Brenda Lee
- MatchBrenda Lee
- 100%Bobby Helms
- 82%Burl Ives
- 72%Band Aid
- 71%Andy Williams
- 71%Bing Crosby
- 65%Darlene Love
- 64%Perry Como
- 63%Connie Francis
- 61%Gene Autry
- 60%Johnny Mathis
Biography
Brenda Mae Tarpley, 11 December 1944, Lithonia, Georgia, USA. Even in early adolescence, Lee had an adult husk of a voice that could slip from anguished intimacy through sleepy insinuation to raucous lust, even during Lets Jump The Broomstick, Speak To Me Pretty and other jaunty classics that kept her in the hit parade from the mid-50s to 1965. Through local radio and, by 1956, wider exposure on Red Foleys Ozark Jubilee broadcasts, Little Brenda... Read more