It's that time of the year again when it's socially acceptable to play Christmas music on the radio - and Brenda Lee's Rockin' Around the Christmas tree will undoubtedly be on repeat. The legendary Christmas track was first released in 1958 but only sold 5,000 copies and sadly failed to make a dent in the charts.
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The tune is certainly an earworm, partly due to Brenda's mature vocals and sultry rasp. However, Brenda was just 13 years old during the recording - a surprising fact that has left fans in disbelief, having assumed she was much older. Sharing a clip of the festive track to social media, TikTok user Ellie wrote: 'Me remembering this is literally a 13-year-old child singing and not a 60-year-old woman.'.
'I beg your jolliest pardon?' one baffled woman commented. Another user could not quite believe it and wrote: 'You are joking.'. While a third said: 'I was today years old when I found this out.'. Fans have been left mindblown after finding out Brenda Lee's real age when she sang Christmas hit Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree (pictured on the album cover).
Speaking of the song that has now become a staple in festive playlists, Brenda said in a 2015 interview with the Tennessean: 'It was magic, and I think we all knew it' (pictured that year). As some fans of the song struggled to come to terms with what they had learned, others flooded the comments with similarly mind-boggling facts.
