It's true that "Jingle Bells" songwriter James Pierpont did not have Christmas in mind when he penned the tune — which does not mention the holiday in its lyrics — in the 1850s. However ...

This year's Christmas chartbusters are all retro with at least 15 American States going for "jingle bells" as their top song with "let it snow" catching the imagination in six States. Rudolph the ...

Pierpont wrote his Christmas classic in the autumn of 1857. You know the song as “Jingle Bells,” but “One Horse Open Sleigh” was its original title. Pierpont wrote it as a Thanksgiving song.

In other words, the formula for a very, merry Christmas. However ... What fun it is to ride and sing /A sleighing song tonight Jingle bells, jingle bells, the famous chorus goes, Jingle all ...

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 ...

A video emerged on TikTok, by Daily Dose of Music, which explained it isn't linked to Father Christmas in the slightest. In the video, the presenter said: "Did you know Jingle Bells was originally ...

Jingle Bells is not a Christmas song. It is certainly not – as I ... this odd song is sandwiched between Shakin’ Stevens’s Merry Christmas Everyone and Paul McCartney’s Wonderful ...

It’s not all “Jingle Bells ... If the song didn’t arrive freighted with the tragedy of Redding’s death in a December 1967 plane crash, his version of “Merry Christmas Baby” would ...

DANNY HENSEL, BYLINE: Those jingle bells Sinatra's singing about are much older than the song. In fact, they're older than Christmas itself. MATTHEW ZELLER: There are Biblical mentions of jingle ...

The song begins with a Christmas-y chime. It's the sound of a celesta — an instrument featured in Tchaikovsky's Christmas classic “The Nutcracker.” Carey’s hit also uses the sleigh bell ...