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The dark history of “Jingle Bells”: From blackface minstrelsy to Christmas classic
The cheerful melody of “Jingle Bells” is an indelible part of the modern holiday soundscape, synonymous with winter wonder ...
GWEN STEFANI: (Singing) Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way. Oh, what fun it is to ride... INSKEEP: Gwen Stefani belts it out there. Now, I called it a Christmas song, and that's really the ...
This Christmas Eve, we continue a tradition we started a few years ago with members of the U.S. military presenting a holiday song. This year, musicians from the military services perform the ...
Wham!’s “Last Christmas” from 1984 and Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” from 1958 demonstrate how different ...
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, widespread ...
Claims that Jingle Bells started as a Thanksgiving song are making the rounds online again. So, how did the holiday classic actually come to life?
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