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Brenda Lee on Hitting No. 1 With ‘Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,’ After Record-Breaking 65-Year Climb: ‘You Can’t Keep a Good Song Down’
"(I Want a) Rockin' Christmas" is a Christmas song written by Jimmy Manzie and Glenn A. Baker and recorded by Australian band Ol' 55. The song was released in November 1976 and peaked at number 7 on the Australian Kent Music Report , becoming the band's second top ten single.
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.
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.
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 ...
Brenda Mae Tarpley (born December 11, 1944), [2] known professionally as Brenda Lee, is an American singer.Primarily performing rockabilly, pop, country and Christmas music, she achieved her first Billboard hit aged 12 in 1957 and was given the nickname "Little Miss Dynamite".
Brenda Lee has rocked around Christmas trees for 64 years. However, that scratches the surface of why the famously under 5-foot-tall, 78-year-old legend is a Country Music and Rock 'n' Roll Hall ...
"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 ...