''Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer'' is a soundtrack album to the 1964 Rankin/Bass television special of the same name. The original cast recordings from the TV special (side "A" of the original LP release) are supplemented with instrumental versions recorded by the Decca Concert Orchestra (on side "B") on the Compact Disc version. All songs used in the television special were written by

Johnny Marks John David Marks (November 10, 1909 – September 3, 1985) was an American songwriter. He specialized in Christmas songs (although he himself was Jewish and did not celebrate Christmas) and wrote many holiday standards, including "Rudolph the Red- ...

. The original LP album was first released in 1964, and reissued as a CD in 1995. The CD was certified Gold by the RIAA on November 30, 2004. The album has sold 1,411,200 copies in the United States since 1991 when

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began tracking sales.

Track listing

LP side A: # Overture and "

A Holly Jolly Christmas "A Holly Jolly Christmas" (also called "Have 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 ASC ...

" – 2:23 # "Jingle Jingle Jingle" – 1:13 # "We Are Santa's Elves" – 1:31 # "There's Always Tomorrow" – 1:42 # "We're a Couple of Misfits" – 1:18 # "Silver and Gold" – 1:42 # "The Most Wonderful Day of the Year" – 2:18 # "

" – 1:18 # "

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a fictional reindeer created by Robert L. May. Rudolph is usually depicted as the ninth and youngest of Santa Claus's reindeer, using his luminous red nose to lead the reindeer team and guide Santa's sleigh on ...

" Finale – 1:19 LP side B (instrumental versions): # "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" – 1:50 # "There's Always Tomorrow – 2:22 # "Jingle Jingle Jingle" – 2:14 # "We're a Couple of Misfits" – 1:50 # "Silver and Gold" – 2:21 # "We Are Santa's Elves" - 1:09 # "Most Wonderful Day of the Year" – 2:22 # "A Holly Jolly Christmas" – 1:32 # Christmas Medley: "The Night Before Christmas Song" / "A Merry Merry Christmas" / "When Santa Claus Gets Your Letter" / "

Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" is a Christmas song written by Johnny Marks and recorded by Brenda Lee in 1958; it has since been recorded by numerous other music artists. By the song's 50th anniversary in 2008, Lee's original version had s ...

" – 3:17 # "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" – 1:41 * On the re-issue on CD, contents / track order are the same except the "Christmas Medley" is placed in the middle, at track 10 (between A9 and B1 - the Burl Ives' sung and instrumental versions of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"). * The brand-new song "Fame and Fortune", which replaced "We're a Couple of Misfits" in airings of the television special from 1965 through until the special was restored in 1998,Explanation of alternate versions of ''Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer'' a
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Voices and personnel

Burl Ives Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995) was an American musician, actor, and author with a career that spanned more than six decades. Ives began his career as an itinerant singer and guitarist, eventually launching his own rad ...

– voice of Sam the Snowman ("A Holly Jolly Christmas," "Silver and Gold," "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer") * Stan Francis – voice of Santa Claus ("Jingle, Jingle, Jingle") * Janis Orenstein – voice of Clarice ("There's Always Tomorrow") *

Billie Mae Richards Billie Mae Richards (née Dinsmore, November 21, 1921 – September 10, 2010) was a Canadian voice actress, who also appeared onstage and on television. She was the voice of Rankin/Bass' version of the character Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer fr ...

– voice of Rudolph ("We're A Couple Of Misfits") *

Paul Soles Paul Robert Soles (August 11, 1930 – May 26, 2021) was a Canadian actor and television personality. He led the voice cast in such series as ''The Marvel Super Heroes'' (1966), voiced the title character in ''Spider-Man'' (1967), and portraye ...

– voice of Hermey ("We're A Couple Of Misfits") *

Maury Laws Maury Laws (December 6, 1923 – March 28, 2019) was an American television and film composer from Burlington, North Carolina. Biography In his teens, Laws performed in local country, jazz and dance bands as a singer and guitarist in his home st ...

– musical director of the Videocraft TV Musical * Decca Concert Orchestra (side B instrumentals) *

Herbert Rehbein Herbert "Herb" Rehbein (15 April 1922 – 28 July 1979) was a German songwriter, composer and arranger of light orchestral music. Together with his friend and collaborator Bert Kaempfert, he was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall ...

Track listing

Voices and personnel

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

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