65 Years After Release, A Rockin' Christmas Classic Hits Number One
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🗓️ 8 December 2023
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NPR's Scott Detrow spoke with the 78-year-old about her long career and how she feels now that her iconic holiday tune is finally at the top of the charts.
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| 0:00.0 | In case you don't recognize that famous high note, it's Mariah Carey |
| 0:13.7 | in a social media video she dropped on November 1st this year. |
| 0:17.4 | In the video, she breaks out of a frozen vault wearing a skin tight red sand |
| 0:21.5 | outfit to let us know it's become |
| 0:35.9 | the Christmas song and it's climbed to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 every |
| 0:40.9 | single year since 2019. But there's another holiday classic that's been |
| 0:47.2 | nipping at Mariah's heels for years. |
| 0:51.3 | Rockin' around the Christmas tree at the Christmas The Christmas Party The Christmas party hop |
| 0:57.0 | Mistletoe hung where you can see every couple tries to stop. |
| 1:04.4 | Brenda Lee's 1958 hit Rockin' Around of the Christmas tree. |
| 1:08.0 | This year her record label went all in to finally push the song to number one. |
| 1:13.0 | There was a new music video with a cameo from Tricia Yearwood and Tanya Tucker, |
| 1:17.0 | and Lee got a Tik-Tock account at 78 years old. |
| 1:21.0 | Hello, Brendan Mader, Grandmother is Eve. |
| 1:25.4 | It worked. |
| 1:26.4 | This week, 65 years after its release, |
| 1:30.0 | rocking around the Christmas Street |
| 1:31.5 | top the Billboard Hot 100 to the very first time. Coming up, Brenda Lee on her new old-fashioned hit, |
| 1:48.0 | coming up, Brenda Lee on her new old-fashioned hit |
| 1:51.0 | and a remarkable career. It's consider this from NPR. I'm Scott Dettro. It's Friday, December 8th. |
| 1:57.0 | Support for this podcast and the following message come from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. The problem with cancer research |
| 2:03.0 | with cancer research foundation. |
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