Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer Gene Autry Lyrics Music #GeneAutry #Christmas #pop #music #lyrics #classic #fyp #follower #everyone #highlights 🦌 The Reindeer That Started in a Memo Pad Before it was a song, Rudolph was born in 1939 inside Montgomery Ward, a Chicago department store. Copywriter Robert L. May was tasked to create a new Christmas storybook to give away to children — something original so the store didn’t have to pay royalties for existing characters like Santa or Frosty. He invent