Teresa Brewer, “the little girl with the big voice” who popped to the top of the 1950s hit parade with perky, relentlessly cheerful songs, then reinvented herself as an exuberant jazz singer in the 1970s, died yesterday at her home in New Rochelle, N.Y. She was 76.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/arts/18brewer.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin
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