Yesterday, Christine and I were in our grocer's dairy section when Gene Autry's "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" came on the in-store radio.That took me back. The tune was already firmly a part of pop culture when I was kid, and the LP was one my dad always put on the stack. We had a Packard Bell stereo--the kind where the speakers were built into the cabinet that housed the turntable.
Shuffle play was achieved by placing a stack of vinyl albums on the turntable. When one finished another dropped down.
I snagged the cover art from the web, but the pic is of the album we had. It wore out long ago, probably from being stacked under other albums as they spun.
I don't know how old it was when I came along but I was dazzled by the pic of Rudolph when I was very small, and the images the song evoked were always a part of early sixties Christmases.
I always sat in our den in Louisiana and imagined a foggy North Pole Christmas Eve and the days leading up to Christmas were always the best days.
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I heard on the radio the other day that Rudolf was created for Montgomery Ward? I don't recall hearing that before. Interesting.
I heard that too. A marketing ploy. Shoppers were given a copy of the book. Weird.
By the way, we had that album too. I remember staring at that glowing red nose for hours as I played the Album over and over again.
Interestingly Snopes has a pretty good entry on the Montgomery Ward part of Rudolph's history. It has the cover art for the book.
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