US fifties pop star Teresa Brewer has died in New York aged 76 after suffering from a neuromuscular disease. Brewer enjoyed numerous chart hits in the US in the fifties, working at one time with Tony Bennett and later embarking on a film career. However, she scaled back both her music and movie work in the sixties to bring up her family, though returned to performing in the seventies working with the likes of Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie and Wynton Marsalis. Among her hits were 'Gonna Get Along Without You Now', 'You'll Never Get Away' and 'Till I Waltz Again with You'.
Oct 19, 2007
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Teresa Brewer dies
US fifties pop star Teresa Brewer has died in New York aged 76 after a neuromuscular disease, having had numerous US chart hits.