Singer Brenda Lee on her enduring Christmas classic

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🗓️ 24 December 2025

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Singer Brenda Lee reflects on the enduring power of her Christmas classic "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree."

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0:00.0	It is almost Christmas, and if you're celebrating, you almost certainly have music playing in the background.
0:10.8	Good chance that Mariah Carey's all I want for Christmas is you is on your playlist.
0:19.2	It is arguably one of the most iconic Christmas songs of recent decades.
0:24.5	There are other gems out there.
0:25.8	Earth Kids, 1953, Santa Baby.
0:28.5	Santa Baby, just slip a sable under the tree for me.
0:36.7	Been an awful good girl
0:39.3	Santa baby
0:41.3	I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus
0:43.3	By the Jackson 5
0:44.3	Oh what a rapid
0:47.3	would have been
0:49.3	If any had only seen
0:52.3	Mommy kissing Santa Claus Last night Maybe more modern ones, true love by Ariana Grande.
1:02.3	Or... Or representing a true
1:18.0	You are my true life
1:19.5	Singing O Holy Night
1:19.6	Oh night
1:21.5	When Christ was born
1:27.6	Oh, now
1:30.8	There is one Christmas hit, though, that has been around for decades.
1:38.3	Rocking around, the Christmas tree at the Christmas party hop.
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