{"id":14166,"date":"2018-12-20T10:09:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T16:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/?p=14166"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:36:17","slug":"staff-picks-adams-five-holiday-musical-firsts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/2018\/12\/20\/staff-picks-adams-five-holiday-musical-firsts\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Picks — Adam’s Five Holiday Musical Firsts"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the month of December, Loyola Libraries staff make lists and check them twice. What are these lists about? Anything! You can look at past years’ lists here<\/a>, and stay tuned for more lists all month long! Without further ado…<\/em><\/p>\n

…An incomplete list of five very different holiday musical firsts: <\/p>\n

1. \u201cJingle Bells\u201d is believed to the first song recorded in space—at least by humans. On December 16, 1965, as their conversation with mission control and Gemini VII was being recorded, Gemini VI-A astronauts Walter M. Schirra Jr. and Thomas P. Stafford played \u201cJingle Bells\u201d with a harmonica and bells they had smuggled onto their flight. Before breaking into song, the astronauts had some fun with their colleagues back at mission control, stating that they had spotted an object “going from north to south, probably in a polar orbit.\u201d
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