"Jingle Jangle Jingle" | |
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Song by Kay Kyser | |
Published | 1942 |
Genre | Western music, standard |
Lyricist(s) | Joseph J. Lilley, Frank Loesser |
"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]
The song was featured in the 1943 World War II-era theatrical Popeye the Sailor short Too Weak to Work, [5] and was 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).
It was also featured in the Famous Studios Kartunes series, in a short entitled Snooze Reel, where audiences were invited to sing along. [6]
The 1942 Kay Kyser Orchestra version (feat. Harry Babbitt) is featured in the 2010 Obsidian Entertainment video game Fallout: New Vegas on the in-game radio. Games studies researcher Andra Ivănescu compares the "cheery sounds" of "Jingle Jangle Jingle" and the player committing "unspeakable atrocities" in Fallout: New Vegas to the use of " Stuck in the Middle with You" in the torture scene from Quentin Tarantino's 1992 film Reservoir Dogs." [7]
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