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dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rock_and_roll" title="Rock and roll">Rock and roll</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Pop_music" title="Pop music">pop</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Rockabilly" title="Rockabilly">rockabilly</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Country_music" title="Country music">country</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Gospel_music" title="Gospel music">gospel</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role">Singer</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Years active</span></th><td class="infobox-data">1951–present<sup id="cite_ref-Bernstein_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bernstein-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Labels</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Decca_Records" title="Decca Records">Decca</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/MCA_Records" title="MCA Records">MCA</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Warner_Bros._Records" class="mw-redirect" title="Warner Bros. Records">Warner Bros.</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Telstar_Records" title="Telstar Records">Telstar</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Spouse</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Ronnie Shacklett</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip" title="April 24, 1963">1963</span>)<wbr /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Musical artist</div> <p><b>Brenda Mae Tarpley</b> (born December 11, 1944),<sup id="cite_ref-Dynamite_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dynamite-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> known professionally as <b>Brenda Lee</b>, is an American singer. Primarily performing <a href="/wiki/Rockabilly" title="Rockabilly">rockabilly</a>, pop, country and <a href="/wiki/Christmas_music" title="Christmas music">Christmas music</a>, she achieved her first <i><a href="/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" title="Billboard (magazine)">Billboard</a></i> hit aged 12 in 1957 and was given the nickname "Little Miss Dynamite". Some of Lee's most successful songs include "<a href="/wiki/Sweet_Nothin%27s" title="Sweet Nothin's">Sweet Nothin's</a>", "<a href="/wiki/I%27m_Sorry_(Brenda_Lee_song)" title="I'm Sorry (Brenda Lee song)">I'm Sorry</a>", "<a href="/wiki/I_Want_to_Be_Wanted" title="I Want to Be Wanted">I Want to Be Wanted</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Speak_to_Me_Pretty" title="Speak to Me Pretty">Speak to Me Pretty</a>", "<a href="/wiki/All_Alone_Am_I" title="All Alone Am I">All Alone Am I</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Losing_You_(Brenda_Lee_song)" title="Losing You (Brenda Lee song)">Losing You</a>". Her festive song "<a href="/wiki/Rockin%27_Around_the_Christmas_Tree" title="Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree">Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree</a>", recorded in 1958, topped the U.S. <a href="/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" title="Billboard Hot 100"><i>Billboard</i> Hot 100</a> in 2023, making Lee the oldest artist ever to top the chart and breaking several chart records.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Having sold over 100 million records globally, Lee is one of the most successful American artists of the 20th century. Lee was the second woman ever to top the Billboard Hot 100 (after <a href="/wiki/Connie_Francis" title="Connie Francis">Connie Francis</a>) when her song “I’m Sorry” reached #1 in 1960. Her U.S. success in the 1960s earned her recognition as <i><a href="/wiki/Billboard_charts" title="Billboard charts">Billboard</a></i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'s</span> Top Female Artist of the Decade and one of the four artists who charted the most singles, behind <a href="/wiki/Elvis_Presley" title="Elvis Presley">Elvis Presley</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles">the Beatles</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ray_Charles" title="Ray Charles">Ray Charles</a>. Her accolades include a <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Grammy Award">Grammy Award</a>, four <a href="/wiki/Music_Business_Association" title="Music Business Association">NARM Awards</a>, three <a href="/wiki/NME_Awards" title="NME Awards"><i>NME</i> Awards</a> and five <a href="/wiki/Edison_Awards" title="Edison Awards">Edison Awards</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Rockabilly_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rockabilly-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She is the first woman to be inducted into both the <a href="/wiki/Country_Music_Hall_of_Fame_and_Museum" title="Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum">Country Music Hall of Fame</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame" title="Rock and Roll Hall of Fame">Rock & Roll Hall of Fame</a>. In 2023, she was named by <i><a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a></i> as one of the greatest singers of all time.<sup id="cite_ref-Rolling-Stone_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rolling-Stone-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brenda_Lee&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Brenda Mae Tarpley was born on December 11, 1944<sup id="cite_ref-Dynamite_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dynamite-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in the charity ward of <a href="/wiki/Grady_Hospital" class="mw-redirect" title="Grady Hospital">Grady Hospital</a> in <a href="/wiki/Atlanta" title="Atlanta">Atlanta</a>, <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(U.S._state)" title="Georgia (U.S. state)">Georgia</a> to parents Annie Grayce (née Yarbrough; 1921–2006) and Ruben Lindsey Tarpley (1909–1953).<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She weighed only 4 pounds 11 ounces at birth. Lee attended primary schools wherever her father found work, mainly between Atlanta and <a href="/wiki/Augusta,_Georgia" title="Augusta, Georgia">Augusta</a>. Her family was poor. Growing up, she shared a bed with her brother and sister in a series of three-room houses without running water. Life centered on her parents finding work, their family and the <a href="/wiki/Baptists" title="Baptists">Baptist church</a>, where she began singing solos every Sunday.<sup id="cite_ref-Dynamite_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dynamite-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-IMDB_TV_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IMDB_TV-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lee's father was a farmer's son in Georgia's red-clay belt.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Standing 5 ft 7 in (170 cm), he was an excellent left-handed pitcher and played baseball while serving for 11 years in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">United States Army</a>. Her mother came from a <a href="/wiki/Working_class" title="Working class">working class</a> family in <a href="/wiki/Greene_County,_Georgia" title="Greene County, Georgia">Greene County</a>, Georgia.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Though her family did not have indoor plumbing until after her father's death, they had a battery-powered table radio that fascinated Brenda as a baby.<sup id="cite_ref-Dynamite_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dynamite-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Both her mother and sister remembered taking her repeatedly to a local candy store before she turned three. One of them would stand her on the counter and she would earn candy or coins for singing.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. 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At age five, she won first place at her school's talent show contest, where she sang "<a href="/wiki/Take_Me_Out_to_the_Ball_Game" title="Take Me Out to the Ball Game">Take Me Out to the Ball Game</a>". Her performance received positive reviews, leading her to make regular appearances on local radio and television shows.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Her father died in 1953 (when she was 8 years old) in a construction accident and by the time she turned ten, she was the primary breadwinner of her family by singing at events and on local radio and television shows.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During that time, she appeared regularly on the country music show <i>TV Ranch</i> on <a href="/wiki/WAGA-TV" title="WAGA-TV">WAGA-TV</a> in Atlanta but she was so short, the host would lower a stand microphone as low as it would go and stand her up on a wooden crate to reach it. In 1955, Grayce Tarpley married Buell "Jay" Rainwater, who moved the family to <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati,_Ohio" class="mw-redirect" title="Cincinnati, Ohio">Cincinnati</a>, Ohio, where he worked at the <a href="/wiki/Jimmie_Skinner" title="Jimmie Skinner">Jimmie Skinner</a> Music Center. Lee performed with Skinner at the record store on two Saturday programs broadcast over Newport, Kentucky, radio station <a href="/wiki/WNOP_(AM)" title="WNOP (AM)">WNOP</a>. The family soon returned to Georgia but this time to <a href="/wiki/Augusta,_Georgia" title="Augusta, Georgia">Augusta</a> and Lee appeared on the show <i>The Peach Blossom Special</i> on <a href="/wiki/WJAT" title="WJAT">WJAT-AM</a> in <a href="/wiki/Swainsboro,_Georgia" title="Swainsboro, Georgia">Swainsboro</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="National_exposure_and_stardom">National exposure and stardom</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brenda_Lee&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: National exposure and stardom"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Lee's breakthrough came in February 1955, when she turned down $30 ($334 in 2022 value<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) to appear on a Swainsboro radio station in order to see <a href="/wiki/Red_Foley" title="Red Foley">Red Foley</a> and a touring promotional unit of his ABC-TV program <i><a href="/wiki/Ozark_Jubilee" title="Ozark Jubilee">Ozark Jubilee</a></i> in Augusta. An Augusta <a href="/wiki/Disc_jockey" title="Disc jockey">disc jockey</a> persuaded Foley to hear her sing before the show. Foley did and agreed to let her perform "<a href="/wiki/Jambalaya_(On_the_Bayou)" title="Jambalaya (On the Bayou)">Jambalaya</a>" on stage that night, unrehearsed. Foley later recounted the moments following her introduction: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>I still get cold chills thinking about the first time I heard that voice. One foot started patting rhythm as though she was stomping out a prairie fire but not another muscle in that little body even as much as twitched. And when she did that trick of breaking her voice, it jarred me out of my trance enough to realize I'd forgotten to get off the stage. There I stood, after 26 years of supposedly learning how to conduct myself in front of an audience, with my mouth open two miles wide and a glassy stare in my eyes.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>On March 31, 1955, the 10-year-old made her network debut on <i>Ozark Jubilee</i> in <a href="/wiki/Springfield,_Missouri" title="Springfield, Missouri">Springfield, Missouri</a>. Although her five-year contract with the show was broken by a 1957 lawsuit brought by her mother and her manager,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> she nevertheless made regular appearances on the program throughout its run. </p><p>Less than two months later, on July 30, 1956, <a href="/wiki/Decca_Records" title="Decca Records">Decca Records</a> offered her a contract, and her first record was "Jambalaya", backed with "Bigelow 6-200". Lee's second single featured two novelty Christmas tunes: "I'm Gonna Lasso Santa Claus", and "Christy Christmas". Though she turned 12 on December 11, 1956, both of the first two Decca singles credited her as "Little Brenda Lee (9 Years Old)".<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Neither of the 1956 releases charted, but her first issue in 1957, "<a href="/wiki/One_Step_at_a_Time_(Brenda_Lee_song)" title="One Step at a Time (Brenda Lee song)">One Step at a Time</a>", written by Hugh Ashley, became a hit in both the pop and country fields. Her next hit, "Dynamite", coming out of a 4-foot 9-inch frame, led to her lifelong nickname, Little Miss Dynamite.<sup id="cite_ref-Dynamite_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dynamite-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lee first attracted attention performing in country music venues and shows; however, her label and management felt it best to market her exclusively as a pop artist, the result being that none of her best-known recordings from the 1960s were released to country radio, and despite her country sound, with top Nashville session people, she did not have another country hit until 1969 with "<a href="/wiki/Johnny_One_Time" title="Johnny One Time">Johnny One Time</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Biggest_successes:_1958–1966"><span id="Biggest_successes:_1958.E2.80.931966"></span>Biggest successes: 1958–1966</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brenda_Lee&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Biggest successes: 1958–1966"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Brenda_Lee_-_Cash_Box_1960.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Brenda_Lee_-_Cash_Box_1960.jpg/220px-Brenda_Lee_-_Cash_Box_1960.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="226" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Brenda_Lee_-_Cash_Box_1960.jpg/330px-Brenda_Lee_-_Cash_Box_1960.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Brenda_Lee_-_Cash_Box_1960.jpg/440px-Brenda_Lee_-_Cash_Box_1960.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2896" data-file-height="2976" /></a><figcaption>Lee presented with a <a href="/wiki/Music_recording_sales_certification" class="mw-redirect" title="Music recording sales certification">Gold record</a> for "I'm Sorry", cover of <i><a href="/wiki/Cashbox_(magazine)" title="Cashbox (magazine)">Cash Box</a></i>, August 27, 1960</figcaption></figure> <p>Lee achieved her biggest success on the <a href="/wiki/Record_chart" title="Record chart">pop charts</a> in the late 1950s through the mid-1960s with <a href="/wiki/Rockabilly" title="Rockabilly">rockabilly</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rock_and_roll" title="Rock and roll">rock and roll</a>-styled songs.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her biggest hits included "Jambalaya", "<a href="/wiki/Sweet_Nothin%27s" title="Sweet Nothin's">Sweet Nothin's</a>" (No. 4, written by country musician <a href="/wiki/Ronnie_Self" title="Ronnie Self">Ronnie Self</a>), "I Want to Be Wanted" (No. 1), "<a href="/wiki/All_Alone_Am_I" title="All Alone Am I">All Alone Am I</a>" (No. 3) and "<a href="/wiki/Fool_No._1" title="Fool No. 1">Fool #1</a>" (No. 3). She had more hits with the more pop-based songs "<a href="/wiki/That%27s_All_You_Gotta_Do" title="That's All You Gotta Do">That's All You Gotta Do</a>" (No. 6), "<a href="/wiki/Emotions_(Brenda_Lee_song)" title="Emotions (Brenda Lee song)">Emotions</a>" (No. 7), "<a href="/wiki/You_Can_Depend_on_Me_(Louis_Armstrong_song)" title="You Can Depend on Me (Louis Armstrong song)">You Can Depend on Me</a>" (No. 6), "<a href="/wiki/Dum_Dum_(Brenda_Lee_song)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dum Dum (Brenda Lee song)">Dum Dum</a>" (No. 4), 1962's "<a href="/wiki/Break_It_to_Me_Gently" title="Break It to Me Gently">Break It to Me Gently</a>" (No. 2), "<a href="/wiki/Everybody_Loves_Me_But_You" title="Everybody Loves Me But You">Everybody Loves Me But You</a>" (No. 6), and "<a href="/wiki/As_Usual" title="As Usual">As Usual</a>" (No. 12). Lee's total of nine consecutive top 10 <i>Billboard</i> Hot 100 hits from "That's All You Gotta Do" in 1960 through "All Alone Am I" in 1962 set a record for a female solo artist that was not equaled until 1986 by <a href="/wiki/Madonna_(entertainer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Madonna (entertainer)">Madonna</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In 1958, when Lee was 13, producer <a href="/wiki/Owen_Bradley" title="Owen Bradley">Owen Bradley</a> asked her to record a new song by <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Marks" title="Johnny Marks">Johnny Marks</a>, who had had success writing Christmas tunes for country singers, most notably "<a href="/wiki/Rudolph_the_Red-Nosed_Reindeer_(song)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (song)">Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer</a>" (<a href="/wiki/Gene_Autry" title="Gene Autry">Gene Autry</a>) and "<a href="/wiki/A_Holly_Jolly_Christmas" title="A Holly Jolly Christmas">A Holly Jolly Christmas</a>" (<a href="/wiki/Burl_Ives" title="Burl Ives">Burl Ives</a>). Lee recorded the song "<a href="/wiki/Rockin%27_Around_the_Christmas_Tree" title="Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree">Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree</a>" in July with a prominent twanging guitar part by <a href="/wiki/Hank_Garland" title="Hank Garland">Hank Garland</a> and raucous sax soloing by Nashville icon <a href="/wiki/Boots_Randolph" title="Boots Randolph">Boots Randolph</a>. Decca released it as a single that November, but it sold only 5,000 copies, and did not do much better when it was released again in 1959.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Book_of_Golden_Discs_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Book_of_Golden_Discs-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, over subsequent years, it eventually sold more than five million copies. Since 2017, the song has appeared at the end of each year on the <i>Billboard</i> Hot 100, having spent (as of December 9, 2023) 54 weeks on the Hot 100, peaking at number 1 in 2023. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rockin%27_Around_the_Christmas_Tree_-_Billboard_ad_1960.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Rockin%27_Around_the_Christmas_Tree_-_Billboard_ad_1960.jpg/220px-Rockin%27_Around_the_Christmas_Tree_-_Billboard_ad_1960.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="323" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Rockin%27_Around_the_Christmas_Tree_-_Billboard_ad_1960.jpg/330px-Rockin%27_Around_the_Christmas_Tree_-_Billboard_ad_1960.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Rockin%27_Around_the_Christmas_Tree_-_Billboard_ad_1960.jpg/440px-Rockin%27_Around_the_Christmas_Tree_-_Billboard_ad_1960.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2147" data-file-height="3155" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" title="Billboard (magazine)">Billboard</a></i> ad for "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree", November 21, 1960</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1960, Lee recorded her <a href="/wiki/Signature_song" class="mw-redirect" title="Signature song">signature song</a>, "<a href="/wiki/I%27m_Sorry_(Brenda_Lee_song)" title="I'm Sorry (Brenda Lee song)">I'm Sorry</a>". However, the record initially was withheld for months before its release due to concern that the 15-year-old Lee would not understand what she was singing about in the love song. The song became one of the biggest hits of 1960, reaching the #1 chart position in the U.S. and #12 in the U.K.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was her first gold single and was nominated for a <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Grammy Award">Grammy Award</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Even though it was not released as a country song, it was among the first big hits to use what was to become the <a href="/wiki/Nashville_sound" title="Nashville sound">Nashville sound</a> – a string orchestra and <a href="/wiki/Legato" title="Legato">legato</a> harmonized background vocals. "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" was finally noticed in its third release a few months later, and sales snowballed; the song remains a perennial favorite each December and is the record with which she is most identified by contemporary audiences.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Her last top-ten single on the pop charts in the United States (besides the reappearance each November–December since 2017 of "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree") was 1963's "<a href="/wiki/Losing_You_(Brenda_Lee_song)" title="Losing You (Brenda Lee song)">Losing You</a>" (No. 6). </p><p>In 1964, "<a href="/wiki/As_Usual" title="As Usual">As Usual</a>" reached No. 12 in the US and No. 5 in the UK and "<a href="/wiki/Coming_on_Strong_(song)" class="mw-redirect" title="Coming on Strong (song)">Coming on Strong</a>" peaked at No. 11 in the US.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Also in 1964, "<a href="/wiki/Is_It_True_(Brenda_Lee_song)" title="Is It True (Brenda Lee song)">Is It True</a>" peaked at No. 17 in both the US and the UK. Featuring <a href="/wiki/Big_Jim_Sullivan" title="Big Jim Sullivan">Big Jim Sullivan</a> (guitar), <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Page" title="Jimmy Page">Jimmy Page</a> (guitar), and <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Graham_(musician)" title="Bobby Graham (musician)">Bobby Graham</a> (drums), it was her only hit single recorded in <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, England, and was produced by <a href="/wiki/Mickie_Most" title="Mickie Most">Mickie Most</a>. The slide guitar and background singers were overdubbed in Nashville. It was recorded at Decca Records' number two studio at their West Hampstead complex, as was the UK B-side, a version of Ray Charles' 1959 classic cut, "<a href="/wiki/What%27d_I_Say" title="What'd I Say">What'd I Say</a>?" which was not released in North America.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "Is It True" was composed by noted British songwriting team <a href="/wiki/Ken_Lewis_(songwriter)" title="Ken Lewis (songwriter)">Ken Lewis</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Carter_(English_musician)" title="John Carter (English musician)">John Carter</a>, who were also members of UK hitmakers the <a href="/wiki/The_Ivy_League_(band)" title="The Ivy League (band)">Ivy League</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="International_fame">International fame</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brenda_Lee&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: International fame"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Brenda-Lee_and_Peter_Denton.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Brenda-Lee_and_Peter_Denton.jpg/250px-Brenda-Lee_and_Peter_Denton.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="177" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Brenda-Lee_and_Peter_Denton.jpg/330px-Brenda-Lee_and_Peter_Denton.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Brenda-Lee_and_Peter_Denton.jpg/500px-Brenda-Lee_and_Peter_Denton.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="516" /></a><figcaption>Brenda Lee at the Granada, <a href="/wiki/Sutton,_London" title="Sutton, London">Sutton</a>, April 1962</figcaption></figure> <p>Lee was popular in the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> from early in her career. She performed on British television in 1959, before she had achieved much pop recognition in the United States. Her first hit single in the United Kingdom was "<a href="/wiki/Sweet_Nothin%27s" title="Sweet Nothin's">Sweet Nothin's</a>", which peaked at number four on the <a href="/wiki/UK_Singles_Chart" class="mw-redirect" title="UK Singles Chart">UK Singles Chart</a> in the spring of 1960. She subsequently had a UK hit (in 1961) with "<a href="/wiki/Let%27s_Jump_the_Broomstick" title="Let's Jump the Broomstick">Let's Jump the Broomstick</a>", a rockabilly number recorded in 1959, which had not charted in the United States, but reached No. 12 in the UK.<sup id="cite_ref-Bernstein_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bernstein-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lee had two top ten hits in the UK that were not released as singles in her native country: the first, "<a href="/wiki/Speak_to_Me_Pretty" title="Speak to Me Pretty">Speak to Me Pretty</a>" peaked at No. 3 in May 1962 and was her greatest hit in the UK by chart placing, swiftly followed by "<a href="/wiki/Here_Comes_That_Feeling" title="Here Comes That Feeling">Here Comes That Feeling</a>", which reached No. 5 in the summer of 1962. The latter was issued as the B-side to "<a href="/wiki/Everybody_Loves_Me_But_You" title="Everybody Loves Me But You">Everybody Loves Me But You</a>" in the United States (which peaked at No. 6 on the <i>Billboard</i> Hot 100); however, "Here Comes That Feeling" also made an appearance in the <i>Billboard</i> Hot 100, peaking at No. 89, despite its B-side status in the US.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In 1962, while touring <a href="/wiki/West_Germany" title="West Germany">West Germany</a>, Lee appeared at the <a href="/wiki/Star-Club" title="Star-Club">Star-Club</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hamburg" title="Hamburg">Hamburg</a>, with the Beatles as the opening act.<sup id="cite_ref-Bernstein_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bernstein-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lee also had big hits in the UK with "<a href="/wiki/All_Alone_Am_I" title="All Alone Am I">All Alone Am I</a>" (No. 7 in 1963) and "<a href="/wiki/As_Usual" title="As Usual">As Usual</a>" (No. 5 in 1964).<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Lee first visited the United Kingdom for three days in April 1959 as a last-minute replacement on <i><a href="/wiki/Oh_Boy!_(TV_series)" title="Oh Boy! (TV series)">Oh Boy!</a></i>. She first toured the UK in March and April 1962 with <a href="/wiki/Gene_Vincent" title="Gene Vincent">Gene Vincent</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sounds_Incorporated" title="Sounds Incorporated">Sounds Incorporated</a> (as her backing group), and she toured the country for a second time in March 1963, this time supported by <a href="/wiki/The_Bachelors" title="The Bachelors">the Bachelors</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sounds_Incorporated" title="Sounds Incorporated">Sounds Incorporated</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tony_Sheridan" title="Tony Sheridan">Tony Sheridan</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Mike_Berry_(actor)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mike Berry (actor)">Mike Berry</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Lee also toured in the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland" title="Republic of Ireland">Republic of Ireland</a> in 1963 and appeared on the front cover of the Irish dancing and entertainment magazine <i>Spotlight</i> in April that year.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>After appearing at the annual <a href="/wiki/Royal_Variety_Performance" title="Royal Variety Performance">Royal Variety Performance</a> before <a href="/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Queen Elizabeth II">Queen Elizabeth II</a> at the <a href="/wiki/London_Palladium" title="London Palladium">London Palladium</a> on November 2, 1964, Lee toured the United Kingdom again in November and December 1964, supported by (amongst others) <a href="/wiki/Manfred_Mann" title="Manfred Mann">Manfred Mann</a>, <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Kidd_%26_the_Pirates" title="Johnny Kidd & the Pirates">Johnny Kidd & the Pirates</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_John_Barry_Seven" title="The John Barry Seven">the John Barry Seven</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wayne_Fontana" title="Wayne Fontana">Wayne Fontana</a> & <a href="/wiki/The_Mindbenders" title="The Mindbenders">the Mindbenders</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marty_Wilde" title="Marty Wilde">Marty Wilde</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Tornados" title="The Tornados">the Tornados</a> and <a href="/wiki/Heinz_(singer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Heinz (singer)">Heinz Burt</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1970–1992"><span id="1970.E2.80.931992"></span>1970–1992</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brenda_Lee&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 1970–1992"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Brenda_Lee_1977.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Brenda_Lee_1977.JPG/250px-Brenda_Lee_1977.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="256" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Brenda_Lee_1977.JPG/330px-Brenda_Lee_1977.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Brenda_Lee_1977.JPG/500px-Brenda_Lee_1977.JPG 2x" data-file-width="541" data-file-height="630" /></a><figcaption>Lee in 1977</figcaption></figure> <p>During the early 1970s, Lee re-established herself as a country music artist. In a 1996 <a href="/wiki/Memoir" title="Memoir">memoir</a>, <a href="/wiki/Television_producer" title="Television producer">television producer</a> Sam Lovullo stated that Lee's 1972 appearance on his <a href="/wiki/Variety_show" title="Variety show">variety show</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Hee_Haw" title="Hee Haw">Hee Haw</a></i> had been instrumental to her <a href="/wiki/Comeback_(publicity)" title="Comeback (publicity)">comeback</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lee earned a string of top ten hits in the United States on the country charts, the first of which was 1973's "<a href="/wiki/Nobody_Wins_(Brenda_Lee_song)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nobody Wins (Brenda Lee song)">Nobody Wins</a>", which reached the top five that spring and became her last Top 100 pop hit, peaking at No. 70. The follow-up, the <a href="/wiki/Mark_James_(songwriter)" title="Mark James (songwriter)">Mark James</a> composition "<a href="/wiki/Sunday_Sunrise_(song)" title="Sunday Sunrise (song)">Sunday Sunrise</a>", reached No. 6 on <i><a href="/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" title="Billboard (magazine)">Billboard magazine</a></i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'s</span> Hot Country Singles chart that October. Other major hits included "<a href="/wiki/Wrong_Ideas" title="Wrong Ideas">Wrong Ideas</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Big_Four_Poster_Bed" title="Big Four Poster Bed">Big Four Poster Bed</a>" (1974); and "Rock on Baby" and "<a href="/wiki/She%27s_My_Rock" title="She's My Rock">He's My Rock</a>" (both 1975). </p><p>After a few years of lesser hits, Lee began another run at the top ten with 1979's "<a href="/wiki/Tell_Me_What_It%27s_Like" title="Tell Me What It's Like">Tell Me What It's Like</a>". Two follow-ups also reached the Top 10 in 1980: "<a href="/wiki/The_Cowgirl_and_the_Dandy" title="The Cowgirl and the Dandy">The Cowgirl and the Dandy</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Broken_Trust" title="Broken Trust">Broken Trust</a>" (the latter featuring vocal backing by <a href="/wiki/The_Oak_Ridge_Boys" title="The Oak Ridge Boys">the Oak Ridge Boys</a>). A 1982 album, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Winning_Hand" title="The Winning Hand">The Winning Hand</a></i>, featuring Lee along with <a href="/wiki/Dolly_Parton" title="Dolly Parton">Dolly Parton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kris_Kristofferson" title="Kris Kristofferson">Kris Kristofferson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Willie_Nelson" title="Willie Nelson">Willie Nelson</a>, was a surprise hit, reaching the top ten on the U.S. country albums chart. Her last well-known hit was 1984's "<a href="/wiki/Hallelujah,_I_Love_Her_So" class="mw-redirect" title="Hallelujah, I Love Her So">Hallelujah, I Love Her So</a>" in duet with <a href="/wiki/George_Jones" title="George Jones">George Jones</a> (Lee sang this song individually before and released it in 1960 on <i><a href="/wiki/This_Is...Brenda" title="This Is...Brenda">This Is...Brenda</a></i>). In 1992, Lee recorded a duet ("You'll Never Know") with <a href="/wiki/Willy_DeVille" title="Willy DeVille">Willy DeVille</a> on his album <i><a href="/wiki/Loup_Garou_(album)" title="Loup Garou (album)">Loup Garou</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-digitaljournal.com_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-digitaljournal.com-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2000–2016:_Autobiography_and_Country_Music_Hall_of_Fame"><span id="2000.E2.80.932016:_Autobiography_and_Country_Music_Hall_of_Fame"></span>2000–2016: Autobiography and Country Music Hall of Fame</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brenda_Lee&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 2000–2016: Autobiography and Country Music Hall of Fame"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Lee's autobiography, <i>Little Miss Dynamite: The Life and Times of Brenda Lee</i>, was published by Hyperion in 2002 (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7868-6644-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-7868-6644-6">0-7868-6644-6</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-Dynamite_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dynamite-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lee's most recent album release was a gospel collection in 2007. She no longer tours and rarely performs. Since the millennium, she has been involved with her work for the <a href="/wiki/Country_Music_Hall_of_Fame_and_Museum" title="Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum">Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum</a>. On October 4, 2000, Lee inducted fellow country music legends <a href="/wiki/Faron_Young" title="Faron Young">Faron Young</a> and <a href="/wiki/Charley_Pride" title="Charley Pride">Charley Pride</a> into the <a href="/wiki/Country_Music_Hall_of_Fame_and_Museum" title="Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum">Country Music Hall of Fame</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Lee is often called upon to announce the annual inductees to the Country Music Hall of Fame and then officially present them with their membership medallions at a special ceremony every year. The most recent inductees announced by Lee were <a href="/wiki/Randy_Travis" title="Randy Travis">Randy Travis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Daniels" title="Charlie Daniels">Charlie Daniels</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fred_Foster" title="Fred Foster">Fred Foster</a> in 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-digitaljournal.com_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-digitaljournal.com-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2019–present:_"Rockin'_Around_the_Christmas_Tree"_65th_anniversary"><span id="2019.E2.80.93present:_.22Rockin.27_Around_the_Christmas_Tree.22_65th_anniversary"></span>2019–present: "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" 65th anniversary</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brenda_Lee&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: 2019–present: "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" 65th anniversary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Since <i>Billboard</i> modified its recurrent rules in 2012, Lee's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" has regularly returned to the <a href="/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" title="Billboard Hot 100"><i>Billboard</i> Hot 100</a> since 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On the Hot 100 chart dated December 21, 2019, "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" reached a new peak of #3 in the United States with 37.1 million streams and 5,000 digital sales sold.<sup id="cite_ref-musiclover_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-musiclover-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The following week it moved up to #2,<sup id="cite_ref-auto_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where it remained for a second week.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 2019 to 2022, the song has re-peaked at #2, blocked from the top position by <a href="/wiki/Mariah_Carey" title="Mariah Carey">Mariah Carey</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/All_I_Want_for_Christmas_Is_You" title="All I Want for Christmas Is You">All I Want for Christmas Is You</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In November 2023, to celebrate the song's 65th anniversary, Lee released a music video featuring her lip-synching to the original recording at a house party with <a href="/wiki/Tanya_Tucker" title="Tanya Tucker">Tanya Tucker</a> and <a href="/wiki/Trisha_Yearwood" title="Trisha Yearwood">Trisha Yearwood</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lee has also joined social media platform <a href="/wiki/TikTok" title="TikTok">TikTok</a> to promote the song, where she posts videos reminiscing about her song's history and success.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On the <i>Billboard</i> Hot 100 chart dated December 9, 2023, "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" topped the Hot 100 for the first time in the United States becoming Lee's third #1 hit and first since her 1960 single, "<a href="/wiki/I_Want_to_Be_Wanted" title="I Want to Be Wanted">I Want to Be Wanted</a>". At 78, Lee became the oldest female artist and oldest artist overall to top the Hot 100, feats formerly held by <a href="/wiki/Cher" title="Cher">Cher</a> and <a href="/wiki/Louis_Armstrong" title="Louis Armstrong">Louis Armstrong</a>, respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The week following, she held the number one spot, which also meant she surpassed her own age record, having turned 79 during the week ending December 16, 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following two few weeks off number one, on the week ending January 6, 2024, she returned to number one for an additional week.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A Lee approved AI-generated Spanish language version "Noche Buena y Navidad" appeared on October 25, 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In December 2024, <a href="/wiki/Spotify" title="Spotify">Spotify</a> revealed that "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" is among the Top 10 most streamed holiday songs of all time, <sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> reaching more than a billion downloads.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Recording_Industry_Association_of_America" title="Recording Industry Association of America">Recording Industry Association of America</a> also certified "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" that month for 7× Platinum for US sales of 7 million copies of the digital single.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Also in December 2024, Lee was honored at the <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_State_Capitol" title="Tennessee State Capitol">Tennessee State Capitol</a>, where the song was named the Official Holiday Song of Tennessee. Legislation recognizing the song in this way was filed by Tennessee House of Representative member <a href="/wiki/Jason_Powell" title="Jason Powell">Jason Powell</a> in December 2023. It passed the state legislature and was signed into law by Governor <a href="/wiki/Bill_Lee_(Tennessee_politician)" title="Bill Lee (Tennessee politician)">Bill Lee</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy_and_recognition">Legacy and recognition</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brenda_Lee&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Legacy and recognition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On September 26, 1986, Lee was installed in the Atlanta Music Hall of Fame 5th Annual Awards Ceremony held at the Raddison Inn, <a href="/wiki/Atlanta" title="Atlanta">Atlanta, Georgia</a>. She was named among many other recording artists including: <a href="/wiki/Riley_Puckett" title="Riley Puckett">Riley Puckett</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gid_Tanner" title="Gid Tanner">Gid Tanner</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dan_Hornsby" title="Dan Hornsby">Dan Hornsby</a>, <a href="/wiki/Clayton_McMichen" title="Clayton McMichen">Clayton McMichen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Boots_Woodall" title="Boots Woodall">Boots Woodall</a>. Lee reached the final ballot for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990 and 2001 without success but was finally voted into the Hall of Fame in 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Celebrating over 50 years as a recording artist, in September 2006 she was the second recipient of the Jo Meador-Walker Lifetime Achievement award by the Source Foundation in Nashville.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1997, she was inducted into the <a href="/wiki/Country_Music_Hall_of_Fame" class="mw-redirect" title="Country Music Hall of Fame">Country Music Hall of Fame</a><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and is a member of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame<sup id="cite_ref-Rockabilly_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rockabilly-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Hit_Parade_Hall_of_Fame" class="mw-redirect" title="Hit Parade Hall of Fame">Hit Parade Hall of Fame</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2008, her recording of "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" marked 50 years as a holiday standard, and in February 2009 the <a href="/wiki/National_Academy_of_Recording_Arts_and_Sciences" class="mw-redirect" title="National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences">National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences</a> gave Lee a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2023, <i><a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a></i> ranked Lee at number 161 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time.<sup id="cite_ref-Rolling-Stone_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rolling-Stone-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Grammy_Awards">Grammy Awards</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brenda_Lee&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Grammy Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Awards" title="Grammy Awards">Grammy Awards</a> is an accolade by the <a href="/wiki/National_Academy_of_Recording_Arts_and_Sciences" class="mw-redirect" title="National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences">National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences</a> (NARAS) of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the <a href="/wiki/Music_industry" title="Music industry">music industry</a>. It shares recognition of the music industry as that of the other performance arts: <a href="/wiki/Emmy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Emmy Award">Emmy Awards</a> (television), the <a href="/wiki/Tony_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Tony Award">Tony Awards</a> (stage performance), and the <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Academy Award">Academy Awards</a> (motion pictures). </p> <table width="80%" class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th style="width:10%;">Year </th> <th style="width:40%;">Category </th> <th style="width:35%;">Nominated work </th> <th style="width:15%;">Result </th></tr> <tr> <td>1961 </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Female_Pop_Vocal_Performance" title="Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance">Best Female Pop Vocal Performance</a> </td> <td>"I'm Sorry" </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr> <tr> <td>1970 </td> <td>"Johnny One Time" </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr> <tr> <td>1980 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Female_Country_Vocal_Performance" title="Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance">Best Female Country Vocal Performance</a> </td> <td>"Tell Me What It's Like" </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr> <tr> <td>1999 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Grammy_Hall_of_Fame" title="Grammy Hall of Fame">Grammy Hall of Fame</a> </td> <td>"I'm Sorry" </td> <td style="background: #FFD700; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Inducted </td></tr> <tr> <td>2009 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Grammy_Lifetime_Achievement_Award" title="Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award">Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award</a> </td> <td>Brenda Lee </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td></tr> <tr> <td>2019 </td> <td>Grammy Hall of Fame </td> <td>"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" </td> <td style="background: #FFD700; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Inducted </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brenda_Lee&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Lee met Charles Ronald "Ronnie" Shacklett in November 1962 at a concert by <a href="/wiki/Bo_Diddley" title="Bo Diddley">Bo Diddley</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jackie_Wilson" title="Jackie Wilson">Jackie Wilson</a> hosted at Nashville's Fairgrounds Coliseum. They married less than six months later on April 24, 1963.<sup id="cite_ref-Tennessean-JackieWilson-1952_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tennessean-JackieWilson-1952-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lee and Shacklett have two daughters and three grandchildren.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lee is the cousin-by-marriage (by way of her mother's second marriage) to singer Dave Rainwater from <a href="/wiki/The_New_Christy_Minstrels" title="The New Christy Minstrels">The New Christy Minstrels</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Discography">Discography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brenda_Lee&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Discography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Brenda_Lee_albums_discography" title="Brenda Lee albums discography">Brenda Lee albums discography</a> and <a href="/wiki/Brenda_Lee_singles_discography" title="Brenda Lee singles discography">Brenda Lee singles discography</a></div><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ul><li><i>Rock the Bop</i> (1957)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Grandma,_What_Great_Songs_You_Sang!" title="Grandma, What Great Songs You Sang!">Grandma, What Great Songs You Sang!</a></i> (1959)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Brenda_Lee_(album)" title="Brenda Lee (album)">Brenda Lee</a></i> (1960)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/This_Is...Brenda" title="This Is...Brenda">This Is...Brenda</a></i> (1960)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Emotions_(Brenda_Lee_album)" title="Emotions (Brenda Lee album)">Emotions</a></i> (1961)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/All_the_Way_(Brenda_Lee_album)" title="All the Way (Brenda Lee album)">All the Way</a></i> (1961)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sincerely_(Brenda_Lee_album)" title="Sincerely (Brenda Lee album)">Sincerely</a></i> (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Brenda,_That%27s_All" title="Brenda, That's All">Brenda, That's All</a></i> (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/All_Alone_Am_I_(album)" title="All Alone Am I (album)">All Alone Am I</a></i> (1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/...%22Let_Me_Sing%22" title="..."Let Me Sing"">..."Let Me Sing"</a></i> (1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/By_Request_(Brenda_Lee_album)" title="By Request (Brenda Lee album)">By Request</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Merry_Christmas_from_Brenda_Lee" title="Merry Christmas from Brenda Lee">Merry Christmas from Brenda Lee</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Brenda_Lee_Sings_Top_Teen_Hits" title="Brenda Lee Sings Top Teen Hits">Brenda Lee Sings Top Teen Hits</a></i> (1965)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Versatile_Brenda_Lee" title="The Versatile Brenda Lee">The Versatile Brenda Lee</a></i> (1965)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Too_Many_Rivers_(album)" title="Too Many Rivers (album)">Too Many Rivers</a></i> (1965)</li> <li><i>One Rainy Night in Tokyo</i> (1965)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bye_Bye_Blues_(album)" title="Bye Bye Blues (album)">Bye Bye Blues</a></i> (1966)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Coming_On_Strong_(Brenda_Lee_album)" title="Coming On Strong (Brenda Lee album)">Coming on Strong</a></i> (1966)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Reflections_in_Blue_(Brenda_Lee_album)" title="Reflections in Blue (Brenda Lee album)">Reflections in Blue</a></i> (1967)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/For_the_First_Time_(Brenda_Lee_and_Pete_Fountain_album)" title="For the First Time (Brenda Lee and Pete Fountain album)">For the First Time</a></i> (1968; with <a href="/wiki/Pete_Fountain" title="Pete Fountain">Pete Fountain</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Johnny_One_Time_(album)" title="Johnny One Time (album)">Johnny One Time</a></i> (1969)</li> <li><i>Memphis Portrait</i> (1970)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Brenda_(album)" title="Brenda (album)">Brenda</a></i> (1973)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/New_Sunrise_(Brenda_Lee_album)" title="New Sunrise (Brenda Lee album)">New Sunrise</a></i> (1973)</li> <li><i>Brenda Lee Now</i> (1974)</li> <li><i>Sincerely, Brenda Lee</i> (1975)</li> <li><i>L.A. Sessions</i> (1976)</li> <li><i>Even Better</i> (1980)</li> <li><i>Take Me Back</i> (1980)</li> <li><i>Only When I Laugh</i> (1981)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Winning_Hand" title="The Winning Hand">The Winning Hand</a></i> (1982; with <a href="/wiki/Kris_Kristofferson" title="Kris Kristofferson">Kris Kristofferson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Willie_Nelson" title="Willie Nelson">Willie Nelson</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Dolly_Parton" title="Dolly Parton">Dolly Parton</a>)</li> <li><i>Feels So Right</i> (1985)</li> <li><i>Brenda Lee</i> (1991)</li> <li><i>A Brenda Lee Christmas</i> (1991)</li> <li><i>Precious Memories</i> (1997)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gospel_Duets_with_Treasured_Friends" title="Gospel Duets with Treasured Friends">Gospel Duets with Treasured Friends</a></i> (2007)</li></ul></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brenda_Lee&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Bernstein-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Bernstein_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bernstein_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bernstein_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFBernstein2018" class="citation web cs1">Bernstein, Jonathan (February 20, 2018). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/inside-the-life-of-brenda-lee-the-pop-heroine-next-door-205175/">"Brenda Lee: Inside the Life of a Pop Heroine Next Door"</a>. <i>Rollingstone.com</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190411040900/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/inside-the-life-of-brenda-lee-the-pop-heroine-next-door-205175/">Archived</a> from the original on April 11, 2019<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}}@media print{.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:none!important}}</style><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Brenda_Lee" title="Template:Brenda Lee"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Brenda_Lee" title="Template talk:Brenda Lee"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Brenda_Lee" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Brenda Lee"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Brenda_Lee228" class="fn" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Brenda Lee</a></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brenda_Lee_albums_discography" title="Brenda Lee albums discography">Albums</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Brenda_Lee_singles_discography" title="Brenda Lee singles discography">Singles</a></li></ul></div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Studio albums</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Grandma,_What_Great_Songs_You_Sang!" title="Grandma, What Great Songs You Sang!">Grandma, What Great Songs You Sang!</a></i> (1959)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Brenda_Lee_(album)" title="Brenda Lee (album)">Brenda Lee</a></i> (1960)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/This_Is...Brenda" title="This Is...Brenda">This Is...Brenda</a></i> (1960)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Emotions_(Brenda_Lee_album)" title="Emotions (Brenda Lee album)">Emotions</a></i> (1961)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/All_the_Way_(Brenda_Lee_album)" title="All the Way (Brenda Lee album)">All the Way</a></i> (1961)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sincerely_(Brenda_Lee_album)" title="Sincerely (Brenda Lee album)">Sincerely</a></i> (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Brenda,_That%27s_All" title="Brenda, That's All">Brenda, That's All</a></i> (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/All_Alone_Am_I_(album)" title="All Alone Am I (album)">All Alone Am I</a></i> (1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/...%22Let_Me_Sing%22" title="..."Let Me Sing"">..."Let Me Sing"</a></i> (1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/By_Request_(Brenda_Lee_album)" title="By Request (Brenda Lee album)">By Request</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Merry_Christmas_from_Brenda_Lee" title="Merry Christmas from Brenda Lee">Merry Christmas from Brenda Lee</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Brenda_Lee_Sings_Top_Teen_Hits" title="Brenda Lee Sings Top Teen Hits">Brenda Lee Sings Top Teen Hits</a></i> (1965)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Versatile_Brenda_Lee" title="The Versatile Brenda Lee">The Versatile Brenda Lee</a></i> (1965)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Too_Many_Rivers_(album)" title="Too Many Rivers (album)">Too Many Rivers</a></i> (1965)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bye_Bye_Blues_(album)" title="Bye Bye Blues (album)">Bye Bye Blues</a></i> (1966)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Coming_On_Strong_(Brenda_Lee_album)" title="Coming On Strong (Brenda Lee album)">Coming On Strong</a></i> (1966)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Reflections_in_Blue_(Brenda_Lee_album)" title="Reflections in Blue (Brenda Lee album)">Reflections in Blue</a></i> (1967)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/For_the_First_Time_(Brenda_Lee_and_Pete_Fountain_album)" title="For the First Time (Brenda Lee and Pete Fountain album)">For the First Time</a></i> (with <a href="/wiki/Pete_Fountain" title="Pete Fountain">Pete Fountain</a>) (1968)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Johnny_One_Time_(album)" title="Johnny One Time (album)">Johnny One Time</a></i> (1969)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Brenda_(album)" title="Brenda (album)">Brenda</a></i> (1973)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/New_Sunrise_(Brenda_Lee_album)" title="New Sunrise (Brenda Lee album)">New Sunrise</a></i> (1973)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Winning_Hand" title="The Winning Hand">The Winning Hand</a></i> (with <a href="/wiki/Kris_Kristofferson" title="Kris Kristofferson">Kris Kristofferson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Willie_Nelson" title="Willie Nelson">Willie Nelson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dolly_Parton" title="Dolly Parton">Dolly Parton</a>) (1982)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gospel_Duets_with_Treasured_Friends" title="Gospel Duets with Treasured Friends">Gospel Duets with Treasured Friends</a></i> (2007)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Compilation albums</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/10_Golden_Years" title="10 Golden Years">10 Golden Years</a></i> (1966)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Singles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Jambalaya_(On_the_Bayou)" title="Jambalaya (On the Bayou)">Jambalaya (On the Bayou)</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/One_Step_at_a_Time_(Brenda_Lee_song)" title="One Step at a Time (Brenda Lee song)">One Step at a Time</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Let%27s_Jump_the_Broomstick" title="Let's Jump the Broomstick">Let's Jump the Broomstick</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Rockin%27_Around_the_Christmas_Tree" title="Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree">Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Sweet_Nothin%27s" title="Sweet Nothin's">Sweet Nothin's</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/That%27s_All_You_Gotta_Do" title="That's All You Gotta Do">That's All You Gotta Do</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/I%27m_Sorry_(Brenda_Lee_song)" title="I'm Sorry (Brenda Lee song)">I'm Sorry</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/I_Want_to_Be_Wanted" title="I Want to Be Wanted">I Want to Be Wanted</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Emotions_(Brenda_Lee_song)" title="Emotions (Brenda Lee song)">Emotions</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/You_Can_Depend_on_Me_(Louis_Armstrong_song)" title="You Can Depend on Me (Louis Armstrong song)">You Can Depend on Me</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Dum_Dum_(song)" title="Dum Dum (song)">Dum Dum</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Fool_No._1" title="Fool No. 1">Fool #1</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Break_It_to_Me_Gently" title="Break It to Me Gently">Break It to Me Gently</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Speak_to_Me_Pretty" title="Speak to Me Pretty">Speak to Me Pretty</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Everybody_Loves_Me_But_You" title="Everybody Loves Me But You">Everybody Loves Me But You</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Here_Comes_That_Feeling" title="Here Comes That Feeling">Here Comes That Feeling</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Heart_in_Hand_(song)" title="Heart in Hand (song)">Heart in Hand</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/It_Started_All_Over_Again" title="It Started All Over Again">It Started All Over Again</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/All_Alone_Am_I" title="All Alone Am I">All Alone Am I</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Your_Used_to_Be" title="Your Used to Be">Your Used to Be</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/She%27ll_Never_Know" title="She'll Never Know">She'll Never Know</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Losing_You_(Brenda_Lee_song)" title="Losing You (Brenda Lee song)">Losing You</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/I_Wonder_(1944_song)" title="I Wonder (1944 song)">I Wonder</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/My_Whole_World_Is_Falling_Down" title="My Whole World Is Falling Down">My Whole World Is Falling Down</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Grass_Is_Greener_(song)" title="The Grass Is Greener (song)">The Grass Is Greener</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/As_Usual" title="As Usual">As Usual</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Think_(Brenda_Lee_song)" title="Think (Brenda Lee song)">Think</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Alone_with_You_(Brenda_Lee_song)" title="Alone with You (Brenda Lee song)">Alone with You</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/When_You_Loved_Me" title="When You Loved Me">When You Loved Me</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Truly,_Truly_True" title="Truly, Truly True">Truly, Truly True</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Is_It_True_(Brenda_Lee_song)" title="Is It True (Brenda Lee song)">Is It True</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Jingle_Bell_Rock" title="Jingle Bell Rock">Jingle Bell Rock</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Too_Many_Rivers" title="Too Many Rivers">Too Many Rivers</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/No_One_(Connie_Francis_song)" title="No One (Connie Francis song)">No One</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Rusty_Bells" title="Rusty Bells">Rusty Bells</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Coming_On_Strong_(song)" title="Coming On Strong (song)">Coming On Strong</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Ride,_Ride,_Ride_(song)" title="Ride, Ride, Ride (song)">Ride, Ride, Ride</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Johnny_One_Time" title="Johnny One Time">Johnny One Time</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Let_It_Be_Me_(The_Everly_Brothers_song)" title="Let It Be Me (The Everly Brothers song)">Let It Be Me</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Always_on_My_Mind" title="Always on My Mind">Always on My Mind</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Sunday_Sunrise_(song)" title="Sunday Sunrise (song)">Sunday Sunrise</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Wrong_Ideas" title="Wrong Ideas">Wrong Ideas</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Big_Four_Poster_Bed" title="Big Four Poster Bed">Big Four Poster Bed</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/She%27s_My_Rock" title="She's My Rock">He's My Rock</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Tell_Me_What_It%27s_Like" title="Tell Me What It's Like">Tell Me What It's Like</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Cowgirl_and_the_Dandy" title="The Cowgirl and the Dandy">The Cowgirl and the Dandy</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Broken_Trust" title="Broken Trust">Broken Trust</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Hallelujah_I_Love_Her_So" title="Hallelujah I Love Her So">Hallelujah, I Love You So</a>"</li></ul> 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Preston">Frances Preston</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willie_Nelson" title="Willie Nelson">Willie Nelson</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merle_Haggard" title="Merle Haggard">Merle Haggard</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roger_Miller" title="Roger Miller">Roger Miller</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jo_Walker-Meador" title="Jo Walker-Meador">Jo Walker-Meador</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patsy_Montana" title="Patsy Montana">Patsy Montana</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buck_Owens" title="Buck Owens">Buck Owens</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ray_Price_(singer)" title="Ray Price (singer)">Ray Price</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harlan_Howard" title="Harlan Howard">Harlan Howard</a> (1997)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Brenda Lee</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cindy_Walker" title="Cindy Walker">Cindy Walker</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Morgan_(singer)" title="George Morgan (singer)">George Morgan</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elvis_Presley" title="Elvis Presley">Elvis Presley</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bud_Wendell" title="Bud Wendell">E.W. "Bud" Wendell</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tammy_Wynette" title="Tammy Wynette">Tammy Wynette</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Bond" title="Johnny Bond">Johnny Bond</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dolly_Parton" title="Dolly Parton">Dolly Parton</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conway_Twitty" title="Conway Twitty">Conway Twitty</a> (1999)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235" /></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Grammy_Lifetime_Achievement_Award95" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background:#cedff2;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231" /><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Grammy_Lifetime_Achievement_Award" title="Template:Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Grammy_Lifetime_Achievement_Award" title="Template talk:Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Grammy_Lifetime_Achievement_Award" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Grammy_Lifetime_Achievement_Award95" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Grammy_Lifetime_Achievement_Award" title="Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award">Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cedff2;;width:1%">1963–1990</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>1963 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bing_Crosby" title="Bing Crosby">Bing Crosby</a></li></ul></li> <li>1965 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Sinatra" title="Frank Sinatra">Frank Sinatra</a></li></ul></li> <li>1966 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Duke_Ellington" title="Duke Ellington">Duke Ellington</a></li></ul></li> <li>1967 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ella_Fitzgerald" title="Ella Fitzgerald">Ella Fitzgerald</a></li></ul></li> <li>1968 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Irving_Berlin" title="Irving Berlin">Irving Berlin</a></li></ul></li> <li>1971 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Elvis_Presley" title="Elvis Presley">Elvis Presley</a></li></ul></li> <li>1972 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Armstrong" title="Louis Armstrong">Louis Armstrong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahalia_Jackson" title="Mahalia Jackson">Mahalia Jackson</a></li></ul></li> <li>1984 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chuck_Berry" title="Chuck Berry">Chuck Berry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Parker" title="Charlie Parker">Charlie Parker</a></li></ul></li> <li>1985 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Leonard_Bernstein" title="Leonard Bernstein">Leonard Bernstein</a></li></ul></li> <li>1986 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Benny_Goodman" title="Benny Goodman">Benny Goodman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones" title="The Rolling Stones">The Rolling Stones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s_Segovia" title="Andrés Segovia">Andrés Segovia</a></li></ul></li> <li>1987 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Roy_Acuff" title="Roy Acuff">Roy Acuff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benny_Carter" title="Benny Carter">Benny Carter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enrico_Caruso" title="Enrico Caruso">Enrico Caruso</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ray_Charles" title="Ray Charles">Ray Charles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fats_Domino" title="Fats Domino">Fats Domino</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woody_Herman" title="Woody Herman">Woody Herman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billie_Holiday" title="Billie Holiday">Billie Holiday</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._B._King" title="B. B. King">B. B. King</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Stern" title="Isaac Stern">Isaac Stern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Igor_Stravinsky" title="Igor Stravinsky">Igor Stravinsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arturo_Toscanini" title="Arturo Toscanini">Arturo Toscanini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hank_Williams" title="Hank Williams">Hank Williams</a></li></ul></li> <li>1989 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fred_Astaire" title="Fred Astaire">Fred Astaire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pablo_Casals" title="Pablo Casals">Pablo Casals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie" title="Dizzy Gillespie">Dizzy Gillespie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jascha_Heifetz" title="Jascha Heifetz">Jascha Heifetz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lena_Horne" title="Lena Horne">Lena Horne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leontyne_Price" title="Leontyne Price">Leontyne Price</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bessie_Smith" title="Bessie Smith">Bessie Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Art_Tatum" title="Art Tatum">Art Tatum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarah_Vaughan" title="Sarah Vaughan">Sarah Vaughan</a></li></ul></li> <li>1990 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nat_King_Cole" title="Nat King Cole">Nat King Cole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miles_Davis" title="Miles Davis">Miles Davis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Horowitz" title="Vladimir Horowitz">Vladimir Horowitz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_McCartney" title="Paul McCartney">Paul McCartney</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cedff2;;width:1%">1991–2000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>1991 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marian_Anderson" title="Marian Anderson">Marian Anderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Dylan" title="Bob Dylan">Bob Dylan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Lennon" title="John Lennon">John Lennon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kitty_Wells" title="Kitty Wells">Kitty Wells</a></li></ul></li> <li>1992 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Brown" title="James Brown">James Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Coltrane" title="John Coltrane">John Coltrane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jimi_Hendrix" title="Jimi Hendrix">Jimi Hendrix</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muddy_Waters" title="Muddy Waters">Muddy Waters</a></li></ul></li> <li>1993 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chet_Atkins" title="Chet Atkins">Chet Atkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Richard" title="Little Richard">Little Richard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thelonious_Monk" title="Thelonious Monk">Thelonious Monk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Monroe" title="Bill Monroe">Bill Monroe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pete_Seeger" title="Pete Seeger">Pete Seeger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fats_Waller" title="Fats Waller">Fats Waller</a></li></ul></li> <li>1994 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Evans" title="Bill Evans">Bill Evans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aretha_Franklin" title="Aretha Franklin">Aretha Franklin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Rubinstein" title="Arthur Rubinstein">Arthur Rubinstein</a></li></ul></li> <li>1995 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Patsy_Cline" title="Patsy Cline">Patsy Cline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peggy_Lee" title="Peggy Lee">Peggy Lee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Mancini" title="Henry Mancini">Henry Mancini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Curtis_Mayfield" title="Curtis Mayfield">Curtis Mayfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barbra_Streisand" title="Barbra Streisand">Barbra Streisand</a></li></ul></li> <li>1996 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dave_Brubeck" title="Dave Brubeck">Dave Brubeck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marvin_Gaye" title="Marvin Gaye">Marvin Gaye</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georg_Solti" title="Georg Solti">Georg Solti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stevie_Wonder" title="Stevie Wonder">Stevie Wonder</a></li></ul></li> <li>1997 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bobby_Bland" title="Bobby Bland">Bobby "Blue" Bland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Everly_Brothers" title="The Everly Brothers">The Everly Brothers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judy_Garland" title="Judy Garland">Judy Garland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St%C3%A9phane_Grappelli" title="Stéphane Grappelli">Stéphane Grappelli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddy_Holly" title="Buddy Holly">Buddy Holly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Mingus" title="Charles Mingus">Charles Mingus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oscar_Peterson" title="Oscar Peterson">Oscar Peterson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Zappa" title="Frank Zappa">Frank Zappa</a></li></ul></li> <li>1998 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bo_Diddley" title="Bo Diddley">Bo Diddley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Mills_Brothers" title="The Mills Brothers">The Mills Brothers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roy_Orbison" title="Roy Orbison">Roy Orbison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Robeson" title="Paul Robeson">Paul Robeson</a></li></ul></li> <li>1999 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Cash" title="Johnny Cash">Johnny Cash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sam_Cooke" title="Sam Cooke">Sam Cooke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Otis_Redding" title="Otis Redding">Otis Redding</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smokey_Robinson" title="Smokey Robinson">Smokey Robinson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mel_Torm%C3%A9" title="Mel Tormé">Mel Tormé</a></li></ul></li> <li>2000 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Belafonte" title="Harry Belafonte">Harry Belafonte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woody_Guthrie" title="Woody Guthrie">Woody Guthrie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Lee_Hooker" title="John Lee Hooker">John Lee Hooker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitch_Miller" title="Mitch Miller">Mitch Miller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willie_Nelson" title="Willie Nelson">Willie Nelson</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cedff2;;width:1%">2001–2010</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>2001 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Beach_Boys" title="The Beach Boys">The Beach Boys</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tony_Bennett" title="Tony Bennett">Tony Bennett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sammy_Davis_Jr." title="Sammy Davis Jr.">Sammy Davis Jr.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Marley" title="Bob Marley">Bob Marley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Who" title="The Who">The Who</a></li></ul></li> <li>2002 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Count_Basie" title="Count Basie">Count Basie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rosemary_Clooney" title="Rosemary Clooney">Rosemary Clooney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perry_Como" title="Perry Como">Perry Como</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Green" title="Al Green">Al Green</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joni_Mitchell" title="Joni Mitchell">Joni Mitchell</a></li></ul></li> <li>2003 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Etta_James" title="Etta James">Etta James</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Mathis" title="Johnny Mathis">Johnny Mathis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glenn_Miller" title="Glenn Miller">Glenn Miller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tito_Puente" title="Tito Puente">Tito Puente</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simon_%26_Garfunkel" title="Simon & Garfunkel">Simon & Garfunkel</a></li></ul></li> <li>2004 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Van_Cliburn" title="Van Cliburn">Van Cliburn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Funk_Brothers" title="The Funk Brothers">The Funk Brothers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ella_Jenkins" title="Ella Jenkins">Ella Jenkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sonny_Rollins" title="Sonny Rollins">Sonny Rollins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Artie_Shaw" title="Artie Shaw">Artie Shaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doc_Watson" title="Doc Watson">Doc Watson</a></li></ul></li> <li>2005 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eddy_Arnold" title="Eddy Arnold">Eddy Arnold</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Art_Blakey" title="Art Blakey">Art Blakey</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Carter_Family" title="Carter Family">Carter Family</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morton_Gould" title="Morton Gould">Morton Gould</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janis_Joplin" title="Janis Joplin">Janis Joplin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Led_Zeppelin" title="Led Zeppelin">Led Zeppelin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Lee_Lewis" title="Jerry Lee Lewis">Jerry Lee Lewis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jelly_Roll_Morton" title="Jelly Roll Morton">Jelly Roll Morton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pinetop_Perkins" title="Pinetop Perkins">Pinetop Perkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Staple_Singers" title="The Staple Singers">The Staple Singers</a></li></ul></li> <li>2006 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/David_Bowie" title="David Bowie">David Bowie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cream_(band)" title="Cream (band)">Cream</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merle_Haggard" title="Merle Haggard">Merle Haggard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Johnson" title="Robert Johnson">Robert Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jessye_Norman" title="Jessye Norman">Jessye Norman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Pryor" title="Richard Pryor">Richard Pryor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Weavers" title="The Weavers">The Weavers</a></li></ul></li> <li>2007 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joan_Baez" title="Joan Baez">Joan Baez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Booker_T._%26_the_M.G.%27s" title="Booker T. & the M.G.'s">Booker T. & the M.G.'s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maria_Callas" title="Maria Callas">Maria Callas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ornette_Coleman" title="Ornette Coleman">Ornette Coleman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Doors" title="The Doors">The Doors</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Grateful_Dead" title="Grateful Dead">Grateful Dead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Wills" title="Bob Wills">Bob Wills</a></li></ul></li> <li>2008 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Burt_Bacharach" title="Burt Bacharach">Burt Bacharach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Band" title="The Band">The Band</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cab_Calloway" title="Cab Calloway">Cab Calloway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doris_Day" title="Doris Day">Doris Day</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Itzhak_Perlman" title="Itzhak Perlman">Itzhak Perlman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Max_Roach" title="Max Roach">Max Roach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earl_Scruggs" title="Earl Scruggs">Earl Scruggs</a></li></ul></li> <li>2009 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gene_Autry" title="Gene Autry">Gene Autry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Blind_Boys_of_Alabama" title="The Blind Boys of Alabama">The Blind Boys of Alabama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Four_Tops" title="Four Tops">The Four Tops</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hank_Jones" title="Hank Jones">Hank Jones</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Brenda Lee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dean_Martin" title="Dean Martin">Dean Martin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Paxton" title="Tom Paxton">Tom Paxton</a></li></ul></li> <li>2010 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Leonard_Cohen" title="Leonard Cohen">Leonard Cohen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bobby_Darin" title="Bobby Darin">Bobby Darin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_%22Honeyboy%22_Edwards" title="David "Honeyboy" Edwards">David "Honeyboy" Edwards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Jackson" title="Michael Jackson">Michael Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loretta_Lynn" title="Loretta Lynn">Loretta Lynn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Previn" title="André Previn">André Previn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clark_Terry" title="Clark Terry">Clark Terry</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cedff2;;width:1%">2011–2020</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>2011 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Julie_Andrews" title="Julie Andrews">Julie Andrews</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roy_Haynes" title="Roy Haynes">Roy Haynes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juilliard_String_Quartet" title="Juilliard String Quartet">Juilliard String Quartet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Kingston_Trio" title="The Kingston Trio">The Kingston Trio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dolly_Parton" title="Dolly Parton">Dolly Parton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramones" title="Ramones">Ramones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Beverly_Shea" title="George Beverly Shea">George Beverly Shea</a></li></ul></li> <li>2012 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Allman_Brothers_Band" title="The Allman Brothers Band">The Allman Brothers Band</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glen_Campbell" title="Glen Campbell">Glen Campbell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ant%C3%B4nio_Carlos_Jobim" title="Antônio Carlos Jobim">Antônio Carlos Jobim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Jones" title="George Jones">George Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Memphis_Horns" title="The Memphis Horns">The Memphis Horns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diana_Ross" title="Diana Ross">Diana Ross</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gil_Scott-Heron" title="Gil Scott-Heron">Gil Scott-Heron</a></li></ul></li> <li>2013 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Glenn_Gould" title="Glenn Gould">Glenn Gould</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Haden" title="Charlie Haden">Charlie Haden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lightnin%27_Hopkins" title="Lightnin' Hopkins">Lightnin' Hopkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carole_King" title="Carole King">Carole King</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patti_Page" title="Patti Page">Patti Page</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ravi_Shankar" title="Ravi Shankar">Ravi Shankar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Temptations" title="The Temptations">The Temptations</a></li></ul></li> <li>2014 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles">The Beatles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clifton_Chenier" title="Clifton Chenier">Clifton Chenier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Isley_Brothers" title="The Isley Brothers">The Isley Brothers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kraftwerk" title="Kraftwerk">Kraftwerk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kris_Kristofferson" title="Kris Kristofferson">Kris Kristofferson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armando_Manzanero" title="Armando Manzanero">Armando Manzanero</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maud_Powell" title="Maud Powell">Maud Powell</a></li></ul></li> <li>2015 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bee_Gees" title="Bee Gees">Bee Gees</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Boulez" title="Pierre Boulez">Pierre Boulez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddy_Guy" title="Buddy Guy">Buddy Guy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Harrison" title="George Harrison">George Harrison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flaco_Jim%C3%A9nez" title="Flaco Jiménez">Flaco Jiménez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Louvin_Brothers" title="The Louvin Brothers">The Louvin Brothers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wayne_Shorter" title="Wayne Shorter">Wayne Shorter</a></li></ul></li> <li>2016 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ruth_Brown" title="Ruth Brown">Ruth Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Celia_Cruz" title="Celia Cruz">Celia Cruz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earth,_Wind_%26_Fire" title="Earth, Wind & Fire">Earth, Wind & Fire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbie_Hancock" title="Herbie Hancock">Herbie Hancock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jefferson_Airplane" title="Jefferson Airplane">Jefferson Airplane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Linda_Ronstadt" title="Linda Ronstadt">Linda Ronstadt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Run-DMC" title="Run-DMC">Run-DMC</a></li></ul></li> <li>2017 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shirley_Caesar" title="Shirley Caesar">Shirley Caesar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ahmad_Jamal" title="Ahmad Jamal">Ahmad Jamal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charley_Pride" title="Charley Pride">Charley Pride</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jimmie_Rodgers_(country_singer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jimmie Rodgers (country singer)">Jimmie Rodgers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nina_Simone" title="Nina Simone">Nina Simone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sly_Stone" title="Sly Stone">Sly Stone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Velvet_Underground" title="The Velvet Underground">The Velvet Underground</a></li></ul></li> <li>2018 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hal_Blaine" title="Hal Blaine">Hal Blaine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neil_Diamond" title="Neil Diamond">Neil Diamond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emmylou_Harris" title="Emmylou Harris">Emmylou Harris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Jordan" title="Louis Jordan">Louis Jordan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Meters" title="The Meters">The Meters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queen_(band)" title="Queen (band)">Queen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tina_Turner" title="Tina Turner">Tina Turner</a></li></ul></li> <li>2019 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Black_Sabbath" title="Black Sabbath">Black Sabbath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Clinton_(funk_musician)" title="George Clinton (funk musician)">George Clinton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Parliament-Funkadelic" title="Parliament-Funkadelic">Parliament-Funkadelic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billy_Eckstine" title="Billy Eckstine">Billy Eckstine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donny_Hathaway" title="Donny Hathaway">Donny Hathaway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julio_Iglesias" title="Julio Iglesias">Julio Iglesias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sam_%26_Dave" title="Sam & Dave">Sam & Dave</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dionne_Warwick" title="Dionne Warwick">Dionne Warwick</a></li></ul></li> <li>2020 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chicago_(band)" title="Chicago (band)">Chicago</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roberta_Flack" title="Roberta Flack">Roberta Flack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Hayes" title="Isaac Hayes">Isaac Hayes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iggy_Pop" title="Iggy Pop">Iggy Pop</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Prine" title="John Prine">John Prine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Public_Enemy" title="Public Enemy">Public Enemy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sister_Rosetta_Tharpe" title="Sister Rosetta Tharpe">Sister Rosetta Tharpe</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cedff2;;width:1%">2021–present</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>2021 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Grandmaster_Flash_and_the_Furious_Five" title="Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five">Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lionel_Hampton" title="Lionel Hampton">Lionel Hampton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marilyn_Horne" title="Marilyn Horne">Marilyn Horne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salt-N-Pepa" title="Salt-N-Pepa">Salt-N-Pepa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Selena" title="Selena">Selena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Talking_Heads" title="Talking Heads">Talking Heads</a></li></ul></li> <li>2022 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bonnie_Raitt" title="Bonnie Raitt">Bonnie Raitt</a></li></ul></li> <li>2023 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bobby_McFerrin" title="Bobby McFerrin">Bobby McFerrin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nirvana_(band)" title="Nirvana (band)">Nirvana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ma_Rainey" title="Ma Rainey">Ma Rainey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slick_Rick" title="Slick Rick">Slick Rick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nile_Rodgers" title="Nile Rodgers">Nile Rodgers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Supremes" title="The Supremes">The Supremes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ann_Wilson" title="Ann Wilson">Ann Wilson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Wilson_(rock_musician)" title="Nancy Wilson (rock musician)">Nancy Wilson</a></li></ul></li> <li>2024 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Laurie_Anderson" title="Laurie Anderson">Laurie Anderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Clark_Sisters" title="The Clark Sisters">The Clark Sisters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gladys_Knight" title="Gladys Knight">Gladys Knight</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N.W.A" title="N.W.A">N.W.A</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donna_Summer" title="Donna Summer">Donna Summer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tammy_Wynette" title="Tammy Wynette">Tammy Wynette</a></li></ul></li> <li>2025 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Frankie_Beverly" title="Frankie Beverly">Frankie Beverly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Clash" title="The Clash">The Clash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bobby_Jones_(singer)" title="Bobby Jones (singer)">Bobby Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taj_Mahal_(musician)" title="Taj Mahal (musician)">Taj Mahal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prince_(musician)" title="Prince (musician)">Prince</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roxanne_Shante" title="Roxanne Shante">Roxanne Shante</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frankie_Valli" title="Frankie Valli">Frankie Valli</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235" /></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame_–_Class_of_2002153" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231" /><div 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<ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Sweet_Dreams_(soundtrack)" title="Sweet Dreams (soundtrack)">Sweet Dreams</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Compilation albums</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Patsy_Cline%27s_Golden_Hits" title="Patsy Cline's Golden Hits">Patsy Cline's Golden Hits</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Patsy_Cline_Story" title="The Patsy Cline Story">The Patsy Cline Story</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/That%27s_How_a_Heartache_Begins" title="That's How a Heartache Begins">That's How a Heartache Begins</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Patsy_Cline%27s_Greatest_Hits" title="Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits">Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Here%27s_Patsy_Cline" title="Here's Patsy Cline">Here's Patsy Cline</a></i></li> <li><i><a 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