As the holiday season approaches each year, a handful of Christmas songs infiltrate the charts. One song that is consistently ...

Somewhat implausibly, Brenda Lee's celebration of a "Christmas party hop" is more popular today than ever before.

The musicians, she recalls, nailed it in a couple of takes. That's about it. After all, Brenda Lee was 13 years old at the time — and it was 66 years ago, in 1958. Somewhat implausibly ...