Don't know what kinda stuff you play but this is a list of some decent bell related songs off the top of my head... Theirs loads of old doo wop songs that go on about bells but most are a bit boring.

Richard and the Young Lions - you can make it
Great bells at the begining of this...
Echoes - Ding Dong
Good Doo-wop
Carter Family - Evening Bells are Ringing
Nice country song...
Sonics - Village Idiot
Great funny as hell, lots of bell!
Jerry Mcain - Bell in my heart
(Excello Demos) Great song with Jerry ringing a cow bell all the
way thru it that they stole from a cow on the way to the studio!!!
Nicky and the Nobles - School Bells
Good Rythmn and blues with a kid singer
Four Blades - Church bells may ring
More Doo wop
Cadets - Ring Chimes
More Doo wop with bongos
Del Vikings - Whispering Bells/I hear Bells
More Doo wop
Terry Corin - My ding dong heart
Good Girly band doo wop
The Lurch - Lurch
Addams family spin off song... Its got a bell at the begining i beleive
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Bell Bottoms
Would this be cheatin?
John Garts - Sleigh Ride
Organ version that sorta sounds like the music from Dawn of the Dead
if its was set at christmas
The Tokens - Hear the Bells
Weird kinda "Lion sleeps tonite thing with a Country breakdown"
Bill Carlisle - Bell Clappin Mama
Great country/rockabilly with quite viscous undertones of violence!
Dave BArtholomew - My ding a ling
Original and best version of this song or you could go with Chuck berrys version.
Cellos - Rang Tang Ding Dong (I am the Japanese Sandman)
No bells but they do say Ding Dong... which is the noise a bell makes
Ventures - Sleigh Ride

AC/DC - Hells Bells
Anything by the Bellrays

i posted this in the blog section.... i think... but figured this may be a better place for all your input. I need songs with either Bells in the title or Bells in the song. I am doing a 4 hour radio slot with a Bell theme on Xmas. Or at least that is what I would like to do if I can gather enough songs. I'll even give you a- as requested by- on the air too! So for example of bells in a song, there are bells in Godspeed You Black Emperor- Moya. Throw em at me.... and if you HAVE the song, even the more helpful. The record library there is good... but sometimes hard to find certain songs.

Thanks everyone for your help ahead of time!

definitely hit up norton & crypt, but you can get the million volumes of pebbles that a lot of us grew up on...

Oh just buy Britney Spears like you always do and stop wasting my time love.....he he. Maybe you coul start with "Back in the USA" by the MC5 like I did back in '81. Its still one of my alltime favourite albums. anything by the Stooges (just not the last album ;o) (sorry Iggy) or R A M O N E S ramones. that should get you started

"Recent" albums : Jay Reatard - Blood Visions Cheap Time - Glitter & Gold Black Lips - Let it bloom The Weakends (on rob house rec', http://www.myspace.com/theweakends) Magnetix - Positively Negative All Gun club albums Oblivians -POPULAR FAVORITES Dollhouse - Rock n Roll circus KK& BBQ - Whats For Dinner? ..... Other tracks on my garage blog www.boomshinerecords.com ENJOY !!!

Groovy 60s lp's you can start with. :

1) The Shadows of Knight - Gloria
2) 13th Floor Elevators - the psychedelic sounds of....
3) Love - s/t
4) the Monks - Black Monk Time
5) the Music Machine - turn on...
6) the Birds - s/t
7) the Sonics - here are the Sonics
8) the Sonics - boom
9) Q65 - revolution
10) the Creation - we are paintermen

Compilation series' I highly reccomend:

1) Garage Beat '66
2) Nuggets
3) That Driving Beat
4) Girls In The Garage
5) Back From The Grave
6) Ils Sont Fous Ces Gaulois
7) English Freakbeat
8) (if you can find 'em) Ultra Chicks
9) Pop A Paris
10) GS I Love You

The Bells Of Rhymney by The Byrds
Bell Birds by David Hemmings
Ring The Bells by The Kinks
Bells by The Laughing Wind
Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield
Bells by Dave Helling
Bells by Kensington Forest
Bells by The Hour Glass
Bells Are Ringing by The Real Gone
Bells Of San Francisco by Carnegy Hall
Bitter Bells by Neal Ford & The Fanatics
Chiming Bells by The Phantoms
Death Bells At Dawn by The Lords
My Bell by The Hollowmen
Mystical Bells by The Sights & Sounds
Ring Out Wild Bells by The Sundowners
Ring Them Bells by The Phantom Surfers
Ringo Bells by Three Blonde Mice
Sleighbell Hop by The Holidays
The Bells by The Loading Zone
The Bells Of Rhymney by Sean & Sonja
The Bells Of Rhymney by The Fifth Avenue
The Old Iron Bell by Gene Latter
The Sound Of The Bells by The Preachers

Egg

I am doing a radio show featuring bells. It can either have the word bells in the song title or in the actual song. Either way... I am compiling a list, so please help me out. I am trying to get this for a Xmas show, as I refuse to play actual Xmas songs. Thanks!

Kopper said :
"You have a washing machine in your BATHROOM?"

Yep, I have a very large bathroom...I can even roll down to the floor from my shower to my washing machine to the sounds of the Savage Kick !!! A cool experience, believe me...
Or even experiencing a Rock'n'roll Suicide standing on top of that groovy white washing machine, ready to jump...or travel all around my so so so large bathroom like I was a Vagabond Garage Rocker...

Well...I'd never thought I'd talk about my bathroom on the net someday...

You have a washing machine in your BATHROOM? Call of the wild pirate radio said:

You really wanna know ?
Well...I listen to them on a Mp3 player in my bathroom, while doing my washing and my laundry.
I wash my teeth with Dan Electreau, undress with Lucy Lux, put my dirty clothes in the washing machine with Brad X, sing in the shower with Rob Baker, shampoo with Lord Muck, shave with Alex Piandes, put my socks on with Michael Kaiser, etc, etc...
Now podcasters, you've been warned...

Thanks Kopper fer the advice...I figured it'd be an uphill struggle to get back into the music reviewin' world but I'm willin' to throw my hat into the ring...a short time after startin' this thread I've been contacted outta the blue by a few groups lookin' fer reviews...crazy timin'...and thanks fer the good luck! kopper said:

By the way, when you get caught up reviewing all of these records you're getting in the mail, how about making a new podcast for us? ;)

Well, good luck with that! Haha.

Seriously, lots of bands are looking for reviews... it shouldn't be too hard to get review material. But then again there are millions of blogs out there nowadays, so you have to make yours stand above the rest and get a good reputation for reviewing. You might just have to start out by reviewing stuff you buy yourself or already have in your collection until you get a name for yourself in the reviewer world.

By the way, when you get caught up reviewing all of these records you're getting in the mail, how about making a new podcast for us? ;)

I have often wondered the same thing. I tried to do a regular "Bug House" DJ night a couple of years ago... I figured it'd be successful since I had a local garage/punk radio show (for almost 11 years, mind you) that I thought had some sort of following, and that people would dig going out and drinking and dancing to this sort of music at a bar. I flyered (shows, record stores, you name it) and did all the Myspace commenting and local email list promoting I could, and I was lucky to get 10 people to show up. So I gave it up and now I just stick to podcasting. ;)

Oh yeah, and create a Blog Network for your blog on Facebook, too. That's a really cool application, I think.

The best way is to get other similar blogs to add yours to their blogrolls (or links sections). Of course you'll need to do that for them in return. It also helps to register your blog on as many blog directories as you can find. And make it easy for people to figure out what your blog's RSS (syndication) feed is. Make it obvious. Then give them easy ways to subscribe (add buttons, email subscription options, etc.). Feedburner (now owned by Google) is great for this: www.feedburner.com

Fuckin' sux...I never made it to the US store...
So do I have it right that there will still be someone handlin' Crypt US mailorder?

tim told me he's moving back to germany...sucks...

'the village idiot' by the sonics...... makes that a 3rd by them!

Yea, I have a few other versions too, but I like it as it's one of the rawer versions, although Berry's will always have to be ranked at the top. Haven't heard the Fleshtone's version though, will check out the show, thanks.

Thanks for posting the MP3s, Mike. "Run Rudolph Run," originally by Chuck Berry, has been covered by lots of folks. It's on that new Fleshtones Xmas album and there's a version by Keith Richards on the new Little Steven's Underground Garage xmas compilation. The Rockin' Guys (an Arkansas band) also covered it many years ago. Check out my own Christmas podcast:

Here's just a few songs I'm putting on the wife's muzak cd for work. Not strictly GP. Lots of Rockabilly, Soul, & even ska/reggae stuff out there too. Humpers "Run Run Rudolph" Sonics "Santa Claus" Kinks 'Father Christmas" Surfaries "Surfers Christmas" Jackie & the Cedrics "Silent Night Rumble" Detroit Junior "Christmas Day" Kaisers "Mery Christmas Loopy Lu" Check out Dave the Spazz's archived shows for all kinds of X-mas goodies. http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/MS

There was lotsa great garage/psychedelic soul rock in Cambodia in the late '60s and early '70s. Much of it was destroyed after the evil Khmer Rouge took over in 1975. The records were smashed and burned and many of the top artists were killed or died in the labor camps. The stuff that survives is real lo-fi -- probably from third or fourth generation cassettes or whatever. The singer in this video is Ros Sereysothea There's a series of albums called Cambodian Rocks that's great. Same type of thing thing happened in Ethiopia in the '70s when the commies took over there. The Ethiopiques series has some great stuff that lots of us here might like. My favorite of the ones I've heard (there's 20 some CDs in the series so far) is Volume 8, SWINGING ADDIS.

yeah, this is really getting good!!!

Don't know who this is or what genre it is... But oichang0198 on youtube has a bunch of these weird Jap hippies hanging around wharehouses playing steel drums and jew harps...