These days Brenda Lee is best known for the perennial 1958 holiday classic "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," which she recorded when she was 12 years old. But during the '60s, she was the hottest ...

Lee was still inspiring future artists decades later. At 18, Taylor Swift penned an essay about Lee that was later featured in the 2017 book Woman Walk the Line: How the Women in Country Music Changed ...

At risk of spoiling Ken Burns’ Country Music docu-series, viewers hear a lot from Brenda Lee. That might come as a surprise if you only know her as the big-voiced child star or the singer of the ...

In contrast to the positive outlook in “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” “Christmas Will Be Just Another Day” is markedly dejected. Since you went away / My Christmas will be just another lonely ...

On this day (July 17) in 1960, Brenda Lee scored her first No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with “I’m Sorry.” The song spent three weeks at the top and performed favorably on other charts as well. More ...

Sixty-five years after its first release, Brenda Lee's classic "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" has finally hit the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart — for the first time ever. According to a ...

It’s hard to quite think of someone who was as big a veritable child star as Brenda Lee was in the late ’50s and early ’60s a “late bloomer.” Nor can “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” really be ...

Brenda Lee has had a stellar music career, beginning as a rockabilly teen, moving into pop stardom, and eventually returning to her country roots. She is among the most versatile singers ever to ...

"He was a genie in the bottle, and he let me have the cork," the legend says in the PBS documentary 'Brenda Lee: Rockin' Around' GAB Archive/Redferns; Shutterstock These days Brenda Lee is best known ...