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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.
James Lord Pierpont (April 25, 1822 – August 5, 1893) [1] was an American composer, songwriter, arranger, organist, and Confederate States soldier. Pierpont wrote and composed "Jingle Bells" in 1857, originally titled "The One Horse Open Sleigh".
"Joy to the World", with words written by Isaac Watts in 1719 and music by Lowell Mason (who in turn borrowed liberally from Handel) in 1839, was originally written anticipating the Second Coming. [103] "Jingle Bells", first published under the title "One Horse Open Sleigh" in 1857, was originally associated with Thanksgiving rather than ...
Paul Cohen, a Decca executive who doubled as its house producer in Nashville, had a song in mind for Helms: "Jingle Bell Hop," a tune written by Joe Beal and Jim Boothe, a pair of 50-something ...
The song's original first verse, later cut, was specific. "The sun is shining, the grass is green. "The sun is shining, the grass is green. The orange and palm trees sway.
‘Jingle Bells’ by David Hasselhoff. ... When Maroon 5 took on this holiday classic, originally written and performed by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, the result was a song that largely felt empty ...
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.
The original “Carol of the Bells” is based on the Ukrainian song for which English lyrics were written in 1934. The Mannheim Steamroller prog-rock version, which features eerie bells, heavy ...