The Christmas season often comes with flavors of gingerbread and peppermint. There’s plenty of sleigh bells included in songs like “Sleigh Ride” and even some lyrics regarding the sweet sounds of ...
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The case for keeping 'Jingle Bells' playing all winter

There's nothing about Christmas in "Jingle Bells," so let's keep it playing all winter long, writes Bill Craft.
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- Despite relatively recent hits like Taylor Swift's "Christmas Tree Farm" and John Legend's reworked "Baby, It's Cold Outside", Minnesota's favorite Christmas song is a classic ...
One of the world’s most recognizable Christmas songs may not be a Christmas song at all. The holiday classic "Jingle Bells" may have you dashing through the snow and longing for a ride on a ...
An Upstate New York school says it’s banned “Jingle Bells” due to the popular holiday song’s “questionable past.” Matt Tappon, principal at Council Rock Elementary in Brighton, N.Y., told the ...
An upstate New York public school chose not to include "Jingle Bells" in its repertoire of Christmas songs after linking the tune’s origins to 19th century minstrel shows, according to a local report.
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (WHTM) – Whether you believe Christmas music ...
If your Christmas wish list includes some relief from the same old songs on the radio, then your early gift is here in the form of some all-new and mostly original holiday tunes. Some of them might ...
I had my last of nine charity tours Wednesday night, which means I can put my map book away for another year and focus on wrapping up our fundraising campaign for Second Harvest Food Bank. However, my ...