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A Rock-a-Billy Journey

As thoroughly documented, by the time Brenda Lee “broke” onto the pop charts in a big way , she was already a seasoned performer with nearly a decade of performing experience, such as that gained on the Ozark Jubilee. Red Foley was mesmerized by the pint-sized singer from Georgia and secured a Decca recording contract for her.

Ozark Jubilee

Before there was a Muscle Shoals Sound Rhythm Section, or a Funk Brothers, or the Memphis Group (MG’s), there was the Nashville “A-Team”. The A-Team was a conglomerate of very gifted musicians who were headed up by legendary Nashville producer Owen Bradley. Owen was truly a pioneer visionary who led Nashville and country music in a dramatic new direction in the mid 1954 when he opened up the “Quonset Hut” studio on what would one day evolve into “Music Row” when RCA Victor joined in with other labels, building their own impressive studios in the Nashville downtown area.

The “Quonset Hut” Birthplace of the Nashville Sound

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Brenda Lee

American singer (born 1944)

For the member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, see Brenda Lee (politician). For the fictional character, see Brenda Lee (Doctors).

Musical artist

Brenda Mae Tarpley (born December 11, 1944),^[2] known professionally as Brenda Lee, is an American singer. Primarily performing rockabilly, pop, country and Christmas music, she achieved her first Billboard hit aged 12 in 1957 and was given the nickname "Little Miss Dynamite". Some of Lee's most successful songs include "Sweet Nothin's", "I'm Sorry", "I Want to Be Wanted", "Speak to Me Pretty", "All Alone Am I" and "Losing You". Her festive song "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree", recorded in 1958, topped the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 2023, making Lee the oldest artist ever to top the chart and breaking several chart records.^[3]

Having sold over 100 million records globally, Lee is one of the most successful American artists of the 20th century. Lee was the second woman ever to top the Billboard Hot 100 (after Connie Francis) when her song “I’m Sor

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Brenda Lee

Singer Brenda Lee, known as “Little Miss Dynamite,” has enjoyed success as a child performer, teen idol, easy-listening chanteuse, and country music queen, sustained through each of these career transformations by a powerful voice that belies her diminutive stature (four feet, nine inches tall). An important pioneer of early rock and roll, she achieved unprecedented international popularity during the 1960s.

Brenda Lee was born Brenda Mae Tarpley on December 11, 1944, in the charity ward of Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta and was raised in Conyers and Lithonia. She was the second of four children born to Annie Grayce Yarbrough and Ruben Lindsey Tarpley. After winning a talent show at the age of five, she began to appear regularly on local Atlanta radio and television. In the early 1950s Lee performed with fellow local singing star Wyche Fowler, who later became a prominent U.S. congressman from Georgia.

When Lee was nine, her father died following a construction accident, and she became the family’s primary breadwinner. In 1955 the family mov