Brenda Lee, Little Miss Dynamite, was all of 15, but on her way to stardom when she recorded "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" in 1960. Country music star Red Foley had this to say about his first encounter with the young Miss Lee, "I still get cold chills thinking about the first time I heard that voice. One foot started patting rhythm as though she was stomping out a prairie fire but not another muscle in that little body even as much as twitched. And when she did that trick of breaking her voice, it jarred me out of my trance enough to realize I'd forgotten to get off the stage. There I stood, after 26 years of supposedly learning how to conduct myself in front of an audience, with my mouth open two miles wide and a glassy stare in my eyes."
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