"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"— sung by Brenda Lee, and first released 65 years ago, during the Eisenhower administration — has gone to No. 1 on the singles chart, for the first time ever.

NEW YORK — Her memories of recording “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” are a little hazy ... last December to top the Billboard music chart and make Lee, at age 78, the oldest woman ...

Brenda Lee’s holiday classic “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree” finally reached the summit of the Billboard Hot 100 chart this week, smashing plenty of records for the 78-year-old singer ...

“Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” beat out Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” as the first holiday song to top Billboard’s Hot 100 chart this season. By Ben Sisario ...

A scorching summer and inflation put the squeeze on Arkansas' Christmas tree crop this year, but demand for locally-grown trees has remained high, farmers said. "We really had an insurgence of ...