96: "Jingle Bell Rock" vs. "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"

Song Vs. Song

Todd Nathanson

Comedy, Music

4.7 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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It's the late '50s, and Christmas music has taken a turn to this new fad called "rock and/or roll." And 65 years later, we're still listening to them! So what is the Christmas song of the late '50s, Bobby Helms's "Jingle Bell Rock" or Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"?

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Todd Nadenson.
0:03.7	And I'm Lena Morgan.
0:05.0	And ladies and gentlemen, the jingle hop has begun.
0:10.6	Because this is song versus song.
0:15.3	It is our annual Christmas episode.
0:19.6	You jolly?
0:20.5	You feeling jolly?
0:22.3	All right.
0:23.4	Gitty up, jingle horse.
0:25.9	Pick up your feet.
0:27.9	All right.
0:28.7	Yes.
0:29.3	For the Christmas...
0:30.4	How you doing, how?
0:31.9	Hey.
0:33.8	For the Christmas episode,
0:36.2	we are doing two absolute classics.
0:39.3	We are doing Bobby Helms' jingle bell rock versus Brenda Lee's rocking around the Christmas tree.
0:48.1	Lena, I don't think I've heard these songs enough times in my life.
0:51.8	Can't tell if joking.
0:57.5	No, like, I don't know why we do the Christmas episodes and more specifically why I choose Christmas episodes to do. I'll tell you why actually,
1:04.2	because it reminds me that these songs are actual songs. You know? Like, it is, it's like looking at like trying to admire the art on a dollar bill.
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