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Bright red and white sheet music, showing Rudolph leading Sant's sleigh

How Johnny Marks, King of Christmas Hits, Made “Rudolph” a Classic

Posted by: Neely Tucker

“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” went without a song for years, from the tail end of the Depression through World War II and nearly until the midcentury before a musician named Johnny Marks began to consider it. Marks studied music in college in the 1920s, penned a good song or two for Guy Lombardo’s orchestra in …