Single:
The original release of Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree entered the Australian singles chart* on 17 December 1960 and peaked at #53 (released in Australia two years after its American release).
*The song returned to top positions on Australia’s ARIA charts in recent years, including during Christmas 2018, 2022 and 2023.
Album:
The song’s original album release was in 1964 on Merry Christmas from Brenda Lee.
Songwriter:
Johnny Marks
Producer:
Owen Bradley
Record label of Australian release:
Festival
The music video:
New video in 2023 with original 1958 audio.
Brenda Lee celebrated her signature song Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree on the 65th Anniversary of the “holiday classic” with a new music video featuring cameos by country stars Tanya Tucker and Trisha Yearwood.
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
The making of the above video:
Wikipedia:
Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree was written by Johnny Marks and recorded by Brenda Lee in 1958; it has since been recorded by numerous other music artists.
By the song’s 50th anniversary in 2008, Lee’s original version had sold more than 15 million copies around the world with the 4th most digital downloads sold of any Christmas single.
In 2019, Lee’s recording of the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
In November 2023, Lee released a music video for the song, and in December 2023 the song topped the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, marking Lee’s third number-one single and making Lee the oldest artist ever to top the Hot 100 at age 78. The song also set the record for the longest period of time between an original release and its topping the Hot 100 (65 years), as well as the longest time between number-one singles by an artist: 63 years, 1 month and 2 weeks.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockin’_Around_the_Christmas_Tree
Lyrics:
Rockin′ around the Christmas tree
At the Christmas party hop
Mistletoe hung where you can see
Every couple tries to stop
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