Also, Groening claims that this episode has been incorrectly credited with creating the " alternate version " of " Jingle Bells " that has become a well-known children's playground song.

It was intended that he would record his saxophone solo on board the Challenger, which would have made McNair's solo the first original piece of music to have been recorded in space ( although the song " Jingle Bells " had been played on a harmonica during an earlier Gemini 6 spaceflight.

The Christmas song " Jingle Bell Rock ", is played during the film's opening credits.

The segment always ends with " Dorothy wants us to sing the song ," which is a medley of Jingle Bells ( all the lyrics changed to the subject name, repeated over and over ) and the refrain from " Elmo's Song.

John Pierpont did not write the song " Jingle Bells " as erroneously claimed by Robert Fulghum in his collection of essays It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It ( 1989 ).

Contrary to some inaccurate histories and attributions, John Pierpont was not the author of the Christmas song “ Jingle Bells ”; its author was his son, James Lord Pierpont ( 1822-1893 ), who ( ironically ) served in the First Georgia Cavalry and wrote patriotic hymns for the Confederacy.

which is part of Disney Sing Along Songs, as a background movie for the song Jingle Bells.

Released just a few days before Christmas 1957, his song " Jingle Bell Rock " was a big hit.

The name Jingle Belle is a reference to both the Christmas song " Jingle Bells " and the Memphis Belle, a B-17 bomber whose pin-up-style nose art inspired the character.

Simpson performed the song on her DreamChaser Tour ( 2001 ), the 2001 Jingle Bell Bash and a few televised shows.

The song was performed along with " Irresistible ", " I Wanna Love You Forever ", and " I Think I'm in Love with You ", at the Jingle Bell Bash, organized by KBKS-FM, in December 2001.

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Aguilera has performed the song at events such as the US Jingle Ball and the MTV New Year's Eve Special in 1999.

Aguilera performed the song on the Jingle Ball for radio station Kiss 108 just days after the release of the music video, continuing promotion for the album.

It involved the original song with short lines from classic Christmas carols ( specifically incorporating: " Joy to the World ," " Jingle Bells ," " Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer ," " White Christmas " and " Auld Lang Syne ") in between the popular verses.

His song " Hat Town ", written with Lee Kernaghan, won an APRA Award, while his Christmas album, recorded with Greg Champion, has become an Australian classic, in particular his " Aussie Jingle Bells ", now a staple at school end-of-year concerts.

* The Lemon Drop Kid ( 1934, Lee Tracy ) — remade in 1951 with Bob Hope ( and I Love Lucy co-star William Frawley as a racetrack tout ), it introduced the Christmas song " Silver Bells ".

* Tori Amos song " Bells for Her " has her play a prepared piano.

He also wrote the Welsh words to the song, " God Bless the Prince of Wales " and to the Charles Dibdin song, " The Bells of Aberdovey ", which he translated as " Clychau Aberdyfi ".

Composer Richard Stein ( 1909 – 1992 ) sued Paul for plagiarism, charging that Paul's " Johnny ( Is the Boy for Me )" was taken from Stein's 1937 song " Sanie cu zurgălăi " ( Romanian for " Sleigh with Bells ").

Tubular bells have been popularized in western culture by the song " Carol of the Bells ", and the Mike Oldfield album Tubular Bells and its sequels, the latter best known as the opening theme from The Exorcist.

* The song The Bells of Hell Go Ting-a-ling-a-ling was used as the play-out music for Ned Sherrin's 1964 BBC-TV show Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life.

A longer version of the song was released under the title " El Shabazz " as the B-side of " Rock the Bells ".

*" Jewel in the Crown " is also a song by Mike Oldfield on his 1998 album Tubular Bells III.

One of the earliest surviving publication in Canada of a song for the piano in sheet music format is The Merry Bells of England by J. F.

* Ray Evans ( 1915 – 2007 ) — musician / songwriter ; composed the Christmas song " Silver Bells ".

In 1934 yodeler Elton Britt recorded what was to become his signature song, " Chime Bells ".

Indie duo Sleigh Bells references Circle K in the lyrics to the song " You Lost Me ", from their 2012 album Reign of Terror.

* the Christmas song Silver Bells ( duet with Jimmy Wakely, 1951 )

The song " Silver Bells " on The Ventures ' Christmas Album, released in November 1965, has one of the first recorded uses of a vocoder as a musical effect, voiced by Red Rhodes.

* " Bells ", a song by Fred Wesley and Horny Horns from the album The Final Blow.

Some examples include PR MRS Delerium's Semantic Spaces album, Mike Oldfield's albums, The Songs of Distant Earth and Tubular Bells III, all B-Tribe's albums as well as other Claus Zundel projects and Sarah Brightman's cover of Hooverphonic's song, " Eden ".

Brian Johnson hangs on to a bell while performing the song " Hells Bells ( song ) | Hells Bells ".

Recent fans were treated to a recording of the song " Hell's Bells " by the heavy metal rock band AC / DC whenever ace reliever Trevor Hoffman arrived in a game in the 9th inning in a save situation.

The song plays during the opening credits for the highly acclaimed John Ford movie " My Darling Clementine.

The rock band from Pasadena, Ozma plays a balalaika on the song " Flight Of Yuri Gagarin "; it is derived from their partially Russian themed album Double Donkey Disc.

In many cases, a song plays in the background to enhance the mood or reinforce the message being conveyed.

The song If You Wanna Be Happy by Jimmy Soul plays in the background.

Billy Joel famously plays the harmonica, in addition to his piano, on his signature song, " Piano Man ".

He wrote the song " R. A. M. O. N. E. S " for the Ramones, which he still plays in his live sets as a tribute to the band.

Lemmy has occasionally played electric or acoustic guitar, notably on the acoustic song " I Ain't No Nice Guy " from Motörhead's March Ör Die album, the title track on 1996's Overnight Sensation, " Limb from Limb " on Overkill ( on which he plays the second lead break ), " Boogeyman " on Rock ' n ' Roll, and a mouth harp on " Whorehouse Blues " from the Inferno album.

" Paxton still frequently plays this song at his live performances.

The cartridge's position is usually regulated by an electronic servomechanism or mechanical interface, moving the stylus properly over the groove as the record plays, or for song selection.

In film, Team America: World Police includes a character who plays a lead role in Lease, a Broadway musical parody of Rent ; the finale song is " Everyone has AIDS !";.

Similarly to John Paul Jones, Mark Robbins, bass player and song writer from Joan, plays a number of songs in the standing lap slide style.

" Sondheim plays piano as cast sings the song " Someone in a Tree ".

* The song figures prominently in a plotline on the daytime soap opera Ryan's Hope in October 1988 when villain Max Dubujax plants a bomb in a music box that plays the tune.

Medieval mystery plays focused on the representation of Bible stories in churches as tableaux with accompanying antiphonal song.

It contains the vocals of the four actors performing in the film with the only piece of music heard throughout the entire album is a song titled " Virginia Woolf Rock " that plays while Martha and Nick are dancing ( but plays a little differently than it does in the film ).

* The song plays a notable role in the 1975 science fiction trilogy The Illuminatus!

George Martin, The Beatles ' producer, plays glockenspiel on the band's song Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!

It is also the song that plays on the alarm clock to wake Greg Kinnear at the beginning of the movie.

* Elvis Presley was a Cajun, a song from the 1991 Irish film The Commitments in which a 2-piece band plays along to the lyric " Elvis was a Cajun, he had a Cajun Heart "

When his song plays, people begin to recognize him as a celebrity.

The song " The Green Hills of Earth " is referenced thrice in Farmer in the Sky as a piece that Bill Lermer plays on his own accordion.

The Georgia Tech Pep Band plays the song before every men's and women's home basketball games.

To this day, the team plays the song before major playoff games, currently with Lauren Hart ( daughter of Hall of Fame Flyers broadcast announcer Gene Hart ) performing the first part of the song, a recording of Smith singing the second part, and Lauren Hart joining the recording for the finale.