{"id":103050,"date":"2020-12-23T04:40:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T09:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sobarnes.com\/all-destinations\/la-vraie-histoire-de-jingle-bells\/"},"modified":"2020-12-24T03:10:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T08:10:03","slug":"the-true-story-of-jingle-bells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sobarnes.com\/en\/so-barnes-en\/the-true-story-of-jingle-bells\/","title":{"rendered":"The true story of Jingle Bells"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>If there\u2019s one thing 2020 hasn\u2019t altered, it\u2019s Jingle Bells! SoBARNES opens its archives to tell you the tale of this song that made it all the way to space\u2026<\/h4>\n<p>It wouldn't be Christmas without listening (and humming along) to <em>Jingle Bells<\/em>.\u00a0 One of the more conventional Christmas songs, you\u2019d think. Well you\u2019d be wrong! Jingle Bells was first composed by James Lord Pierpont (1822-1893), an American organist born in Boston (Massachusetts) and author of some twenty different songs, whose name became part of the history of music thanks to this composition originally written for Thanksgiving!<\/p>\n<p><em>The One Horse Open Sleigh<\/em> (its original title) was first performed on a Sunday at a church in Savannah (Georgia), where his brother Rev. John Pierpont Jr. served as Minister. In 1850, the song was a flop, largely because the melody of the chorus was considered too convoluted. The song became simplified over time to assume its definitive form and lyrics, patented in August\u00a01857 by James Lord Pierpont, before being renamed <em>Jingle Bells<\/em> in 1859.<\/p>\n<p>Given that there\u2019s only a month between Thanksgiving (end of November) and Christmas, this catchy tune managed to hang in there to become a holiday staple\u2026<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Three Tenors - Jingle bells (Christmas in Vienna 1999)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/INxcYhIQ8OY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Covered throughout the 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0century by Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, the Beatles, Luciano Pavarotti, and more recently Diana Krall, Lady Gaga, Mika and many more, <em>Jingle Bells<\/em> is an institution. But you already knew that.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Frank Sinatra &amp; Bing Crosby - Jingle Bells (Happy Holidays)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nbcznyOH-O4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Diana Krall - Jingle Bells ft. The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SABWU6im1do?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What you might not know is that it was the first song broadcast from space as part of a memorable prank pulled on NASA by two of its astronauts! Aboard Gemini 6 somewhere between Earth and the Moon, on 15 December 1965, Thomas Stafford and Walter Schirra\u00a0contacted Houston to report a strange object in a polar orbit. The unidentified flying object did not appear threatening, and seemed to want to communicate with them. A wave of panic went through Mission Control on the ground, as you can imagine. That is until the two jokers started playing <em>Jingle Bells<\/em> on the harmonica accompanied by sleigh bells. Back on Earth, Mission Control quickly realised that the UFO was in fact Santa\u2019s sleigh:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Song from Outer Space\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HqfIEQKnkJU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to some musicologist, the lyrics of <em>Jingle Bells<\/em> have a double meaning. Jingling bells and sleigh rides can in fact be understood as advice on picking up girls. Admit, you\u2019ll never hear it the same way again!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all from <\/strong><strong>the SoBARNES team<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kid PlaysThe Best Jingle Bells EVER!\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eJTY4lYGO7Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there\u2019s one thing 2020 hasn\u2019t altered, it\u2019s Jingle Bells! SoBARNES opens its archives to tell you the tale of this song that made it all the way to space\u2026 It wouldn&#8217;t be Christmas without listening (and humming along) to Jingle Bells.\u00a0 One of the more conventional Christmas songs, you\u2019d think. Well you\u2019d be wrong! Jingle Bells was first composed by James Lord Pierpont (1822-1893), an American organist born in Boston (Massachusetts) and author of some twenty different songs, whose name became part of the history of music thanks to this composition originally written for Thanksgiving! 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