idk anything about Teresa Brewer other than that she was some Pat Boone kind of singer

>>129314467
One of the most evil of all 50s slop singers. By this album however she was just an old washed up bum.

>>129314549
This was the later part of her career when she was just making low effort pop country and jazz albums on her husband's label more as a hobby than anything.

>>129314467
>>129314549
She was part of the 50s Axis of Evil along with Boone, the McGuire Sisters, and the Four Lads.

>>129314311
OK Boomer

>>129314577
>on her husband's label
Bob Thiele aka the lesser Mitch Miller.

Like with Peggy Lee she's considered a local legend in her home town (in this case Toledo) despite having immediately left that flyover shitheap after high school and never returning to it, not even to be buried there.

>>129314720
thank God nobody in Reading PA likes or has any respect for local heroine

>>129314737
I wouldn't respect that individual either. She did a bang-up job of continuing the great tradition of >>129314647 though.

>>129314737
>>129314720
wait why is this a bad thing? everyone with looks or talent leaves their shithole town or state after high school and moves to LA or something.

>>129314467
with her voice i don't think any artistic growth or maturity was possible. kind of like Neil Sedaka.

>>129314647
the common link is the three most evil 50s record labels: Columbia, Coral, and Dot

>>129314467
And Pat has somehow outlived them all.

>>129314872
why not? he's younger than most of those others were.

>>129314549
the further you go back into pop music the more it becomes a vaudeville song-and-dance routine than anything we'd recognize as pop today, which is mainly based off the ideas set down in the 60s.

>>129314311
This is indeed a terrible album if you heard it, the disco attempt being probably the worst track. Maybe it was good that she gave up on modern pop afterward and just made low effort jazz slop for the rest of her life.

>>129314957
tf do you think Britney and the Backstreet Boys were?

>>129314970
there's a bit of a how do you do fellow kids vibe with that one i guess

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That bitch looked like a Yorkshire Terrier turned human.

>>129314672
Thiele was Mitch Miller with better taste. He discovered Buddy Holly at Decca and then turned Impulse into the most ambitious and innovative jazz label of its day.

>>129314839
the only good Dot records i ever heard were those Fontane Sisters sides from '55 which are genuinely fun and have good arrangements. the rest was the lowest 50s bilge there was.

>>129315123
They also seemed to like giving record deals to old washed up people like the Mills Brothers.

>>129315171
>those couple of Mills Brothers hits from 1968
Absolutely bizarre.

>>129314549
In her commercial heyday in the early 50s the trend was for shrill-voiced pop singers like Kay Starr or Eddie Fisher since everyone had gotten bored of crooning. of course there was still Patti Page for more mild-mannered singing and she ended up being much bigger than any of her contemporaries.

>>129314672
Thiele was the music director at Koral when Brewer moved there in '52 after her initial stint with London Records (where she'd gotten her breakout and only #1 hit). They got married long afterwards, in the early 70s after she divorced her first husband (who had also doubled as her manager) and retired from recording after Thiele passed away in 1996.

>>129315237
Eddie Fisher was also one of the big teen idols of that era before Elvis ousted him.

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>>129315072
Yet was oddly considered something of a sex symbol in the early 50s, it's notable that she was at the time the youngest major pop star and the first one to have been born in the 1930s, and held that title until Connie Francis emerged later in the decade. That's what this magazine cover is alluding to.

>>129315237
And Billy Eckstine who suicided his career by allowing himself, a black man, to be photographed flirting with white teenage girls.

>>129314811
Sedaka also tried to make a 70s comeback but people mostly just humored him.

>>129314647
The McGuire Sisters were also Ohio girls and when you consider Brewer, them, and Doris Day, you feel that state was really on a "roll" of sorts back then.

>>129314647
The Four Lads have exactly one comp in existence--it's their Greatest Hits from 1961. Says a lot, doesn't it?

Duke Ellington's last ever recordings were with this lady. God, why?

I love that Elvis interview where he shamefully admits to singing Till I Waltz with You at his high school talent show.

>>129314549
She was the first singer to cover You Send Me. It's not bad for what it is, especially when you consider that Nicolette Larson's cover exists.

>>129315388
She was popular for some years but Patti Page was the biggest pop girl of the day, had the decade's biggest selling record with The Tennessee Waltz, and had a top 10 hit as late as 1965. Not surprising though because she had an accessible radio-friendly voice.

>>129315720
Page was like the McDonalds of pop music back then.

>>129314577
>This was the later part of her career when she was just making low effort pop country and jazz albums on her husband's label more as a hobby than anything
Teresa had 4 kids because she was a good Catholic girl and that was what they did back in those days. Much like Rosemary Clooney. And that also drained a lot of her time and attention as time went on--fortunately unlike Clooney she didn't have a psychotic breakdown for a bunch of years.

>>129315793
lol Clooney evidently saw too many movies of that era that portrayed Latin bvlls as swarthy, exotic lovers so she married one of them only to find out that they have no concept of marital fidelity whatsoever and that combined with having a midlife crisis caused her to completely go to pieces and get locked in mental prison for a couple of years.

>>129314311
The "country" attempt on here sounds like someone whose knowledge of country music was derived from watching Western movies. To be fair Brewer had long had an addiction to recording bad country covers, she'd been doing that since about the early 60s.

>>129315825
Clooney also flirted with country material on a few occasions but with far better taste.

>>129315825
yeah Rosemary had a pretty hard life

>>129314577
>when she was just making low effort pop country and jazz albums on her husband's label more as a hobby than anything
"Another Wasted Day" is a not awful bit of middle aged ennui. Other than that...

>>129315237
I suppose Jo Stafford was also big then for a more gentle-sounding singer.

>>129315388
the 50s was so lame

>>129316018
yes yes it was

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this album truly is Hell

>>129318439
And Duke's last ever recording. What a sorry way to go out.

Homie, I hate you
You a bitch, you got feminine ways
You got four lips and bleed for seven days
I got bananas on the taze and more whips than a runaway slave

>>129318725
I don't remember this Duke Ellington tune.

>>129314577
lol Teresa in fact did a cover of Cab Calloway's "I Bipped When I Shouda Bopped" on one of the very first recordings she did

>>129314647
this is why Elvis needed to happen

>>129318439
You weren't built for jazz standards, honey. Stick to Choo 'N Gum, it's more your speed.

CSN [Atlantic, 1977]
Wait a second--wasn't this a quartet? D+

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>>129314311
Professor mandou o papo

>>129315388
That "type" was THE show business beauty standard in the 50s.

>>129319306
Classic.

>>129315388
Youngest female one until Connie arrived. If guys are counted then Pat Boone was born in '34 and of course when that magazine was published he hadn't yet showed up with "Two Hearts" which was his breakout hit in spring 1955.

>>129319560
Not that Patti Page or Rosemary Clooney were "old" or anything but they were born in the '20s and had been putting out records since the late '40s. Joni James was also a big star in this era (and for some reason probably the least remembered '50s pop girl relative to how big she was), though didn't start recording until 1952.

>>129319560
Francis and Brenda Lee had a new flavor of laid-back, spacey pop that fit that turn of the decade vibe which was more chill and not as hyperkinetic and made most of the older pop singers obsolete.

>>129319480
50s fashions made young girls in their 20s look 70. pretty grim tbqh.

>>129320428
we've discussed this before, moron. they only look that way because your grandma grew up in the 50s and still had same fashion sense from when she was young.

>Brewer's breakout, only #1 hit, and signature song "Music Music Music" in 1950 was released on UK-based London Records, which was then seeking to expand into American singers who recorded in the US, but the records were pressed in England. "Music Music Music" was a hit despite some distribution problems caused by a workers' strike at the pressing plant and a few radio stations refusing to play it as they disliked the lyric "I'll do anything you want/Anything you want me to" as too suggestive. However, Brewer recalled of the song "It was a German type thing. I told them the song was too slow and I can't sing this. In the end, I did sing it and it was a hit and started my career." She made several re-records over the years for different record labels.

>Much like Patti Page's "The Tennessee Waltz", "Music Music Music" was an accidental hit as it was the B-side of the disc; the A-side, "Copenhagen", failed to chart and was quickly forgotten.

>>129320656
tbqh fast songs were coming into style with the new decade because everyone had gotten bored of being put to sleep by crooner lullabies

>>129314467
btw Brewer was performing on the Major Bowles Amateur Hour since she was a kid, and that was kind of the American Idol of those days so she was getting national exposure before even starting puberty. after a while her mother stopped her career so she could finish school and she then went to New York City with an aunt to perform in nightclubs where her future husband found her and got her signed to London at 17.

the tl;dr is she had a little bit of a proto-Swift career arc and not like some contemporaries like Joni James who took years to get noticed or signed

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two threads on SHF. Steve had met her in Nashville once and said she was a nice lady.

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>>129315072
an early Teresa promo shot from 51 when she was still with London

>>129314311
most of these later career albums of hers have pretty bad, phlegm choked singing although live footage from the 70s-80s shows she could still sing perfectly fine. probably couldn't be bothered to do more than one take in the studio anymore.

I always like to read the lively discussion in housewife pop threads. Are you guys this heavily into any other music or are you just chilling here and avoiding the rest of the madhouse?

>>129319755
Recession pop, the US economy was in the doldroms in 58-61 so I guess slower, droopier music was in.

>>129322685
>I always like to read the lively discussion in housewife pop threads

tbqh most of that early 50s group of pop singers definitely had a teen fanbase rather than their moms, their audience was the kids who came right before the rock-and-roll ones. i guess Jo Stafford and Dinah Shore were older and more momcore but Brewer, Bennett, Fisher etc were very much like the teen idols of the first half of the decade.

>>129322803
Sinatra almost an heroed when he saw teenage girls screaming over Johnnie Ray on TV.

>>129315298
>in the early 70s after she divorced her first husband (who had also doubled as her manager) and
They had four daughters and posed with them on an album sleeve liner once. Tbqh he must have run away in terror once they got old enough since adolescent girls in one house would be absolutely horrific.

>>129323300
>since adolescent girls in one house
*Since four adolescent girls in one house I meant. Sorry.

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