Rudolph the red nosed reindeer – the original!

The story of Rudolph the red nosed reindeer is a perfect story for Christmas! A classical plot about someone being bullied for a special feature and then that feature turns out to be just what is needed!

Brainpicker has written an article about how the story was written in 1936 by Robert L. May. But it wasn’t until his brother in law, Johnny Marks, wrote a song about Rudolph that it became really popular. Before that Max Fleischer made this animated film about Rudolph.

I think it’s fascinating that this little, sweet story later lead up to the following, rather crazy music video with Kurt Olsson and Damorkestern/The Lady Orchestra from 1990.

I hope that Santa will find his way to all of you today!