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Post by petrolino on Sept 13, 2019 20:13:53 GMT
Teresa Brewer : 'Toledo Tessie'
'The Hula Hoop Song'
'Sweet Old Fashioned Girl'
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"As a teenager, I bought only two records: Tommy Dorsey's "Boogie Woogie" - I love to dance - and a calypso number called "Run, Joe" by, I think, Louis Jordan. My mother had a wonderful voice, though, and she'd sing around the house."
- Teresa Brewer, Teresa Brewer Center
'Music, Music, Music'
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"At 5'1", tiny Teresa Brewer towered over little Brenda Lee."
- Tullio Bonanno, Jazz Dimensions
'Roll Them Roly Boly Eyes'
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'We are thrilled to announce that our new restoration of Those Redheads from Seattle (1953) premiered on the big screen at the TCM Festival on April 7, 2017! This Technicolor Pine-Thomas production from 1953 features excellent stereoscopic photography by Oscar-winning cinematographer Lionel Lindon. Written and directed by Lewis R. Foster and featuring a stellar cast which includes Rhonda Fleming, Gene Barry and Agnes Moorehead, "the first 3-D musical" also contains five terrific tunes by popular recording artists Teresa Brewer, Guy Mitchell and the Bell Sisters.'
- Turner Classic Movies
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"From the 1970s, Teresa Brewer performed frequently in Las Vegas, at casinos owned by Howard Hughes. She also appeared at jazz festivals, notably at Montreux in 1983, where she sang with Woody Herman's band. After one of her shows, Elvis Presley told her that the first song he performed in public in the mid-1950s had been Till I Waltz Again With You. Lulu's first public performance in the early 1960s included A Tear Fell, and she also influenced Bette Midler. "When I first started singing and making records," said Connie Francis, recalling her debut in the late 1950s, "I tried to sound like Teresa Brewer and do her type of song."
- Dave Laing, The Guardian
'Come On And Drive Me Crazy' - Teresa Brewer & Stephane Grappelli
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Post by mattgarth on Sept 13, 2019 21:11:04 GMT
My grandmother was a teacher at a suburban New York parochial school (New Rochelle, where Tessie would pass away in 2007), where Brewer had enrolled her children.
Grandma told my mom (who would pass it on to me) that she was a very sweet lady, but who had a bad first marriage to a heavy Gambler who was losing her hard-earned money at the back room poker tables at the local exclusive Wykagyl Country Club they belonged to.
Many a late night she would call the place, only to be told by the bartender (as per her hubby's instructions) that he was not there.
So one night she told him: "Don't give me that -- I know he's there!"
Arranging for a baby sitter in a hurry, Little Tessie then drove over to the club, stormed in and forcefully hanked Mr. Gambler home!
Yep -- the marriage soon ended.
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Post by petrolino on Sept 13, 2019 22:08:58 GMT
My grandmother was a teacher at a suburban New York parochial school where Ms. Brewer enrolled her children. Grandma told my mom (who would pass it on to me) that she was a very sweet lady, but who had a bad first marriage to a heavy Gambler who was losing her hard-earned money at the back room poker tables at the local exclusive country club they belonged to. Many a late night she would call the place, only to be told by the bartender (as per her hubby's instructions) that he was not there. So one night she told him: "Don't give me that -- I know he's there!" Arranging for a baby sitter in a hurry, Little Tessie then drove over to the club, stormed in and forcefully hanked Mr. Gambler home! Yep -- the marriage soon ended.
I've read that she recorded more than 600 songs. If true, that's remarkable.
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Post by teleadm on Sept 14, 2019 14:10:40 GMT
"Put another nickel in
In the nickelodeon
All I want is having you
And music, music, music"
Good old music for us who remembers old radio easy listening.
Didn't know she was married to Bob Thiele who wrote "What a Wonderful World" for Louis Armstrong.
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Post by petrolino on Mar 24, 2021 17:45:28 GMT
"Put another nickel in In the nickelodeon All I want is having you And music, music, music" Good old music for us who remembers old radio easy listening. Didn't know she was married to Bob Thiele who wrote "What a Wonderful World" for Louis Armstrong.
Fun performance. George Segal worked with Carl Reiner on 'Where's Poppa' (1970) and Reiner used that song as a duet between Steve Martin and Sissy Spacek's disembodied brain in 'The Man With Two Brains' (1983).
'Alexander's Ragtime Band'
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