Ives ' " A Holly Jolly Christmas " and " Silver and Gold " are now considered Christmas standards some 45 years after they were first featured in the 1964 CBS-TV presentation of the Rankin & Bass stop-motion animated family special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

* Have a Holly Jolly Christmas ( 1965, Decca DL 4689 / 74689, reissued as MCA 237 )

In 1958, when she was 13, producer Owen Bradley asked her to record a new song by Johnny Marks, who had had success writing Christmas tunes for country singers, most notably " Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer " ( Gene Autry ) and " A Holly, Jolly Christmas " ( Burl Ives ).

; The Archies Christmas Album ( 2008 ): Here Comes Santa Claus / Up on the Housetop / Rockin ' Around the Christmas Tree / Holly Jolly Christmas / Jingle Bell Rock / I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus / Run Rudolph Run / Santa Claus is Coming to Town / Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas / Sleigh Ride / Archies Christmas Party / Christmas in Riverdale

She performed " Holly Jolly Christmas " for the " Schools Out Christmas " album, and sang " Tossin & Turnin " in the Oliver Beene episode " Oliver & Others.

Although he was Jewish, he specialized in Christmas songs and wrote many standards, including " Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer " ( a hit for Gene Autry and others ), " I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day " ( first recorded by Bing Crosby ), " Rockin ' Around the Christmas Tree " ( a hit for Brenda Lee ), " A Holly Jolly Christmas " ( recorded by the Quinto Sisters and later by Burl Ives ), Sliver and Gold ( for Burl Ives ) and " Run Rudolph Run " ( recorded by Chuck Berry ).

Although " Frosty the Snowman " and " Jingle Bell Rock " have the same musical structure as " Rudolph ," " Rockin '," and " Holly Jolly ," they were written by different authors.

< nowiki >**</ nowiki > Burl Ives released " A Holly Jolly Christmas " and " Silver and Gold ," two songs he sang as his character Sam the Snowman, as singles for the 1965 holiday season, the year after the TV production.

A compilation of singles and remixes How The West Was Won was released towards the end of 2008 and accompanied by a single " Holly Jolly Hollywood ".

Among the more well-known songs from the special is Johnny Marks ' " A Holly Jolly Christmas ," which became a Christmas standard in its own right.

* Tall Elf is a minor character who appears in the " We Are Santa's Elves " and " Holly Jolly Christmas " scenes.

Stewart sings lead on " Allergies " and a cover of " Holly Jolly Christmas " which was cut from Barenaked for the Holidays.

* A Santa Cause: It's a Punk Rock Christmas ( Immortal Records, Vol 2: December 5, 2006 )-" Holly Jolly Christmas "

The radio station started the Christmas season with " A Holly Jolly Christmas " by Burl Ives with new jingles.

According to the band's website, although the group admired Holly ( and years later produced an album covering some of his songs ), their name was inspired primarily by the sprigs of holly in evidence around Christmas of 1962.

It consists of developed around three lakes: Christmas Lake, Lake Holly, and Lake Noel.

Despite this long history, almost all surviving Christmas carols date only from the nineteenth century onwards, with the exception of some traditional folk songs such as " God Rest You Merry Gentlemen ", " As I Sat on a Sunny Bank " and " The Holly and the Ivy.

* The Holly Tree Inn in the Extra Christmas Number ( 15 December, 1855 ) with Wilkie Collins, William Howitt, Harriet Parr, and Adelaide Anne Procter.

Also during the weeks before Christmas is the " Holly Trolley ", a free seasonal trolley ( a modified bus ) sponsored by the Wellesley Chamber of Commerce that has two loops through town, bringing shoppers downtown for holiday shopping & home again.

Some of the most notable carols from the UK include ; We Wish You a Merry Christmas, O Come All Ye Faithful, The First Noel, God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen, The Holly and the Ivy, I Saw Three Ships, Deck the Halls, In the Bleak Midwinter, Joy to the World, Once in Royal David's City, Hark!

), and solfege syllables such as fa la la, familiar from the Christmas carol Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly, have given rise to much speculation.

On Christmas Eve, one year after the Nakatomi Tower Incident, LAPD lieutenant John McClane is waiting at Washington Dulles International Airport for his wife Holly to arrive from Los Angeles.

Holly is a popular winter Christmas and holiday season decoration.

In a 2009 interview, member Graham Nash said that the group decided just prior to a performance to call themselves " the Hollies " because of their admiration for Buddy Holly and wrote that same year: " We called ourselves the Hollies, after Buddy, and Christmas.

* 1985 – Holly Blake-Arnstein, American singer and dancer ( Dream )

* 1997 – Holly Gibbs, English actor

* 2002 – Soham murders: 10 year old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.

Charles Hardin Holley ( September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959 ), known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll.

Holly helped win over an all-black audience to rock and roll / rockabilly when the Crickets were booked at New York's Apollo Theater for August 16 – 22, 1957.

Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story, the Jukebox Musical depicting his life, is credited as being the first of its kind, spawning a breed of jukebox shows, including the likes of Mamma Mia!

* 1960 – Holly Johnson, British singer ( Frankie Goes to Hollywood )

* 1969 – Holly Aird, English actress

* 1978 – Holly Brisley, Australian actress

* 1986 – Holly Wellin, English porn actress and model

* 1995 – Holly Bodimeade, English actress

* 1986 – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.

* 1983 – Holly Valance, Australian actress, model, and singer

* 1963 – Holly Cole, Canadian jazz singer

* 1980 – Holly Walsh, British comedian, comedy writer and TV and radio presenter

* 1946 – Holly Woodlawn, Puerto Rican actress

* 1983 – Holly Montag, American reality TV personality

* 1964 – Holly Golightly, American illustrator and writer

* 1936 – Buddy Holly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( The Crickets ) ( d. 1959 )

* 1964 – Holly Robinson Peete, American actress and singer

* August 31 – Holly Earl, English actress

* September 7 – Buddy Holly, American rock ' n ' roll singer ( d. 1959 )

* August 25 – Mike Lockwood ( Crash Holly ), American World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) professional wrestler ( d. 2003 )

* December 3 – Holly Marie Combs, American actress

* Physics – Arthur Holly Compton, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson