Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lee was still inspiring future artists decades later. At 18, Taylor Swift penned an essay about Lee that was later featured in 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 ...

Earlier this month, Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart, 65 years after its release. We revisit her conversation with NPR's Scott Detrow. And I'm Scott ...

Brenda Lee released “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” 65 years ago. Since its release, the song has become a staple of any good holiday playlist. It’s also common to hear it playing over the ...

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 ...

In case you don't recognize that famous high note, it's Mariah Carey in a social media video she dropped on November 1 this year. In the video, she breaks out of a frozen vault wearing a skintight, ...

And I'm Scott Detrow with a Christmas story 65 years in the making. (SOUNDBITE OF BRENDA LEE SONG, "ROCKIN' AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE") DETROW: It starts when an up-and-coming rock-and-roll prodigy ...