"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.ASCAP: Search title "Jingle Jangle Jingle"
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 ''

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'' charts in July 1942. Versions were recorded by many other musicians, including Tex Ritter,

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, 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.

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The song was featured in the 1943

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-era theatrical '' Popeye the Sailor'' short '' Too Weak to Work'', 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

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Kartunes series, in a short entitled ''Snooze Reel'', where audiences were invited to sing along. 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

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's 1992 film '' Reservoir Dogs''."

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1942 songs 1942 singles Number-one singles in the United States Songs written by Frank Loesser {{1940s-song-stub

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