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