2010: Newsboys on the album Christmas! A Newsboys Holiday.2009: Mitchel Musso on the album A Very Special Christmas 7.2008: Thousand Foot Krutch on the album X Christmas.2008: Rascal Flatts on the album Greatest Hits, Vol.2008: Julianne Hough on the album Sounds of the Season: The Julianne Hough Holiday Collection.2006: Kenny G on the album The Greatest Holiday Classics.2006: Billy Idol on the album Happy Holidays: A Very Special Christmas Album.2005: The Brian Setzer Orchestra on the album Dig That Crazy Christmas.2004: Aly & AJ on the album Disneymania Presents: Wow! Christmas.2002: Hilary Duff on the album Santa Claus Lane.2002: Aaron Tippin on the album December to Remember.2000: Billy Gilman on the album Classic Christmas.1999: Point of Grace on the album A Christmas Story.1999: Gina Jeffreys on her album Christmas Wish.1999: George Strait on the album Merry Christmas Wherever You Are.1999: Amy Grant on the album A Christmas to Remember.1995: Dion on the album Rock 'n Roll Christmas.1992: Wayne Newton on the album A Merry Little Christmas.1992: Neil Diamond on the album The Christmas Album.1983: Hall & Oates (non-album single) and peaked at number 30 on the Hot 100 Recurrents chart in 2005, it also reached number 6 on the Billboard's Holiday Airplay chart on Decemand number 24 on the Hot Holiday Songs chart on December 10, 2011.1971: Lynn Anderson on the album The Christmas Album.1970: Bobby Sherman on the album Christmas Album.1969: Johnny Mathis on the album Give Me Your Love for Christmas.1968: Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass Christmas Album.1963: The Platters on the album Christmas with the Platters.1962: Bobby Vee on the album Merry Christmas from Bobby Vee.1961: Eddy Arnold on the album Christmas with Eddy Arnold.1961: Chubby Checker with Bobby Rydell on the album Bobby Rydell/Chubby Checker.1961: Chet Atkins on the album Christmas with Chet Atkins.
Other artists to have covered the song include: In 2013, American comedian KopShtick did a parody version entitled " Chanuka Rock". Intended for a seasonal single release, it was not released and it was considered lost for nearly 30 years until it was finally issued in the mid-1990s.īrenda Lee released a version of "Jingle Bell Rock" which made the Billboard Christmas singles chart in both 19. Rascal Flatts Template:Singlechart Chart (2008–09)īlake Shelton and Miranda Lambert Template:Singlechart Template:Singlechart Chart (2012)Ī notable cover version of the song was recorded by Bill Haley & His Comets in 1968 for United Artists records. George Strait Template:Singlechart Chart (2000)Īaron Tippin Template:Singlechart Chart (2002) US Most Played C&W By Jockeys ( Billboard) Template:Citation needed US Best Sellers In Stores ( Billboard) Template:Citation needed Gretchen and Karen dance to it as part of their Christmas pageant.īobby Helms Template:Singlechart Template:Singlechart Template:Singlechart Chart (1957)
The song is featured in the opening of Lethal Weapon (1987). Īs of November 25, 2016, total sales of the digital track of the original 1957 Helms recording stand at 780,000 downloads according to Nielsen SoundScan, placing it ninth on the list of all-time best-selling Christmas/holiday digital singles in SoundScan history. The Helms version entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart on the week ending December 24, 2016, eventually reaching a peak of No.
11 on Cashbox magazine's Top 60 on the week ending January 11, 1958.Īfter the song was featured on the soundtrack album to the 1996 film Jingle All the Way, the original Bobby Helms version returned to the Billboard country singles charts in late 1996 and early 1997, reaching a peak of No. 6 on the Billboard Best Sellers in Stores chart, and at No. It also crossed to the pop charts, peaking at No. 13 on Billboard's Most Played C&W by Jockeys chart, a predecessor to the Hot Country Songs chart. In 1983, Helms released his last recording of "Jingle Bell Rock" on Black Rose 82713. In yet another re-recording, Helms released a version on Ashley AS-4200 (year unknown). In 1970, Helms recorded an entire album titled Jingle Bell Rock on Certron C-7013, releasing the title track on Certron C-10021, with a picture sleeve. Helms' original version, on Decca 9-30513 from October 1957, was re-recorded by him on Kapp K-719 in 1965, and yet again in 1967 on Little Darlin' LD-0038. Backup singers were the Anita Kerr Quartet. An electric guitar played by Hank Garland can be heard playing the first notes of the chorus of "Jingle Bells". It makes brief references to other popular songs of the 1950s, such as " Rock Around the Clock", and mentions going to a "Jingle hop". The song's title and some of its lyrics are an extension of the old Christmas standard, " Jingle Bells". "Jingle Bell Rock" has been performed by many, but Helms' version is the best known.