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The case for keeping 'Jingle Bells' playing all winter

There's nothing about Christmas in "Jingle Bells," so let's keep it playing all winter long, writes Bill Craft.
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 ...
If your Christmas wish list includes some relief from the same old songs on the radio, then your early gift is here in the form of some all-new and mostly original holiday tunes. Some of them might ...
An upstate New York public school chose not to include "Jingle Bells" in its repertoire of Christmas songs after linking the tune’s origins to 19th century minstrel shows, according to a local report.
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 ...
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 ...
The song features Kris Jenner on vocals, Kourtney Kardashian on bells, and Travis Barker on the drums Dave Quinn is the Deputy News Director at PEOPLE. He has been working at the brand since 2016, and ...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - One of the world’s most famous Christmas carols was written more than 150 years ago on an organ that’s now tucked away in the chapel of a Tallahassee church. It’s a ...
As if this week wasn’t bad enough, the music industry also seems to have decided that now is the right time to start releasing new holiday music. Here’s a Christmas record, though, that feels our pain ...
Kris Jenner is a momager, a reality TV star—and it looks like a singer. The Keeping Up With the Kardashians alum kicked off the Christmas celebrations a little early this year by gifting fans with her ...
The online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica describes music as an ever-changing and evolving artform that “lends itself easily to alliances with words, as in song, and with physical movement, as ...