We caught up with one of the kids who sang on 'A Charlie Brown Christmas.' He's 72 now ^70.3%

NPR - By Chloe Veltman - 12/19/2025, 11:00 AM

Dave Willat was just 11 years old, wearing cutoffs and a T-shirt on a warm September evening in 1965, when he showed up for what he thought would be a routine choir practice at his church in San Rafael, Calif., a small city about 20 miles north of San Francisco. His voice was on the cusp of changing, and he expected to rehearse the usual... more