BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
Full Name: Theresa Breuer
Description: Vocalist, USA
Known For: Known for the song “Music Music Music” (Hit Song 1950)
Instruments: Voice
Music Styles: Easy Listening
Location: United States of America
Date Born: 7th May 1931
Location Born: Toledo, Ohio, United States of America
Date Died: 17th October 2007
Location Died: New Rochelle, New York, United States of America
Cause Of Death: neuromuscular disease
CONTACT DETAILS
Representative: Teresa Brewer Fan Club, C/O Bill Munro – (President)
Contact Address: 584 Prospect Street, New Haven CT 06511 U.S.A.
Web Site: http://www.teresafans.org/
Other Links: For other links about this entertainer click on the Links button above
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BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Teresa Brewer
An American pop and jazz singer who was one of the most popular female singers of the 1950s.
Teresa Brewer was one of the fifties new comers.
Started singing at 4 years of age.
Her career has been quite out standing with a voice that sounds
very young and vibrant the hits during the fifties were of no fluke, the songs and voice said it all.
In 1949 she recorded a record called “Copenhagen” with the Dixieland All-Stars. The B side was a song called “Music! Music! Music!” by Stephen Weiss and Bernie Baum. Unexpectedly, it was not the A side but the B side that took off, selling over a million copies, and it became Teresa’s signature song.
In 1956 she had a two-sided hit with “A Tear Fell” and “Bo Weevil”, covers of R&B songs. This was followed by “Sweet Old-Fashioned Girl.”
Teresa Brewer remerged as a jazz vocalist on Thiele’s Amsterdam label in the 1980’s and 1990’s recording a number of albums including tribute albums to Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, and Irving Berlin.
Altogether, she recorded nearly 600 song titles. For her contribution to the recording industry, Teresa Brewer has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The singer died on October 17, 2007, at her home in New Rochelle, New York, of New Rochelle, New York She was 76.
Top Singles
“Anymore”
“Baby, Baby, Baby”
“The Banjo’s Back in Town”
“Bell Bottom Blues”
“Bo Weevil”
“Bye Bye Baby Goodbye”
“Choo’n Gum”
“Crazy With Love”
“Dancin’ With Someone”
“Empty Arms”
“Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now”
“Have You Ever Been Lonely?”
“Heavenly Lover”
“How Lonely Can One Be”
“The Hula Hoop Song”
“I Gotta Go Get My Baby”
“I Love Mickey”
“I’m Drowning My Sorrows”
“Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall”
“Jilted”
“Let Me Go, Lover!”
“Longing For You”
“Milord”
“Music! Music! Music!”
“Mutual Admiration Society”
“No Way Conway”
“The One Rose”
“Our Heartbreaking Waltz”
“Peace of Mind”
“Pickle Up a Doodle”
“Pledging My Love”
“Ricochet”
“Shoot It Again”
“Silver Dollar”
“Skinnie Minnie”
“A Sweet Old Fashioned Girl”
“Teardrops in My Heart”
“A Tear Fell”
“The Thing”
“Till I Waltz Again with You”
“You Send Me”
“You’ll Never Get Away”
The web address above includes album releases, dates recorded.
Also the Teresa Brewer Centre.