Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” is already festive and fun. However, combining the tune’s jingle with AC/DC’s “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap” makes for a fun what-if. Bill McClintock, a ...

A Spanish version of Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" created with artificial intelligence-- and with Lee's approval -- is here just in time for the holiday season. The new version, ...

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 ...

Brenda Lee’s festive Christmas song, “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” has earned the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 charts for the first time in 65 years. According to Billboard.com, Lee ...

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 ...

65 years after it was released, Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree has topped the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time. NPR's Scott Detrow talks about it with singer Brenda Lee. In case you don't ...