“Rockin Around the Christmas Tree”..Brenda Lee (Brenda Mae Tarpley, born Dec 11, 1944) a country singer, nickname “Little Miss Dynamite” in 1957 after recording the song Dynamite (she is tiny-short, but has a Loud Dynamite Voice)). .. Her break into big time show business came in February 1955, when she turned down $30 to appear on a Swainsboro radio station in order to see Red Foley and a touring promotional unit of his ABC-TV program Ozark Jubilee in Augusta. An Augusta DJ persuaded Foley to hear her sing before the show. Foley was as transfixed as everyone else who heard the huge voice coming from the tiny girl and immediately agreed to let her perform Jambalaya on stage that night, unrehearsed. Foley later recounted the moments following her introduction: .. “ I still get cold chills thinking about the first time I heard that voice. One foot started patting rhythm as though she was stomping out a prairie fire, but not another muscle in that little body even a much as twitched. And when she did that trick of breaking her voice, it jarred me out of my trance enough to realize I’d forgotten to get off the stage. There I stood, after26 years of supposedly learning how to conduct myself in front of an audience, with my mouth open two miles wide and glassy stare in my eyes “. ... She is a member of the Rock and Roll, Country Music and Rockabilly Halls of Fame. She is also a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. Brenda currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee. https://youtube/watch?v=fDQyU0MuLTM OR https://youtube/watch?v=4vn_I0-3WOk OR https://youtube/watch?v=jYNSeC0XOWU&feature=related
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