RCA Victor announced that they had already received 500,000
advance orders for Elvis’ Christmas album.

According to Alan Hanson from his Elvis History Blog, “Those adults who were
already convinced that Elvis threatened the morals of the nation’s youth, an
album of Christmas songs from him was especially troublesome. For Elvis to
sing rock ’n’ roll was bad enough, but for him to step outside that category and
into the traditional, religious field of Christmas music was frightening to many”.

National Grandparents Day is a secular holiday celebrated in the US and the
United Kingdom since 1978 and officially recognized in a number of countries 
on various days of the year, either as one holiday or sometimes as a separate
Grandmothers’ Day and Grandfathers’ Day, for the first time Grandma’s Day
was celebrated in Poland in 1965.

The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon was an annual event held
on the eve of and during the Labor Day holiday to raise money for the
Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). The show was founded and
hosted by actor and comedian Jerry Lewis, who hosted the broadcast
from its 1966 inception until 2010. We recently lost Jerry on August
20. He was 91 years old.

 
Newspaper ad from 1980.