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Vocalist Brenda Lee was one of the most popular female singers of the s and s. She began as a child star, making musical guest appearances on television variety shows. A precociously talented child, she was singing by the time she was four years old, and won first prize at a local spring festival for singing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" when she was five or six.

Lee's mother began taking her to talent auditions, and when she was seven, she became a regular on the Atlanta radio show "Starmaker's Revue. From there, Lee became acquainted with country star Red Foley, and shared his manager, Dub Albritten. She made concert appearances with Foley, and she soon came to the attention of the nationwide television variety shows; the likes of Steve Allen, Red Skelton, and Ed Sullivan invited her to sing on their programs.

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By , record companies were competing to sign her, and Lee eventually settled with the Decca label. Her first big hit was the seasonal favorite, "Rocking Around the Christmas Tree"; around the same time, she also scored a minor success with "One Step at a Time. She reminisced for a Life magazine reporter about her shyness around superstar Elvis Presley, whom she met when both sang for the Grand Ole Opry in "I don't know what it was.

My heart just started pounding. No other performer did that to me. More hits followed Lee's early efforts--her first non-holiday hit was 's humorous "Sweet Nothin's," sung from the point of view of a teenage girl on a porch swing with her boyfriend. In the same year, she also had a two-sided hit with the slow ballad of heartbreak "I'm Sorry," which was backed with the up-tempo "That's All You Gotta Do.

But then Lee's career began to slow down, like that of many other American musicians facing the onslaught of the "British Invasion" of the mid-to-late s. Her last pop hits were "Too Many Rivers" and "Coming on Strong," in and , respectively, though she did receive a Grammy nomination in for her recording of "Johnny One Time.