"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 ...

Mariah Carey may have a bit of competition for that queen of Christmas crown, and her name is Brenda Lee. Lee's holiday staple "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" hit the top of the Billboard Hot 100 ...

Last year, music icon Brenda Lee was crowned the honorary Queen of Christmas when her 1958 classic “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” took the top spot on the Billboard chart — a place historically ...

It’s a yuletide tradition on Capitol Hill. An annual custom of rockin’ around a congressional Christmas tree, festooned with hundreds of legislative ornaments, Advent appropriations and mistletoe ...

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. (WTVF) — Inside the Tennessee State Capitol, you'll find portraits and busts of men that have stood tall in Tennessee history. On Monday, they honored a woman — who may not exactly ...

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 record-breaking holiday classic “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” is at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for the second week. Lee broke several chart records when the song went to No. 1 ...

Brenda Lee recorded “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree,” written by Johnny Marx, when she was 12 years old. The song didn’t have much success until it was released in Europe, and it received an even ...

The latest iteration of Billboard's Top Movie Songs chart, powered by Tunefind (a Songtradr company), for November 2024 gets into the holiday spirit thanks to the Christmas flick Red One, with Brenda ...

In the beloved 1990 movie ‘Home Alone,” young Kevin McCallister (portrayed by Macaulay Culkin) is accidentally left behind when his family goes on vacation. He relishes this newfound freedom until ...

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