A single that was included on two 1987 Christmas compilation albums featuring various artists: A Very Special Christmas (A&M records 3911) and Christmas Rap (Profile records 1247). The track was produced by Run DMC along with Rick Rubin, and has become hugely popular during the Christmas season. It re-released and reached no.78 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart in 2000, 13 years after it was first released.
The title refers to Hollis, the neighborhood in Queens where Run, DMC and Jam Master Jay grew up. The track samples Clarence Carter's 1968 Christmas song Back Door Santa, as well as using the melody from Frosty the Snowman, Jingle Bells, and Joy to the World. The song was famously used in the 1988 film Die Hard, played by the limousine driver Argyle when he drives into Nakatomi Plaza's underground garage. It was heard briefly in 'Can't Fix Crazy', the final episode of the first series of Orange Is the New Black, and was also heard at the beginning of the Brooklyn Nine-Nine episode 'Christmas'.
The song is currently being used as part of UK catalogue retailers Argos Christmas 2014 campaign.
- FVHK5K
The title refers to Hollis, the neighborhood in Queens where Run, DMC and Jam Master Jay grew up. The track samples Clarence Carter's 1968 Christmas song Back Door Santa, as well as using the melody from Frosty the Snowman, Jingle Bells, and Joy to the World. The song was famously used in the 1988 film Die Hard, played by the limousine driver Argyle when he drives into Nakatomi Plaza's underground garage. It was heard briefly in 'Can't Fix Crazy', the final episode of the first series of Orange Is the New Black, and was also heard at the beginning of the Brooklyn Nine-Nine episode 'Christmas'.
The song is currently being used as part of UK catalogue retailers Argos Christmas 2014 campaign.
- FVHK5K
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