Silver Bells (arr. Swearingen)
Jay Livingston (arr. James Swearingen)
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General Info
Year: 1950 /
Duration: c. 3:40
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Christmas song
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Cost: Score and Parts – Out of print?
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Silver Bells is a popular Christmas song, composed by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans.
Silver Bells was first sung by William Frawley, then sung in its entirety and in the generally known version immediately after by Bob Hope and Marilyn Maxwell in the motion picture The Lemon Drop Kid, released in March 1951. The first recorded version was by Bing Crosby and Carol Richards on September 8, 1950.
- Program Note from Wikipedia
Media
None discovered thus far.
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Mt. Pleasant (Mich.) High School Symphonic Band (Layne Mudford, conductor) - 18 December 2025
- Leesville Road High School (Raleigh, N.C.) 9th Grade and Concert Bands – December 2014
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Silver Bells (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Vinson) (1950/2009)
All Wind Works
- Blackboard Blues (1961)
- Bonanza (arr. Tailor) (2005)
- Celebrity March (1968)
- Flutocrats (1958)
- Hopscotch, Hopscotch (1957)
- My Own, My Only, My All (arr. Raeburn) (1949)
- Paul Bunyan (Byron-Douglas, 1972)
- Silver Bells (arr. Davis) (1950/)
- Silver Bells (arr. Moss) (1950/1995?)
- Silver Bells (arr. Davis) (1950/)
- Silver Bells (arr. Swearingen) (1950/)
- Silver Bells (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Vinson) (1950/2009)
Resources
- Silver Bells. Wikipedia. Accessed 7 August 2020