Tuesday, 9. December 2003
Topic: NEWS english - on December 9, 2003 at 1:49:32 AM CET
Over a half century of Rudolph the Red-nosed Pumping Unit
It all started when Montgomery Ward department stores published a little Christmas poem booklet in 1939 about a lonely reindeer with a shiny red nose who was chosen by Santa to light the way for his reindeer one foggy Christmas eve. The booklets were given to children by the Montgomery Ward Santas and were so popular they continued to be given away during the WWII years. But the little story reached new heights in 1949 when the song, "Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer," sung by Gene Autrey, swept the country.
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