Claims that Jingle Bells started as a Thanksgiving song are making the rounds online again. So, how did the holiday classic actually come to life?

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's true that "Jingle Bells" songwriter James Pierpont did not have Christmas in mind when he penned the tune — which does not mention the holiday in its lyrics — in the 1850s. However, widespread ...

“Jingle Bells,” one of the most well-known Christmas carols in the world, is now being called racist. A Boston University theater professor claims the Christmas carol has a “problematic history” ...

Perhaps no single piece of secular music is more ubiquitous during the Christmas holiday season than "Jingle Bells," the venerable ditty about the joys of dashing through snow-covered fields while ...

Sharon Van Etten and Bleached are both releasing Christmas songs today via Amazon Music. Van Etten originally recorded her version of “Silent Night” for a short film called The Letter, but is ...

With all the negativity surrounding the Dover High School "KKK Jingle" I thought it might be nice to recognize the real "Jingle Bells" and the man who composed it. James Lord Pierpont was born in ...

Kmart is courting a Christmas controversy with a naughty new holiday commercial showing men dressed in colorful boxers shaking their shorts -- and everything therein -- to the tune of “Jingle Bells.” ...