INDIANAPOLIS — Richard Goodall, the Terre Haute school janitor who won Season 19 of America’s Got Talentin 2024, will team up with the late Bobby Helms for a special “Jingle Bell Rock” duet during Friday night’s Circle of Lights on Monument Circle.

Goodall’s newly recorded vocals are paired with a rare recording of Helms’ original voice from the early 1990s, discovered on a long-forgotten VHS tape by Helms’ former manager, John Kleiman.

“I had forgotten about that television show,” Kleiman said. “I recorded a little bit of it, stopped it, and Bobby walked off to the side of the studio. I asked him, ‘Do you want to record that again?’ and he said, ‘Why? Did I have the right words?’ He looked at me with a strange look and said, ‘John, that’s how I wrote it.’”

Kleiman explained that some l

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