Jingle Jangle Jingle

"Jingle Jangle Jingle", also known as 'I've Got Spurs That Jingle Jangle Jingle", is a song written by Joseph J. Lilley and Frank Loesser, and published in 1942.[1] It was featured in that year's film The Forest Rangers, in which it was sung by Dick Thomas.[2]

The most commercially successful recording was by Kay Kyser,[3] whose version reached no. 1 in the Billboard charts in July 1942. Versions were recorded by many other musicians, including Tex Ritter, Gene Autry, Glenn Miller and The Merry Macs.[1]

Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.[4]

Kay Kyser's recording of the song is featured in the 2010 role-playing video game Fallout: New Vegas.[5]

The song was performed by Jon Walmsley and Lisa Harrison on The Waltons, Season 9, Episode 13, "The Gold Watch" (26 Feb. 1981). In addition, part of it was sung in passing by John Ritter in Season Five, Episode 19 of Three's Company entitle Double Trouble, and Jim Carrey also has performed it in his portrayal of Andy Kaufman in Man on the Moon.

Also sung by The Sportsmen Quartet: Bill Days (top tenor), Max Smith (second tenor), Mart Sperzel (baritone), and Gurney Bell (bass) in the 1942 Western movie Lost Canyon with Hopalong Cassidy (Bill Boyd).

See also
  • List of number-one singles of 1942 (U.S.)

References
  1. ASCAP: Search title "Jingle Jangle Jingle" Archived 2013-03-06 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Ourmedia: Dick Thomas - Jingle Jangle Jingle 1942
  3. "Pop Chronicles 1940s Program #7". 1972.
  4. Western Writers of America (2010). "The Top 100 Western Songs". American Cowboy. Archived from the original on 10 August 2014.
  5. Obsidian Entertainment (2010-10-19). Fallout: New Vegas. Bethesda Softworks.
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