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"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" is a Christmas song written by Johnny Marks and recorded by Brenda Lee in 1958; it has since been recorded by numerous other music artists. By the song's 50th anniversary in 2008, Lee's original version had sold over 15 million copies around the world with the 4th most digital downloads sold of any Christmas ...
That Christmas, Lee's first as a major superstar, "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" finally made it to the Hot 100, going all the way to No. 14. Rick Diamond/Getty. Brenda Lee in 2015.
Lee recorded the song "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" in July with a prominent twanging guitar part by Hank Garland and raucous sax soloing by Nashville icon Boots Randolph. Decca released it as a single that November, but it sold only 5,000 copies, and did not do much better when it was released again in 1959. [19]
Merry Christmas from Brenda Lee is an album by Brenda Lee and was released in 1964 by Decca Records. [3] in 1999, the album was rereleased on MCA Nashville, expanded to 18 tracks, and retitled Rockin’ around the Christmas tree: the Decca Christmas Recordings, which has remained in print ever since.
While “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” sold well throughout the ‘50s and early ‘60s, it wasn’t until 1990 that the song achieved its current standing as a cross-generational anthem.
Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” is officially the most popular song in the U.S. more than half of a century after it was first released. The 79-year-old artist dethroned ...
When “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” unexpectedly made a leap to No. 1 with the release of the latest chart news Monday, we quickly got her back on the phone for an update on just how ...
In December 2012 Wilde was videotaped with mobile phones singing her hits "Kids in America" and "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" on the tube carriage while wearing "reindeer antlers after leaving a boozy festive party". The video went viral on YouTube receiving more than two million views. [5]