- Brenda Trivia: Brenda Lee's real name is Brenda Mae Tarpley, born December 11, 1944 in Lithonia, Georgia, USA.
- Brenda Trivia: Eventhough only 4'9" tall, she was known informally as: "Little Miss Dynamite".
- Brenda Trivia: 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...
- ... By the time she was two, she could whistle the melody of songs she heard on the radio.
- Brenda Trivia: At age six, she won a local singing contest, winning a live appearance on an Atlanta radio show, Starmakers Revue, where she performed for the next year.
- Brenda Trivia: Her father died in 1953, and by the time she turned ten, she was the primary breadwinner of her family through singing at events and on local radio and television shows.
- Brenda Trivia: She was only 11 years old when Decca Records offered her a recording contract.
- Brenda Trivia: Her break into big-time show business came in February 1955, when she appeared on Red Foley's Ozark Jubilee.
- Brenda Trivia: After she sang Jambalaya, The audience erupted in applause and refused to let her leave the stage until she had sung three more songs.
- Brenda Trivia: She had forty-seven US chart hits during the 1960s, and a number were only surpassed by artists like Elvis Presley.
- Brenda Trivia: With 47 U.S. chart hits, she was the top-charting American female vocalist of the 1960s, singing rockabilly, pop and country music.
- Brenda Trivia: In 1957 at age 12, she recorded "One Step at a Time", and so was the youngest person to place a song on Billboard`s country singles chart.
- Brenda Trivia: Her total of nine consecutive top 10 Billboard 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 Madonna.
- Brenda Trivia: Recorded by 13 year-old Brenda in 1958, the overall biggest selling track of her career was "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree".
- Brenda Trivia: "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" is estimated to have had, as of 2011, 679,000 digital downloads, placing it fourth on the list of all-time best-selling Christmas/holiday singles. (SoundScan).
