BOBBY HELMS - JINGLE BELL ROCK

JINGLE BELL ROCK

BOBBY HELMS

SONGWRITERS: JIM BOOTHE & JOE BEAL

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: JINGLE BELL ROCK

LABEL: DECCA RECORDS

GENRE: CHRISTMAS ROCK

YEAR: 1957

 

                Robert Lee Helms (August 15, 1933 – June 19, 1997) was an American country music singer, best known for his 1957 Christmas hit "Jingle Bell Rock". His other hits include "Fraulein" and "My Special Angel".

           "Jingle Bell Rock" is an American popular Christmas song first released by Bobby Helms in 1957. It has received frequent airplay in the United States during every Christmas season since then. "Jingle Bell Rock" was composed by Joseph Carleton Beal (1900–1967) and James Ross Boothe (1917–1976), although both Helms and session guitarist on the song Hank Garland disputed this. Beal was a Massachusetts-born public relations professional and longtime resident of South Ocean Avenue in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and Boothe was an American writer in the advertising business.

            "Jingle Bell Rock" was released by Bobby Helms as a single in 1957, and re-released in 1958 and 1960. The B-side was "Captain Santa Claus And His Reindeer Space Patrol".

             According to a 1986 interview, Bobby Helms said, that he wrote the bridge for this song.

           Anita Kerr Quartet provided the backup vocals on this track.

            "Jingle Bell Rock" was featured in the film "Jingle All the Way" (1996) starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sinbad.

Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock

Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring

Snowin' and blowin' up bushels of fun

Now the jingle hop has begun

 

Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock

Jingle bells chime in jingle bell time

Dancin' and prancin' in Jingle Bell Square

In the frosty air

 

What a bright time, it's the right time

To rock the night away

Jingle bell time is a swell time

To go glidin' in a one-horse sleigh

 

Giddy-up jingle horse, pick up your feet

Jingle around the clock

Mix and a-mingle in the jinglin' feet

That's the jingle bell rock

 

Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock

Jingle bells chime in jingle bell time

Dancin' and prancin' in Jingle Bell Square

In the frosty air

 

What a bright time, it's the right time

To rock the night away

Jingle bell time is a swell time

To go glidin' in a one-horse sleigh

 

Giddy-up jingle horse, pick up your feet

Jingle around the clock

Mix and a-mingle in the jinglin' feet

That's the jingle bell

That's the jingle bell

That's the jingle bell rock.