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Rock out to Jingle Bells with this Guitar game
Check out this cool guitar hero style game at Jamlegend.com. Rock out to Jingle Bells on electric guitar.
Jingle Bells
Jingle Bells is one of the best known and loved Christmas songs in the world. Here is a brief history of the song that inspired the lyrics to Jingle Bell Rock.
The song was written some time during the 1850s and was published on September 16 1857 by James Lord Pierpont (1822-1893). Pierpoint originally entitled the song “One Horse Open Sleigh” and when it was written had nothing to do with Christmas or Thanksgiving. Pierpoint played the tune at a church program in Savannah, Georgia where and the song became so popular that it was again sung on Christmas day and since then became one of the most popular Christmas carols.
Jingle Bells is recognised as being the first song to be Broadcast from Space when Gemini 6 astronauts Tom Stafford and Wally Schirra pulled a prank on Ground Mission control. The Astronauts send mission control the following report
“We have an object, looks like a satellite going from north to south, probably in polar orbit… I see a command module and eight smaller modules in front. The pilot of the command module is wearing a red suit…” The pair of Astronauts then produced a harmonica they had smuggled aboard the spacecraft and tore into a rendition of Jingle Bells much to the amusement of the ground crew.
Jingle Bells has been covered by hundreds of artists over the decades and continues to be performed across the world today. The song has also been the subject of many parody versions over the years including a popular variation sung in the 1960s by US school children:
“Jingle bells,
Santa smells,
Easter’s on its way.
Oh what fun it is to ride
In a beat up Chevrolet.”
Jingle Bells
Jingle Bells
James Pierpont
Dashing through the snow
In a one-horse open sleigh,
Over the fields we go,
Laughing all the way;
Bells on bob-tail ring,
making spirits bright,
What fun it is to ride and sing
A sleighing song tonight, O
Jingle bells, jingle bells,
jingle all the way!
O what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh [repeat]
Now the ground is white
Go it while you’re young,
Take the girls tonight
And sing this sleighing song;
Just get a bob-tailed bay
two-forty as his speed
Hitch him to an open sleigh
And crack! You’ll take the lead
Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,
Jingle all the way!
O what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh. [repeat]
Hey, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,
Jingle jingle all the way!
O what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh.
Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,
Jingle jingle all the way!
O what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh.
Jingle bells, jingle all the way!
O what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh.
Jingle bells, jingle all the way!
O what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh.
Jingle Bells like you have never heard before
Employees at AKQA have put together perhaps the most original version of Jingle Bells ever made. 49 microwaves have been synchronised to play Jingle Bells. Enjoy!
