Burl Ives Disney's "Summer Magic" with Hayley Mills, Dorothy McGuire, and Eddie Hodges, and a score by Robert and Richard Sherman. In 1964, he played the genie in the movie "The Brass Bottle" with Tony Randall and Barbara Eden. Ives' "A Holly Jolly Christmas" and "Silver and Gold" became Christmas standards after they were first featured in the 1964 NBC-TV presentation of the Rankin/Bass stop-motion animated family special "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer". Johnny Marks had composed the title song (originally an enormous hit for singing cowboy Gene Autry) in 1949, and producers Rankin and Bass retained him to compose the TV special's
Singing cowboy of films with the studio beginning with "Song of the Gringo". Ritter recorded "Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darlin'," the movie title-track song for "High Noon" (1952). The song became a hit and received an Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song, for 1953. Herb Jeffries and his horse Starbuck made a series of films beginning with "Harlem on the Prairie" (1937). Singing cowgirl Dorothy Page made three films for Grand National Pictures in 1939. With the fame of the operetta "Rose-Marie" and singing cowboy films, a series of films with actor singer James Newill playing a singing Mountie,