Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer News

More than any other holiday, Christmas has a melange of myth, legend, and tradition attached to it.

So what's the Capital Region's favorite holiday song? Our Tournament of Carols, done in the spirit of basketball's March Madness, matched up 16 classic versions of favorite Christmas tunes in order to find out.

Evergreen giving Every year at about this time, Burl Ives warbles about silver and gold in the long-running TV special "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." "How do you measure its worth? Just by the pleasure it gives here on Earth," Ives intones in his purring baritone.

For me, the Christmas holiday season always brings up different rock 'n' roll sounds in my mind - from pop to country, heavy metal to jazz.

Frosty the Snowman leads a parade of children. Photograph by: Classic Media photos Frosty the Snowman was a jolly happy soul, With a corncob pipe and a button nose And two eyes made out of coal.

With Triangle snow in the weekend forecast and Frosty the Snowman celebrating his 40th birthday this month, we're feeling nostalgic for some of the best classic Christmas specials ever made.

'It's a Wonderful Life' - James Stewart, Donna Reed. Ruined by a miser on Christmas Eve, a suicidal family man sees life anew thanks to his guardian angel.

CBS's "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" & "Frosty the Snowman" Anniversaries Prove the Winning Rankin/Bass Formula Stood Alone Those who grew up in the 60's, 70's or 80's have enough stored memories of watching CBS's classics "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and "Frosty the Snowman" that it might be fitting for an anniversary piece to interview ...

One of the most popular recorded Christmas songs of all time was originally developed as a marketing tool for Montgomery Ward.

If I had to hazard a supposition on the matter I would guess that the favorite animated Christmas special of Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin and their followers would be Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

Billboard's Holiday Songs chart ranks airplay of seasonal tracks on U.S. adult contemporary radio.

Once upon a time, you could tell when Christmas was coming because of the holiday-themed ads on TV.

Charming young lady, with sharp tongue and vocabulary of a seasoned longshoreman, who carries in her handbag worn and tattered membership cards to the Mayflower Society and Daughters of the American Revolution, for which her dues are in arrears.

After more than 40 years, Rudolph is still showing these witches how to steal a show.

Shiny-nosed Rudolph proved the biggest draw on U.S. television Wednesday night as the 1964 animated "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" beat Grammy nominees Black Eyed Peas and Aretha Franklin at New York's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting.

Burl Ives name should sound familiar to you. His voice is heard throughout the 1964 movie "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer." Burl Ives has been singing Have a Holy, Jolly Christmas longer than I have been alive, but I believe I have heard it every Christmas of my life.

Like a perfectly decorated Christmas tree, holiday-themed television should be made up of the old and the new, the shiny and the muted.

The Times Union's Tournament of Carols officially launches Thursday, but we're having a soft opening today.

Young love blooms for Rudolph and Clarice in the iconic Christmas TV special "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." In the 1960s and '70s, Arthur Rankin Jr.

September 15, 2009-- The Freemasons' square-and-compasses symbol adorns a wall in Washington, D.C.'s Masonic House of the Temple --the scene of strange rituals in Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown's new book, The Lost Symbol .