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Songs that have Bell or Bells in the title
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Yea Jung, Won’t be long and Christmas will be here. Hope you don’t get any coal.
Just kidding Santa will be good too you.
Joe
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As a kid during the 70’s energy crisis, when we had to turn the heat way down and wear sweaters indoors all the time, I couldn’t imagine why anyone would have been disappointed to get coal in their stocking.
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Kenny & Dolly – I’ll be Home with Bells On
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You are welcome Jacki, Have a nice day.
Joe
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David coal is great unless you worked for Ebenezer Scrooge. Bah Humbug..
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Did the David Bowie and Bing Crosby Drummer Boy on Jacki Christmas songs  Then Bam !! Bells of Saint Mary with the beautiful Ingrid Bergman.
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David, Joe. Being a child of the Jetson age, instead of coal, I want Uranium. Safely sealed of course. -
Jung! So as you written so shall it be. We are out of wrap so you will have to take as is. Is that ok. Just being funny. Have a good one my friend.
Joe
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My mom used to warn us that if we didn’t behave, Santa would leave switches in our stockings. We were unfamiliar with the definition of switches as long sticks used to administer spankings, so we thought she meant electrical switches. We all agreed that that would be just about the most disappointing present imaginable, so we behaved anyway.
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David ,  Yes I heard that term used in the south. A friend of mine when I lived in Texas would tell me when he was a kid he would be switched. I asked him what was that. And he explained.
Being from the north we got the strap if we were bad. Today you can’t do this. I remember the Vikings running back Adrian Peterson getting in trouble a few years back for Switching his son. The point is I never heard that term before until I live in Texas.
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Jung- It’s the art/science of ringing of ringing church bells in a very strictly defined manner. It’s rhythmic, but not necessarily a defined melody. It’s mostly an English thing although there are groups (referred to as “bands”) in 19 different countries. Of the approximately 4000 ringable towers in the world, 3000 are in England (by contrast there are only 24 in Scotland). There are 50 or so here in the States, 3 of them are here in Houston.Wikipedia has more than you probably want to know:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_ringing
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Jim, thanks for the info and link. Change Ringing is fascinating . I think I heard them doing it at a big cathedral in Montreal last year when they let the bells go off. I thought they were all done by machines automated by computers, but it’s nice to see many churches and cathedrals still do it the traditional way by human artistic touch.
It looks like we have 7 Change Ringing churches in Canada, up to 3 right here in my city.
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Jung – There are three in BC: in Vancouver, Victoria, and Mission. Two of them have 10 bells, the other one, 8.
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Jim. I just checked the Vancouver Society of Change Ringers website, and the church tower in Vancouver is the “Holy Rosary Cathedral”, which is the church literally right next door to my old office tower where I worked!!! Wow. Walked by it all these years not knowing of the significance of the bell tower on top.  I’ve been inside that church a few times, really beautiful Victorian style brick church building.
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It’s not a song title but anyone remember Archie Bell and the Drells doing the Tighten up?
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