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 ...
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 ...
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 was overwhelmed when she learned her Christmas hit "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" had hit No. 1. The 78-year-old legend started crying as she expressed gratitude to her fans, the ...
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 ...