Obit: Teresa Brewer (17 October 2007, age 76)

Subject: Obit: OBIT. Teresa Brewer
From: fat B****rd
Date: 18 Oct 07 - 03:35 PM

I just saw on Ceefax that Teresa Brewer passed away. So, what can you say ? Put Another Nickel In. RIP Miss Brewer

Subject: RE: Obit: OBIT. Teresa Brewer
From:
Date: 18 Oct 07 - 03:37 PM

Sorry to hear. Nice cheery song that was. Will have to find a Nickelodeon and put one in!

Subject: RE: Obit: OBIT. Teresa Brewer
From: eddie1
Date: 18 Oct 07 - 03:59 PM

A cousin gave me a wind-up gramophone and a copy of Ms Brewer singing "Cross Over The Bridge" My very first record! Played it till the grooves wore out. Sorry to see her go.
Eddie

Subject: RE: Obit: Teresa Brewer (17 October 2007, age 76)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Oct 07 - 04:03 PM

The Associated Press obituary is here (click). I liked her music when I was a kid - I think it was the musical equivalent of "comfort food," with a strong touch of perkiness.
She always seemed like such a nice person.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Obit: Teresa Brewer (17 October 2007, age 76)
From: catspaw49
Date: 18 Oct 07 - 04:14 PM

She had plenty of pop hits but I just loved her jazz work. Quite a lady, a pop singer, and a writer.......... but one helluva' jazz singer!

Spaw

Subject: RE: Obit: Teresa Brewer (17 October 2007, age 76)
From: Beer
Date: 18 Oct 07 - 04:16 PM

Great lady and memories to recall.
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: Obit: Teresa Brewer (17 October 2007, age 76)
From: catspaw49
Date: 18 Oct 07 - 04:23 PM

Listen to some of her other fine jazz work with Count Basie and others HERE.....Try "After You're Gone" or just anything...

Spaw

Subject: RE: Obit: Teresa Brewer (17 October 2007, age 76)
From: Peace
Date: 18 Oct 07 - 04:28 PM

MUSIC ! MUSIC ! MUSIC ! (PUT ANOTHER NICKEL IN)
(Stephan Weiss / Bernie Baum)

Teresa Brewer & The Dixieland All Stars - 1950
The Ames Brothers - 1950
Carmen Cavallaro & His Orch.(vocals: The Cavaliers) - 1950
Freddy Martin & His Orch.(vocals: Merv Griffin) - 1950
Micket Katz & His Orch. - 1950
Hugo Winterhalter, His Orch. & Chorus - 1950
The Sensations - 1961


Put another nickel in
In the nickelodeon
All I want is lovin' you
And music! music! music!

I'd do anything for you
Anything you'd want me to
All I want is kissin' you
And music! music! music!

Closer, my dear, come closer
The nicest part of any melody
Is when you're dancing close to me

So, put another nickel in
In the nickelodeon
All I want is lovin' you
And music! music! music!

[Dixieland Piano Break]

Put another nickel in
In the nickelodeon
All I want is lovin' you
And music! music! music!

I'd do anything for you
Anything you'd want me to
All I want is kissin' you
And music! music! music!

Closer, my dear, come closer
The nicest part of any melody
Is when you're dancing close to me

So, put another nickel in
In the nickelodeon
All I want is lovin' you
And music! music! music!

SPOKEN:
"C'mon, everybody! Put some nickels in! And keep that old
nickelodeon playing!"

Dum-dee-dum dee-dah-dee-dum
Dum-dee-dum dee-dah-dee-dum
Dum-dee-dum dee-dah-dee-dum
And music! music! music!

Dum-dee-dum dee-dah-dee-dum
Dum-dee-dum dee-dah-dee-dum
Dum-dee-dum dee-dah-dee-dum
And music! music! music!

(Dixieland piano to end)


Goodbye you sweet gal.

Subject: RE: Obit: Teresa Brewer (17 October 2007, age 76)
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 18 Oct 07 - 04:41 PM

Here she is on YouTube singing Music, Music, Music

Subject: RE: Obit: Teresa Brewer (17 October 2007, age 76)
From: Cruiser
Date: 18 Oct 07 - 05:12 PM

Thanks for that post McGrath. Being an older guy (like you, Sir), Ms. Brewer is a favorite songtress of mine.

Thanks to your post I found a song I did not know she recorded that was a favorite of mine by Bobby Vinton, 'She Understands Me' (Dum-De-Da) from 1964. Johnny Tillotson also recorded a chart hit for it in 1964.


He Understands Me

Subject: RE: Obit: Teresa Brewer (17 October 2007, age 76)
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Oct 07 - 05:19 PM

Funny...I didn't think I followed that sort of stuff, but I remember a bunch of them....she was just.....good.

Thanks for the link, Pat...we're listening to a bunch of them.

Subject: RE: Obit: Teresa Brewer (17 October 2007, age 76)
From: Cruiser
Date: 18 Oct 07 - 05:50 PM

One of my favorite songs of hers is "Tweedle Dee" but I did not see that on YouTube. Laverne Baker did the best R&B version of it.

The link is a neat version by the great Connie Francis.

Tweedle Dee Connie Francis

Subject: RE: Obit: Teresa Brewer (17 October 2007, age 76)
From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz
Date: 18 Oct 07 - 05:57 PM

Rest in Peace Teresa...

bob

Subject: RE: Obit: Teresa Brewer (17 October 2007, age 76)
From: GUEST,Mike B.
Date: 18 Oct 07 - 06:07 PM

She was the lead singer on the 50s hit "I Love Mickey", with baseball legend Mickey Mantle providing the backup vocals (in a manner of speaking).

Subject: RE: Obit: Teresa Brewer (17 October 2007, age 76)
From: catspaw49
Date: 18 Oct 07 - 06:18 PM

She was actually one of the writers on that song as well. The song was also used lately in Billy Crystal's fine baseball movie, "*61."

Spaw

Subject: RE: Obit: Teresa Brewer (17 October 2007, age 76)
From: bobad
Date: 18 Oct 07 - 07:04 PM

A good selection of her songs available for listening here.

Subject: RE: Obit: Teresa Brewer (17 October 2007, age 76)
From: GUEST,Texas Guest
Date: 19 Oct 07 - 01:30 AM

Rest well Ms. Brewer - you were a hit. Cheers.

Subject: RE: Obit: Teresa Brewer (17 October 2007, age 76)
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Oct 07 - 08:37 AM

When I was a student at Henry C. Lea School, in West Philly, Theresa Brewer was at the height of her popularity with hits like "Til I Waltz Again With You" and "Bell Bottom Blues". Acroos the street from our school was an eatery owned by Milton Kellem, who composed her first hits. Her photos adorned the walls of the diner and her music played, constantly, on the jukebox. In an era of perky singers, she was the perkiest. My favorite Brewer song was "The Banjo's Back In Town". Hotcha!

Subject: RE: Obit: Teresa Brewer (17 October 2007, age 76)
From: open mike
Date: 19 Oct 07 - 11:57 AM

pickle up a doodle??
wonder how much nickleodeon cost today 25 or 50 cents?
quarterodeon?
she brought joy to many...
thank you Teresa~

Subject: RE: Obit: Teresa Brewer (17 October 2007, age 76)
From: Bernard
Date: 19 Oct 07 - 02:14 PM

I've still got 'Music, Music, Music' on a 78 somewhere... when I was five it was my favourite song... sleep well, Teresa.

Subject: RE: Obit: Teresa Brewer (17 October 2007, age 76)
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 19 Oct 07 - 02:26 PM

I heard her a lot in the early 1950's. She certainly had a prime set of bellows for someone so small. I AM referring, of course, to her vocalizing. She and Georgia Gibbs both had a brassier style than many of their contemporaries and brought a change of pace to recordings from the period. The more performers from that era that move off this mortal coil, the more mortal I begin to feel...

Subject: RE: Obit: Teresa Brewer (17 October 2007, age 76)
From: GUEST,Jim D
Date: 19 Oct 07 - 06:14 PM

I think her ballads from the 50s & 60s were the best. Many of them were on albums so they didn't make the top of the charts. In my opinion she was the best female vocalist of the mid 20th century. Loved all of her recordings.

Subject: RE: Obit: Teresa Brewer (17 October 2007, age 76)
From: dulcimer42
Date: 19 Oct 07 - 11:06 PM

So sad to hear that. I must have been about ten or so when she sang "Ricochet Romance".....I don't want a ricochet romance, I don't want a ricochet love. If you're careless with your kisses, find another turtle dove...." I sang it and sang it with her, on the radio, and I was certain that I sounded just like her. I decided then and there that I wanted to be a singer just like her. I told mom and dad I wanted to take singing lessons. They said there wasn't any future in that, and they signed me up for piano lessons.   I stuck with those lessons for about 3 years, hated practicing, and begged to quit.   I'm thankful today for those lessons which were my introduction to playing music. And thankful for Teresa, who was my introduction to singing.   Today I have quite a collection of instruments, and love playing them and singing.

Subject: RE: Obit: Teresa Brewer (17 October 2007, age 76)
From: goatfell
Date: 20 Oct 07 - 07:29 AM

that is so sad.

I still have the old 78 recording of that song.

Tom

ps
I'll be singing it at the Irvine folk club on wednesday

Subject: RE: Obit: Teresa Brewer (17 October 2007, age 76)
From: Flash Company
Date: 20 Oct 07 - 11:58 AM

My mother drove Dad mad singing 'that bloody song' to quote the man.
The final straw was when a horse called Nickel Coin won one of the Classic Races (can't remember which). She backed it, he didn't!

FC

Subject: RE: Obit: Teresa Brewer (17 October 2007, age 76)
From: pdq
Date: 20 Oct 07 - 12:45 PM

A quick web search show Teresa Brewer's "Music! Music! Music!" was a million-selling hit in 1950.

Nickel Coin, the horse, was the winner of the Grand National in 1951.

Subject: RE: Obit: Teresa Brewer (17 October 2007, age 76)
From: Cruiser
Date: 20 Oct 07 - 01:07 PM

This thread exemplifies the value and power that music has for all of us. Some very interesting, humorous, and moving human story lines resulted from this young woman's beautiful, uplifting voice.

Ms. Brewer was just one of the many music heroes /heroines that have brighten my life and nothing today can match the music of the 1940s, 50s and early 1960s….before those darn Beetles and the British Music Invasion (the Brits got back at us for their whuppin' in the American Revolutionary War by attacking and ruining our music).

Subject: RE: Obit: Teresa Brewer (17 October 2007, age 76)
From: GUEST,Peggy
Date: 23 Oct 07 - 08:43 PM

Does anyone know what neuromuscular disease she died from? I remember reading it on our local paper (Mt. Vernon, NY, just a couple of miles from her adopted town of New Rochelle)but I had never heard of it. I was going to look it up and then threw away the paper.

Subject: RE: Obit: Teresa Brewer (17 October 2007, age 76)
From: catspaw49
Date: 23 Oct 07 - 09:15 PM

Here ya' go.......She died from PSP. Also, the home site for PSP......PSP Site

Spaw