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Annie Zaleski

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389 total appearances

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Something You Should Know
True Stories Behind the Greatest Christmas Songs & The Downside of Renewable Energy

Absolutely. And, you know, Jingle Bell Rock is another one of those when I mentioned, you know, songwriting credits. That is a fascinating, fascinating one, because the songwriters who are credited are Joseph Carlton Beale and James Ross Booth. And there's not a lot of information about them. You really have to kind of dig to find out sort of what they did.

Something You Should Know
True Stories Behind the Greatest Christmas Songs & The Downside of Renewable Energy

Bobby Helms over the years has always claimed, you know, he's no longer with us. But when he was alive, he claimed, I wrote a bunch of this stuff. I really rewrote this song and he didn't get credit for it. And so, but, but he, and he was in country music. That was so interesting is that he had had a couple of country hits.

Something You Should Know
True Stories Behind the Greatest Christmas Songs & The Downside of Renewable Energy

Bobby Helms over the years has always claimed, you know, he's no longer with us. But when he was alive, he claimed, I wrote a bunch of this stuff. I really rewrote this song and he didn't get credit for it. And so, but, but he, and he was in country music. That was so interesting is that he had had a couple of country hits.

Something You Should Know
True Stories Behind the Greatest Christmas Songs & The Downside of Renewable Energy

Bobby Helms over the years has always claimed, you know, he's no longer with us. But when he was alive, he claimed, I wrote a bunch of this stuff. I really rewrote this song and he didn't get credit for it. And so, but, but he, and he was in country music. That was so interesting is that he had had a couple of country hits.

Something You Should Know
True Stories Behind the Greatest Christmas Songs & The Downside of Renewable Energy

So when he kind of came up with this song that was, you know, a little bit, um, You know, it's funny because it's very early rock and roll, kind of easygoing. You can tell that he was in country, by the way, with the instrumentation and the musicianship. Hank Garland was on it, big country music performer, and just really sort of being laid back and sort of shuffling.

Something You Should Know
True Stories Behind the Greatest Christmas Songs & The Downside of Renewable Energy

So when he kind of came up with this song that was, you know, a little bit, um, You know, it's funny because it's very early rock and roll, kind of easygoing. You can tell that he was in country, by the way, with the instrumentation and the musicianship. Hank Garland was on it, big country music performer, and just really sort of being laid back and sort of shuffling.

Something You Should Know
True Stories Behind the Greatest Christmas Songs & The Downside of Renewable Energy

So when he kind of came up with this song that was, you know, a little bit, um, You know, it's funny because it's very early rock and roll, kind of easygoing. You can tell that he was in country, by the way, with the instrumentation and the musicianship. Hank Garland was on it, big country music performer, and just really sort of being laid back and sort of shuffling.

Something You Should Know
True Stories Behind the Greatest Christmas Songs & The Downside of Renewable Energy

And it's just, it's one of those feel-good songs when, you know, Jingle Bell Rock is Jingle Bell Rock is basically it's people going, you know, you're going to Jingle Bell Square, you know, so it's kind of playing up the iconography of Christmas and just kind of for teenagers going out and dancing. That's very much this.

Something You Should Know
True Stories Behind the Greatest Christmas Songs & The Downside of Renewable Energy

And it's just, it's one of those feel-good songs when, you know, Jingle Bell Rock is Jingle Bell Rock is basically it's people going, you know, you're going to Jingle Bell Square, you know, so it's kind of playing up the iconography of Christmas and just kind of for teenagers going out and dancing. That's very much this.

Something You Should Know
True Stories Behind the Greatest Christmas Songs & The Downside of Renewable Energy

And it's just, it's one of those feel-good songs when, you know, Jingle Bell Rock is Jingle Bell Rock is basically it's people going, you know, you're going to Jingle Bell Square, you know, so it's kind of playing up the iconography of Christmas and just kind of for teenagers going out and dancing. That's very much this.

Something You Should Know
True Stories Behind the Greatest Christmas Songs & The Downside of Renewable Energy

Same thing with Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, you know, and this Brenda Lee, first off, nailed it. This was another song that she recorded right in the dead of summer. And it was written by Johnny Marks, who is notorious because he also wrote Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

Something You Should Know
True Stories Behind the Greatest Christmas Songs & The Downside of Renewable Energy

Same thing with Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, you know, and this Brenda Lee, first off, nailed it. This was another song that she recorded right in the dead of summer. And it was written by Johnny Marks, who is notorious because he also wrote Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

Something You Should Know
True Stories Behind the Greatest Christmas Songs & The Downside of Renewable Energy

Same thing with Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, you know, and this Brenda Lee, first off, nailed it. This was another song that she recorded right in the dead of summer. And it was written by Johnny Marks, who is notorious because he also wrote Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

Something You Should Know
True Stories Behind the Greatest Christmas Songs & The Downside of Renewable Energy

No, actually, you know what? She was 12. She might have even been 12. I'd have to look up when her birthday was. She was so young, and you wouldn't know it. I mean, I think that's what's so incredible about that song, is that she always sounded so much more sophisticated and adult than she actually was.

Something You Should Know
True Stories Behind the Greatest Christmas Songs & The Downside of Renewable Energy

No, actually, you know what? She was 12. She might have even been 12. I'd have to look up when her birthday was. She was so young, and you wouldn't know it. I mean, I think that's what's so incredible about that song, is that she always sounded so much more sophisticated and adult than she actually was.

Something You Should Know
True Stories Behind the Greatest Christmas Songs & The Downside of Renewable Energy

No, actually, you know what? She was 12. She might have even been 12. I'd have to look up when her birthday was. She was so young, and you wouldn't know it. I mean, I think that's what's so incredible about that song, is that she always sounded so much more sophisticated and adult than she actually was.

Something You Should Know
True Stories Behind the Greatest Christmas Songs & The Downside of Renewable Energy

A hundred percent, you know, and she said that it was a turning point, you know, and that it's really, she called an interview, it breathed new life into the tune. And, you know, it hit number one last year. I mean, I think that's what's striking, you know, decades after it came out.

Something You Should Know
True Stories Behind the Greatest Christmas Songs & The Downside of Renewable Energy

A hundred percent, you know, and she said that it was a turning point, you know, and that it's really, she called an interview, it breathed new life into the tune. And, you know, it hit number one last year. I mean, I think that's what's striking, you know, decades after it came out.

Something You Should Know
True Stories Behind the Greatest Christmas Songs & The Downside of Renewable Energy

A hundred percent, you know, and she said that it was a turning point, you know, and that it's really, she called an interview, it breathed new life into the tune. And, you know, it hit number one last year. I mean, I think that's what's striking, you know, decades after it came out.

Something You Should Know
True Stories Behind the Greatest Christmas Songs & The Downside of Renewable Energy

She, you know, it basically, you know, Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas is You parentally hits number one around the holiday season and Brenda Lee did last year. Just unbelievable. Yeah.