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How Brenda Lee Made ‘Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree’: A Christmas Classic Recorded by a Teenager
Every December, without fail, a bright, swinging voice bursts from radios, shops, and car stereos, inviting everyone to rock around the Christmas tree. It is Brenda Lee, and she was thirteen years old when she recorded it. “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” is now one of the most beloved Christmas songs in the world, a…
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Brenda Lee: The Heart Behind the Hits
When Brenda Lee sings about heartbreak, you believe her, even though she was often still a teenager when she recorded the song. That believability is the heart of her story. Behind the hits was a girl who grew up too fast, who helped support her family with her voice, who married young and stayed married,…
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The Untold Story of Brenda Lee: The Little Miss Dynamite Who Sang Like a Grown Woman
She was barely four feet nine inches tall, she was still a child when she first sang on the radio, and yet when Brenda Lee opened her mouth, audiences heard a voice that seemed to belong to a grown woman who had lived a dozen lives. They called her Little Miss Dynamite, and the nickname…