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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you’re “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” this holiday season to Brenda Lee’s classic song that hit the No. 1 spot on ...

Popular singer Brenda Lee, known as "Little Miss Dynamite," stood 4 foot 11 inches tall — but was 5 foot 6 if you counted her beehive hairdo, Topekan Marshall Barber jokingly recalls. Lee made history ...

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" ...

"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 ...

Brenda Lee performs "Rockin' Around the Christmas" for "Christmas at the Opry" set to air December 7th on NBC. It’s been a bit of a media whirlwind for Brenda Lee in recent weeks, as she marks the 65 ...

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 singer discusses her career and her signature hit in the new PBS documentary 'Brenda Lee: Rockin' Around' Last Christmas Brenda Lee set several important chart milestones when her 1958 holiday ...

Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" has topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the first time since it was released in 1958. The holiday classic outperformed familiar chart-topper Mariah ...

Brenda Lee attends the CMA Awards at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on Nov. 8. Her holiday hit "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" has reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, 65 years after its debut. ...