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New Old-Fashioned No. 1: Brenda Lee’s ‘Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree’ Tops Hot 100, 65 Years After Its Release
Blllboard Magazine ^
| 12/4/2023
| Gary Trust
Posted on 12/05/2023 11:27:55 AM PST by JennysCool
Brenda Lee dances merrily to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart with her holiday classic “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree.” The song rewrites multiple records as it tops the chart for the first time – 65 years after its release. Lee, meanwhile, adds her third No. 1 – and her first since 1960.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brenda; christmas; lee; music; rockin
Think there are no more Christmas miracles? Think again!
To: JennysCool
And I wonder who’s offended by that, lol?
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posted on
12/05/2023 11:34:22 AM PST
by
OttawaFreeper
("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
To: JennysCool
To: JennysCool
Brenda Lee deserves this.
To: JennysCool
I thought it would be, “Grandma Got Ran Over by a Reindeer”...
:^D
(/s)
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posted on
12/05/2023 11:51:52 AM PST
by
Bikkuri
(I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
To: JennysCool
It couldn’t have been 65 years ago.
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posted on
12/05/2023 11:54:48 AM PST
by
ComputerGuy
(Heavily-medicated for your protection)
To: JennysCool
Ugh. This is one of the few Christmas songs I just cringe when I hear it.
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posted on
12/05/2023 12:06:37 PM PST
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: JennysCool
Recorded in 1958 when she was only 13 years old.
It is a classic.
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posted on
12/05/2023 12:06:45 PM PST
by
UnwashedPeasant
(The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
To: Bikkuri
“I thought it would be, “Grandma Got Ran Over by a Reindeer”...”
Thank goodness it wasn’t. :-)
To: JennysCool
Historic photo of children listening to Mariah Carey’s "All I want for Christmas"
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posted on
12/05/2023 1:16:48 PM PST
by
minnesota_bound
(Need more money to buy everything now)
To: lepton
“Ugh. This is one of the few Christmas songs I just cringe when I hear it.”
LOL Yep! Slightly better than preteen Michael Jackson screeching “Santa Clause is Coming to Town”.
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posted on
12/05/2023 5:17:25 PM PST
by
OSHA
(Dale Carnegie has a restraining order against me.)
To: OSHA
My cringe Carol is Little St Nick by The Beach Boys.
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posted on
12/05/2023 8:46:01 PM PST
by
OriginalChristian
(The end of the American Republic as founded, began when the first Career Politician was elected...)
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