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• Two record producers from Denmark came up with the idea of splicing together recordings of dogs barking into the pattern of songs. In 1955, the two used five dogs – Dolly, Pearl, Pussy, Caesar, and King – to create The Singing Dogs performing “Jingle Bells,” a rendition that has become a well-known holiday favorite of most radio stations. • Written in 1864, “Up on the Housetop” is the second-oldest secular Christmas song, after “Jingle Bells.” It was composed by Benjamin Hanby, who wrote 80 other songs, before perishing from tuberculosis at age 33. It seems that Hanby was inspired by Clement Moore’s poem “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” the first piece of writing that spoke of Santa’s sleigh and his reindeer landing on rooftops. The most well-known recording of this song was by cowboy singer Gene Autry in 1953. • “Silent Night” comes to us from the German language, from words written by Father Josef Mohn, a priest in a tiny Austrian village. “Stille Nacht” was set to music in 1818 by the church organist Franz Gruber, who wrote the music for guitar, since the church’s pipe organ was in disrepair. • Written in 1943 in the midst of World War II, “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” was written to honor GI’s serving overseas and their families. Composer Kimball Gannon sang the song for singer Bing Crosby while the two were playing golf to get his opinion. Crosby recorded the tune, which was a chart-topper for eleven weeks and became Crosby’s fifth gold record. When Gannon died in 1974, he bequeathed the rights to the song to the American Heart Association, which has benefited from the gift since that time. Cont'd next page!
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• A 34-year-old copyrighter working for the department store chain Montgomery Ward in 1939 was the creator of one of the season’s most beloved characters, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Robert May was given the assignment of coming up with a story for a holiday promotional booklet for distribution to customers to replace the coloring books they had circulated in previous years. May, who had been teased as a child for his shyness and short stature, used the same theme for his red-nosed reindeer, who was made fun of for being different. Montgomery Ward sold nearly 2.5 million copies that year. When they reissued it in 1946, sales were 3.5 million copies. Unfortunately, because May was an employee of the store, Ward’s owned the copyright, and it was several years before May convinced them to allow him the rights. In 1949, May’s brother-in-law penned one of the most loved holiday tunes of all time, based on the story. Cowboy singer Gene Autry recorded the song and sold over two million copies the first year. • The name Johnny Marks might not be familiar to you, but you’ve certainly heard his compositions hundreds of times. Johnny Marks was the brotherin-law of Robert May, and the one who set “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” to music. But that wasn’t his only Christmas song by any means. Marks also gave us “Have a Holly Jolly Christmas,” “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” “The Night Before Christmas Song,” “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day,” and “When Santa Claus Gets Your Letter,” among many others. • The English melody “Greensleeves” was composed in 1580, but it wasn’t until 1865 that William Dix wrote the poem “The Manger Throne,” which was fitted into the “Greensleeves” tune. We know this Christmas carol as “What Child Is This?”. Cont'd next page!
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