You ever wonder where Rudolph came from? Well, we'll try to help you out here. We're bringing back this story in case you missed it. (SOUNDBITE OF GENE AUTRY SONG "RUDOLPH, THE RED-NOSED REINDEER ...

Gene Autry lets "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" guide him back to the Billboard Hot 100 this week (dated Dec. 14), as the Christmas carol mounts the No. 44 spot. × Skip to main content ...

Shortly before he recorded “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” Autry made an unannounced visit to Bay City. On May 26, 1949, Autry flew his twin-engine Beechcraft airplane into James Clements ...

For more than 70 years, Gene Autry rides again every year with Christmas standards "Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane)," "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and "Frosty the Snowman ...

A Christmas without Rudolph is like Christmas dinner without dessert. It just doesn't feel complete until you have both. Yes, song No. 4 on the Top 50 Country Christmas Songs countdown is over 60 ...

As with "Rudolph," Gene Autry probably did not think one of his other songs of the 1940s, "Here Comes Santa Claus," would necessarily go down in history either. But it has, ...

Gene Autry, not the first singing cowboy by a long shot, but undoubtedly the first singing cowboy movie star, ... “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer” was recorded in 1949, ...

Gene Autry sang about Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer as “the most famous reindeer of all” — and there are numbers to back him up. The “Rudolph” song topped the charts in 1949; the stop ...

OKC native Gayla Peevey used her holiday hit "I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas" to help her hometown zoo buy a real-life hippo 70 years ago.

Rudolph would later go on to become a cartoon movie and then famously a 1957 Christmas song performed by Gene Autry. What is Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer about? Rudolph is ostracized by other ...

The country star Gene Autry's holiday classic in 1949 sold 2 million copies its first Christmas. Bing Crosby turned "Rudolph" down. To date, 150 million copies have been sold. TV history: The ...

Which animal is inextricably linked with Santa and Christmas in the minds of young and old? Reindeer, of course. In 1949, singing cowboy Gene Autry probably didn’t believe that Rudolph the red ...