Rudolph The Flat-Nosed Reindeer (Answer song)/Randolph The Red Neck Reindeer (Answer song)/Woodolph The Petrified Red Nosed Reindeer (Answer song)
Original Recording:
y
Definitive Version:
Original Label:
Challenge (1949)/Columbia/Republic
Australia Label:
W & G
Country of Origin:
USA
Category:
Pop (Male)
Artist
First Name:
Gene
Last Name:
Autry
Other name:
with the Pinafores
Artist Alias:
Comments
The eight reindeer named in the song "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" came from a poem written by Clement Clarke Moore in 1822, "Twas The Night Before Christmas" but this was based on an earlier poem called "A Visit From St. Nicholas" written by Major Henry Livingston Jr. in 1807. The reindeer were originally named Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder (aka Dunder, Donner) & Blixem (aka Bliksem, Blitzen). The last two names mean "thunder" & "lightning" in Dutch. In later versions of the poem those names became Donner & Blitzen, the names used in Gene Autry‘s song. The name Rudolph is not mentioned in the poem, that name came from the story/colouring book "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer" written in 1939 by Robert L. May for the Montgomery Ward department store. Later, his brother-in-law, Johnny Marks, wrote the song which was recorded by Gene Autry in 1949.
