Our DVD release sees the sensational Brenda Lee performing such favourites as ‘Coming On Strong’ and ‘All Alone Am I’ in a memorable 80s concert that clearly shows her at the very top of her professional career.
The diminutive Brenda exploded onto the music scene at the tender age of six winning a three-year contract to appear on TV programme Ozark Jubilee. It was from this platform in 1950 that Brenda Mae Tarpley from Lithonia, Georgia began her journey to worldwide stardom. Nicknamed ‘Little Miss Dynamite’, the young Brenda Lee was on course to take the world by storm.
Her first single ‘Jambalaya’ in 1956 heralded a string of hits including the million seller ‘I’m Sorry’ in 1960 toping the charts for an incredible six months and winning a gold disc in the process. In ’64 she recorded two major releases in the UK with hit supreme Mickey Most and went on in November of the same year to appear before the Queen in a Royal Command Performance, a feat she would never have dreamt possible.
Still performing today to packed audiences throughout the world this married mother of two was and still is as explosive on stage as her nickname implies.
Performance listing
1. Coming on strong
2. Silver threads & Golden needles
3. Johnny one time
4. You’re the one that I want
5. Medley:
Jambalaya
Is it true
My whole world is falling down
Sweet nothings
End of the world
All alone am I
6. Dum dum
7. Biggest fool of all
8. Too many rivers
9. Jambalaya
10. How much love
11. That’s all you gotta do
12. I’m sorry
13. Your mama don’t dance
14. Good old acapella
15. The old landmark
16. I’ll fly away
17. Operator
18. Saved
Brenda Lee – Coming On Strong [2004, DVD]
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