Annie Zaleski

And there's not a lot of information about them.

You really have to kind of dig to find out sort of what they did.

Bobby Helms over the years has always claimed, you know, he's no longer with us.

But when he was alive, he claimed, I wrote a bunch of this stuff.

I really rewrote this song and he didn't get credit for it.

And so, but, but he, and he was in country music.

That was so interesting is that he had had a couple of country hits.

So when he kind of came up with this song that was, you know, a little bit, um,

You know, it's funny because it's very early rock and roll, kind of easygoing.

You can tell that he was in country, by the way, with the instrumentation and the musicianship.

Hank Garland was on it, big country music performer.

And just really sort of being laid back and sort of shuffling.

And it's just, it's one of those feel-good songs when, you know, Jingle Bell Rock.

Jingle Bell Rock is basically it's people going, you know, you're going to Jingle Bell Square, you know, so it's kind of playing up the iconography of Christmas and just kind of for teenagers going out and dancing.

That's very much this.

Same thing with Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, you know, and this Brenda Lee, first off, nailed it.

This was another song that she recorded right in the dead of summer.

And it was written by Johnny Marks, who is notorious because he also wrote Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

No, actually, you know what?

She was 12.