The original sheet music for iconic Christmas song 'Jingle Bells' has sold at auction for £19,000, 165 years after the festive classic was written. Written in 1857 by James Pierpoint, the song is ...
The Christmas season often comes with flavors of gingerbread and peppermint. There’s plenty of sleigh bells included in songs like “Sleigh Ride” and even some lyrics regarding the sweet sounds of ...
One of the world’s most recognizable Christmas songs may not be a Christmas song at all. The holiday classic "Jingle Bells" may have you dashing through the snow and longing for a ride on a ...
FRANK SINATRA: (Singing) Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way. Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh. AILSA CHANG, HOST: For years a controversy has raged over where the song ...
It’s annually voted the most popular Christmas song. Perhaps it’s the most controversial. When Savannah resident James L. Pierpont composed the song he sowed the seeds for a dispute. Pierpont wrote ...
Here's the truth about Jingle Bells. It's not a Christmas song — it's a Thanksgiving song. It's not a jolly family song — it's a drinking song. It's at the centre of a nasty dispute, and it was ...
Perhaps no single piece of secular music is more ubiquitous during the Christmas holiday season than "Jingle Bells," the venerable ditty about the joys of dashing through snow-covered fields while ...