Jingle Jangle Jingle

“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 It was featured in that year’s film The Forest Rangers, in which it was sung by Dick Thomas. The most commercially successful recording was by Kay Kyser, 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. Kay Kyser’s recording of the song is featured in the 2010 role-playing video game Fallout: New Vegas. The song was performed by Jon Walmsley and Lisa Harrison on The Waltons, Season 9, Episode 13, “The Gold Watch” (26 Feb. 1981). In addition, part of it was sung in passing by John Ritter in Season Five, Episode 19 of Three’s Company entitled Double Trouble, mentioned in the Robert Forster movie The Banker (1989), and Jim Carrey also has it performed in his portrayal of Andy Kaufman in Man on the Moon. The song was featured in the 1943 World War II-era theatrical Popeye the Sailor short Too Weak to Work,[6] 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 also was featured in the Famous Studios Kartunes series, in a short entitled Snooze Reel, where audiences were invited to sing along