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A legend weighs in on a Christmas classic

DEC 15, 20249 MIN
Consider This from NPR

A legend weighs in on a Christmas classic

DEC 15, 20249 MIN

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For many of us, Christmas songs are dominating our playlists this week. There's the one you start hearing in October, Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You," Eartha Kitt's "Santa Baby," and the Christmas banger that went to number one last year, Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree."

Lee, now 80, recorded the song when she was 13. The living legend talked to NPR last year when her song — finally — hit number one. We revisit that conversation.

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