Who Sings Jingle Bell Rock/Rockin Around the Christmas Tree

Cafe Society
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There seems to be one famous version I always hear in the malls and on the radio, especially on the oldies station.

I didn’t even realize it was two songs combined…I’ve always heard them together in what is, to me, the definitive version(s) of the song.

I’ve searched all over and can’t find hardly any references to the song, except one by someone named Dino.

Thanks!

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Are you asking because you’re offering to cause them excruciating pain and permanent disfigurement, or because <shudder> you like the music? These are my two least favorite songs on the planet, and I dread the one-and-a-half months out of the year when I am assaulted with them.

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lol…fair enough. I’m a teacher and I’m playing it on guitar for the kids to sing along. I’m a bit shaky on the tune in a couple places, so I wanna listen to it.

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Brenda Lee sang “Rockin’ around the Xmas tree” (her signature song is “I’m sorry”); not sure about "Jingle Bell Rock.

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The version of “Jingle Bell Rock” that I usually hear is by Bobby Helms. It was most famously used in the opening credits of the movie "Lethal Weapon.

Hall & Oates did a cover of “Jingle Bell Rock” in the late 1980s. I don’t remember for certain, but they might have done it as a medley with “Rockin Around the Christmas Tree”.

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Thanks, CJJ. She is definitely who I had in my head as singing “Rockin Around the Christmas Tree.”

So…This infamous version of both only exists in my head. Sorry if I drove anyone nuts trying to figure it out.

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Please, please, please, please, please do NOT torture those poor kids by playing those songs. I hate Christmas music in general, but I will damn near go postal if I hear one of those ghodawful abortions. Whoever wrote/performed them should be flayed alive and have salt rubbed on them. And if they are dead, they should be dug up, reanimated, flayed alive and have salt rubbed on them.

Please show mercy to the kids and don’t play those songs.

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Just hijacking this to say that those are two of my favorite Christmas songs of all time. As well as Burl Ives’ “Have A Holly, Jolly Christmas.” It just wouldn’t be the season without them and I just don’t understand those Grinch-y types who can’t stand them. As long as they’re not played ad nauseum, that is. After too many times, one can get tired of just about everything.

Brian Setzer’s version of “Jingle Bell Rock” wins over Hall and Oates’, natch.