| "A Holly Jolly Christmas" | ||||
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| Single by Burl Ives | ||||
| from the album Have a Holly Jolly Christmas[note 1] | ||||
| B-side | "Snow for Johnny" | |||
| Released | November 1964 | |||
| Studio | Columbia (Nashville, Tennessee) | |||
| Genre | Christmas, traditional pop | |||
| Length | 2:15 | |||
| Label | Decca | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Johnny Marks | |||
| Producer(s) | Milt Gabler | |||
| Burl Ives singles chronology | ||||
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"A Holly Jolly Christmas", also known as "Have a Holly Jolly Christmas", is a Christmas song written by Johnny Marks and most famously performed by Burl Ives. The song has since become one of the top 25 most-performed "holiday" songs written by ASCAP members, for the first five years of the 21st century.[1] Successful covers have notably been recorded by Alan Jackson, Jerrod Niemann, Lady Antebellum and Michael Bublé.
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- ^ "ASCAP Announces Top 25 Holiday Songs – "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting...)" Tops List". Ascap.com. Archived from the original on December 21, 2008. Retrieved December 18, 2011.