Teresa Brewer

Specializing in bright melodies, Teresa Brewer was one of the top pop singers of the 1950s. Raised in Toledo, Ohio, she was a regular on the Major Bowes Amateur Hour as a child. Brewer scored her first huge hit at the tender age of 18 with 1950's "Music! Music! Music!" and followed it up with an impressive string of smashes for Coral Records that spanned the entire decade. (Several of Brewer's mid-'50s hits were sanitized R&B covers, including Fats Domino's "Bo Weevil" and Ivory Joe Hunter's "Empty Arms.") Later in her career, she pursued jazzier directions, but still retained her youthful vocal delivery. She recorded with a host of jazz luminaries, including Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Stephane Grappelli, Ruby Braff, the World's Greatest Jazz Band, and Earl Hines.