“The reason stations switch in early November is so they can get a ratings boost for the final few weeks of the survey,” he wrote in an ... “A Jolly Christmas From Frank Sinatra.” ...

May wrote as a promotional Christmas storybook ... and more holiday classics followed. ‘Holly Jolly Christmas’ In 1964, Marks penned another holiday standard “Holly Jolly Christmas ...

The King could well be Johnny Marks, a songwriter active in the 1950s and ’60s who wrote “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” and “A Holly Jolly ...