70 Years Ago… cute-as-a-button Teresa Brewer wanted everyone to take her seriously with "Till I Waltz Again With You"

 70 Years Ago… cute-as-a-button Teresa Brewer was becoming the first pop starlet to make the move from disposable teenage fluff to serious grown-up music that would make people take her seriously, with “Till I Waltz Again With You.”

Teresa had previously been big in the world of infuriatingly jaunty jukebox jingles like “Music Music Music” aka the “Put Another Nickel In The Nickelodeon” song. It was such a big hit that Teresa was then required to…

sing another cutesy song about things you could do with a nickel.

Her Mom gave her a nickel, to buy a pickle. She didn’t buy a pickle. She bought some chewing gum. Chew-chew-chew-chew chewing gum, to be precise.

I guess you can understand why Teresa might want to escape the chewing-gum pop scene & sing grown-up songs. And nothing says grown-up song quite like a song about waltzing.

“Till I Waltz Again With You” is a 6. I think I preferred her pop fluff to be honest.