The Ballad Side Of Teresa Brewer

 

Don't Smoke In Bed

The Ballade Side Of Teresa Brewer

Moments To Remember

Arranged and Conducted by Alan Lorber

Philips Records PHM 200-119

1964

From the back cover: Like maple syrup and griddle cakes, mustard and hot dogs, or even hot dogs and soda with baseball, this album represents above all, a lot of good things getting together.

Take Teresa Brewer, the pint-sized bundle of ever-smiling vocal talent who's been making hit records practically half of her young life. Team her most affectionate feeling for a really good song with the memorable, musical nostalgia dished up over the seasons by Willard Robison, a light-hearted, seventy-year-young songwriter. Season them both with the highly professional arranging skill of Alan Lorber. Put them all together and they spell musical enchantment for all to hear.

In a sense, this newest and most ear-catching concert on wax by Miss Music is a tipping of the hat and a low bow to one of the great, and comparatively unsung American Tin Pan Alleyites. Willard Robison is the owner of some of the very best of our standards, and eight of his songs are included in this program, in Teresa's own persuasive, heart-filled style.

Listen to her caress the familiar strains of "Guess I'll Go Back Home This Summer." Listen again as she weaves a spell of heartbreak around the tragic message of a broken love in the classic "A Cottage for Sale." Or perhaps you're more attuned to those ditties that serve as flashbacks to less burden- some days as in Robison's "Wheatfields in the Moonlight," "Moonlight Miss" and "Brownstone in Brooklyn."

For variety, Teresa sprinkles her concert with selected other items, all carrying the wallop of pure nostalgia. One of these, "Far Away Places" is almost an answer to the last pair of tunes. Then, there'll be still other fond memories of "The Old Lamplighter," "Moments to Remember," and again the story of one who fell in love with his city, "I Left My Heart in San Fran- cisco," a sort of West Coast answer for the lover of the city of Brooklyn.

As good and satisfying a repertoire of songs as any you'll find-and what's best of all-you'll fall in love yourself with Tessie's ever warm, sincere, deeply expressive musical picture painting. We suggest you find out for yourself. Flip the switch and spin-along with Teresa's own special kind of vibrant vocalizing. – Ren Grevatt

A Cottage For Sale

Old Folks

Moments To Remember

Moonlight Miss

Far Away Places

I See Wheatfields In The Moonlight

Don't Smoke In Bed

Old Brownstone In Brooklyn

The Old Lamplighter

Guess I'll Go Back Home This Summer

(I Left My Heart) In San Francisco