{"id":217283,"date":"2024-12-13T14:49:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T12:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/?p=217283"},"modified":"2024-12-13T14:49:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T12:49:08","slug":"as-a-singer-turns-80-the-christmas-song-she-sang-as-a-teen-is-a-holiday-staple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/?p=217283","title":{"rendered":"As a singer turns 80, the Christmas song she sang as a teen is a holiday staple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC\" dir=\"ltr\">Her memories of recording \u201cRockin&#8217; Around the Christmas Tree\u201d are a little hazy. She remembers the producer placing decorations around the studio and blasting the air conditioner on a warm Nashville day to create a holiday spirit. The musicians, she recalls, nailed it in a couple of takes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\" dir=\"ltr\">That&#8217;s about it. After all, Brenda Lee was 13 years old at the time \u2014 and it was 66 years ago, in 1958.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\" dir=\"ltr\">Somewhat implausibly, her celebration of a \u201cChristmas party hop\u201d is more popular today than ever before. It&#8217;s an unusual trajectory, even accounting for the fact that music listeners during the holiday season tend to embrace songs they&#8217;ve known for years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cRockin&#8217;\u201d eclipsed Mariah Carey&#8217;s perennial favorite\u00a0\u201cAll I Want for Christmas is You\u201d\u00a0last December to top the Billboard music chart and make Lee, at age 78, the oldest woman to achieve that feat. A week later, following a birthday, she beat her own mark. Kendrick Lamar likely stands in her way of doing it again this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\" dir=\"ltr\">Another record: Sixty-five years represented the longest interval between a record being released and making it to No. 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt is a good song,\u201d Lee told The Associated Press. \u201cIt&#8217;s a song that anybody can sing. You can join in, you can sing it, everyone is happy. I sure am glad that I have it. I never thought in my life that a Christmas song would be my legacy. But I&#8217;ll take it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#8217;s a phenomenon that music journalist Holly Gleason noticed recently while stopping for coffee in Florida. The song came over the loudspeaker and the room \u2014 parents, kids, hipsters \u2014 erupted in singing and laughter. \u201cIt&#8217;s kind of an ear worm on steroids,\u201d said Gleason, whose 2017 book \u201cWoman Walk the Line: How the Women in Country Music Changed Our Lives\u201d featured Lee, among others.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-217285 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/download-1-10.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\" dir=\"ltr\">The song manages the neat trick of sounding retro yet not dated. Sweet guitar licks snake around Lee&#8217;s voice in the original recording. Boots Randolph&#8217;s saxophone solo drives it home. The party flies by quickly, the song over in two minutes, six seconds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\" dir=\"ltr\">Composer Johnny Marks already had some seasonal hits to his credit, including \u201cRudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer\u201d and \u201cA Holly Jolly Christmas.\u201d He specifically sought out Lee for his new song in 1958 and it&#8217;s easy to see why: Who better to convey its innocence and spirit than a 13-year-old girl at the forefront of the Baby Boom? Rock \u2018n\u2019 roll was in its infancy then, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\" dir=\"ltr\">In the song, Lee sings about \u201cmistletoe hung where you can see, every couple tries to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"oLzSq QrHMO GbsKS pvsTF EhJPu vPlOC zNYgW OsTsW AMhAA daRVX ISNQ sKyCY eRftA acPPc ebfE nFwaT MCnQE mEeeY SmBjI xegrY VvTxJ iulOd NIuqO zzscu lzDCc aHUBM hbvnu OjMNy eQqcx SVqKB GQmdz jaoD iShaE ONJdw vrZxD OnRTz gbbfF roDbV kRoBe oMlSS gfNzt oJhud eXZcf zhVlX \" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div data-testid=\"prism-ad-wrapper\">\n<div data-box-type=\"fitt-adbox-fitt-article-inline-box\" data-testid=\"prism-ad\">\n<div id=\"ad-slot-fitt-article-inline-box-95424\" class=\"Ad fitt-article-inline-box  ad-slot  \" data-slot-type=\"fitt-article-inline-box\" data-slot-kvps=\"pos=fitt-article-inline-box\" data-google-query-id=\"CM_dia3jpIoDFdSKgwcdT2g2TA\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">In real life, she hadn&#8217;t experienced her first kiss. \u201cLord, no,\u201d she said. \u201cNot to say I didn&#8217;t want to. I wasn&#8217;t even allowed to date until I was 16.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">The song hits plenty of holiday reference points \u2014 pumpkin pie, caroling, boughs of holly. You can overlook the part of the chorus that doesn&#8217;t make much sense: what is the \u201cnew old-fashioned way,\u201d exactly?<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">The simplicity of \u201cRockin&#8217; Around the Christmas Tree\u201d is a big part of its appeal, said Nathaniel Sloan, a musicologist at the University of Southern California and co-host of the \u201cSwitched on Pop\u201d podcast. Like many successful holiday songs, it evokes nostalgia for a happier, more peaceful time \u2014 even if that&#8217;s more imagination than reality, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">The style is more rockabilly than traditional rock or country, and Sloan believes that has much to do with why it continues to sound fresh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">\u201cThe thing that has always stunned me about the song is that you&#8217;re listening to a 13-year-old&#8217;s performance, and it doesn&#8217;t sound that way to me,\u201d he said. \u201cThere&#8217;s a depth to the vocal, even a weathered quality, that I can&#8217;t believe she was so young. It&#8217;s pitch-perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">For all of its success, the song was barely noticed upon its release in 1958. Not until two years later, when Lee&#8217;s profile was higher through hits like \u201cI&#8217;m Sorry,\u201d did it make the music charts. Its biggest boost came 40 years after that, when \u201cRockin&#8217; Around the Christmas Tree\u201d was featured in the hit movie \u201cHome Alone.\u201d The movie itself has become a holiday staple, giving more exposure to the song each year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">Her record company continues to push the song, recording a video in 2023 that included guest appearances by Tanya Tucker and Trisha Yearwood. This year it has released \u201cNoche Buena Y Navidad,\u201d a Spanish-language version using artificial intelligence to create a vocal derived from Lee&#8217;s voice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">Universal Music is holding a party for her in Nashville to celebrate her 80th birthday on Wednesday. \u201cShe&#8217;s just a force and a character,\u201d said Cindy Mabe, the company&#8217;s chairwoman and CEO. \u201cShe&#8217;s full of spunk in the same way that 13-year-old girl was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">\u201cRockin&#8217; Around the Christmas Tree\u201d made the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2019. It has been streamed more than 2.5 billion times globally and certified seven times Platinum, meaning at least seven million copies sold. Kelly Clarkson, Miley Cyrus, Meghan Trainor, Kacey Musgraves and the duo of Darlene Love\u00a0&amp;\u00a0Ronnie Spector are among the artists who&#8217;ve covered it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">Lee has sung it countless times over the years, most recently at a charity event last year. It made her concert setlist even in the heat of summer. How much money the song has earned is murky; the record company wouldn&#8217;t talk about it. The bulk of its income would likely go to Marks&#8217; estate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">\u201cIt has never been a money thing for me,\u201d Lee said. \u201cIt\u2019s been a love thing. The money is great, yes, and I\u2019m grateful. 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