Jingle Bell Rock

"Jingle Bell Rock"
Single by Bobby Helms
B-side
  • "Captain Santa Claus
  • (and His Reindeer Space Patrol)"
ReleasedNovember 28, 1957 (1957-11-28)
RecordedOctober 1957
Genre
Length2:12
LabelDecca
Songwriter(s)
  • Joe Beal
  • Jim Boothe
Producer(s)Paul Cohen
Bobby Helms singles chronology
"My Special Angel"
(1957) 		"Jingle Bell Rock"
(1957) 		"Just a Little Lonesome"
(1958)

"Jingle Bell Rock" is an American Christmas song first released by Bobby Helms in 1957. It has received frequent airplay in the United States during every Christmas season since then, and is generally considered Helms' signature song. "Jingle Bell Rock" was composed by Joseph Carleton Beal and James Ross Boothe, although both Helms and session guitarist on the song Hank Garland disputed this (see Authorship controversy section below). 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.[4][5][6][7][8][9]

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  2. ^ "The 100 best Christmas songs of all time". The Guardian. December 25, 2017. Archived from the original on December 9, 2016. Retrieved July 27, 2019.
  3. ^ Pacella, Megan (November 16, 2012). "No. 12: Bobby Helms, 'Jingle Bell Rock' – Top 50 Country Christmas Songs". Retrieved October 11, 2018.
  4. ^ Joseph Carleton Beal, in: Ancestry.com. Biography & Genealogy Master Index (BGMI) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2009.
  5. ^ Joseph Mills Carleton Beal, in: Ancestry.com. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917–1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005.
  6. ^ Ancestry.com. Social Security Death Index [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2009.
  7. ^ Dale V. Nobbman, Christmas Music Companion Fact Book, Hal Leonard Corporation, 2000, p. 101. ISBN 978-1-57424-067-2.
  8. ^ U.S. Census, 1910, State of Massachusetts, County of Norfolk, enumeration district 1083, p. 23-A, family 578.
  9. ^ "Historical Sacrilege Issue", The Evening Standard (Uniontown, Pennsylvania), 3 October 1963, p. 14.