[78-L] Autry's Rudolph

[Randy Watts]

The Challenge recording was the one I grew up with and is still the Autry "Rudolph" that sounds 'right' to me, even though I know it's not the original.
 
A friend of mine complains that Autry's Columbia "Rudolph" never sounds right to him these days because for years he heard it with a ton of reverb on it, and no longer does.
 
Randy
 

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 From: "Guyotsmith at aol.com" <Guyotsmith at aol.com>
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Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2013 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Autry's Rudolph
  

One"Rudolph" was recorded for Columbia in 1949, and the second was recorded 
for Challenge - Gene's own label - in 1957. The latter appeared on the 
Pickwick  labels in the '60s and '70s.  Belated Merry Christmas. 


In a message dated 12/26/2013 9:01:05 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
rjh334578 at yahoo.com writes:

Yesterday I was subjected to a non-stop barrage of holiday songs  from  
commercial radio, Pandora and Roku. I heard two distinct  versions of  
Autry's Rudolph, one somewhat faster than the  other.  Could these be  
alternates from the same session or did  he remake it?

Same question RE: Dean Martin's Baby it's Cold Outside.  We heard two  
versions of thaat, too; one with a single female doing  the girl part,  
another with a female chorus. Alternates or  remake?

Sent from my iPod - which explainz any bad  typjng