Anita Marie Wood Brewer (May 27, 1938 – June 29, 2023), also known as Little Bitty and Little, was an American television performer, recording artist and girlfriend of Elvis Presley. Presley and Wood met in 1957 and in the same year Presley referred to Wood as his “No. 1 Girl”. The two dated seriously for several years from 1957 to 1962. Wood signed a contract to work as an actress for Paramount Pictures, but later gave it up for Presley.
In 1976, Johnny Brewer sued the Memphis Publishing Company for libel when it reported that Anita Brewer was divorced from Brewer and reunited with Presley in Las Vegas. Anita Wood appeared on the Larry King show in 2005 to talk about her romance with Elvis Presley.
Anita recorded for ABC-Paramount (1958); Sun (1961); and Santo (1963). She also worked on The Andy Williams Show (summer 1958) and is the uncredited vocalist with Williams on “Hawaiian Wedding Song”, a Top 15 hit in early 1959.
Anita was married to National Football League player Johnny Brewer for 46 years from 1965 until his death in 2011. She died of pneumonia at St. Dominics Hospital in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 29, 2023, at the age of 85.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Wood
* * * * *
OTHER NOTABLE MUSICIANS’ DEATHS
If you want to know more about any of the musicians we lost, please check them out at
http://www.wikipedia.com
July 2023
5: Coco Lee, 48, Hong Kong-American singer-songwriter (Singer), suicide; Martin Stevens, 69, Canadian pop singer (“Love Is in the Air”); George Tickner, 76, American rock guitarist (Journey, Frumious Bandersnatch).
4: Vicki Anderson, 83, American soul singer; Jeno Jandó, 71, Hungarian pianist; Miki Liukkonen, 33, Finnish writer, poet and musician; Robin Tamang, 60, Nepalese singer and actor (The Last Hour); Zaizai, 35, Taiwanese singer.
3: Mo Foster, 78, English multi-instrumentalist (Affinity, Fancy, RMS) and record producer, cancer; Sudakshina Sarma, 88, Indian singer and musician.
2: Tengiz Mushkudiani, 96, Georgian opera singer and actor; Margaret Nisbett, 94, Australian soprano.
June 2023
30: Ruud Bos, 87, Dutch composer, pianist and orchestra leader; Rick Froberg, 55, American musician (Drive Like Jehu, Hot Snakes, Obits); Lord Creator, 87, Trinidadian-born Jamaican singer-songwriter (“Kingston Town”).
29: Clarence Barlow, 77, British composer, complications from a fall; Monte Cazazza, 68, American artist and composer; Javier Martínez, 63, Spanish singer (La Pandilla), cancer; Anita Wood, 85, American singer and actress, pneumonia; Angela Zilia, 88, Greek singer and actress (Dead Man’s Treasure).
28: Dobby Lentz, 76, Israeli music editor, radio broadcaster and music critic; Bob Shannon, 74, American radio disc jockey (WCBS-FM).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2023
Photo: Elvis & Anita Wood | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Elvis_and_Anita_Wood_1960.jpg
This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1928 and 1963, and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the copyright was not renewed.
