazz soundtrack by Vince Geraldi.
The music was too sophisticated for a children's program, they worried. They wanted something. Mm younger. The CBS executives also thought the show was too slow. They didn't think there was enough action in a show dedicated to children.
with limited attention spans. Last, the CBS executive is worried about the scene where Linus recites the story of the birth of Jesus Christ from the Gospel of Luke. It was too long, they believed, and too literal. The CBS executives assumed that Americans, especially American kids, wouldn't want to sit through a spoken passage from the King James Bible. Quote, They were freaking out about something so overtly religious in a Christmas special.
explained Bill Melendez. They basically wrote it off. Schulf didn't just get pushback from CBS executives. Members of his own team were sceptical too. Melendez himself was hesitant.
I was leery of the religion that came into it. I was right away opposed to it, he told reporters. Luckily for Schultz, he was the beneficiary of a tight production schedule. Moreover, the network, the advertising agency, and the show's sponsor. Coca-Cola.
had already promoted the show in T V Guide. Schultz had leverage. and he wasn't about to capitulate on key creative elements, and they aired the special as Schultz had intended. And that's why Charles Schultz, was Charles Schultz. He intuitively knew the things Americans cared about.
the things that gave their lives meaning, the long time Sunday school teacher also knew the reading from the Gospel of Luke. was the centrepiece of the show. and a centerpiece of American life. It's a scene we'll always remember. Charlie Brown sinks into despair while trying to find the true meaning of Christmas.
Milas walks on stage. Stage Center. and under a narrow spotlight. quotes that Scripture From the Gospel of Luke. And there were in the same country shepherds.
abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them. The glory of the Lord shone round about them. And they were sore afraid, and the angel said unto them, Fear not. For behold, I bring you tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David.
A savior. Just Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you. He shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in the manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God.
I'm saying. Glory to God in the highest. And on earth, peace. Good will toward men. And after Linus finishes, he walks across the stage.
and says And that's what Christmas is all about. Charlie Brown. CBS executives were certain the show would be a ratings disaster. Programmers Well, they were equally grim. informing the production team, quote, we will, of course.
Air it next week. But I'm afraid we won't be ordering any more. On Thursday, December 8th, 1965, The half hour special aired. Preempting the Munsters. and following Gilligan's Island.
Fifty percent of American television Tuned in. The cartoon was a critical and commercial hit. Winning an Emmy? and a Peabody Award. Linus's recitation was hailed by critic Harriet Van Horn of the World Telegram, who wrote, quote, Linus's reading of the story of the Nativity was Quite simply, The dramatic highlight of the television season.
Coca Coa Well, it was inundated with letters from fans of the special. Here's one. Gentlemen, I am writing the first fan letter in my fifty-two years. Of a rather full life. to compliment you on sponsoring the A Charlie Brown Christmas television program.
I don't know when any programme has delighted as many adults as well as children. and I am writing to express the hope That you might be able to sponsor additional. Charlie Brown programs. Grand Rapids, Michigan. And here's another.
To the Makers of Coca Cola We wish to compliment you on the Peanut Show. You sponsored on T V. Your production stands out. As refreshing as your product. Our thanks to you and mister Schultz for bringing to the fore in his wholesome philosophy.
the real spirit of Christmas. which is so often obliterated by a false one. It is our hope that peanuts may find a permanent place in the TV realm. May the makers of Coca Cola be greatly blessed for their part in this worth while endeavor, Signed the Sisters of Saint Francis. In Belle Vernon.
Pennsylvania. But Charlie Brown's Christmas found that permanent place. in the T V realm. That's for sure. and in America's hearts.
It's equaled only by the 1966 program How the Grinch Stole Christmas. and its popularity among young and old alike. Thank God the Grinch-like executives at CBS. chose to air the special. back in 1965.
if it had been left to their instincts. We'd have one less national treasure. cherish. Come Christmas time. The story of a Charlie Brown's Christmas.
The story of Charles Schultz in a way and his intuitive understanding. of what works. in programming. The idea of having a jazz soundtrack. One of the most beloved of all time.
was something all of the suits thought was a bad idea. But not Schultz. The kid actors, not the adult actors. The Laugh Track and the absence thereof. And most importantly, that Bible scene.
all of these great artistic decisions. Make Charlie Brown's Christmas what it is. That story The story of how Charlie Brown Christmas came to be and almost didn't hear. on our American store. Hey, what's up?
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