December 11th- 11 days into our homage to some of the greatest Christmas songs ever. Today I thought I would do another tune written by Johnny Marks (who also wrote some of the songs in Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer): Rockin Around The Christmas Tree. Originally performed in 1958 by Brenda Lee, she was actually 13 years old when she first recorded the song (according to Wikipedia). Its probably best known to me from the use of the song in the original Home Alone when Macaulay Culkin had it on while convincing the nosy robbers Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern that the house was actually full of people one night. Often duplicated but nothing beats the original. Hope all of your holiday parties will be festive and bright!
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 12:41:12 +0000