New Zealand’s unlikely Christmas classic

The World

When “Snoopy’s Christmas,” a song by The Royal Guardsmen, was released in 1967, it was an international hit. It lacked longevity, though, and quickly fell off the radar. — except in New Zealand. And no one knows why. The World’s Sarah Birnbaum investigates Snoopy’s staying power there.

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