Beverly Bremers

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.

After relocating with her family to the New York City area when she was aged ten, Bremers began singing in local talent shows.

[1][2] 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.

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 mitigated by an extensive radio-station boycott.

Bremers has performed extensively in clubs and concerts in the U.S.; in television commercials; radio; films and games.