Rudolphus! 🔔 Tori Longdon sings Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer in 9th-Century plainsong, with neumes (early musical notation) on screen. While the first Christmas carols were in Latin, the character of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer first appeared in a 1939 booklet written by Robert L. May and published by the department store Montgomery Ward. The song appeared ten years later - written by songwriter Johnny Marks, its recording by Gene Autry hit No. 1 on the U.S. charts the week of Christmas 19

The invention of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer should be its own Christmas movie Sources: May, "How Rudolph Came Into Being,"; "How I Created Rudolph". NRTA Journal.; The Gettysburg [Pa.] Times; Phil Angelo (December 22, 2018). "The Illinois roots of Rudolph's hooves". Daily Journal; Nate Bloom (February 10, 2009). "Shining a Light on the Largely Untold Story of the Origins of Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer"; "Old Fashioned Christmas". University Place/Wisconsin Historical Society. ; Ad Age; N