Brenda Lee with Elvis Presley.

Singer Brenda Lee is known for her rockabilly, pop, country,
and Christmas music. She achieved her first Billboard hit at
age 12 in 1957.

Some of Lee’s most successful songs include "Sweet Nothin’s",
"I’m Sorry", "I Want to Be Wanted", "Speak to Me Pretty", "All
Alone Am I", and "Losing You".

Her song "Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree", recorded in
1958, topped the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 2023, making Lee
the oldest artist ever to top the chart and breaking several
chart records. She is 81 years young today.     
    
    
    
    
    
   

Little Richard (Richard Wayne Penniman)
(December 5, 1932 – May 9, 2020) 

Musician Little Richard is known for his groundbreaking stage
persona and early rock n’ roll hits "Tutti Frutti" and "Long Tall
Sally."

Steve Cropper, Blues Brothers band member and Booker T. &
the MG’s guitarist, has died.

Pat Mitchell Worley, president and CEO of the Soulsville
Foundation, told the Associated Press that Cropper’s family
notified her of his death. Cropper died Wednesday in Nashville, according to Worley.

Worley’s foundation operates at the Stax Museum of American
Soul Music in Memphis, where Cropper’s former employer,
Stax Records, used to be.

Eddie Floyd and Steve Cropper in 1968.

The 1999 debut studio album.

Icon Britney Spears has had a significant cultural impact in the
21st century and is credited for helping revive the teen pop
genre.

She is known for her stage performances and for exploring
musical genres including pop, contemporary R&B, electropop,
and adult contemporary.

               
ED DANAHUE