Comments on: 100 Greatest Women, #17: Brenda Lee

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 09:14:03 +0000

Great post. I just wanted to say thanks for your efforts!

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:01:01 +0000

Brenda Lee is no doubt a nice lady and an important singer, certainly one of the greatest names in pop music, but you are overstating her importance to country music. She was a pop singer when she had four of the six essential singles you list and those songs were not released to country radio nor did they chart country. Brenda was not a country singer until the 1970′s and then her success was somewhat modest with only an occasional top ten record. If you are going count Brenda’s pop success as country why haven’t you done the same for Patti Page who you don’t list at all who had a very similar career? Brenda deserves to be on the list but certainly not in the top 20 given her biggest country hit peaked at #4.

By: dave

dave — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:27:03 +0000

If you all are ever in Nashville i hear the new Brenda Lee Dynamite Exhibit is worth seeing. Check It out at the country music hall of fame and museum. But yes Brenda Lee rocks

By: JarheadDad

JarheadDad — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:23:59 +0000

Aw, Brenda Lee was just a Nashville product robot singing other people’s songs! Mass produced to appeal to the masses. Just stood there on stage and sang. HA!

Juuuuuuuuust kiddin’! he-he!

I heart me some Brenda Lee boy. Man, dancing to her music at the sock hops and gettin’ my first kiss behind the gym with her singing in the background. Whew! There’s a memory lane moment for you!

Overshare! :-o

What a truly remarkable woman. I wondered where she’d come in on the list. I bet I still have her 45s somewhere in a box in the attic! And I will admit I had somewhat of a crush on Brenda when I was a youngster!!! :-)

By: Paul W Dennis

Paul W Dennis — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:25:05 +0000

I couldn’t agree more Kevin, She is a legendary singer and an even better person.

The list of essential Brenda Lee songs is endless: “Break It To Me Gently” , “You Were Always On My Mind” , “All Alone Am I” . While I regard her more as a pop singer than a country singer, her credentials in both realms are impeccible and she has long served as a positive force in the world of music and the world at large I cannot think of any controversy that has ever attached itself to her name. When you say “Brenda Lee” only positive thoughts and feelings arise