Decca had recorded the Boswell Sisters successfully until they broke up in 1935, and the label was on the lookout for a similar group. (Tonight's The Night) was a song recorded by the Andrews Sisters in 1939 arranged with Vic Schoen. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. [citation needed], While the sisters specialized in traditional pop,[32] swing, boogie-woogie, and novelty hits with their trademark lightning-quick vocal syncopations, they also produced major hits in jazz, ballads, folk, country, seasonal, and religious titles, being the first Decca artists to record an album of gospel standards in 1950. The Andrews Sisters - @TheAndrewsSBRRegistro: Decca n 24171Data de Gravao: 4 de Agosto de 1947Local de Gravao: Nova York- Ainda na mesma seo de grava. We hardly really knew it, and when we went in we had some extra time and we just threw it in, and that was the miracle of it. [6], They started their career as imitators of an earlier successful singing group, the Boswell Sisters, who were popular in the 1930s. As the BBC relates, LaVerne, the oldest, sang contralto; Maxene, soprano; and Patty youngest, though positioned in the middle during performances provided the mezzo-soprano. The Andrews Sisters were a popular harmonizing singing group consisting of three sisters, Patty Andrews, Maxene Andrews and Laverne Andrews. In 1987, the group was honored with a Hollywood Walk of Fame star for their recording work. 2. Lucy played LaVerne, Kim (Lucie Arnaz) played Maxene, and Craig (Desi Arnaz, Jr.) played Bing Crosby. "With that," Maxene said, Patty "started to cry. All of a sudden, all hell broke loose.". In 1951 she married Wally Weschler, who had been the sisters pianist and conductor and who later became her manager. They sang at church performances, and were discovered by an talent agent who heard them sing at a revival meeting in Dayton. Over Here! But it's possible that Patty's most fulfilling partnership was with Wally Wechsler, to whom she was married for more than 60 years. The influence of the Andrews Sisters looms large over the last half-century of music: Their catalog, some 1,800 songs, has been thoroughly mined by other artists. She was the leader; she was the one that your eyes would focus on," says Joel Whitburn, founder of Record Research, a company that's tracked Billboard's popular music charts for almost 40 years. Patty Andrewss first marriage, to the movie producer Marty Melcher, lasted two years and ended in divorce in 1949. They began their career in New York city with Jack Belasco's orchestra and later with Ted Mack making the Vaudeville circuit. The million-selling "Pistol Packin' Mama," backed with "Vict'ry Polka," was a two-sided hit with Crosby in 1943-1944, then they topped the charts with their own "Shoo-Shoo Baby" in January 1944. [40] Levy was the sisters' manager from 1937 to 1951. She said, "We had been together nearly all our lives. [citation needed], The Andrews Sisters were the most sought-after singers in theater shows worldwide during the 1940s and early 1950s, always topping previous house averages. Their last appearance together as a trio was on The Dean Martin Show on September 29, 1966. Patty sang in shows and on cruise ships while Maxene continued soloing and did quite well for a time in such musical shows as "Pippin" and "Swing Time Canteen" (the latter as late as 1995).Plagued by heart problems (she suffered a massive heart attack in 1982), Maxene died of a second coronary on October 21, 1995. Other songs closely associated with the Andrews Sisters include their first major hit, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schn (Means That You're Grand)" (1937), "Beer Barrel Polka (Roll Out the Barrel)" (1939), "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar" (1940), "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else but Me)" (1942), and "Rum and Coca Cola" (1945), which helped introduce American audiences to calypso. When the show was rewritten for Broadway and renamed Over Here!, the producers decided that the Andrews Sisters were the only logical choice for the leads. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. Ms. Andrews and her sisters, Patty and Laverne, were one of the most successful women's singing groups, with 19 gold records and sales of nearly 100 million copies. She was 94. (1942), and Swingtime Johnny (1943). Other top hits included "Don't Fence Me In", "Apple Blossom Time", "Rum and Coca Cola", and "I Can Dream, Can't I? LaVerne Andrews (July 6, 1911 - May 8, 1967) was the eldest Andrews sister and sang alto - the lowest range for women. 1.150. There's nothing I would do to change things if I couldYes, I would. He had no other alternative but to as k the cashier to keep them in case the lost gl oves were found. They also helped actress Bette Davis and actor John Garfield found California's famous Hollywood Canteen, a welcome retreat for servicemen where the trio often performed, volunteering their personal time to sing and dance for the soldiers, sailors, and Marines (they did the same at New York City's Stage Door Canteen during the war). The plots may have been pancake-thin but they were sure-fire morale boosters and needed war-time tension relievers. As recounted in The Andrews Sisters: A Biography and Career Record, Patty said, "No, fellas, this is from the CO the war is over, so you don't have to go." In 1956 they regrouped and sang in Las Vegas at the Flamingo Hotel along with a host of TV offers and a new Capitol recording contract. The Andrews Sisters were an American close harmony singing group of the swing and boogie-woogie eras. The McGuire Sisters are Christine McGuire, Dorothy McGuire and Phyllis McGuire. [33] Their versatility allowed them to pair with many different artists in the recording studios, producing Top 10 hits with the likes of Bing Crosby[34] (the only recording artist of the 1940s to sell more records than The Andrews Sisters), Danny Kaye, Dick Haymes, Carmen Miranda, Al Jolson, Ray McKinley, Burl Ives, Ernest Tubb, Red Foley, Dan Dailey, Alfred Apaka, and Les Paul. ", By the onset of World War II, the Andrews Sisters were at the top of the charts. Their All-Time Greatest Hits Review. During the war, they entertained the Allied forces extensively in Africa, and Italy, as well as in the U.S., visiting Army, Navy, Marine, and Coast Guard bases, war zones, hospitals, and munitions factories. )", "I Wish I Had a Dime (For Every Time I Missed You)", "I'm Bitin' My Fingernails and Thinking of You", 75100 million records sold from a little over 600 recorded tunes, record-breaking theater and cabaret runs all across, countless appearances on radio shows from 1935 to 1960 (including their own), guest spots on every major television show of the 1950s and 1960s, including those hosted by, "A Penny a Kiss-A Penny a Hug" (1950) (No. Instead of crooning gently and sweetly, the Andrews Sisters "had a powerhouse sound, like a trio of blasting trumpets, and a unique close harmony." The National WW2 Museum's Victory Belles are proud to pay tribute to the Andrews Sisters performing their music daily in the Stage Door Canteen in New Orleans. Now sometimes appearing as "Patti" (but still signing autographs as "Patty"), she re-emerged in the late 1970s as a regular panelist on The Gong Show. "[13], The sisters' 1945 hit "Rum and Coca Cola" became one of their most popular and best-known recordings, but also inspired some controversy. "To me, being gay was not a central focus of Maxene's life at all," Wells told radio station The Current (KCMP) in a 2019 interview. Maxene arrived on January 3, 1916, and Patty was born February 16, 1918. They broke up in 1967 after the death of LaVerne, but their music is still played over certain radio . [66], The sisters' popularity was such that after the war they discovered that some of their records had actually been smuggled into Germany after the labels had been changed to read "Hitler's Marching Songs". Her father was a Greek Catholic immigrant and her mother a Lutheran from Norway who ran the pure food caf, a Greek caf in Minneapolis which was located adjacent to the Orpheum Theater. As Maxene Andrews recalled. According to Patty Andrews, "We had a recording date, and the song was brought to us the night before the recording date. With their jazzy renditions of songs like Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (of Company B), Rum and Coca-Cola and Dont Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else but Me), Patty, Maxene and LaVerne Andrews sold war bonds, boosted morale on the home front, performed withBing Crosby and with theGlenn Miller Orchestra, made movies and entertained thousands of American troops overseas, for whom the women represented the loves and the land the troops had left behind. The Andrews Sisters Guy Lombardo +1. Patty Andrews died January 30, 2013 at the age of 94. They consisted of real life sisters LaVerne Andrews, Maxene Andrews, and Patty Andrews. 80. In late1947, CBS Radio signed the sisters as regulars on "Club Fifteen" (they appeared three times a week for five years with alternating hosts Bob Crosby and crooner Dick Haymes.In 1942, Universal decided it was the right time to spruce them up and give them a bit more on-screen persona by featuring them front-and-center in what turned out to be an unfortunate string of poorly-produced "quickies." Patty visited her sister while she was hospitalized. January 30, 2013, Los Angeles, California). It was there they were discovered by Larry Rich, who offered them a job with his traveling revue. As her sister Maxene told NPR in 1993, Patty "opened up this piece of paper, and she looked at it, and then she started to cry. They also appeared in a number of films, supporting Abbott and Costello in Buck Privates, In the Navy, and Hold That Ghost (all 1941), and appearing in their own series of musical comedies, which included Private Buckaroo (1942), Whats Cookin? In November 1933, they joined a vaudeville troupe for six months, traveling around the Midwest. Patty Andrews, center, with her sisters Maxene, left and LaVerne, in the 1940s. But the women were determined to convey the effect of three trumpets. The Andrews Sisters' Decca recording reached number six on the U.S. pop singles chart in the spring of 1941 when the film was in release. No trained actresses by any margin, the girls emanated a down-home naturalness and appeal with a comedic flair that attracted audiences coast-to-coast.In later films, the girls played everything from "lonely hearts" club managers in Always a Bridesmaid (1943), to elevator operators in How's About It? ". The Andrews Sisters' second Decca single, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen," an Anglicized version of a song from the Yiddish theater, became a massive hit. In 1937 they were heard by recording executive, Dave Kapp and they began a long association with a string of hits. October 21, 1995, Boston, Massachusetts), and Patricia Marie (Patty) Andrews (b. February 16, 1918, Minneapolisd. Also during the year, they reached the Top 20 with "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy. "[10] They followed this success with a string of best-selling records over the next two years and, by the 1940s, had become a household name.[11]. Her mother, Olga, was Norwegian. Like many popular entertainers, they hit the road to tour military bases and installations, says NPR, not only in the United States, but in Africa and Italy as well. After LaVerne died of cancer in the late '60s, the remaining sisters continued as a duo. It was the last major tour for the sisters and was cut short owing to a conflict with the show's producers over pay for the sisters, resulting in the cancellation of an extensively scheduled road tour. American Horror Story, Just Shoot Me, Gilmore Girls, Mama's Family, War and Remembrance, Jakob the Liar, Lolita, The Polar Express, The Chronicles of Narnia, Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front, Memoirs of a Geisha, and Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!). hide caption. During World War II (1939 - 45), a trio of sisters known as the Andrews Sisters topped the music charts with hits such as their Oscar-nominated "Boogie-Woogie Bugle Boy." Their names were LaVerne, Maxene, and Patty Andrews, and they were the best-selling female vocal group in the twentieth century. They never reconciled and were still estranged when Maxene Andrews died in 1995. The following year, they were among the inaugural inductees to the Vocal Group Hall of Fame. The two sisters remained estranged from then on, although they made occasional joint appearances and Patty visited the hospital when Maxene suffered a heart attack in 1982. Their singing was initially influenced by the Dixieland style of the Boswell Sisters of New Orleans, but they soon expanded their repertoire to include a wide range of current song types. When Patti sued her sisters, demanding proper settlement of their mother's estate, Maxene made the headlines on December 21, 1954, with a suspected suicide attempt because of the conflict. Patty Andrews's spokesman, Alan Eichler, said she died from natural causes at her Los Angeles home. The sisters were born to Olga "Ollie" (ne Sollie) and Peter Andreas. [70], Early comparative female close harmony trios were the Boswell Sisters, the Pickens Sisters, and the Three X Sisters. 1930s - 1960s. They adopted a girl and a boy, Aleda Ann and Peter. Patty's solo aspirations caused the trio to break up in 1953, though they reunited a few short years later. ", Paying tribute to Patty, singer Bette Midler said: "When I was a kid, I only had two records and one of them was the Andrews Sisters. Childhood was, for the most part, lost to them. "Their second film was the above-average Bud Abbott - Lou Costello vehicle Buck Privates (1941), which solidly showcased the tunes "You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith," "Bounce Me Brother with a Solid Four," "I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time," and their infectious signature jump hit "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy." Before the end of the year, they and Crosby had gone to number one with the double-sided hit "(There'll Be A) Hot Time in the Town of Berlin (When the Yanks Go Marching In)" and "Is You Is or Is You Ain't (Ma' Baby)," as well as Cole Porter's "Don't Fence Me In. [citation needed] The imitation occurred internationally; the Harmony Sisters, a popular group that performed from the 1930s to the 1950s in Finland was one such singing group.[44]. opened on Broadway on March 6, 1974. In 2007, their version of "Bei Mir Bist Du Schn" was included in the game BioShock, a first-person shooter that takes place in an alternate history 1960, and later in 2008, their song "Civilization" (with Danny Kaye) was included in the Atomic Age-inspired video game Fallout 3. 13. Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content. The trio has said their name is a tribute to The Andrews Sisters. (1943), to war-time factory workers in Swingtime Johnny (1943). Her singing was." The ashes of LaVerne and Maxene Andrews are interred in the Columbarium of Memory of the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California,[29] close to the ashes of their parents. Patty Andrews returned to her solo career and in 1971 appeared in a musical revue called Victory Canteen in Los Angeles. Anyone can read what you share. Later in life, according to her adopted daughter, Maxene entered a thirteen-year relationship with her manager Lynda Wells and they later spent many years as life partners. Following Maxenes death in 1995, Patty continued to perform, sometimes as a featured vocalist with the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Patty was the star of the sibling act. lasted only a year, and its end marked the last time the sisters would ever sing together. Female vocal trio who were one of the most popular and influential acts of the Big Band era. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). Her real name was Patricia Marie (Patty nickname). In the audio of this story, as in a previous Web version, we identify "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" as a Yiddish folk tune. Patty was the youngest of the sisters whose hits included Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B. starred Maxene and Patty (with Janie Sell filling in for LaVerne and winning a Tony Award for her performance) and was written with both sisters in mind for the leads. The group consisted of three sisters: contralto LaVerne Sophia (July 6, 1911 - May 8, 1967), soprano Maxene Angelyn (January 3, 1916 - October 21, 1995), and mezzo-soprano Patricia Marie "Patty" (February 16, 1918 - January 30, 2013). [1] When Maxene and LaVerne learned of Patty's decision from newspaper gossip columns rather than from their own sister, it caused a bitter two-year separation, especially when Patty sued LaVerne for a larger share of their parents' estate. They began singing together as children; by the time they were teenagers they made up an accomplished vocal group. a perfect example of the way in which the Andrews Sisters adapted their vocal lines to the sound of a horn chart. 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