A Holly Jolly Christmas

"A Holly Jolly Christmas"
Single by Burl Ives
from the album Have a Holly Jolly Christmas[note 1]
B-side"Snow for Johnny"
ReleasedNovember 1964
StudioColumbia (Nashville, Tennessee)
GenreChristmas, traditional pop
Length2:15
LabelDecca
Songwriter(s)Johnny Marks
Producer(s)Milt Gabler
Burl Ives singles chronology
"Pearly Shells (Popo O Ewa)"
(1964)
"A Holly Jolly Christmas"
(1964)
"Jealous"
(1965)

"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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  1. ^ "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.