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- aflem
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"Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" Hits Billboard #1 65 Yrs. Later!
This is an incredible achievement that sets a literal record.
New Old-Fashioned No. 1: Brenda Lee’s ‘Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree’ Tops Hot 100, 65 Years After Its Release
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Re: "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" Hits Billboard #1 65 Yrs. Later!
Joel Whitburn nicely described the chart history of Christmas hits in his book "Christmas in the Charts".
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Re: "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" Hits Billboard #1 65 Yrs. Later!
I'd still like to find the Canadian 78 rpm of this record. It's quite rare.
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Re: "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" Hits Billboard #1 65 Yrs. Later!
Brenda Lee comments on her achievement 65 years in the making, and remembers the day the song was recorded.
“The producer cut the air way down in the studio,” Lee recalled. “He had a big Christmas tree and everyone was there — the Anita Kerr Singers and the A-team [of revered Nashville studio musicians], as we called them. It was like a little touch of magic kind of sprinkled in, and it turned out to be magic. It really did.”
And all these years later, it still is.
Brenda Lee Talks ‘Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree’ Finally Topping Hot 100 & ‘Home Alone’ Pushing It ‘Over That Hill’
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