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"Jingle Bells" is one of the most commonly sung [1] Christmas songs in the world. It was written by James Lord Pierpont. It is an unsettled question where and when Pierpont originally composed the song that would become known as "Jingle Bells". [2] It was published under the title "The One Horse Open Sleigh" in September 1857.
Title: Jingle Bells Length: 2 minutes 21 seconds. Piano, flute, clarinet, french horn, et al. Happy, clappy arrangement worthy of a 6th grade band program. Solid 90bpm for techno remixing.
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Ella Logan – as "Jingle (Bingle) Bells"; single (1938) Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians – on the album Jingle Bells (1956) Lonestar – on the album My Christmas List (2007) The Looney Tunes cast - on the album A Looney Tunes Sing-A-Long Christmas (2007) Vincent Lopez and His Orchestra – on the album Christmas Music (1957) Los Del Rio
In the 1975 movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest starring Jack Nicholson, an instrumental version of "Jingle Bells" is played during the party scene. "White Christmas" recorded by the Drifters in 1954 features a snippet of "Jingle Bells" sung at the close of the song. "Jingle Bells" was the first song performed in space on December 16, 1965 ...
Far from being "just another Christmas song," "Jingle Bell Rock" turned out to be one of the defining holiday songs of the rock 'n' roll era, as instantly recognizable today as Bing Crosby's ...
The song's title and some of its lyrics are an extension of the old Christmas standard, "Jingle Bells". It makes brief references to other popular songs of the 1950s, such as "Rock Around the Clock", and mentions going to a "Jingle hop". Hank Garland plays guitar on the recording. Backup singers were the Anita Kerr Singers. [12]
According to William Studwell in The Christmas Carol Reader, "Up on the Housetop" was the second-oldest secular Christmas song, outdone only by "Jingle Bells", which was written in 1857. It is also considered the first Yuletide song to focus primarily on Santa Claus. It was originally published in the magazine Our Song Birds by Root & Cady.