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.

One song that is consistently at the top of the list is “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” sung by Brenda Lee ... its release in 1958. Lee was 13 years old when she recorded the song.

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 ...