ROCKIN' AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE (CHRISTMAS SONGS)

Hello everyone Welcome back to the Daily Vitamin! I hope you had an excellent weekend.

This week we are going to look at different Christmas songs that have been recorded over the years by different artists. For each lesson, I will include the lyrics and a link to the song on YouTube or a similar platform. 

Today's Christmas song is: Rockin' around the Christmas Tree

You can listen to the song (with lyrics) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qYz7rfgLWE

You can read more about the song in Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockin%27_Around_the_Christmas_Tree

You will see, in the Wikipedia article, that the song has remained popular over the years. Here is a part of that article: 

"[It] is a Christmas song written by Johnny Marks and recorded by Brenda Lee in 1958; it has since been recorded by numerous other music artists. [...] Lee's recording of the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In November 2023, Lee released a music video for the song, and in December 2023 the song topped the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, marking Lee's third number-one single and making Lee the oldest artist ever to top the Hot 100 at age 78. The song also set the record for the longest period of time between an original release and its topping the Hot 100 (65 years), as well as the longest time between number-one singles by an artist: 63 years, one month and two weeks."

And here is a comical mash-up of the song with AC/DC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM10A86drpI

Have fun with the song and let me know (in English), on one of our social media sites (Facebook or Twitter/X), what you think of the AC/DC-Brenda Lee mash-up or the song in general. We'll give you feedback about your opinion as soon as we can.

Enjoy the rest of your day.

All the best!

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