If, as the Ronettes sing in “Sleigh Ride,” you’d like to be “snuggled up together like two birds of a feather would be,” tucked into a horse-drawn sleigh, MLazyC Ranch in Lake George has a holiday ...
UNIDENTIFIED CHORUS: (Singing) J-I-N-G-L-E bells. SIMON: Ah, jingle bells. Don't worry. Not going to sing along, but I would like to pose a question. How did those bells become a symbol of this season ...
It wouldn’t be Christmas in Boston without the Pops. That’s been a tacit article of faith, the Pops’ yearly holiday programming having long since staked its claim as one of the pillars of the Hub’s ...
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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.
GWEN STEFANI: (Singing) Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way. Oh, what fun it is to ride... INSKEEP: Gwen Stefani belts it out there. Now, I called it a Christmas song, and that's really the ...
According to Boston University theatre professor Kyna Hamill’s paper on the subject, “Although ‘One Horse Open Sleigh,’ for most of its singers and listeners, may have eluded its radicalized past and ...
When it comes to holiday music, we like what we like. Maybe it’s nostalgia. Maybe we like a song because it’s a tune we played in high school band or sang every year in the holiday pageant. Maybe it’s ...