A Different 'Rudolph' Origins Story
Collection of Christmas columns by late AP correspondent Hugh Mulligan includes "Christmas in Tin Pan Alley."
Early on in Mulligan’s Christmas Stew, a new collection of holiday season columns by late AP special correspondent Hugh Mulligan, there is the Dec. 7, 1959 missive “Christmas in Tin Pan Alley.” For that one, Mulligan interviewed Johnny Marks, composer of the classic 1949 Christmas song “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” to frame a look at the annual mad dash of songwriters inspired by Marks’ success.
The generally accepted version of how Marks came to write the song involves brother-in-law Robert L.
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