Former Teen Country Singer Molly Bee Dies (Photos)

The singer of “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus”, Molly Bee, has died at the age of 69. Read more on Molly Bee’s life and death below.

Molly Bee, the country singer that became famous at the age of 13 with her hit in 1952 called “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus,” has died at the age of 69 from complications after having a stroke.

Molly Bee died Saturday at a hospital in Oceanside, but had been in ill health for months.

Bee was only 10 years-old at the start of her music career when she performed “Lovesick Blues” on Rex Allen’s radio show.

Years later Molly Bee had a hit song and a regular part on “Hometown Jamboree,” a popular Los Angeles country-western TV show.

Bee appeared in “Corral Cuties” in 1954 with country star Tennessee Ernie Ford, with whom she had recorded the duet “Don’t Go Courtin’ in a Hot Rod Ford” the year before.

Molly Bee also played Pinky Lee’s sidekick on “The Pinky Lee Show,” one of the most popular children’s programs of the 1950s.

“She just had this kind of down-home quality about her. There was nothing phony about her, it was all real, and everyone loved her,” actress Beverly Washburn told the AP. The two had appeared as sisters in the 1958 teen musical comedy “Summer Love.”

Bee’s career began to fade by the late 1960s, and blamed it on her drug abuse.

“It was no secret that she had been through some tough times in the ’60s and ’70s with drugs,” Saphire said. “She equated it to being part and parcel of the kinds of things happening in the music business at the time.”

Molly Bee also had a troubled romantic life was married five times.

She is survived by daughters Lia Genn and Bobbi Carey; a son, Michael Allen; a brother, Robert Beachboard; and four grandchildren.

Our condolences to Molly Bee’s family, friends, and fans.

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