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Brenda
Lee,
real name Brenda
Mae Tarpley
(born December
11,
1944),
was an American teen
idol
and country
singer from Lithonia,
Georgia.
Brenda
sang in a big adult voice from childhood and began her recording career at age
12 in 1956,
with songs like "BIGELOW 6-200 (pronounced six two oh oh)" and "Little Jonah".
The song "Dynamite" coming out of a 4 ft 9 in (1.45 meter) frame led to her
lifelong nickname,
"Little Miss Dynamite".
Along
with Connie
Francis,
she was one of the first female idols, achieving huge popularity with a long
string of hits. At Christmas1958 she hit the top of the
charts with "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree". Then, disc jockeys also dubbed
her "Little Miss Razz Matazz" after her husky, pounding voice belted out her
second big hit, "Sweet Nothin's".
Brenda
Lee, while being a major female singer in early rock history, is considered the
first female artist to be known as a crossover
artist between early rock and country
music.
She was later joined in the same category by the late female singer Patsy
Cline.
In 1963, Lee released an album of uptempo American standards titled Sincerely,
Brenda Lee.
Her
last top-10 single was 1963's
"Losing You", was a moderate success, while she continued to have other chart
songs such as her 1966
song "Coming on Strong".
During
the early 1970s, Lee established herself as a country
music
artist, and earned a string of Top 10 hits. The first came with 1973's
"Nobody Wins," which reached the Top 5 that spring. The follow-up, "Sunday
Sunrise", reached No. 6 on Billboard
magazine's
Hot Country Singles chart that October. Other major hits included "Wrong Ideas"
and "Big Four Poster Bed" (1974); and "Rock on Baby" and "He's My Rock" (both
1975). After a few years of lesser hits, Lee began another run at the Top 10
with 1979's "Tell Me What It's Like". Two follow-ups also reached the Top 10 in
1980: "The Cowboy and the Dandy" and "Broken Trust" (the latter featuring vocal
backing by The
Oak Ridge Boys).
Her last well-known hit was 1985's "Hallelujah I Love Her So", a duet with George
Jones.
Lee
remains best remembered for her hit single "I'm Sorry", a favorite song heard
continuously on country
and Top
40
radio by her fans across the world.
Over
the ensuing years, Lee has continued to record and perform all around the world,
previously cutting records in four different languages.
She
is a member of the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame,
the Country
Music Hall of Fame
and the Rockabilly
Hall of Fame.
Chuck
Berry
wrote a song about Brenda Lee on the album St.
Louis to Liverpool.
She was also immortalized in the hit Golden
Earring
song "Radar Love": "Radio's playing some forgotten song / Brenda Lee's 'Coming
on Strong'."
A
few of Brenda Lee's better-known hits
◦ "Jambalaya
(On the Bayou)" (1956)
◦ "Rock-A-Bye
Baby Blues" (1957)
◦ "Rockin'
Around the Christmas Tree" (1958)
◦ "Sweet
Nothin's" (1959)
◦ "I'm
Sorry" (1960)
◦ "Break
It to Me Gently" (1962)
◦ "All
Alone Am I" (1962)
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