Most straightforward Chinese mnemonic ever, but somehow I never noticed it until today, with the help of a brief dream in which I heard the Burl Ives song “Jingle Jingle Jingle” playing in Moab, Utah, in July.
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I was out for lunch when I first saw this post. Unfamiliar with the song (and the movie it came from), I looked it up on Genius to get an initial sense before listening to it at home. This turned out to be anything but straightforward!
To sum up:
- Going by Wiki, "Jingle, Jingle, Jingle" was sung by Stan Francis, whereas Burl Ives sang "Silver and Gold"
- An unrelated song Ives covered is "Jingle Jangle Jingle", the title referring to a cowboy's spurs
- Incidentally, Ives also did a cover of "Jingle Bells"
- Several lyrics sites not only have the lines for Francis' "Jingle" listed under Ives' "Jangle"...
- ...They somehow have lines from one version of a hymn, "For Thy Mercy and Thy Grace", added in! I'm guessing it's a bizarre error by whoever submitted the lyrics everywhere
- Genius and at least one other site have further mangled "Jangle", cutting off half the song so that it starts with a single word, "Eve", shortened from the line "You must believe that on Christmas Eve"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_the_Red-Nosed_Reindeer_(TV_special)#Music (huh, released 1964)
genius.com/Stan-francis-jingle-jingle-jingle-lyrics
genius.com/Gene-autry-ive-got-spurs-that-jingle-jangle-jingle-lyrics
genius.com/Burl-ives-jingle-jangle-jingle-lyrics
hymntime.com/tch/htm/f/o/t/m/fotmercy.htm (if browser tells you it's unsecure, continue anyway)
Also, reading about the Rudolph movie, I find it curious that Rudolph joins up with a wannabe-dentist elf and a prospector, and end up on an island ruled by a winged lion.
I stand corrected! Thanks for doing your part to counter the spread of misinformation, disinformation, malinformation ,and hate speech.
Actually, in my dream it was the voice of Burl Ives singing "Jolly old Kris Kringle is the king of the jingling" to the tune of "Come on, it's lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you." Apparently the waking world is no less confused than my dreaming mind about the details of the song.
Not many people know that, in addition to his Christmas material, Burl Ives also did a Hanukkah special in which he introduced the holiday to a Christian boy who knew nothing about it. The show was called "Goy Meets Burl."
I aim to please! (Such a shame they're admitting the "fact-checkers" aren't cutting it. Inb4 their new idea takes the same path: nitter.poast.org/buynevich/status/1922699566433911153)
*squints and grins* Dat pun. I see what you did there.
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