Brenda Lee

1962, I think it was.

Who did we have? We had Mike Sarn with Billy Davis helping out on Will I What? Brenda Lee, and it started all over again.

And some people again.

We heard Jet Harris and Tony Meehan earlier.

Yeah.

For number one, then, this is Brenda Lee.

And we're going all the way back now.

1961.

But it's about almost kind of repositioning these tracks, not in that kind of novelty space, but actually they were hugely influential.

If you look, for example, at the emerging female artists on this album, obviously Brenda Lee and you've got Little Eva and, you know, songs you know very well.

But even the likes of Helen Shapiro and Susan Monn that actually often don't get remembered anymore when people talk about that history of rock.

Yeah, I think the beat boom, when it happened, definitely helped British female singers because up to that point, they're all put in ball gowns.

And Helen Shapiro.

She's 13 or 14 when Walking Back to Happiness is number one.

And obviously her voice sounds like Brenda Lee.

She sounds much older than... than she actually is.

It's about what still holds up after the trends disappear and after the waves show up, like what is remaining.

That year, the Country Music Hall of Fame inductees were legendary songwriters Harlan Howard and Cindy Walker and the musical icon Brenda Lee.

The common thread of this class isn't about a certain style or sound.

As I mentioned already, it's more about durability.

That's five different kind of stars, but it's one person still able to write hits for them.

And that might not even be the most impressive part of her induction, because Cindy was the first woman to ever be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, specifically as a songwriter.

Then there's Brenda Lee.

Most people know her as the voice of Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, which by the way, hit number one again recently, breaking a ton of records, but her legacy in Nashville goes way deeper than a holiday hit.

So it would be four more weeks if everything goes according to hypothetical plans.

Right, because, for instance, a few years back, we had Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, Brenda Lee, come into number one for the first time.

There could

be a new Taylor song that comes out.

It's about what still holds up after the trends disappear and after the waves show up, like what is remaining.

That year, the Country Music Hall of Fame inductees were legendary songwriters Harlan Howard and Cindy Walker, and the musical icon Brenda Lee.

The common thread of this class isn't about a certain style or sound.

As I mentioned already, it's more about durability.

That's five different kind of stars, but it's one person still able to write hits for them.

And that might not even be the most impressive part of her induction, because Cindy was the first woman to ever be inducted in the Country Music Hall of Fame, specifically as a songwriter.

Then there's Brenda Lee.

Most people know her as the voice of Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, which, by the way, hit number one again recently, breaking a ton of records.

Let's see, we're kind of slopping out of the 68s into the 69s.

Here's Brenda Lee and Johnny one time.

So he told you that you're the dream That he's been searching for And he told you that he'd never met Anyone like you before And I can hear him telling you Your lips taste just like cherry wine Did he tell you that he's known as Johnny one time? Did he tell you that your heart will soon become another trinket on his bracelet of broken hearts? Did he tell you that the morning sun will find you patching up your shattered pride and searching for the missing parts? Did he tell you that the special love you're saving will disappear in flames of shame like mine? Did he tell you that he's known as Johnny one time? So he told you that he'd never leave your heart astray And he told you that he'd love you Forever and a day And I can hear him telling you That he's the shy and bashful kind But did he tell you That he's known as John One Time? Oh, did he tell you that your heart would soon become another trinket on his bracelet of broken hearts? And did he tell you that the morning sun will find you patching up your shattered pride and searching for the missing parts? Did he tell you that the special love you're saving will disappear in flames of shame like mine? Oh, did he tell you that he's known as Johnny One Time? Did he tell you that your heart will soon become another drink on his bracelet of broken hearts? Did he tell you that the morning sun will find you patching up your shattered pride and searching for the missing parts? Oh, did he tell you that the special love you're saving will disappear in flames of shame? Did it say that he's known

as Johnny One? Uh-huh.

She got a bad case of that one.

Johnny One Time.

Brenda Lee from 1969.

Also from 69.