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Bobby Helms (August 15, 1933 - June 19, 1997) was a highly acclaimed and veteran country singer and guitarist with a great deal of crossover appeal who also covered pop, rock & roll, and rockabilly and became famous during the late 1950s. Best known for the perennial holiday classic, "Jingle Bell Rock" (1957), which first charted in 1957 and then several years thereafter, he topped the Country charts that same year with the romantic ballads, "Fraulein" and "My Special Angel," which both also made the Pop/Rock Top 40. "Jingle Bell Rock" resurfaced on both charts many years later in 1996 after being featured in the soundtrack to "Jingle All The Way" (1996) starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad, and Myron Larabee.

Born Robert Lee Helms in Bloomington, Indiana into a musical family, he began in his teens performing locally as a duo with his brother Freddie. Helms moved to Nashville in 1956 and signed with Decca Records, where his fame took off the following year with "Fraulein," "My Special Angel," and the iconic "Jingle Bell Rock," which went gold. Helms continued to record and tour for three decades and was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.

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