 In 1957, Halloran arranged and recorded the current version of the now-popular Christmas song The Little Drummer Boy (at the time, titled "Carol of the Drum") for the Dot Records album "Christmas Is A-Comin"'.However, the recording was not released as a single that year.In response to this, Dot producer "Henry Onorati", who left Dot to become the new head of 20th Century Fox Records in 1958, introduced the song to Harry Simeone.