Brenda Lee has noted that when she first heard “Rockin”’ Around the Christmas Tree”, she was digging the tune because “it was a rocking kind of a song”, i.e. one that differs from your traditional carol. Indeed, it...
These days, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic and all, Christmas just ain’t what it used to be. But perhaps that reality of being denied certain material pleasures will cause some of us to harp...