It has been claimed that it was originally written to be sung by a Sunday school choir, or as a drinking song. It is an unsettled question where and when Pierpont originally composed the song that would become known as "Jingle Bells". A plaque at 19 High Street in the center of Medford Square in Medford, Massachusetts , commemorates the "birthplace" of "Jingle Bells", and claims that Pierpont wrote the song there in , at what was then the Simpson Tavern. Previous local history narratives claim the song was inspired by the town's popular sleigh races during the 19th century. The date of the song's copyright suggests that Pierpont wrote the song in Medford, since by that date he was the organist and music director of the Unitarian Church in Savannah, Georgia , where his brother, Rev. John Pierpont Jr. Pierpont remained in Savannah and never went back North.
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"Jingle Bells, Batman Smells" Goes Back To At Least The '60s
You can keep your eggnog, roasting chestnuts, and tidings of comfort and joy. Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg. The Batmobile lost a wheel, And the Joker got away! Based on some pretty convincing evidence, the Joker first got away to the jaunty tune shortly after the launch of the Adam West Batman series in September
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Thanks for connecting! You're almost done. Connect to your existing Cracked account if you have one or create a new Cracked username. I was browsing my Facebook feed recently, when I came across this Christmas diorama some beautiful bastard installed on their front lawn:. This is, of course, a reference to a parody of the song "Jingle Bells" that roughly percent of you encountered at some point during your childhoods. If you grew up anywhere in the English-speaking world and quite a few places outside it , you heard some version of this parody as a kid.
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