Teresa Brewer - "Gonna Get Along Without you now"

[cmulwee001]

Teresa Brewer professionally changed the spelling of her name from the original, more Germanic Theresa Breuer.

[cmulwee001]

I just learned from Second Hand Songs that even even this version is a cover. It was first recorded by a singer named Roy Hogshead

[HroseG]

@cmulwee001

I stand corrected! Just listened.

watch?v=iRNRj2C9xIc

[negrilgirl169]

Nice to hear music from the year I was born.

[chelseagirlist]

thanks so much the one and only teresa

[davila3087]

I like it..she's so cute!

[generalgibberish]

I remember seeing an old film somewhere of Teresa doing this in front of a record player, & there was a little man dancing on the record as she sang. I THINK she sent him sailing off the record at the end or something. LOL! It was GREAT!

[Bijoushow]

@generalgibberish That clip you're talking about is on the Best of Ed Sullivan special hosted by Carol Burnett. You can see it on Hulu. Great song!

[generalgibberish]

@Bijoushow Thanks. Thought it was on one of the "Best of Sullivan" discs i used to have, but wasn't sure. Thanks again :)

[MrFacebookhater]

Patience and Prudence sisters made this song a little bit sweeter in 1956.....

I guess Early 50's was somehow different in styles!

[ade444uk]

thanks for putting this up, always loved this record since I heard the Trini Lopez version

[BigBicepsMan]

LOVED her Bo-Evil

[zzausel]

She came from Germany, like Patsy Cline.

[WytZox1]

@zzausel -- Nope! Teresa was born in Toledo, OH.& Patsy Cline was born in Gore, VA.

[Pauly69s]

FANTABULOUS!!!

[hatz4u]

i love this line.

[rosekraut]

I think skeeter's version is better.

[jasonws1972]

She sang this song on a performance on the Ed Sullivan Show as well......

[Adoraa1]

I thought this is new song recorded in 1977, but it was TB originally recorded

first.

[rroobeerrt]

i like she and hims version better........

[cf1934]

@rroobeerrt Never heard Shes and hims!

[ccyization]

i miss this style of the 50s

[ccyization]

i like this kinda old songs.....

[marquisdvillard]

Well... I liked Teresa Brewer but the Patience & Prudence version is and was

150 % better by a long shot. Does not even compare..

[burnley5960]

@marquisdvillard skeeter Davis is in a league of her own with this

[NcicHit2]

Great contrast between this and Skeeter Davis's version. Patience and Prudence were Patience and Prudence - I quess their mom had a lot of control over them 24/7.

[marais75012]

Until recently I only knew Viola Wills' version. Teresa Brewer's original certainly is the most - shall I say - ironical? It is interesting that the "boom boom" was used in the cover version featured in the film "4 marriages and a funeral". A nice reference to the original.

[OklassicVintage]

boomboom boomboom

[doctortwyla]

Love it.. was looking for 'I get along without you very well' but this is so much better.. no more wallowing... might get a kick in my step and dance away some blues x <3 it x

[52GAYLE]

This music is great. Love this old music.

[HeartStemCells]

TESSIE'S BENCHMARK HIT was Music Music Music which rocketed her to stardom in 1950. This song was not a success until Patience & Prudence ran it four years later. (they were 11 and 14 at the time!) Tessie's best love song will always be Til I Waltz Again with You. I had a crush on her all the way through high school, though I never saw her on TV til she was 50 around 1980..

[DavidJHarrisonEssex]

Probably the most famous version was by Viola Wills who's disco style got to number 8 on the 6th-Oct-79 (UK),1st 1 I heard & my favouite. Teresa Brewer (7 May 31 – 17 October 07),an American pop singer whose style incorporated elements of country, jazz, R&B, musicals and novelty songs. 1 of the most prolific & popular female singers of the 50s, recording nearly 600 songs. Born Theresa Breuer in Toledo, Ohio, she died of a neuromuscular disease at her home in New Rochelle, N.Y. at the age of 76

[LettuceZing]

Oh, gee. This kind of music is making my cheeks hurt from smiling. I love iiiit.

[thenewvangogh]

Amazing! 

[Jeshua75]

F A N T A S T I C!!!!

[cmulwee001]

There is an early version by The Bell Sisters titled "Boom Boom-My Honey" that is also said to be the original. But perhaps this version is the first.

[bluej3anbaby]

lovely

[rafaelLEE93]

I'v grown to like teresa,i only heard Music!Music!Music! and that was by accident lol

then i started to research her and she is amazing! I've grown to like her..ALOT!

she is such a betty:)

[dyinglikeflies]

I thought it was Trini Lopez who did the original.

[oceanbound222]

Teresa has the best version of all !!!!!

[TheHappinessmusic]

WOW! Great! I also did not know about this original song. It is interesting and also beautiful.

[ctmcarpenter]

Thank goodness Viola Wills put her class all over this song! This version is too shocking to listen too! No doubt it was a hit in 1950 whatever-bring on the 70's/80's anyday!

[narwhalrece]

I think the best version of this song is Skeeter Davis' version. Nonetheless it's still an amazing song!

[933265]

I prefer the she and him version, but maybe that is only because zooey deschanel is so awefully cute...

[JubalCalif]

Had no idea Ms Brewer had cov'd this song before now! Delightful version! THANKS for sharing it with us! :)

[dancebandleader]

hhcoap is right! No gimmicks and none

of that awful echo.  The backing is all

pro. Who is Viola Wills? Nothing boring

about this.

[RockinEd]

@dancebandleader There's a new version by a folk duo She and Him

[hhcoap]

best version of the song by far

[guchova]

Viola destroyed Teresa!!!!

She became famous worlwide because of her version which was fresh and put everybody to dance!

this version is BORING!!!!

[payitforwardeddie]

Viola Wills did the best version in 1979.

[ScienceProjek]

I prefer Skeeter's version best, Next up "The Wayne Sisters" version. I don't like the melody of this one.

[sjoara]

Her voice is adorable!!!

[aviep]

I did not know that she was the original singer of this song. I like Viola's disco fused version but this one is also quite cool...

[hellejoe]

I feel like having a party :P ...i love this song, but i would probably swith to something a little more new :P

[AngelKenobi]

Waw! I love Oldies and I didn't know this was the original version of the song! Thanks!

[HroseG]

The one you posted is a good one too. :)