"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" is as relevant as ever in 2023. That's a bold statement, considering the song was a hit upon its 1958 release, and it got taught to a new generation of Brenda Lee fans through the 1990 film "Home Alone." The song spent two weeks this December at No. 1 before being toppled on the week of Dec. 23 by the usual suspect: Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You."
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Lee's on the list of 15 artists in both the country and rock halls of fame, along with Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Elvis Presley and a few others. It make sense, then, that country star and rocker-at-heart Carrie Underwood added one of the songs of the season to her setlist for a recent date of her Reflection Las Vegas residency.
Underwood belted out the song while wearing a festive purple dress. As you might expect, her commanding vocals did the Lee classic justice.
