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Teresa Brewer Center

To: [email protected] Subject: Teresa Brewer Center Website Update - December 2007

DECEMBER 2007

To the TeresaFans emailing list:

Welcome to the December 2007 Teresa Brewer Center! The monthly update to the website is now available online.

New for December:

• Annual Holiday Feature: A special listing of Teresa’s holiday songs and collections. See NEWS.

• Special Edition Fan Club Newsletter: A personal update from Fan Club President Bill Munroe describing Teresa’s illness, and the memorial services following her death. See NEWS.

• Continuing Online Memorial: Mourning the death, and celebrating the life of Teresa Brewer – a special website section of links to the Fan Club update, her biography, a vintage interview on NPR, selected obituaries, comments from fans, and more. Link from the HOME page.

• Ask Teresa! – The last of Teresa’s answers to fan questions appeared in November. However, all Ask Teresa! Q&A – from the first installment in 2005 through Nov 2007 – have been archived and will remain available on the website. See links on the HOME page or in NEWS > Questions & Answers.

• New Video: A new online video of one of Teresa’s vintage performances became available during the month: This time, a 1956 medley of Teresa’s “greatest hits” (“Music! Music! Music!” / “Till I Waltz Again With You” / “Ricochet” / “A Sweet Old Fashioned Girl”) originally performed on the Ed Sullivan Show. Visit the TBC Video Links to access Teresa’s videos.

• Teresa’s Songs on CD set! [As announced in the November update…] In the early , Teresa recorded two singles (four sides) with fellow artist, Don Cornell: "You'll Never Get Away" / "The Hookey Song" (1952) and "The Glad Song" / "What Happened to the Music" (1953). "You'll Never Get Away" made it to #17 on the Billboard record charts in the summer of 1952 and "The Glad Song" was the follow- up release by the singing partners the following summer. Jasmine Records of Great Britain has released a double-disc, 57-track CD set by Don Cornell entitled “Don Cornell: Most of All.” This compilation includes all four of the songs he recorded with Teresa, plus the many hits that made Don Cornell famous. Visit NEWS>Products & Resources>Recent Products for more information.

• Teresa is a nominee for the Hit Parade Hall of Fame. Throughout the year, we’ve been urging fans to go online and vote for our Ms. Brewer! What better way to honor Teresa’s career and her memory than to vote her into the Hall. If you haven’t voted, please give her your support by clicking here to vote now! If you have already voted, get the word out to your friends and fellow fans that Teresa needs their support too!

• Song of the Month: Each month we feature special sample audio of one of Teresa's songs. This month, it’s “Too Fat For the Chimney” – Teresa’s 1953 holiday single. Find the Song of the Month by following the Now Playing icons on the HOME page or the MUSIC page. Click here to hear the Song of the Month now!

As the year draws to a close, we wish you and your families the happiest and healthiest of holiday seasons.

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