Today I Found Out

The 13 Year Old Girl Who Brought Us "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" (2015x195)

Air date: Dec 17, 2015

→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut How Did Jeans Become Popular? https://youtu.be/O1eUwpO76Pw?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3XRa-w_G0dy_aMMXj0Uq-k The Numerous Bodies Recently Found in Ben Franklin’s Basement https://youtu.be/tp61Yrj5lTA?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3XRa-w_G0dy_aMMXj0Uq-k In this video: Brenda Mae Tarpley (a.k.a. Brenda Lee and “Little Miss Dynamite”) was born to an extremely poor family in December of 1944. Things took a turn for the worse when her father, a onetime semi-pro baseball player and carpenter, died in a construction accident in May of 1953 when she was 8 years old. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/12/brenda-lee-was-just-13-years-old-when-she-recorded-rockin-around-the-christmas-tree/ Sources: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786866446/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0786866446&linkCode=as2&tag=vicastingcom-20 http://www.brendalee.com/pages/biography.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockin%27_Around_the_Christmas_Tree http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Marks http://www.musicrow.com/2010/03/peanut-faircloth-passes/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Foley