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Scholarly research and multiple news outlets show that the song we now call “Jingle Bells” began life as “The One Horse Open Sleigh” and was performed on the minstrel stage in the mid-19th century — n...
Scholars and recent viral reporting connect the 1857 tune originally titled “The One Horse Open Sleigh” (later “Jingle Bells”) to mid‑19th‑century minstrel performance, and critics point to specific p...
Research shows “Jingle Bells” was written in the 1850s as a sleigh‑ride song (first published as “One Horse Open Sleigh” in 1857) and was tied into popular northern sleigh‑race culture and minstrel pe...
Research by theatre historian Kyna Hamill and subsequent reporting shows "Jingle Bells" (originally "The One Horse Open Sleigh," published 1857) was first attested on the minstrel stage in Boston and ...