Teddie Beverley, 1927 – 2026

British singer Teddie Beverley, of the musical Beverley Sisters, has died, it was announced on June 17. She was 99, and the last of the sisters. The Beverleys—Teddie and her twin Babs, and their older sister Joy—became radio and recording stars during WWII, later singing on TV (both in the UK and US), playing the London Palladium, and hosting their own variety show, Those Beverley Sisters, for seven years on the BBC. They were more soft-pop than rock, their hits including "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus,” "Little Drummer Boy," "Greensleeves,” and "Sisters.” The Beverleys were still a camp nostalgia act in the 1980s, and made the Guinness World Records in 2002, as the world's longest surviving vocal group without a change in the original line-up. Teddie was married to water-skiing champion Peter Felix and real-estate developer Donald Cottage; sister Joy died in 2015, and Babs in 2018. “We are just cockney kids from the East End and never had a music lesson but have never hit a wrong chord,” Teddie said in 2004. "We get to dress up in pretty dresses and travel all over the world. Who could be luckier? Are there any luckier, happier girls than us? Our audiences are in retirement homes, these are the people who love and know us. If you ask any man of that age, they will say they were all in love with us!"

“Left Right Out of My Heart” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTYQPr3lfrs&list=PLyj2YetXwNC1gtA5LDb641GxCNJuu4MWY