04/28/2026
Every once and a while I get emails like this but this one is particularly powerful.
Dear Billy B,
I wanted to write and thank you for the music that has been part of my life for nearly as long as I can remember.
When I was in kindergarten at The Sundance School in North Plainfield, NJ, sometime around 1983, my school brought you in to sing for us. From that point on, I grew up listening to your album, Billy B Sings About Trees, over and over again. In fact, I still have that record after all these years.
Later, when my daughter Maggie was born, I bought the same album on CD so she could grow up with those songs too. She is 10 now, and today, to celebrate Arbor Day, we played the CD on the drive home from school and sang all the songs together from memory.
It was one of those small moments that suddenly feels much bigger, with songs from my own childhood carried forward into hers. Your music gave us a shared language of trees, nature, curiosity, and joy. It connected my kindergarten self, my daughter, and a spring afternoon in the car more than 40 years later.
Thank you for creating music that has lasted in our family across generations. Thank you for teaching children to notice the natural world, to care about it, and to sing about it. And thank you for giving me the unexpected gift of hearing my daughter sing along to the same songs that shaped some of my earliest memories.
With gratitude,
Tom & Maggie
