tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post5726271718479073647..comments2024-03-28T07:58:41.643-04:00Comments on pancocojams: Non-Racist Examples Of The Children's Parody Songs "Jingle Bells Shotgun Shells"Azizi Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-53468290813867349892023-12-27T07:57:06.134-05:002023-12-27T07:57:06.134-05:00Re-reading these "Jingle Bells Shotgun Shells...Re-reading these "Jingle Bells Shotgun Shells" it occurs to me that the violent Barney The Purple Dinosaur rhymes were patterned after these shoot Santa Claus in the head rhymes. Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-84662493184488721122022-11-16T10:26:45.921-05:002022-11-16T10:26:45.921-05:00Anonymous, thanks for sharing that version of &quo...Anonymous, thanks for sharing that version of "Jingle Bells". <br /><br />I hadn't come across that version before. <br /><br />It's interesting what things we remember from our childhood :o)Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-7945566271172060722022-11-16T10:24:22.967-05:002022-11-16T10:24:22.967-05:00I learned in Kindergarten (early 50') the foll...I learned in Kindergarten (early 50') the following;<br /><br />Jingle Bells<br />Shotgun Shells<br />Rabbits all the way<br />Oh what fun it is to ride<br />In the teachers Model A<br /><br />Rest is gone, that part of my brain suffered a critical memory error sometime in the seventies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-46911009807230280512018-12-05T10:52:18.101-05:002018-12-05T10:52:18.101-05:00I remember the "See The U.S.A. In Your Chevro...I remember the "See The U.S.A. In Your Chevrolet" jingle from the <i>Dinah Shore</i> television show. Actually, that's the only thing that I remember about that early 1950s American television show.<br /><br />There are LOTS of "Jingle Bells" parodies that mention the Chevrolet" brand of car. the reason why the word "chervolet" is so prevalent in those "Jingle Bells" parodies -in addition to the popularity of that "see the U.S.A jingle- is that the word "chevrolet" rhymes with the word "sleigh" which is the last word in what is now the standard version of the chorus for the "Jingle Bells" song: "in a one horse open sleigh".Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-67195110411866843842018-12-05T10:45:36.590-05:002018-12-05T10:45:36.590-05:00Here's information about the jingle "See ...Here's information about the jingle "See The U.S.A. In Your Chevolet".<br />From <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/See_the_USA_in_Your_Chevrolet" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/See_the_USA_in_Your_Chevrolet</a><br />"The song "See The U.S.A. In Your Chevrolet" (title as filed for 1950 copyright)[1] is a commercial jingle from c. 1949, with lyrics and music by Leo Corday (ASCAP) and Leon Carr (ASCAP),[2] written for the Chevrolet Division of General Motors.[1] The song was the Chevrolet jingle sung on the show <i>Inside U.S.A. with Chevrolet</i> by Chevrolet's real-life husband-wife duo, Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy,[1] years before it became associated with Dinah Shore through Chevrolet's decade-long sponsorship of her television shows. Dinah Shore sang the song after 1952,[1] and it became something of a signature song for her. Later the song was also sung by male spokesman Pat Boone on his Pat Boone-Chevy Showroom (ABC) from 1957 through 1960. When the games of the Los Angeles Dodgers were televised in the 1960s, commercials were aired with the song sung by John Roseboro and Don Drysdale, whose singing careers, announcer Vin Scully said, were "destined to go absolutely nowhere"...Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-86907661906598820802018-12-05T10:40:27.391-05:002018-12-05T10:40:27.391-05:00Here's an often quoted comment [in articles ab...Here's an often quoted comment [in articles about "Jingle Bells Batman Smells" songs] that provides one likely theory about how children's rhymes spread before the internet: <br />SunnyD, <br />From <a href="https://www.robweir.com/blog/2006/01/jingle-bells-batman-smells.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.robweir.com/blog/2006/01/jingle-bells-batman-smells.html</a> Jingle Bells, Batman Smells by ROB on 2006/01/09 Jingle Bells, Batman Smells by ROB on 2006/01/09<br />2012/12/05, 3:15 pm<br /><br />"My feeling about how this song spread around the world is the children of US military familes. I first heard it back in Christmas of 1966 when the Batman TV series started in September of 1966. That was the only thing elementary school kids talked about and the toys were all we wanted for Christmas. I lived in San Diego California and our school was half military kids. Our city was a big military hub at the height of the Vietnam War. Every branch of the services was active there. I remember we sang the original chorus over and over. Kids tried to add versions, but the original ending was always the Joker got away – Hey!. My assumption was that as military kids were suddenly moved around the country they would arrive in a new school and that silly song was a familiar memory of their former friends. Once it was heard by the new group they would be “Kool” and other kids would copy their new song. <br /><br />I think the original chorus was tried and true and whatever you learn first is your memory of the right way. When another comes along it is quickly rejected. It takes a kid to move with a different version for that one to be known as the original. That is my guess how it migrated around the world and did not change very much. I went to research this song version after walking kids to school and hearing a 7 year old claim it was new. <br /><br />I am 54 and I remember it felt new when I was 7. The version we were singing was “Jingle Bells, Santa smells, Rudolph lost his way. Blah blah blah in a one horse Chevrolet. hey! This version was popular in school, because the 1960’s commerical hit song was “See the USA in your Chevrolet” played on every TV channel during kids shows. Christmas of 1966 is when I first heard it switch to Batman Smells, Robin layed an egg and the Batmobile logically replaced the sleigh and our Chevrolet. Please post a reply if you heard this version before Christmas 1966 and where you were."<br />-snip-<br />I reformatted this comment to enhance its readability.Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.com