Slice of Wisconsin: Rudolph’s Surprising Tie to the Badgers State

Rudolph the Red and O's reign.

Rudolph is a holiday classic,

and there's a Wisconsin connection.

Mory Laws composed music for the animated show.

In 1964, he continued arranging hundreds of songs

from his Appleton home after leaving New York 20 years later.

During that time, Laws created one quirky pop song.

Do you know what it is?

The answer, coming up.

Rural friends, reindeer, sort of,

where a lot of people's core Christmas memories come from.

Emily Locke with The Orange Cash Museum

on holiday traditions around Rudolph,

Laws worked for the TV Production Company behind the show

and also wrote music for Frosty the Snowman,

and about the silly song he composed.

It was at its its ebitty teeny weeny,

yellow polka dot bikini.

Laws died in 2019 at the age of 95,

but his music lives on as a wonderful slice of Wisconsin.

I'm Terry Barr.

For the Civic Media Radio Network.