Jingle Jangle Jingle
{{Short description|Song by Joseph J. Lilley and Frank Loessner}}
{{about|the 1942 song|the "Ed, Edd n Eddy" episode|Ed, Edd n Eddy's Jingle Jingle Jangle}}
{{distinguish|Jingle Jangle (disambiguation)|Jangle pop}}
{{infobox song
| name = Jingle Jangle Jingle
| artist = Kay Kyser
| published = 1942
| lyricist = Joseph J. Lilley, Frank Loesser
| genre = Western music, standard
}}
"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.[https://www.ascap.com/Home/ace-title-search/index.aspx ASCAP: Search title "Jingle Jangle Jingle"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130306032310/https://www.ascap.com/Home/ace-title-search/index.aspx |date=2013-03-06 }} It was featured in that year's film The Forest Rangers, in which it was sung by Dick Thomas.[https://archive.org/details/DickThomas-JingleJangleJingle1942 Ourmedia: Dick Thomas - Jingle Jangle Jingle 1942]
The most commercially successful recording was by Kay Kyser,{{Cite web | url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1633237/m1/#track/2 |title = Pop Chronicles 1940s Program #7|year = 1972}} 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.
Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.{{Cite web |title=The Top 100 Western Songs |author=Western Writers of America |year=2010 |author-link=Western Writers of America |publisher=American Cowboy |url=http://www.americancowboy.com/culture/top-100-western-songs |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101019002745/http://americancowboy.com/culture/top-100-western-songs |archivedate=19 October 2010 |url-status=dead }}
Popular culture
The song was featured in the 1943 World War II-era theatrical Popeye the Sailor short Too Weak to Work,{{cite book |last1=Shull |first1=Michael S. |last2=Wilt |first2=David E. |title=Doing their bit: wartime American animated short films, 1939-1945 |date=2004 |location=Jefferson, N.C. |isbn=0786481692 |page=159 |edition=Second |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hKrmuvh4PQkC&q=%22Jingle+Jangle+Jingle%22+popeye&pg=PA159 |language=English |chapter=Filmography 1943}} 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.{{cite book |last1=Friedwalled |first1=Will |editor1-last=Goldmark |editor1-first=Daniel |editor2-last=Taylor |editor2-first=Yuval |title=The Cartoon Music Book |date=2002 |publisher=A Cappella |location=Chicago, Ill. |isbn=1556524730 |page=166 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sixjCgAAQBAJ&dq=Snooze+Reel+%22Jingle+Jangle+Jingle%22&pg=PA166 |chapter=Winston Sharples and the "Inner Casper" (or Huey Has Two Mommies)}}
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."{{cite book |last=Ivănescu |first=Andra |url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-04281-3 |title=Popular Music in the Nostalgia Video Game: The Way It Never Sounded |publisher=Springer Nature |year=2019 |isbn=978-3-030-04280-6 |edition=1st |series=Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture |location=Gewerbestrasse, Cham, Switzerland |pages=116}}
See also
References
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Category:Number-one singles in the United States
Category:Songs written by Frank Loesser
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