Rapture Records

Song: (I’ve Got Spurs) Jingle Jangle Jingle / Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!

Artist: Former members of Kay Kyser’s band - vocals by Trudy Erwin, Harry Babbitt and Chorus

Conductor: Billy May (uncredited)

Record Album: Kay Kyser’s Greatest Hits

Record Label: Capitol Records ST 1692

Recorded: August 25, 1961

Released: 1962

This 1962 stereo version of “Jingle Jangle Jingle” is mostly included for completeness. This re-recorded version of the song is sometimes mistaken for the original 1942 recording which was used in Fallout: New Vegas. Coincidentally, the same album also contains the re-recorded version of “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition” used in Fallout 76.

This stereo record features a very hard panning of the instruments and vocals.  The female vocal, clapping, backing vocals, and saxophones are on the left. The male vocal, jingling, percussion, trumpets, and trombones are on the right. More modern mixes have reduced this effect to be more centered.

As for differences between the Capitol and Columbia versions, the phrasing of the first line “no wedding bells” is an easy indicator. The original 1942 Columbia version says the line smoothly while the 1962 Capitol Records version stops briefly at the word “no”.

As for credited personnel, Harry Babbitt does reprise his lead vocal role. Ish Kabibble (trumpet), Jack Martin, and Sully Mason (saxophones) are also present on both recordings serving double duty on instruments and vocals as needed.

Julie Conway is not present on the Capitol Records version, substituted by Trudy Erwin who however was present at the original May 21, 1942 recording session. Conway had left the band by January of 1944 to pursue her own radio show.

Michael Douglas, Ginny Simms, and Gloria Wood were not at the 1942 recording session, but had sung with the Kay Kyser orchestra on other sessions and likely provided the backing vocals on this Capitol Records session.

Kay Kyser himself is not present. While Stan Freberg did imitations of the “Ol’ Professor’s” voice for this record, he did not make an introduction for this track.

Listen to the in-game version of the original 1942 recording of “Jingle Jangle Jingle” here.

Listen to the 1962 version of “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!” here.