Teresa Brewer
b. Theresa Breuer, 7 May 1931, Toledo, Ohio, USA. A child prodigy, Brewer first appeared on radio at the age of two and sang on the Major Bowes Amateur Hour between 1938-43. She was a veteran radio and club performer by the time she joined London Records in 1949. The attractive and strong-voiced teenager topped the US chart in 1950 with her debut hit Music Music Music on which she was backed by the Dixieland All Stars. She joined Coral Records in 1952 and continued hitting the US Top 10 with records like Ricochet, Jilted and the number 1 Till I Waltz Again With You. In 1953 she made her film debut in Those Redheads From Seattle with Guy Mitchell. Her first transatlantic Top 10 hit was her version of Let Me Go Lover in 1955, which she followed with two more in 1956: A Tear Fell and Sweet Old-Fashioned Girl. As rock ‘n’ roll took over, Brewer's sales declined and like many other MOR pop stars of the time she reverted to covering R&B hits for the white record-buying public. In this vein she had some success with tracks like Pledging My Love, Tweedle Dee and You Send Me. 
Brewer had a brief flirtation with country-styled material in the early '60s and then joined the lucrative night-club and Las Vegas circuit. She later recorded for Philips, Signature, Project Three and Amsterdam, the latter label being owned by her producer husband Bob Thiele. In all, Brewer accumulated 38 US chart hits but by the late '50s, when rock was firmly established, there was no place in the charts for this sweet, old-fashioned girl.