With ‘Jingle Bell Rock,’ Bobby Helms made one of the all-time great Christmas songs – one that was still entering the charts 60 years after it was recorded. When country music singer Bobby ...
The Indiana native was initially skeptical of recording a Christmas rock song, but upon its release on Decca Records at the dawn of the 1957 holiday season, “Jingle Bell Rock” made it to No ...
(SOUNDBITE OF SERGEI PROKOFIEV'S "LIEUTENANT KIJE") HENSEL: It was during this time - also the big band era - that Christmas music was starting to go pop, but the jingle bell really began to shine in ...