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 ...
On its original release in 1957, ‘Jingle Bell Rock’ charted at No. 13 on Billboard’s Most Played C&W by Jockeys chart, a predecessor to the Hot Country Songs chart. Bobby Helms’ enduring ...
(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 ...