Holly Jolly Christmas ~ Burl Ives

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"A Holly Jolly Christmas" is a Christmas song written by Johnny Marks and most famously performed by Burl Ives. The song has since become one of the Top 25 most-performed "holiday" songs written by ASCAP members, for the first five years of the 21st century.

"A Holly Jolly Christmas" was written by Marks for the 1964 Rankin-Bass Christmas special, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, in which Burl Ives portrayed the narrator, Sam the Snowman. Originally to be sung by Larry D. Mann as Yukon Cornelius, the song, as well as "Silver and Gold," was given to Ives due to his singing fame. This version was later released as a single.

Both "A Holly Jolly Christmas" and "Silver and Gold" were later rerecorded by Ives for his 1965 holiday album, Have a Holly Jolly Christmas. This version of the song is somewhat slower than the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer version, and has since become the more common rendition.
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