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Jingle Bells
Sign in to saveAlso known as The One Horse Open Sleigh, Jingle Bells (feat. Peter Burry & Jennie Burry)
song written and composed by James Lord Pierpont, originally published in 1857
Key facts
- Language
- English
- Published
- September 16, 1857, by Oliver Ditson & Co. , Boston , Massachusetts, U.S.
- Genre
- Christmas
- Songwriter
- James Lord Pierpont
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Genre
- Christmas music
- Main subject
- fun
- Composer
- James Pierpont
- Tonality
- G major
- Lyrics by
- James Pierpont
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- Commons category
- Jingle Bells (song)
- language of work or name
- English language
- publication date
- 1857-00-00
- copyright status
- public domain
- title
- The One Horse Open Sleigh
- set during recurring event
- Thanksgiving
- form of creative work
- song
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Encyclopedic overview
"Jingle Bells" is an American song and one of the most commonly sung Christmas songs in the world. It was written by James Lord Pierpont. It is an unsettled question where and when Pierpont originally composed the song that would become known as "Jingle Bells". It was published under the title "The One Horse Open Sleigh" in September 1857. Although it has no original connection to Christmas, it became associated with winter and Christmas 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; this recording, believed to be the first Christmas record, is lost, but an 1898 recording—also from Edison Records—survives.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jingle Bells” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.