The trio, which made up pioneering Hip-Hop supergroup Run-DMC, were asked to record a novelty record for a charity album being produced titled “A Very Special Christmas.” After much ...

In 1987, Run-DMC was invited to contribute a holiday song to “A Very Special Christmas,” a charity compilation benefiting the Special Olympics. Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, Whitney Houston and ...

When Run-DMC’s publicist, Bill Adler, first approached the group about recording a holiday song for the Special Olympics benefit album A Very Special Christmas, the Queens rappers were not ...

By 1987, Run-DMC was the most ... Despite their initial skepticism, “Christmas In Hollis,” their contribution to the all-star 1987 charity album A Very Special Christmas (more on this a ...

Explore Explore Run-D.M.C. See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news To this day A Very Special Christmas remains one of the best-selling holiday albums on the market ...

“It was very ... a Christmas song!” And, while some argued he should play it safe and get a Kenny Rogers song in there, Iovine remembers going to downtown New York to meet with Run-DMC ...

You can look at Run-DMC’s late ’80s catalog for that ... to do “Christmas in Hollis,” which was part of “A Very Special Christmas” compilation album and has since become a holiday ...

Run-DMC, Sting, John Mellencamp, Stevie Nicks, the Pointer Sisters and U2. Released in late 1987 with a distinctive red-and-gold Keith Haring cover, A Very Special Christmas has sold an estimated ...

The song was released in 1987 as part of Jimmy Iovine’s A Very Special Christmas compilation. Speaking to The New York Post about the track in 2017, Run-DMC explained how the were reluctant ...

Tis the season to be caught rocking out to holiday tunes from everyone from Britney Spears and ’NSync to Run-DMC and Lady ... covered the song for A Very Special Christmas 3 compilation.

CBS rolled out Top Of The Pops: A Very Special Christmas (U2! Run DMC! Michael McDonald!), Santabear’s High Flying Adventure, and, on one magical, Frank’s Place-and-Kate & Allie-displacing ...

The remaining members of Run ... DMC performed their classic “Christmas In Hollis” for the first time in nearly two decades for The Wonderful World Of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration, a ...