Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree - Mel & Kim

Blurb:
"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" is a Christmas song written by Johnny Marks and recorded by Brenda Lee in 1958 on Decca 9-30776.

Although Decca released it in both 1958 and again in 1959, it did not sell well until Lee became a popular star in 1960; that Christmas season, it hit #14 on the Billboard pop chart and turned into a perennial holiday favorite. It continued to sell well during the holiday season, hitting #5 on the Christmas chart as late as 1984. Brenda Lee's recording still receives a great deal of airplay. Despite the song's title, its instrumentation also fits the Country genre which Brenda Lee more fully embraced as her career evolved. Despite her mature-sounding voice, she recorded this song when she was only 14 years old. The recording featured Hank Garland's ringing guitar. For decades, Brenda Lee's recording was the only notable version of the song. Radio stations ranging from Top 40 to Adult Contemporary to Country Music to Oldies to even Adult Standards played this version.

A version of the song by Kim Wilde and Mel Smith (credited as "Mel & Kim" as a parody of then-popular sister act Mel and Kim), featuring Pete Thomas, reached #3 on the UK Singles Chart during the 1987 Christmas season. The track was a charity single recorded to raise funds for Comic Relief.

Mel & Kim - Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree
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[Mel to Griff, conversational:]
[Mel:]
Christmas coming around again eh?

[Griff:]
Yeah I mean it must be nearly a year since the last one

[Mel:]
Oh it's a good twelve months

[Griff:]
Yeah yeah

[Mel:]
You getting anything for your Granny this year?

[Griff:]
Well I thought about it I couldn't be bothered

[Mel:]
Well it's the thought that counts innit?

[Griff:]
Yeah that's how I see it
What do you fancy for Christmas then?

[Mel:]
Kim Wilde as usual, kidding myself though aren't I?
It's hopeless really it's pathetic I suppose in a way

[Griff:]
It is yeah - hello who is this?

[Kim:]
Merry Christmas Melvyn

[Mel:]
It can't be?

[Kim:]
Come on Mel how about pulling a cracker?

[Mel:]
By the look of you darling I think I already have
Get it?

[Kim:]
Rockin' around the Christmas tree
At the Christmas party hop
Mistletoe hung where you can see
Every couple try to stop

Rockin' around the Christmas tree
Let the Christmas spirit ring
Later we'll have some pumpkin pie
And we'll do some caroling

[Mel:]
(Pumpkin pie anyone?)

[Kim:]
You will get a sentimental feeling when you hear
Voices singing let's be jolly
Deck the halls with boughs of holly

Rockin' around the Christmas tree
Have a happy holiday
This is so corny
Everyone's dancing merrily
In the new old fashioned way

[Mel:]
Wow I am in the most almighty Christmas groove
I haven't had this much fun
Since "Two little boys" was number one
If my friends could see me now
How do I look?

[Kim:]
Ridiculous

[Mel:]
You little tease
A dance, Kimberley?

[Kim:]
I do love a nice sax break

[Mel:]
Yeah me too Kim, but let's wait till the record's over
Kim do you think our love will last forever?

[Kim:]
No

[Mel:]
Couple of years maybe?

[Kim:]
No

[Mel:]
Do you think we'll make it to the end of the video?

[Kim:]
How long is that - exactly?

You will get a sentimental feeling when you hear

[Mel:]
(All together now)

[Kim:]
Voices singing let's be jolly
Deck the halls with boughs of holly

[Griff:]
Excuse me can I sing something now?

[Mel:]
Get lost Griff!

[Griff:]
Well that's nice...

[Kim:]
Rockin' around the Christmas tree
Let the Christmas spirit ring

[Mel:]
(Root beer anyone?)

[Kim:]
Later we'll have pumpkin pie
And we'll do some carolling

[Mel:]
There's plenty of pumpkin pie left by the way

[Kim:]
Rockin' around the Christmas tree
Have a happy holiday
Do you mind Melvyn?
Everyone's dancing merrily
In the new old fashioned way

[Mel:]
Wow yeah that was fantastic

[Kim:]
Very nice

[Mel:]
Let's do it again! One two three four...

[Kim:]
Strewth

[Mel:]
Five!

[Kim:]
Rockin' around the Christmas tree
Have a happy holiday

[Mel:]
(He overdid it with the pumpkin pie)

[Kim:]
Everyone's dancing merrily
In the new old fashioned way

[Mel:]
Merry Christmas everybody!

[Kim:]
Merry Christmas everybody!

[Kim:]
Bye Mel it's been really interesting

[Griff:]
I'll tell you who I fancy for Christmas

[Mel:]
Who's that

[Griff:]
Bananarama

[Mel:]
Yeah can't help you there I'm afraid

[Griff:]
Oh thanks a bundle!

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