Brenda Lee’s classic holiday song “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” has been a popular addition to radio stations and Christmas party playlists for years. Now, 65 years after its debut, Lee’s ...

"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 ...

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, ...

Brenda Lee has taken the top spot on the Billboard chart two weeks in a row with her 1958 hit "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree." (Jason Kempin/Getty Images for the Country Music Hall of Fame and ...

When Salon connects with Brenda Lee, by sheer coincidence it’s mere hours after the music legend learned some incredible news: Her festive 1958 single “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” had just ...

Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” just topped the charts 65 years after its initial release. Debuting in 1958, with a 13-year-old Lee belting the holiday classic, the song has finally ...

Brenda Lee was just 13 with a voice beyond her years when she recorded “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” the 1958 Rockabilly hit that’s become standard on any holiday playlist worth its salt. When ...

Carrie Underwood paid tribute to Brenda Lee during a recent date of her Reflection residency in Las Vegas. The singer shared 30 seconds of her performance of Lee's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" ...

The country music icon will help ring in the holiday season at the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting.

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 ...