Teenage Dance Party

Teresa Brewer | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 12, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Bear Family
• ASIN: B000001AVG
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #531,123 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Hula Hoop Song

2. Ricky Ticky Song

3. Why Baby Why

4. Teardrops in My Heart

5. Tweedle Dee

6. After School

7. Rock Love

8. Pledging My Love

9. Lula Rock a Hula

10. On Treasure Island

11. If I Were a Train

12. Gone

13. Empty Arms

14. Since You Went Away

15. Dark Moon

16. So Shy

17. It's the Same Old Jazz

18. Bobby

19. Jingle Bell Rock

20. Born to Love

Editorial Reviews

There was a time in the mid-1950s when the Music! Music! Music! queen made Rock 'n' Roll Music Music Music. Cut between 1955 and 1958, this CD contains Teresa's cover versions of songs like Rock Love, Tweedle Dee, Pledging My Love, Dark Moon and Gone, as well as her own teen-slanted songs like The Hula Hoop Song, Ricky Tick Song and After School. 20 tracks in all, several of them previously unreleased. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars LITTLE GIRL WITH A HUGE VOICE, May 7, 2002

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john szotowski (ottawa, ontario Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teenage Dance Party (Audio CD)

I ALWAYS LIKED THE SOUND OF TERESA, SWEET & POWERFUL. WHEN I GOT THIS CD FROM THE BEAR FAMILY, I WAS ABSOLUTELY AWE-STRUCK. CHECK OUT THE TITLES. NOT A SINGLE DUDD. SOME SWEET LOVE SONGS & SOME REAL ROCKIN' ONES (BREWER STYLE). IF YOU LIKE LADY SINGERS, THEN THIS ONE IS A CERTAIN MUST.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not "Explicit"., December 18, 2006

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George Slivinsky (Winnipeg Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Teenage Dance Party (Audio CD)

As John said there are no duds here. Fast or slow all the songs are great. Tho the theme is teenage romance, the compositions are mature. But who labelled it "explicit lyrics"? That is a stupid misuse of what is supposed to be a useful warning for vulgarity in modern music. These songs are innocent romance. Would someone justify that?

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful compilation avoiding the obvious, October 9, 2004

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Teenage Dance Party (Audio CD)

This compilation is typical in style of Teresa's fifties music with rock'n'roll songs to get your toes, outstanding ballads and the occasional novelty songs. Also typical of Teresa is the diverse mix of genres - R+B, country and jazz all blended into one fantastic sound. All the really big hits are missing although a few American hits are included, so anybody who has a hits collection will end up with some duplication but not a lot.

The set opens with Hula-hoop song, now regarded as a novelty song. Nevertheless, I remember hula-hoops (yes, I'm that old) and I think this song captures the spirit of the craze. I was never any good at it, but I remember, as a child, wiggling my body trying to keep that hoop from dropping to the ground.

My favorites here are On Treasure Island, Empty arms, Pledging my love, Dark moon, Teardrops in my heart, Gone and Jingle bell rock. These songs are all covers but they are as good as any other versions I've heard - and I've heard some good ones. Who wouldn't want to head for Treasure Island after hearing Teresa sing about it.

If you already have most of Teresa's hits and want more songs in a similar vein, this is for you. If you haven't got a hits collection, you should buy one of those first. Such a collection will contain (among other songs) Music music music, Till I waltz again with you, Ricochet, Let me go lover, A tear fell and A sweet old fashioned girl.

Bear Family released this set some years ago. While I'm pleased with it, I wish they'd give Teresa the boxed set treatment, just as they did for Doris Day and Connie Francis.