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Less than two months later—on July 30, 1956—Decca Records offered her a contract, and her first record was Jambayala backed with Bigelow 6-200 . Lee's second single would feature two novelty Christmas tunes: I'm Gonna Lasso Santa Claus , and Christy Christmas . Though she turned 12 on December 11, 1956, both of the first two Decca singles credit her as Little Brenda Lee (9 Years Old).
It would be another four years before she had her big commercial breakthrough with Sweet Nothin's (a #4 hit in early 1960) and I'm Sorry, but Brenda Lee made a series of records leading up to those hits that would defy any cynic's expectations of what a girl of her age was capable of. Though she would be known during her heyday as a singer who leaned toward country music, early records like Dynamite 1—the source of her nicknameF—and Bigelow 6-200 were hard-driving rockabilly of the sort that would gain her entry into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and would make lifelong fans of a certain Liverpool foursome who would open for Lee under the name The Silver Beetles during her pre-Beatlemania tour of Great Britain.
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