Beverly Ann Bremers (born March 10, 1950) is an American singer and
actress. After roles on Broadway, Bremers recorded the 1972 Top 20 hit
single, "Don't Say You Don't Remember".Beverly Bremers - her surname
is pronounced breemɛrs (rhymes with dreamers) - was born in Chicago,
but within three years had relocated with her family to St. Louis.
Bremers had sung for fun from an early age and, at age eight, she
began studying acting. After relocating with her family to the New
York City area when she was aged ten, Bremers began singing in local
talent shows. She performed on the Ted Mack Amateur Hour on her
thirteenth birthday and made her recording debut at age 14 with a 1965
single release on Pickwick Records' Showcase label â€" â€" “We Got
Trouble†and a remake of "The Great Pretender" â€" with two
subsequent RCA Records single releases, the first in June 1967 and the
second in February 1968; all three of these singles were credited to
Beverly Ann. Bremers joined the musical Hair early in its Broadway
run, playing Chrissy. She then, in 1970, was an original cast member
of the Obie Award-winning off-Broadway musical The Me Nobody Knows, in
which she played Catherine. She reprised her role in the Broadway
production and then returned to Hair playing the female lead, Sheila,
during the final phase of that show's original Broadway run. Bremers
was credited during her initial run in Hair and in The Me Nobody Knows
as Beverly Ann Bremers.Through recording the original cast album for
The Me Nobody Knows, Bremers met David Lipton, a music publishing
house executive she would eventually marry. Lipton solicited "Don't
Say You Don't Remember" from staff writers Helen Miller and Estelle
Levitt for Bremers to record with the resultant master - deliberately
styled to evoke the 1960s girl-group sound - being successfully
shopped to Scepter Records and released in May 1971. It rose as high
as #10 on the Easy Listening chart in Billboard magazine; it just
failed to cross over to the Billboard Hot 100, stalling at #102 (see
Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles). The follow-up single, "When Michael
Calls", co-written by Bruce Springsteen’s manager, Mike Appel, had
been readied when "Don't Say You Don't Remember" belatedly became a
local smash in San Jose, with enough subsequent interest in other
markets to debut at #98 on the Hot 100 dated December 18, 1971
entering the Top 40 dated January 22, 1972 to rise to a #15 peak on
the Hot 100 on February 26, 1972.As Bremers had returned to the
Broadway production of Hair, she was unable to do promotion for her
single during its Top 40 run; she did, however, perform "Don't Say You
Don't Remember" on the April 22, 1972 broadcast of American Bandstand,
also performing the follow-up single: the controversial free love
anthem "We're Free", which peaked that month at #40, its mild
chart-showing predicated by an extensive radio-station boycott.
Bremers comments on the surprise success of "We're Free":
actress. After roles on Broadway, Bremers recorded the 1972 Top 20 hit
single, "Don't Say You Don't Remember".Beverly Bremers - her surname
is pronounced breemɛrs (rhymes with dreamers) - was born in Chicago,
but within three years had relocated with her family to St. Louis.
Bremers had sung for fun from an early age and, at age eight, she
began studying acting. After relocating with her family to the New
York City area when she was aged ten, Bremers began singing in local
talent shows. She performed on the Ted Mack Amateur Hour on her
thirteenth birthday and made her recording debut at age 14 with a 1965
single release on Pickwick Records' Showcase label â€" â€" “We Got
Trouble†and a remake of "The Great Pretender" â€" with two
subsequent RCA Records single releases, the first in June 1967 and the
second in February 1968; all three of these singles were credited to
Beverly Ann. Bremers joined the musical Hair early in its Broadway
run, playing Chrissy. She then, in 1970, was an original cast member
of the Obie Award-winning off-Broadway musical The Me Nobody Knows, in
which she played Catherine. She reprised her role in the Broadway
production and then returned to Hair playing the female lead, Sheila,
during the final phase of that show's original Broadway run. Bremers
was credited during her initial run in Hair and in The Me Nobody Knows
as Beverly Ann Bremers.Through recording the original cast album for
The Me Nobody Knows, Bremers met David Lipton, a music publishing
house executive she would eventually marry. Lipton solicited "Don't
Say You Don't Remember" from staff writers Helen Miller and Estelle
Levitt for Bremers to record with the resultant master - deliberately
styled to evoke the 1960s girl-group sound - being successfully
shopped to Scepter Records and released in May 1971. It rose as high
as #10 on the Easy Listening chart in Billboard magazine; it just
failed to cross over to the Billboard Hot 100, stalling at #102 (see
Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles). The follow-up single, "When Michael
Calls", co-written by Bruce Springsteen’s manager, Mike Appel, had
been readied when "Don't Say You Don't Remember" belatedly became a
local smash in San Jose, with enough subsequent interest in other
markets to debut at #98 on the Hot 100 dated December 18, 1971
entering the Top 40 dated January 22, 1972 to rise to a #15 peak on
the Hot 100 on February 26, 1972.As Bremers had returned to the
Broadway production of Hair, she was unable to do promotion for her
single during its Top 40 run; she did, however, perform "Don't Say You
Don't Remember" on the April 22, 1972 broadcast of American Bandstand,
also performing the follow-up single: the controversial free love
anthem "We're Free", which peaked that month at #40, its mild
chart-showing predicated by an extensive radio-station boycott.
Bremers comments on the surprise success of "We're Free":
Share this
SUBSCRIBE OUR NEWSLETTER
SUBSCRIBE OUR NEWSLETTER
Join us for free and get valuable content delivered right through your inbox.