Gene Autry - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Audio) 

Actor, singer, decorated soldier, this guy is amazing

For anyone who is curious, this came out in the late 1940s.

“You’ll go down in history!” Man who knew that man was soo right❤️

Here I am, writing Christmas cards at midnight and listening to this. To whoever is reading this, no matter who you are, I respect you and I love you. I hope you have a wonderful night and remember that god loves you. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone!

What this song made me realize as a kid is, people will ridicule you and treat you bad for being different, and only like you when what made you different is actually useful.

*Lord, give me strength, to be able to overcome every adversity in my life, in my home, in my family... always take care of and protect my children, my husband, and my entire family, 🙏🙏.. thank you Lord I also give you for every, food, and day that you give us and give us... amen 🙏🙏🙏*

Why did I want to hear this during the summer?

Nobody, and I mean NOBODY can sing this carol better than him.

If this song with Gene singing it doesn't take ya back to your childhood and Christmas I don't know what would! Best version ever! Rest in Peace Mr Autry, you brought a lot of joy to kids and adults alike!

I really believe here at Christmas time, it brings the child out in us all.

Who can't help but sing along when this comes on?

The following story about our famous reindeer was recopied and posted! You'll love this ... Merry Christmas to all.....As the holiday season of 1938 came to Chicago, Bob May wasn’t feeling much comfort or joy. A 34-year-old ad writer for Montgomery Ward, May was exhausted and nearly broke. His wife, Evelyn, was bedridden, on the losing end of a two-year battle with cancer. This left Bob to look after their four-year old-daughter, Barbara. One night, Barbara asked her father, “Why isn’t my mommy like everybody else’s mommy?” As he struggled to answer his daughter’s question, Bob remembered the pain of his own childhood. A small, sickly boy, he was constantly picked on and called names. But he wanted to give his daughter hope, and show her that being different was nothing to be ashamed of. More than that, he wanted her to know that he loved her and would always take care of her. So he began to spin a tale about a reindeer with a bright red nose who found a special place on Santa’s team. Barbara loved the story so much that she made her father tell it every night before bedtime. As he did, it grew more elaborate. Because he couldn’t afford to buy his daughter a gift for Christmas, Bob decided to turn the story into a homemade picture book. In early December, Bob’s wife died. Though he was heartbroken, he kept working on the book for his daughter. A few days before Christmas, he reluctantly attended a company party at Montgomery Ward. His co-workers encouraged him to share the story he’d written. After he read it, there was a standing ovation. Everyone wanted copies of their own. Montgomery Ward bought the rights to the book from their debt-ridden employee. Over the next six years, at Christmas, they gave away six million copies of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer to shoppers. Every major publishing house in the country was making offers to obtain the book. In an incredible display of good will, the head of the department store returned all rights to Bob May. Four years later, Rudolph had made him into a millionaire. Now remarried with a growing family, May felt blessed by his good fortune. But there was more to come. His brother-in-law, a successful songwriter named Johnny Marks, set the uplifting story to music. The song was pitched to artists from Bing Crosby on down. They all passed. Finally, Marks approached Gene Autry. The cowboy star had scored a holiday hit with “Here Comes Santa Claus” a few years before. Like the others, Autry wasn’t impressed with the song about the misfit reindeer. Marks begged him to give it a second listen. Autry played it for his wife, Ina. She was so touched by the line “They wouldn’t let poor Rudolph play in any reindeer games” that she insisted her husband record the tune. Within a few years, it had become the second best-selling Christmas song ever, right behind “White Christmas.” Since then, Rudolph has come to life in TV specials, cartoons, movies, toys, games, coloring books, greeting cards and even a Ringling Bros. circus act. The little red-nosed reindeer dreamed up by Bob May and immortalized in song by Johnny Marks has come to symbolize Christmas as much as Santa Claus, evergreen trees and presents. As the last line of the song says, “He’ll go down in history. "Merry Christmas to all .....

My wife, son and I, we love the original classic old Christmas songs

Check out the lyrics below. You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen But do you recall The most famous reindeer of all? Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Had a very shiny nose And if you ever saw it You would even say it glows All of the other reindeer Used to laugh and call him names They never let poor Rudolph Join in any reindeer games Then one foggy Christmas Eve Santa came to say “Rudolph, with your nose so bright Won’t you guide my sleigh tonight?” Then how the reindeer loved him As they shouted out with glee “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer You’ll go down in history” Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Had a very shiny nose And if you ever saw it You would even say it glows All of the other reindeer Used to laugh and call him names They never let poor Rudolph Join in any reindeer games Then one foggy Christmas Eve Santa came to say “Rudolph, with your nose so bright Won’t you guide my sleigh tonight?” Then how the reindeer loved him As they shouted out with glee “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer You’ll go down in history”

The Best version of this carol.

I was 4 years old when Gene recorded this. It isn't Christmas with out hearing him do it at least once. Merry Christmas!

Best version ever!

I still have my record of this Gene Autry song.

A true old classic song that the young and old a like love.

My dad use to love this guy-dad use to play guitar and give us a medley of his music. Wonderful times. Merry Christmas -December 11, 2020

I’m excited for Christmas! Who else is? 🎅🏻❄️ 🎄

My dad song this song to me as a kid and let me tell you i never get tired of it autry nails it just as well rest in greatness autry

i will miss this year 2021💭🥰🤍🔚🔜 thanks god for giving me a live🙏🏼

Merry Christmas everyone ❤

I love Gene Autry's Christmas music. It's my favorite. 🥰🙃☮️🖖

This Christmas album is my favorite since I was a kid. My dad would and still plays every Christmas

Takes me back to elementary school in the 1980's:)

A golden classic that will constantly make people happy at Christmas time

I love the song 🎵 🎵 🎵 🎵 🎵 😍 ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵😍😍😍😍🎵🎵😍

I love Christmas 🎄

15 years prior to the Rankin Bass special this Gene Autry original Christmas song it straight to #1 during the Christmas holiday season of 1949

This is a Christmas Classic.

Lots of Versions of this but Gene is the king and queen in all of it so timeless for a song over 75years like his others.Im feeling old over my 40s says alot the age and era woe.Happy Holidays to all over Our World enjoy

This song is fire even on Halloween NO joke 🔥🔥🔥🔥

i love how it says “you know all these less famous reindeer, but do you remember the only one that everyone actually knows?”

Gene you'll really go down in history.

He was a good singer, my parents knew this. What treasure, for the children.

I LOVE HIS CHRISTMAS SONGS 🎵 BRINGS BACK MEMORIES OF BEING WITH MY GRANDMA ON THE HOLIDAYS SHE ALWAYS PLAYED THIS I MISS GRANDMA SO MUCH

I remember it when I was 4 or 5 for first time, and was early 50's. Loved it❤

Always my favorite.

They played this song every day on loud speakers at Christmas time of 1949 at the orphanage..always remembered this Christmas song it was up lifting even today…

Yet another excellent recommendation Mr. Lynch!

His voice and the song background sound like Disney princess movies like snowwhite. 😁

When my sisters and I were little we had this Disney Christmas Singalong vhs and this was what introduced me to this classic holiday hit by this artist.

I love this version so much! This song is so incredibly happy but this version especially just makes me want to smile and be happy. He sounds so upbeat and cheery

Amazing version of this classic song!

Anyone listening to this masterpiece in 2023?? 👇

I love Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer.

I love this version of the song, it’s beautiful 🤩

Gene still kills it!

I can’t wait for Christmas this is definitely a good christmas song

Happy birthday to Gene Autry rest in peace ✌️ his birth verse is Matthew 9:29 Blessings and hugs!

CHRISTMAS IS THE BEST WHO IS WITH ME!!!!

Wow! Memories of yesteryear, grew up listening to this!!! Awesome, Thank you for sharing. ☃️💋🙂⚘🎅🤶🎁🇺🇸❤🎶🌹♥️🎤🙏🦋

A wonderful timeless "sing-along masterpiece by the one and only Gene Autry, himself. This would be one of the original versions of "Rudolph the red nosed reindeer". Gene Autry has sung for many children during his lifetime and this song brought the children a lot of joy during Christmas and this one sticks really fresh to this day with popularity. It simply is Christmas music one can admire a lot more then anything you would hear today. This is what you really need to hear during every Christmas holiday. Merry Christmas!!!!🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

Rip gene autry

I Thank God for Gene Autry because he was The Original Owner of The California ( Now Los Angeles ) Angels Baseball Team. My Favorite MLB Team.

THAT CHRISTMAS SONG WAS RELEASED AND PERFORMED BY GENE AUTRY IN 1949. I THINK IT WAS A BOOK DESCRIBING THE LIFE OF RUDOLPH, THE RED NOSED REIGNDEER, AND YEARS LATER A MUSICIAN AND COMPOSER (WHOM I DON'T REMEMBER HIS NAME WROTE THE MUSIC AND GIVEN TO SINGER GENE AUTRY TO SING IT ON DECEMBER 1949.

This song dates me that and still sending out Christmas Cards

I love that song

i LOVED THIS SONG AND gENE IS WHO i GREW UP LISTENING TO HIM ON THE RECORD mY RECORD WAS A BIG 78 AT THAT TIME AND THE RECORD WAS COLORED red and on the other side was a song he sung called Santas work shop I still have the record I would play it over and over

I can't stop listening to this song

My most favorite version!

You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen But do you recall The most famous reindeer of all? Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Had a very shiny nose And if you ever saw it You would even say it glows All of the other reindeer Used to laugh and call him names They never let poor Rudolph Join in any reindeer games Then one foggy Christmas Eve Santa came to say "Rudolph, with your nose so bright Won't you guide my sleigh tonight?" Then how the reindeer loved him As they shouted out with glee "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer You'll go down in history" Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Had a very shiny nose And if you ever saw it You would even say it glows All of the other reindeer Used to laugh and call him names They never let poor Rudolph Join in any reindeer games Then one foggy Christmas Eve Santa came to say "Rudolph, with your nose so bright Won't you guide my sleigh tonight?" Then how the reindeer loved him As they shouted out with glee "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer You'll go down in history"

The Best listening since I was a kid I'm 63🎸🥁🌟

OMG what a amazing song 🎅🎅🎅🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

First heard this song when I was a little boy and immediately fell in love with it for Gene Autry was as well my favorite cowboy TV western show then as well. 74 years young still at this song I come undone. Merry Christmass, happy Hanukah and a happy New Year to all. Oh by the way I recall when television first aired Christmass stuff it was spelled with two ss's. Christmass

Thank you Montgomery-Wards for creating Rudolph the red nose reindeer

Still love this song.

Some people say All I want for Christmas is the quintessential Christmas song. Those people are wrong. This is the best Christmas song

THIS is the Platinum Standard!!! Period!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

I can feel the Christmas cheer flowing through every note of this song!

❤ I remember I always used to sing this when I was little❤❤😊

I wish they would bring some of his weastern back on

My all time favorite song at Christmas time 🤗

Happy Birthday to Johnny Marks his Birth Card is Ten of Club Rest in Peace ✌️🕊️ Merry Christmas ⛄🎄 Blessings and Hugs 💖💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕!

I had that record when I was 6 years old . He was awesome!

Happy Holidays (2021)....one of my favorites along with "Here comes Santa Claus"..!

We listen to this song every December!

im actually surprised that he never had a runny nose hes so lucky and charming ngl

Rudolph is so cute

I LOVE THIS SONG

Very nostalgic of those pleasant and happy world.😭

Merry Christmas to whoever is reading this!

My favorite singer of this song ❤❤❤ classic!

“You know rouldoulph, donner , and Cupid ,but do you know blitzen?”🤠

I like songs that sound “nostalgic” but this is actually nostalgic for me (I either had it on CD or Windows Vista)

40’s Vibe

Gene Autrys version of Rudolph the Red nose reindeer, I think is one of the best ones

The song is perfection. He is thee only recoding artist in the world to have had 3 number one Christmas songs..nobody will ever touch him in original lyrics for Christmas ever...every musician in the world says writing an original Christmas song that becomes a hit is almost impossible. Paul McCartney barely got by with his song...he is the king of humble..he just said it was too hard.. Most Christmas songs are regurgitated songs from the early 1900s..I love Andy Williams..Bing Crosby...and Perry Como

Happy October yall 😍

Did you know this song came out I'm 1949. And it is the #4 top selling Christmas song of all time. #3 is Mariah Careys All I Want for Christmas is You #2 is Bing Crosby version of Silent Night. And the biggest selling Christmas song of all time is #1 White Christmas by Bing Crosby also came out in 1949

Best song

It’s officially December 1st! I’m getting decked out for Christmas! 😁🥳🎄🎅🏻🎁

Christmas remains my favorite holiday 🎄🎅🤶🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎀🎀🎀🎀🎀🎀🎀🎀🎀⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄☃️☃️☃️☃️☃️☃️☃️☃️☃️☃️☃️☃️☃️☃️❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄

"wont you die my slave tonight" 😭😭😭😭

This is amazing, I love Rudolf the red-nosed reindeer, it's not Christmas until I listen to this, though it's November, lol.

Merry Christmas in July, y'all!

The nostalgia

Wow, I had no idea about the origin story of Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer! If you aren't familiar with it either, read below: As the holiday season of 1938 came to Chicago, Bob May wasn’t feeling much comfort or joy. A 34-year-old ad writer for Montgomery Ward, May was exhausted and nearly broke. His wife, Evelyn, was bedridden, on the losing end of a two-year battle with cancer. This left Bob to look after their four-year old-daughter, Barbara. One night, Barbara asked her father, “Why isn’t my mommy like everybody else’s mommy?” As he struggled to answer his daughter’s question, Bob remembered the pain of his own childhood. A small, sickly boy, he was constantly picked on and called names. But he wanted to give his daughter hope, and show her that being different was nothing to be ashamed of. More than that, he wanted her to know that he loved her and would always take care of her. So he began to spin a tale about a reindeer with a bright red nose who found a special place on Santa’s team. Barbara loved the story so much that she made her father tell it every night before bedtime. As he did, it grew more elaborate. Because he couldn’t afford to buy his daughter a gift for Christmas, Bob decided to turn the story into a homemade picture book. In early December, Bob’s wife died. Though he was heartbroken, he kept working on the book for his daughter. A few days before Christmas, he reluctantly attended a company party at Montgomery Ward. His co-workers encouraged him to share the story he’d written. After he read it, there was a standing ovation. Everyone wanted copies of their own. Montgomery Ward bought the rights to the book from their debt-ridden employee. Over the next six years, at Christmas, they gave away six million copies of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer to shoppers. Every major publishing house in the country was making offers to obtain the book. In an incredible display of good will, the head of the department store returned all rights to Bob May. Four years later, Rudolph had made him into a millionaire. Now remarried with a growing family, May felt blessed by his good fortune. But there was more to come. His brother-in-law, a successful songwriter named Johnny Marks, set the uplifting story to music. The song was pitched to artists from Bing Crosby on down. They all passed. Finally, Marks approached Gene Autry. The cowboy star had scored a holiday hit with “Here Comes Santa Claus” a few years before. Like the others, Autry wasn’t impressed with the song about the misfit reindeer. Marks begged him to give it a second listen. Autry played it for his wife, Ina. She was so touched by the line “They wouldn’t let poor Rudolph play in any reindeer games” that she insisted her husband record the tune. Within a few years, it had become the second best-selling Christmas song ever, right behind “White Christmas.” Since then, Rudolph has come to life in TV specials, cartoons, movies, toys, games, coloring books, greeting cards and even a Ringling Bros. circus act. The little red-nosed reindeer dreamed up by Bob May and immortalized in song by Johnny Marks has come to symbolize Christmas as much as Santa Claus, evergreen trees and presents. As the last line of the song says, “He’ll go down in history.”