That’s it. Not too soon. It took sixty-five years, five million copies and five years of kicking in the butt to unseat Mariah Carey from first place on the Billboard Top 100, and finally reach the top: Rockin’Around The Christmas Tree is number one and Brenda Lee, at 79, triumphs. Hard to believe that in 1958, this perfect piece of rock’n’roll, with the famous Boots Randolph on sax, ace Hank Garland on guitar and the biting voice of the teenage star, recorded under the leadership of the legendary Owen Bradley (who created the “modern sound” of Nashville), went almost unnoticed. Poor sales, staggering absence on the charts. This happened little by little, the song taking over from Christmas to Christmas, until it finally settled under the mistletoe. In truth, all of the material recorded at Decca for the Holidays was of superior quality; It is difficult to understand the deaf ear of the radios. The 18 titles provided here, now celebrated, have not finished dancing around the tree.
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