For decades, Atlanta native Brenda Lee thought her 1960 No. 1 ballad “I’m Sorry” would be her signature song well into her twilight years. But that’s not how it played out thanks to the magic of ...

It’s a good thing Brenda Lee was born when she was. If Brenda Mae Tarpley had been a teenager now, rather than in 1960, she probably would’ve become a contestant on America’s Got Talent, and that ...

Brenda Lee was just 13 when she showed up at a Nashville recording studio that was decked out in Christmas cheer — well before the holiday season — to record “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” a ...

Popular singer Brenda Lee, known as "Little Miss Dynamite," stood 4 foot 11 inches tall — but was 5 foot 6 if you counted her beehive hairdo, Topekan Marshall Barber jokingly recalls. Lee made history ...

At risk of spoiling Ken Burns’ Country Music docu-series, viewers hear a lot from Brenda Lee. That might come as a surprise if you only know her as the big-voiced child star or the singer of the ...

Sixty-plus years after hitting No. 1 with her last chart-topper "I'm Sorry" in 1960, 78-year-old Brenda Lee has again topped Billboard's Hot 100 chart via her 1958-released holiday classic "Rockin' ...

The year 1960 was full of music that touched hearts and made people smile. It was a time when rock ‘n’ roll and sweet love songs were everywhere. Big stars like Elvis Presley, Brenda Lee, and Roy ...

Mariah Carey may have escaped from the diamond-coated, microphone-shaped hyperbaric chamber she resides in 11 months out of the year to take her rightful place atop her Yuletide Throne, but there's a ...

LOS ANGELES — Brenda Lee is back on top of the Billboard Hot 100. Lee's "Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree" is the No. 1 song in the country for the first time — 65 years after its 1958 release.

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. It’s a good ...

Brenda Lee landed her third No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree.” This is more than a new chart-topper for Lee. She also broke multiple chart records with her latest ...