Teresa Brewer

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Teresa Brewer (born Theresa Breuer, 1931 – October 17, 2007) was an American singer whose style included pop, country, jazz, R&B, R&B, musicals, and novelty songs.

She was one of the 1950s' most popular female singers, recording nearly 600 songs.

Early life

Brewer was born in Toledo, Ohio, and was the eldest of five siblings. Her father was a glass inspector for the Libbey Owens Company (now part of Pilkington Glass), and her mother was a housewife.

Personal life

Teresa married William "Bill" Monahan in 1949; the couple had four children, Kathleen, Susan, Megan, and Michelle. They eventually divorced, but the union was broken in 1972 right before she married Bob Thiele.

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Career

Richie Lisella, an agent, heard her performer and took her career in hand, and London Records soon agreed to her. With the Dixieland All-Stars in 1949, she recorded the song Copenhagen (a jazz perennial) for the Dixieland All-Stars. "Music!" she performed on the B side of the country.

Music!

"Music" is a word that comes to mind. Unexpectedly, it was not the A side that took off, but the B side that took off, selling over a million copies and becoming Teresa's signature tune. In 1950, "Choo'n Gum" became the top ten, followed by "Molasses, Molasses" as the third novelty song. Although she liked to sing ballads, her first recorded ballad to make the charts was "Longing for You" in 1951.

Brewer changed names in 1951, eventually heading to Coral Records. Since she never learned how to read music, she had demos sent to her to find the songs she'd like to hear. Coral had a few hits. In 1952, she sang "You'll Never Get Away" in a duet with Don Cornell, followed by her best selling hit, "Till I Waltz Again With You" in 1953. "Pledging My Love" and "Tweedle Dee" were two of her many covers of rhythm and blues songs in the mid-1950s. "Jilted," "I Gotta Get My Baby," and "Let Me Go, Lover!" were among her country songs. Mickey Mantle, a New York Yankees center fielder who appeared on the record with Brewer, co-wrote "I Love Mickey" in 1956. It was also stated that the two people had a mutual attraction. Brewer's syncopated version of "Mutual Admiration Society" was another hit in 1956. In the same year, her hit "A Sweet Old Fashioned Girl" performed in one song demonstrated her ballad and rock talents. "You Give Me" and "Empty Arms" were among the country song "Teardrops in My Heart" and R&B songs "You Send Me" and "Empty Arms" in 1957.

She appeared in the 1953 film adaptation Those Redheads from Seattle, as Pat Edmonds – she was a natural redhead herself. "Baby Baby Baby" was her single success. She appeared on television shows such as The Muppet Show and Sha Na Na. At the 1968 MLB All Star Game, Brewer performed "The Star Spangled Banner" on his own. In 1976 (album, Portrait), and then again in 1991 (album, Sixteen Most Requested Songs), she released "Danny's Song" (written by Kenny Loggins) (album, Singin' a Doo Dah Song).

Brewer resurrects as a jazz vocalist on Thiele's Amsterdam label in the 1980s and 1990s, releasing a number of albums, including tribute albums to Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, and Irving Berlin. She has worked with such jazz legends as Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Earl Hines, Svend Asmussen, and Bobby Hackett. Softly I Swing (Red Baron Records, 1992), Patricia Murray's 1992 debut, was a seminal recording in her career, and featured David Murray, Ron Carter, Kenny Barron, and Grady Tate. Louis recalls her time with the likes of Clark Terry, Nicholas Payton, Ruby Braff, Freddie Hubbard, Wynton Marsalis, Roy Hargrove, Lew Soloff, Terence Blanchard, Yank Lawson, and Dizzy Gillespie.

Brewer died in 1996, and Brewer never recorded after that. She had over 600 song titles as a whole.

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