Who would have thought that an 1857 song about a “one horse open sleigh” (the original title) would have had such legs? This song has been all over the world and is a perpetual favorite among the young and young-hearted. The first recording of Jingle Bells was in 1889 on an Edison cylinder – believed to have been the very first Christmas record. Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, and Les Paul have all charted with Jingle Bells recordings, but it wasn’t until 2006 that Kimberley Locke brought the song to the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart.

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• A Course in Carols Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpNIlFSHn0c&list=PLa626nR993OwC_HQngbftP8P3ztokhxsd

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