RUDFOLPH
THE RED NOSED REINDEER
BING
CROSBY
SONGWRITER:
JOHNNY MARKS
COUNTRY: U.
S. A.
ALBUM: ALBUM
BING CROSBY – CHRISTMAS CLASSICS
LABEL: CAPITOL
RECORDS
GENRE: CHRISTMAS
SONG
YEAR: 1951
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May
3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer, comedian and actor. The
first multimedia star, Crosby was a leader in record sales, radio ratings, and
motion picture grosses from 1930 to 1954. He made over seventy feature films and recorded more than
1,600 different songs.
His early career coincided with recording
innovations that allowed him to develop an intimate singing style that
influenced many male singers who followed him, including Perry Como,
Frank Sinatra,
Dean Martin,
Dick Haymes,
Elvis Presley,
and John Lennon.
Yank magazine said that he was "the person who had done the most for
the morale of overseas servicemen" during World War II. In 1948, American
polls declared him the "most admired man alive," ahead of Jackie Robinson and Pope Pius XII.
Also in 1948, Music Digest estimated that his recordings filled more than half
of the 80,000 weekly hours allocated to recorded radio music.
Crosby won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his
performance in Going My Way (1944), and was nominated for its sequel The
Bells of St. Mary's (1945) opposite Ingrid Bergman,
becoming the first of six actors to be nominated twice for playing the same
character. In 1963, Crosby received the first Grammy Global Achievement Award.
He is one of 33 people to have three stars on the Hollywood
Walk of Fame, in the categories of motion
pictures, radio, and audio recording. He was also known for his collaborations
with longtime friend Bob Hope,
starring in the Road to... films from 1940 to 1962.
Crosby influenced the development of the
postwar recording
industry. After seeing a demonstration of a German
broadcast quality reel-to-reel tape recorder brought to
America by John T. Mullin,
he invested $50,000 in a California electronics company called Ampex to build
copies. He
then convinced ABC to allow him to tape his shows. He became
the first performer to pre-record his radio shows and master his commercial
recordings onto magnetic tape.
Through the medium of recording, he
constructed his radio programs with the same directorial tools and
craftsmanship (editing, retaking, rehearsal, time shifting)
used in motion picture production, a practice that became an industry standard.
In addition to his work with early audio tape recording, he helped to finance
the development of videotape, bought television stations, bred racehorses, and
co-owned the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team.
"Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer"
is a song by songwriter Johnny Marks based on the 1939 story Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer published
by the Montgomery Ward Company.
Gene Autry's
recording hit No. 1 on the U.S. charts the week of Christmas 1949.
In 1939, Marks' brother-in-law, Robert L. May,
created the character Rudolph as an assignment for Montgomery Ward,
and Marks decided to adapt the story of Rudolph into a song. English
singer-songwriter and entertainer Ian
Whitcomb interviewed Marks on the creation of
the song in 1972.
The song had an added introduction,
paraphrasing the poem "A Visit from Saint Nicholas" (public domain by the time the song was written), stating the names of the eight
reindeer, which went:
"You
know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen,
Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen,
But do you recall
The most famous reindeer of all?"
They SUPPOSED The song was first sung by crooner Harry Brannon on New York City radio in early November 1949, Gene Autry's
recording hit Nº. 1 in the US charts during Christmas 1949. The song was suggested as a
"B" side for a record Autry was making. Autry first rejected the
song, but his wife convinced him to use it. The success of this Christmas song
by Autry gave support to Autry's subsequent popular Easter song, "Here
Comes Peter Cottontail". Autry's version of the song also
holds the distinction of being the only chart-topping hit to fall completely
off the chart after reaching Nº. 1. The official date of its Nº. 1 status was
for the week ending January 7, 1950, making it the first No. 1 song of the
1950s.
(…)Autry's recording sold 1.75 million copies
its first Christmas season and 1.5 million the following year. In 1969, it was
awarded a gold disk by the RIAA for sales of 7 million, which was Columbia's highest-selling record
at the time. It
eventually sold a total of 12.5 million. Cover versions included, sales exceed
150 million copies, second only to Bing Crosby's "White Christmas".
Autry recorded another version of the song in
the fall of 1957 and released it the same year through his own record label, Challenge Records. This version featured an
accompaniment by a full orchestra and chorus. This was
the only other version of the song Autry recorded and released on an album.
In 1959, Chuck
Berry released a recording of a sequel,
"Run Rudolph Run"
(sometimes called "Run Run Rudolph"), credited to Marks and Marvin
Brodie.
In December 2018, Autry's original version
entered the Billboard Hot 100 at #36, nearly 70 years after it first
charted. It climbed to #27 the week ending December 22, 2018. and peaked at #16
the week ending January 5, 2019.
You know
There's Dasher
And Dancer
Prancer and Vixen
Comet and Cupid
Donner and Blitzen
But do you recall
The most famous
Reindeer of all?
Rudolph
The Red-Nosed Reindeer
Had a very shiny nose
And if you ever saw him
You would even say it glows
All of the other reindeer
Used to laugh
And call him names
They never let poor Rudolph
Join in any reindeer games
Then one foggy Christmas Eve
Santa came to say
"Rudolph with your nose so bright
Won't you guide my sleigh tonight?"
Then how the reindeer loved him
As they shouted out with glee
"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
You'll go down in history"
Then one foggy Christmas Eve
Santa came to say
"Hey, Rudolph
With your nose so bright
Won't you guide
My sleigh tonight?"
Then how the reindeer loved him
As they shouted out with glee
"Hey
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
You'll go down in history".
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