Christmas Bells is a commercial featuring "We Wish You A Merry Christmas", a dance-like popular, Modern English song known as a what?
Christmas Bells (advertisement) "Christmas Bells" is an American television commercial produced by the Hershey Company promoting Hershey's Kisses. The advertisement, produced with stop-motion animation, features Hershey's Kisses, fashioned as a handbell choir, playing the Christmas carol "We Wish You a Merry Christmas". It debuted in 1989 and is shown in the United States each holiday season; as such, it is the longest-running television commercial for the Hershey brand.
Strathspey (dance) A strathspey ( ) is a type of dance tune in time. It is similar to a hornpipe but slower and more stately, and contains many dot-cut 'snaps'. A so-called "Scotch snap" is a short note before a dotted note, which in traditional playing is generally exaggerated rhythmically for musical expression. An example of a strathspey would be the song "The Bonnie Banks O' Loch Lomond", provided it is sung staccato: