This week's No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 is one you've probably heard before — over and over again. For decades. "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"— sung by Brenda Lee, and first released 65 ...

The post Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree” Hits No. 1 For the First Time appeared first on Consequence. Brenda Lee may have received the greatest gift of the holiday season: for the ...

"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" was written by Johnny Marks — who, as part of a long, great tradition of American Christmas songwriters, was himself actually Jewish. (Marks also wrote "Rudolph the ...

It only took 65 years of twirling around that evergreen, but Brenda Lee’s holiday classic “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” has finally hit No. 1. As a senior citizen among songs, the 1958 Christmas ...

This Christmas, Lee, now 80, is celebrating her perennial holiday hit with a new PBS American Masters documentary, Brenda Lee: Still Rockin'. The 51-minute special includes appearances by Keith Urban, ...

Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” just topped the charts 65 years after its initial release. Debuting in 1958, with a 13-year-old Lee belting the holiday classic, the song has finally ...

This week's No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 is one you've probably heard before — over and over again. For decades. "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"— sung by Brenda Lee, and first released 65 ...

You will get a sentimental feeling when you hear this classic song is bringing overdue acknowledgment to a beloved artist. Sixty five years after it first released, "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" ...

The music icon (and newly crowned Queen of Christmas!) also opens up about how she's spending her milestone 80th birthday Alexa King Stone Last year, music icon Brenda Lee was crowned the honorary ...

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The music legend shares memories of recording her Christmas classic (65 years ago!) and opens up about early friendships with the Beatles and Elvis Presley Alexa King Stone Brenda Lee kicked off the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Expect to hear plenty of Brenda Lee's classic holiday song, "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," this year across Tennessee. Lawmakers made it the state's official holiday song.