X
X
(AS OF ‘9 AUGUST 2018’:)
(“jingle bells” is one of the ‘best-known’ and ‘commonly sung’ american songs in the ‘world’)
(it was written by ‘james lord pierpont’ (‘1822’ – ‘1893’) and published under the title “one horse open sleigh” in the autumn of ‘1857’)
(it has been claimed that it was originally written to be sung by a ‘sunday school choir’; however, historians dispute this, stating that it was much too “racy” (and ‘secular’) to be sung by a ‘children’s church choir’ in the days it was written)
(although originally intended for the ‘thanksgiving season’, and having no connection to ‘christmas’, it became associated with ‘christmas music’ and the ‘holiday season’ in general decades after it was first performed on ‘washington street’ in ‘boston’ in ‘1857’)
(some ‘area choirs’ adopted it as part of their repertoire in the ‘1860s’ and ‘1870s’, and it was featured in a variety of ‘parlor song’ and ‘college anthologies’ in the ‘1880s’)
(it was first recorded in ‘1889’ on an ‘edison cylinder’)
X
**********************************************************************************************
(***BACK TO “JINGLE BELLS”***)
**********************************************************************************************
********************************************
********************************************
**********************************************************************************************
********************************************
********************************************
**********************************************************************************************