{"id":830,"date":"2023-11-22T22:48:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T22:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=830"},"modified":"2023-11-22T22:54:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T22:54:51","slug":"little-miss-dynamite-blew-up-the-charts-when-she-was-only-12-the-story-of-brenda-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=830","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Little Miss Dynamite\u2019 blew up the charts when she was only 12: The story of Brenda Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Brenda Lee\u2019s name may not be as recognizable as some of the other music stars from the 1960s but when you think of Christmas, you\u2019ll know her song, and start humming her catchy tune, \u201cRockin\u2019 Around the Christmas Tree.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>When Lee, now 78, first hit the stage, she wasn\u2019t old enough to drive but her powerful vocals steered her \u201cunprecedented international popularity\u201d as the most successful female artist of the 1960s.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lee, whose voice defied her diminutive stature at only 4 foot 9, became a fan favorite when she was only 12.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Brenda May Tarpley, born in 1944, got her start in the late 1940s, became huge in the 1950s, and over her career\u2013that started before she left elementary school\u2013she topped the charts 55 times, earning the title as the most successful female recording artist of the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>When Lee was only eight (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grunge.com\/971641\/the-untold-truth-of-brenda-lee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to<\/a>\u00a0Rolling Stone), her father, a construction worker, was killed at work and little Brenda\u2013who then changed her last name to Lee\u2013became the family\u2019s primary provider.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-131074\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn-main.newsner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/06\/26114001\/GettyImages-85231269.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo of Brenda LEE (Photo by GAB Archive\/Redferns)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Taking care of her younger brother, big sister, and mother\u2013a cotton mill worker\u2013was not a duty, but something she wanted to do.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grunge.com\/971641\/the-untold-truth-of-brenda-lee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">She said<\/a>\u00a0that she was thrilled when she made her first $20, so she could help her family: \u201cEven at that young age, I saw that helped our life,\u201d Lee said, adding \u201cIt put some food on the table. It helped, and I loved it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Atlanta-born chanteuse, called a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.georgiaencyclopedia.org\/articles\/arts-culture\/brenda-lee-b-1944\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pioneer<\/a>\u00a0of early rock and roll,\u201d by the Georgia Encyclopedia, achieved \u201cunprecedented international popularity in the 1960s.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brenda Lee\u2019s name may not be as recognizable as some of the other music stars from the 1960s but when you think of Christmas, you\u2019ll know her song, and start humming her catchy tune, \u201cRockin\u2019 Around the Christmas Tree.\u201d When Lee, now 78, first hit the stage, she wasn\u2019t old enough to drive but her&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=830\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;\u2018Little Miss Dynamite\u2019 blew up the charts when she was only 12: The story of Brenda Lee&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}