Rockin’ around the Christmas Tree – the song that makes the season

[barryqwalsh]

What makes the song marvellous is Ms Lee’s sensational, full-on, throaty and sweet rock and roll delivery over an arrangement dominated by thumping drums, slashed guitar and soaring, rasping sax. Even the most arthritic will scarce forbear a rhythmic twitch. And that might lead a listener on to “I’m Sorry, Sweet Nothings, Let’s Jump the Broomstick and half a dozen more. As plaintive as Patsy Cline when called on, as jumping as Wanda Jackson when she wants. The only acts to out-sell her in the 1960s were Elvis, the Beatles and Ray Charles.

Rockin around the Christmas Tree the song that makes the season