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Spector was not the only Teddy Bear who went on to a music career after the group broke up. Annette Kleinbard continued to write and record songs, and changed her name to Carol Connors. [1] Among her credits are the Rip Chords hit "Hey Little Cobra", and the Academy Awards nominated Rocky theme song, "Gonna Fly Now", co-written with Ayn Robbins.
She was the lead singer of the pop vocal trio known as the Teddy Bears, which also included Phil Spector. [1] The Teddy Bears' only major hit, "To Know Him Is To Love Him", which Spector wrote specifically to showcase Connors' singing voice, reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in late 1958, also becoming the first woman to chart. [2]
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A teddy bear is a stuffed toy in the form of a bear.Developed apparently simultaneously by toymakers Morris Michtom in the U.S. and Richard Steiff under his aunt Margarete Steiff's company in Germany in the early 20th century, the teddy bear, named after President Theodore Roosevelt, became a popular children's toy and has been celebrated in story, song, and film.
It was first recorded by the only vocal group of which he was a member, [2] The Teddy Bears. The single spent three weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1958, [4] while reaching No. 2 on the UK's New Musical Express chart. [5]
"The Teddy Bears' Picnic" is a song consisting of a melody written in 1907 by American composer John Walter Bratton, and lyrics added in 1932 by Irish songwriter Jimmy Kennedy. It remains popular in Ireland and the United Kingdom as a children's song, having been recorded by numerous artists over the decades.
The "Teddy" Bears is a 1907 American silent film directed by Edwin S. Porter and Wallace McCutcheon, and produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company starting as the fairy tale Goldilocks and ending as a political satire of United States President Theodore Roosevelt.
Ann Stephens (21 May 1931 – 15 July 1966 [1]) was a British child actress and singer, popular in the 1940s. [2] She was born in London. [3] In July 1941 she recorded several songs, including a popular version of "The Teddy Bears' Picnic", [4] [5] "Dicky Bird Hop" (with Franklin Engelmann) and a setting by Harold Fraser-Simson of one of A. A. Milne's verses about Christopher Robin ...