Monday, December 16, 2024

An Oldie and Goodie

(Album cover from Wikipedia)
San Francisco's most-streamed Christmas tune is a 1958 number:
This year, a new star has risen to the top of San Francisco’s holiday music charts.

Well, not exactly new. “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” the famed rockabilly tune sung by a then-13-year-old Brenda Lee, was recorded 66 years ago. Since then, Lee’s song has enjoyed a slow and steady climb up the charts, and this time around even beaten Mariah Carey’s fabled “All I Want for Christmas Is You” to become the most-streamed holiday song in San Francisco heading into December, and the city’s 10th most-streamed track overall.
Below is 80-year-old Brenda Lee reprising her Eisenhower-era hit.

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