Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree (1958) | 1950s MUSIC

Sixty-five years ago, on October 19, 1958, thirteen-year-old Brenda Lee stepped into her producer Owen Bradley’s studio and recorded a Christmas classic: “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree.” When it was first released in November of that year, it didn’t make the charts and initially sold only about 5,000 copies. But two years later, Decca Records re-released the Christmas song as a follow-up to Lee’s #1 pop hit with “I’m Sorry.” “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” broke into the Top Ten, and it

Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree is a globally classic Christmas Pop and Rock & Roll track with an upbeat Rockabilly/Twist rhythm, performed by the American singer Brenda Lee. The song was first recorded and released in 1958 and is one of the most popular Christmas songs of all time. Brenda Lee (born Brenda Mae Tarpley, 1944) is an American singer-songwriter, famously nicknamed "Little Miss Dynamite" for her diminutive stature but powerful, mature vocal delivery. She was a pioneer of Rock & Rol