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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".
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]
"Jingle Bell Rock" does sound more like subsequent songs credited to either Helms or Garland than it does "Unsuspecting Heart," an old-fashioned, pre-rock pop number released by Terri Stevens in ...
The song that came to be known as "Jingle Bells" was published under the name "The One Horse Open Sleigh" in 1857. [19] The earliest printing of the lyrics to "Away in a Manger" dates back to 1885. [20] Of the songs on the album composed in the 20th century, "Sweet Little Jesus Boy" is the oldest, written on Christmas Eve, 1932. [21]
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 decision to ban the song was originally reported by the Rochester Beacon. An upstate New York school district is defending its decision to drop the holiday classic “Jingle Bells” over the ...
John Pierpont (April 6, 1785 – August 27, 1866) was an American poet, who was also successively a teacher, lawyer, merchant, and Unitarian minister.His poem The Airs of Palestine made him one of the best-known poets in the U.S. in his day.