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TIL until their deaths, two men claimed they wrote "Jingle Bell Rock: Bobby Helms, the singer, and Hank Garland, the guitarist. Both said they rewrote the original (bad) song by Joe Beal and Jim Boothe and turned it into a hit. But only Beal and Boothe got writing credits and royalties for it.

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