Teresa Brewer CD: Teenage Dance Party

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1-CD with 8-page booklet, 20 tracks. Playing time approx. 50 mns. There was a time in the... more

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Teresa Brewer: Teenage Dance Party

1-CD with 8-page booklet, 20 tracks. Playing time approx. 50 mns.

There was a time in the mid-1950s when the Music! Music! Music! queen made Rock 'n' Roll Music Music Music. Cut between 1955 and 1958, this CD contains Teresa's cover versions of songs like Rock Love, Tweedle Dee, Pledging My Love, Dark Moon, and Gone, as well as her own teen-slanted songs The Hula Hoop Song, Ricky Tick Song and After School. 20 tracks in all, several of them previously unreleased.

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Interpret: Teresa Brewer
Album titlle: Teenage Dance Party
Label Bear Family Records
Price code AH
Genre Pop
Artikelart CD
EAN: 4000127154408
weight in Kg 0.115

Brewer, Teresa - Teenage Dance Party CD 1
01	Hula Hoop Song
02	Ricky Ticky Song
03	Why Baby Why
04	Teardrops In My Heart
05	Tweedle Dee
06	After School
07	Rock Love
08	Pledging My Love
09	Lula Rock A Hula
10	On Treasure Island
11	If I Were A Train
12	Gone
13	Empty Arms
14	Since You Went Away
15	Dark Moon
16	So Shy
17	It's The Same Old Jazz
18	Bobby
19	Jingle Bell Rock
20	Born To Love

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"Teresa Brewer"

Teresa Brewer

Perhaps inspired by Chuck Berry's success with Maybellene, in late 1955 Fats Domino cut several country-music-sounding tracks. They didn't have any saxophones playing on them – just piano, guitar, bass, drum. Fats's record of Bo Weevil, the "sweet little country song" as the lyric says, was released in January 1956 with Teresa Brewer's cover recorded soon after that. Fats's record was a 'Best Buy' in 'Billboard' on January 28; Teresa's cover got a 'Spotlight' review in the February 11 issue – the same issue in which Fats's record entered the R&B Best Sellers list at #12. These were records clearly destined for stardom.

A full month later (March 10) Teresa's record entered the 'Billboard' pop chart and rose eventually to #17. Fats's record didn't enter the pop chart until April 7 and peaked at #35. Destiny moved slowly back then.

Fats's record is a stripped-down, simple, two-beat affair featuring guitarist Ernest McLean following arranger Dave Bartholomew's instruction to play a hillbilly guitar lick. That's not the impression that Teresa's arranger, Dick Jacobs, wanted to convey. Instead, a big band announces itself early with a fanfare for the song and reasserts itself at the end – essentially framing the song with a reassurance that this is not really a rock 'n' roll record.

Showing that the arrangers had listened to Fats's record, a chorus occasionally enters, singing a vocal arrangement of the 'hillbilly guitar lick' that Ernest McLean had played. Showing that they were inventive, the arrangers provide rhythm via hand-claps on the 'on-beats,' with the drummer having the backbeat to himself. That's not rock 'n' roll, nor is it country.

Teresa's vocal deserved better support. She did get chirpy at times, but her powerhouse voice and her ability to growl (who knew?) went well with this song. She actually did try to rock. You can hear her sing Rock Love on Volume 3 of this Collection.

Teresa Brewer Teenage Dance Party
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