So yeah, that happened...
>>130886519Yes, I do own this record.
>>130886519This was Ellington's last ever new recorded material before he died. I'd have to guess he was old and just didn't gaf anymore.
>>130886519Rosemary Clooney already did that back in the 50s when it actually meant something. Proves what a faker and scene tourist Brewer was.
>>130887002https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uQAugONhvgso I invite anyone to compare Teresa's version of this from the OP album. well, actually you don't.
>>130886973did he really need to pad the ol' retirement account that badly?
>>130887002much of her post-50s career was either being a country or jazz scene tourist depending on the day of the week
>>130887169wrong link..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJlvIxtU25Q
>>130886519Steve Hoffman met her in Nashville once, said she was super nice.
>>130887002btw that was Clooney's first proper LP that was not a greatest hits comp of her singles
>>130888057Granted. She was always adamant about hating those Mitch Miller slop singles she was forced to sing and that jazz was her real artistic muse. I don't see any evidence that Brewer had an interest in jazz in her commercial prime or anything but i can count to potato nursery rhyme pop.
>>130886519she recorded "Music Music Music" a dozen or something times usually for every label she was on and each version was progressively worse than the one before it
>>130887071https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDbzBgI9w9MThe country attempts started early on, after her pop hits had faded by the start of the 60s. There's also the video of her doing this live on TV in '79 introduced by the song originator's progeny. Way to disgrace Dad's legacy, dude.
>>130888824Coral was a known shit factory, Decca's subsidiary for their more low IQ acts.
>>130888120Unlike Clooney who was vocal about her distaste for that stuff from the beginning, Teresa was content with the early shlock that made her famous until after she recorded her jazz crap which was then her "true artistry" on display.
>>130888120Sinatra and Dinah Shore also told him to eat shit and left CBS. Lol.
>>130888120https://s-i-beeped-when-i-shoulda-bopped.mp3.pm/(linked here as it's not on Youtube)tbqh she did a cover of this Cab Calloway standard on one of the first-ever recordings she did in 1949, but that was in the very beginning and once she hit big the following spring with "Music Music Music" she kind of got locked into novelty songs but with the kind of voice she had she was clearly never going to excel at anything else. kind of like Neil Sedaka. his voice always pigeonholed him despite his later attempts at "mature" music. i mean, how seriously can you take someone who sounds like that?
>>130888824Brewer left Decca in the early 60s and recorded for Philips for a few years. She didn't have any more singles or airplay and most of those albums were quick, low budget covers of other people's songs than original material. After her Philips contract ran out in '67 her husband/manager skipped town and they got divorced. She was out of the picture for a couple of years and then married Bob Thiele, Coral's former music director, and was afterwards able to pursue her mostly self-indulgent jazz slop on his Flying Dutchman label, until the early 90s when she finally retired from recording.
>>130886519Teresa's voice was an acquired taste for sure, although it was certainly unique and a divergence from the mannered prettiness of most pop chicks' vocals in the 50s.
>>130889747those initial sides of hers from 49 were big band-style tunes and quickly moved away from within a year
>>130887030at least unlike RC she didn't end up in literal mental prison for a few years
>>130887071Still, she didn't have the worse "Teach Me Tonight" ever, that was Mike Love.
i ain't linking that version of IDMATIIAGTS
Unliberated Woman [Signature, 1975]When your jazz-entrepreneur husband buys you Nashville's finest for your 44th birthday, you might be tempted to think that unliberation paid yourself. C-
>>130895293#rekt
>>130886519she was the classic gimmick singer whose relevance ended once her gimmick got played out/she got old enough that it stopped being charming
Brewer had 4 kids apparently they drew away a lot of her time and energy by the late 50s.
>>130892729>I guess Bonnie knew she would always be chained to this song when she died, butI feel Teresa must have felt the same way about "Music Music Music."
