Former Teen Country Singer Star Molly Bee dies.
Molly Bee, born as Mollie Gene Beachboard, also known as Molly Muncy was an American country music singer who became a popular teenage star at age of 13 with the 1952 novelty hit “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.
This was followed by at least three more hit singles and a brief acting career.
On February 07, 2009, Molly Bee, 69, died of complications relating to a stroke, at the Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside, California. She had been in worsening health for several months.
Bee was just 10 when she started her music career, singing the “Lovesick Blues” of Hank Williams Classic on the radio with country star Rex Allen. She met Rex at one of his concert and impressed him when she sang a song.
Three years later, she became a star, with a hit song and a regular role on a popular Los Angeles country-western TV show, “Hometown Jamboree”.
In 1954, she made her movie debut in “Coral Cuties”, opposite country star Tennessee Ernie Ford, and had a recorded duet “Don’t Go Courtin’ in a Hot Rod Ford” the year before.
She also appeared in the films “Going Steady,” “Chartroose Caboose” and “The Young Swingers,” and recorded such songs as “Young Romance,” “5 Points of a Star” and “Don’t Look Back.”
She also had a regular role on Ford’s TV variety show and played Pinky Lee’s sidekick on “The Pinky Lee Show,” one of the most popular children’s programs of the 1950s.
Bee’s career began to fade by the late 1960s, and in later years she was candid in saying a period of drug abuse was one of the reasons.
It was no secret that she had been through some tough times in the ’60s and ’70s with drugs. She compared it to being part and parcel of the kinds of things happening in the music business at the time.
Her personal life was at times of confusions. She was married five times.
She made a comeback in the 1970s, playing small country bars that were very different from the large concert audiences she had once attracted. Slowly she rebuilt her audience, releasing the albums “Good Golly Ms. Molly” in 1975 and “Sounds Fine to Me” in 1982. More recently she appeared from time to time at autograph shows.
Molly Gene Beachboard was born on Aug. 18, 1939, in Oklahoma City and raised in Tennessee and Arizona before moving to Los Angeles with her family at age 11.
One thing I can say is that she has a very cool name. 
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Gee, I thought it was the Jackson 5 who first sang I saw mommy kissing santa claus