Brenda Lee

Little Miss Dynamite strikes again (Mar 2002)

After 12-year-old Brenda Lee recorded the rockabilly hit "Dynamite" in 1957, a British writer dubbed the precocious performer "Little Miss Dynamite." The name stuck, as well it should have. Lee proved to be as explosive performing in a swank supper club or on a country music bill as she was on a rockabilly stage. In fact, Lee was so precocious that before her first trip to their country, the French press reported that the 14-year-old girl was actually a 32-year-old midget.  ...