AC/DC Meets Brenda Lee
AC/DC meets Brenda Lee. Here’s the holiday mashup you didn’t know you needed…until now. Take a couple of minutes and turn up the speakers…oh it’s magical.
And it’s been quite the year for Brenda Lee…she’s back at NUMBER ONE on the record charts! Think about this:
Brenda Lee released “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” 65 years ago.
- At 78, Brenda is the oldest artist to top the Hot 100 . . . replacing Louis Armstrong, who was 62 when “Hello, Dolly” hit #1 in 1964.
- “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” is only the THIRD holiday #1 ever. The first was “The Chipmunk Song” in 1958, followed by Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You”, which has made it 12 times since 2019.
- It also has the record for the longest time between a song’s release and its rise to #1. Mariah’s Christmas classic had the previous record. It was released in 1994, and took 25 years to reach the top.
- Brenda was 13 when she recorded “Rockin'”. It came out in 1958. It peaked at #14 in 1960, then spent nine weeks at #2 between December of 2019 and the 2022 holiday season. And before you freak out because she was 13 – Brenda wanted to do the song “I wanted to do it, and we did,” she told CMT, a division of Paramount, the parent company of CBS News. “It just came out every year and became what it was. The people were great. They went out, they bought it, they embraced it. Radio embraced it, and ‘Home Alone,’ of course, didn’t hurt it at all. And it’s just been a magical time in my life.”
- There are actually four holiday songs on the charts for this year: Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock” (#4) . . . Wham!’s “Last Christmas” (#5) . . . Burl Ives’ “A Holly Jolly Christmas” (#6) . . . and Andy Williams’ “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” (#10).
- And of course we can successfully say AC/DC meets Brenda Lee in 2024 (how cool is that?)
Okay, so we’ve got a very cool mashup…but is there a song from Christmas LIGHTS? Oh heck yeah.
Jim O'Brien is the Host of "Big Jim's House" Morning Show at 94.7 WCSX in Detroit. Jim spent eight years in the U.S. Naval Submarine Service, has appeared on Shark Tank (Man Medals Season 5 Ep. 2), raised over two million dollars for local charities and is responsible for Glenn Frey Drive and Bob Seger Blvd in the Motor City. Jim's relationship with Classic Rock includes considering Bob Seger, Phil Collen from Def Leppard, Wally Palmer of the Romantics and many others good friends. Jim writes about ‘80s movies, cars, weird food trends and “as seen on TikTok” content.
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