RUDOLPH

Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer

You know Dasher and Dancer
And Prancer and Vixen,
Comet and Cupid
And Donner and Blitzen.
But do you recall
The most famous reindeer of all?

Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
Had a very shiny nose
And if you ever saw it
You would even say it glows

All of the other reindeer
Used to laugh and call him names
They never let poor Rudolph
Play in any reindeer games

Then one foggy Christmas Eve
Santa came to say
Rudolph with your nose so bright
Won't you guide my sleigh tonight?

Then all the reindeer loved him
And they shouted out with glee
"Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
You'll go down in history!"

Version Spanish (monse)

Era Rodolfo un reno
que tenía la nariz
roja como la grana
con un brillo singular

Todos sus compañeros
se reían sin parar,
y nuestro buen amigo
triste y solo se quedó.

Pero Navidad llegó
Santa Clos bajó
y a Rodolfo lo eligió
por su singular nariz.

Tirando del trineo
fue Rodolfo sensación,
y desde ese momento
toda burla terminó.


Rodolfo el reno en Wikipedia (???)

Rudolph en inglés, es un reno en el mundo ficticio de Santa Claus y de los cuentos navideños New Yorquinos. Es de todos los 9 renos, el más joven en unirse en el trineo de Santa, portando una nariz roja muy colorida para iluminar el camino.

Leyenda
La historia cuenta sobre un reno que fue mal juzgado por los demás de su manada, y el cual fue mal tomado en cuenta, hasta que un día Santa Claus se pierde por una tormenta y encuentra a este siervo dormido con lagrimas en su cama. Santa Claus pasa a dejar su regalo hasta que Rodolfo el reno se despierta iluminado por su nariz. Es así que Santa Claus, o el Papá noel se le ocurre una idea un poco aprovechada pero estimada sobre todo para Rudolf, ya que ser parte de su trineo era parte de significancia de valor e importancia. Rudolf entonces encabezaría al resto de los renos con tan solo dirigir el camino en una sola noche. Luego Rudolf ganaría el respeto por los demás renos y esa es toda la historia.

Popularidad
Rudolf apareció por primera vez en un cuento americano, y a partir de su primera publicación, la gente se fascinó por el personaje y se hizo inmediatamente popular.

Más adelante, se hicieron mucha producción basada en Rudolf, y cada vez que pasaba la navidad, se convertía en uno de los personajes más adorados por los niños.

Rudolph From Wikipedia (más completo)

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a song and popular Christmas story about Santa Claus's ninth and lead reindeer who possesses an unusually red-colored nose that gives off its own light, powerful enough to illuminate the team's path through inclement weather.

The story is owned by The Rudolph Company, L.P. and has been sold in numerous forms including a popular song, a television special (done in stop motion animation), and a feature film. Rudolph was created by Robert L. May in 1939 as part of his employment with Montgomery Ward. Character Arts, LLC [1] manages the licensing for the Rudolph Company, L.P. Although the story and song have not passed into public domain, they have established themselves as folklore (as evidenced by the development of local variations and parodies such as "Deadeye the Lonesome Cowboy," collected in the field by Simon J. Bronner and included in American Children's Folklore).
DVD cover for the famous 1964 Christmas special, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

The song
Johnny Marks decided to adapt May's story into a song, which through the years has been recorded by many artists. It was first sung commercially by crooner Harry Brannon on New York City radio in the latter part of 1948 before Gene Autry recorded it formally in 1949), and has since filtered into the popular consciousness.
The lyric "All of the other reindeer" can be misheard as the mondegreen "Olive the other reindeer", and has given rise to another fictional character, Olive.
The song in its Finnish translation, Petteri Punakuono, has led to Rudolph's general acceptance in the mythology as Joulupukki's, the Finnish Santa's, lead reindeer. However, in Finland, Santa's reindeer do not fly. Mike Eheman made the newest version of the song with the actual flying reindeer so Santa can land on roof tops.
Preceded by
"Mule Train" by Frankie Laine U.S. Billboard Best Sellers in Stores number-one single
January 7, 1950 Succeeded by
"I Can Dream, Can't I?" by The Andrews Sisters

Rudolph in the Media
Theatrical cartoon short
Rudolph's first screen appearance came in 1944, in the form of a cartoon short produced by Max Fleischer for the Jam Handy Corporation, that was more faithful to May's original story than Marks's eventual song.[1]
Children's Book
In 1958, Golden Books published an illustrated storybook, adapted by Barbara Shook Hazen and illustrated by Richard Scarry. The book is similar in story to the Max Fleischer cartoon short. Although it is one of the more memorable versions of the story in book form, it is apparently no longer in print.

Animated TV special
The reindeer made his television debut on NBC in 1964, when Rankin/Bass produced a stop motion animated TV special of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer that became a popular hit in itself. This version was re-broadcast annually many times over the years, even after it was finally released on video and then DVD. It now airs several times during the Christmas season (on CBS rather than NBC), making it the longest-running TV special in terms of consecutive years.

In 1976, a sequel to the Rankin-Bass original special was produced, entitled Rudolph's Shiny New Year, and then a third in 1979 entitled Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July. Then in 2001, a fourth in the series was released titled Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys.

Animated feature-length film
An animated feature film remake of the story was produced in 1998, entitled Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie. It received only a limited theatrical release before debuting on home video. Despite this it has garnered a base of dedicated fans as well as criticisms of many of the songs. Its inclusion of a villain character, Stormella, and a love interest, Zoey, for Rudolph as well as a small sidekick, Slyly, and a strong protector character are very derivative of the Rankin-Bass adaptation of the story as opposed to the original tale and song. The movie amplifies the early back-story of Rudolph's harassment by his schoolmates (primarily an older fawn named Arrow) during his formative years.

Comic Books
National Periodical Publications, also known as DC Comics, published a series of 13 Annuals titled Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer from 1950 to 1962. In 1972, DC published a 14th edition in an extra-large format. Subsequently, they published six more in that format: Limited Collectors' Edition C-24, C-33, C-42, C-50 and All-New Collectors' Edition C-53, C-60. Additionally, one digest format edition was published as The Best of DC #4 (Mar/Apr 1980).

Relatives
Main article: Santa Claus's reindeer#Additional reindeer since the writing of the poem
Two BBC animations carry on the legend by introducing Rudolph's son, Robbie the Reindeer. However, Rudolph is never directly mentioned by name (references are replaced by a character interrupting with the phrase "Don't say that name!" or something similar, presumably for copyright reasons.)

Rudolph is also given a brother, Rusty Reindeer, in the 2006 American special Holidaze: The Christmas That Almost Didn't Happen. Unlike with Robbie, Rudolph's name is mentioned freely in the film.

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Ah... puedo escuchar esa canción todo el día =D