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Texas myth# 454.

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-DEC-04
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Texas myth# 454.(Encyclopedia Texanica: Anne Dingus solves the state's greatest mysteries.)

Article Excerpt
GENE AUTRY WROTE "RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER." Fortunately, that's not why the original singing cowboy will go down in his-to-ree; the Tioga native merely performed this novelty tune. The songwriter was Johnny Marks, of New York, who specialized in annoying holiday ditties ("Holly Jolly Christmas" is his too). Still, Autry's 1949 recording sold a blitzin' two million copies, and it's still the second-best-selling Christmas song ever, outdone only by "White Christmas," the classic first crooned by Bing Crosby.

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