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Kid Cholesterol produced a re-edited version of the song entitled "Christmas at Holly’s" in 2010.

Writer, & Stack Bundles, and released as part of Jones' album " A Dipset X-Mas" in 2006.

The song was sampled on a track called "Ballin' on Christmas," featuring Jim Jones, J.R.

It was also used in the TV shows The Office, Everybody Hates Chris, Chuck, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Lip Sync Battle, Orange Is the New Black, Hindsight, The Simpsons, and How to Be Single.

Run-DMC performed the song live on the Christmas episode of All That.

The song was used in the movies Less Than Zero (1987), Die Hard (1988), The Night Before (2015), The Grinch (2018), and Holiday Rush (2019).

"Christmas in Hollis" went on to win Rolling Stone 's Best Video of the Year award in 1987, beating out Michael Jackson's " Bad" directed by Martin Scorsese. The video was directed by Michael Holman with cinematography by Mark Richardson, both NYU film students at the time, and features a cameo appearance by Bannah McDaniels, DMC's adoptive mother.

At the end of the video, Santa is seen flying away with his sled being pulled by a dog.

The music video for "Christmas in Hollis" takes place at the North Pole and in Hollis, Queens. "Christmas in Hollis" was included as a bonus track on the deluxe edition of Tougher Than Leather. The track samples Clarence Carter's 1968 holiday song " Back Door Santa", as well as " Frosty the Snowman", " Jingle Bells", and " Joy to the World" and features a siren whistle. The title refers to Hollis, Queens, the New York City neighborhood in which the members of Run-DMC grew up.

In 2000, thirteen years after it was first released, it reached number 78 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.

(Other contributing artists included Whitney Houston, Sting, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Madonna, and Bob Seger.) The track was produced by the group along with Rick Rubin and was originally released as a single in 1987 by A&M. After Bill-who was then the director of publicity for Rush Productions, which managed Run-DMC-gave the band the idea for "Christmas in Hollis," they changed their minds and agreed to be on the album. When Bill Adler first asked Run-DMC to contribute to A Very Special Christmas-the first in a series of various artists compilation albums produced to benefit the Special Olympics-they refused. " Christmas in Hollis" is a single by Run-DMC that was included on two 1987 Christmas compilation albums featuring various artists: A Very Special Christmas (A&M 3911) and Christmas Rap (Profile 1247). Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels, Jason Mizell