Rocking Around the Christmas Tree is a Christmas song written by Johnny Marks and recorded by Brenda Lee in 1958. Despite her mature-sounding voice, Lee recorded this song when she was only 13 years old. Despite the song's title, its instrumentation also fits the country music genre, which Brenda Lee more fully embraced as her career evolved. The recording features Hank Garland's guitar and Boots Randolph's swinging sax.