Vol. 07 · Misheard ·1949
"Olive, the other reindeer."
That isn't the lyric.
What you hear
"Olive, the other reindeer."
What's actually sung
"All of the other reindeer." Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer — Johnny Marks (songwriter) (1949)
Why the ear defaults
"All of the" in rapid carol tempo compresses into "allovthe" → "olive-the." A children's book named Olive the Other Reindeer made the mishearing canonical.
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