“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” was recorded 75 years ago ... it was that week’s third most-played song on the radio and the fourth among jukeboxes, according to the magazine.

2The ‘Rudolph’ Song Was a Family Affair The “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” song that you’ve known since preschool? That song was actually written by May’s brother-in-law, Johnny Marks.

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Rudolph becomes a hit song An annotated version of the “Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer” lyrics are shown in 2012. With the copyright, May was then free to create a variety of items featuring ...

"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" will air on local NBC channels ... of all" would later go on to become a 1957 Christmas song performed by Gene Autry and subsequently a stop-motion animation ...

“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” the stop-motion animated holiday classic, returns this week to network television, but you won't find it on CBS. For its 60th anniversary, a special 75-minute ...

"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," the longest-running Christmas ... then adapted the story into a song in the 1940s. The TV special was created by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass of Rankin ...

Burl Ives lent his iconic voice to the 1964 film, narrating the story as Sam the Snowman and singing the TV movie's theme song ... in five decades, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" was broadcast ...