Brenda: Mr. Foley came to town, Red Foley. And he let me sing a song on the show, and at that point, he had the first network country television show, and it was called the “Ozark Jubilee ...
This Christmas, Lee, now 80, is celebrating her perennial holiday hit with a new PBS American Masters documentary, Brenda Lee ... Tree" went to No. 2. The song repeated its trip to the runner ...
"I got a call on the phone, and they said, 'Brenda! Brenda! There's a movie out. It's called Home Alone, and your song's all over it,' " she recalls in the documentary. "And I said, 'Which song?
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He said, "Brenda..." -- and we listened to everything together. He'd say, "Be careful of what you choose. Don't prostitute yourself to choose a song that you think commercially is gonna to be a hit.
If anyone could match the sonorous voices of the Oak Ridge Boys, it was Brenda Lee, who invited the ascendant quartet to join her on (what else) a classic-sounding heartbreak song. At just 35 ...