. October 21, 1995, Boston, Massachusetts), and Patricia Marie (Patty) Andrews (b. February 16, 1918, Minneapolisd. They were born in Middletown, Ohio. 2 The Hollywood Canteen states that the Andrews Sisters' radio transcription of Elmer's Tune was "so popular it even played on German radio," noting that "the opposition embraced the Andrews Sisters and their songs in the same way the Allied Forces adopted Lili Marlene. Her father, Peter, was a Greek immigrant who changed his name from Andreos to Andrews when he came to America. Patty Andrews's spokesman, Alan Eichler, said she died from natural causes at her Los Angeles home. Patty later sued her sisters over the apportionment of their late parents' estate. They began their career in New York city with Jack Belasco's orchestra and later with Ted Mack making the Vaudeville circuit. ". Patty, the lead singer of the group, was 7 when the trio was formed, and 12 when they won first prize at a talent contest at the local Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, where LaVerne played piano accompaniment for the silent film showings in exchange for dancing lessons for her and her sisters. 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 then married Walter Weschler, the trio's pianist, in 1951. But it's possible that Patty's most fulfilling partnership was with Wally Wechsler, to whom she was married for more than 60 years. This was followed by a 1-2-3 punch back at the recording studio with their renditions of the rollicking "Beat Me, Daddy, Eight to the Bar," a reinvention of the WW1 waltz "I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time" and the soft, sentimental ballad "Mean to Me. Cancer took LaVerne in 1967, and within a year Maxene was teaching college in the Lake Tahoe area. 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. An overnight sensation upon release wherein it sold more than a million copies, their contract was immediately revised by Decca and throughout the rest of the decade, they recorded smash after smash -- "The Beer Barrel Polka (Roll Out the Barrel! Modeling their act on the commercially successful Boswell Sisters, they joined a traveling revue and sang at county fairs and in vaudeville shows. [68][69], The Andrews Sisters became the most popular female vocal group of the first half of the 20th century. "[50] This Don Raye-Hughie Prince composition was nominated for Best Song at the 1941 Academy Awards ceremony. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. Patty Andrews, the last of the Andrews Sisters, died at her home in Los Angeles in January 2013; she was 94 years old. Its cast album charted, as did another Andrews Sisters compilation (In the Mood on Paramount). Patty was only 11 when the trio caught the show business bug following a nervous first performance in a 1931 singing contest. As Maxene Andrews recalled. [46][47], In 2008 and 2009, the BBC produced The Andrews Sisters: Queens of the Music Machines, a one-hour documentary on the history of the Andrews Sisters from their upbringing to the present. January 30, 2013, Los Angeles, California). Laverne died of cancer at age 55 in 1967; Maxene of a heart attack at age 79 in 1995; Patty from natural causes at age 94 in 2013. When LaVerne Andrews died of cancer in 1967, no suitable replacement could be found, and Patty and Maxene soon went their separate ways. (which shot to number one on Billboard and remained in the Top 10 for 25 weeks), "I Wanna Be Loved", "There Will Never Be Another You", and "The Three Bells", which was an English version of the French 1946 rendition by dith Piaf & Les Compagnons de la chanson; along with several solo recordings with Patty, including a cover version of Nat King Cole's "Too Young", "It Never Entered My Mind", "If You Go", and "That's How A Love Song Is Born". The 2011 video game L.A. Noire features the song "Pistol Packin' Mama", where the sisters perform a duet with Bing Crosby. [54][55][56] The trio headlined at the London Palladium in 1948[57] and 1951. Maxene's was kind of high, and I was between. Providing a musical security blanket to a war-torn country via records, films, radio, clubs, stages, canteens, they bravely traveled overseas war zones emphasizing through song the motto that America was strong and proud and to keep on singing and swinging! (1943), to war-time factory workers in Swingtime Johnny (1943). The McGuire Sisters are Christine McGuire, Dorothy McGuire and Phyllis McGuire. This button displays the currently selected search type. In 1937 they were heard by recording executive, Dave Kapp and they began a long association with a string of hits. [17], Maxene and LaVerne tried to continue the act as a duo and met with good press during a 10-day tour of Australia, but a reported suicide attempt by Maxene in December 1954[21] put a halt to any further tours (Maxene spent a short time in the hospital after swallowing 18 sleeping pills, an occurrence that LaVerne told reporters was an accident). 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. [48], Patty, Maxene, and LaVerne appeared in 17 Hollywood films. The Andrews Sisters were a popular harmonizing singing group consisting of three sisters, Patty Andrews, Maxene Andrews and Laverne Andrews. [63] The western-themed "The Andrews Sisters' Show" (subtitled "Eight-to-the-Bar Ranch"), co-hosted by Gabby Hayes, began in 1944 and featured a special guest every week. The plots may have been pancake-thin but they were sure-fire morale boosters and needed war-time tension relievers. Patty and Maxene's careers experienced a resurgence when Bette Midler covered "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" in 1973. LaVerne had a very low voice. 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. According to a press release from Unversal Studios during the early years of their career, LaVerne was 5'6 and 125 lbs., Maxene was 5'4 and 115 lbs., and Patty was 5'6 and 110 lbs. Then in one year, our dream world ended. The sisters were LaVerne Sofia Andrews (b. July 6, 1911, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.d. In the fall of 1966, LaVerne Andrews retired from performing due to illness and was replaced by Joyce de Young; she died of cancer the following spring. The American premier of the show was June 21, 2009, in their summer vacation enclave of Mound, Minnesota. THE ANDREWS SISTERS were an American close harmony singing group of the swing and boogie-woogie eras. [2] The Andrews Sisters, with Patty singing soprano, sold tens of millions of records in the 1930s and '40s. Following Maxenes death in 1995, Patty continued to perform, sometimes as a featured vocalist with the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Lucy played LaVerne, Kim (Lucie Arnaz) played Maxene, and Craig (Desi Arnaz, Jr.) played Bing Crosby. It was there they were discovered by Larry Rich, who offered them a job with his traveling revue. All three of us were upset, and we were at each other's throats all the time. They were popular during the swing and boogie-woogie eras. Our mother died (in 1948) and then our father (in 1949). The collection is remastered in superb sound with surprising presence and vivid detail, the material is priceless, and . In 1972, Bette Midler introduced "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" to a new generation of music fans with her own hit version. By 1956 they were together again, but musical tastes were changing and they found it hard to adapt. In the post-war years, they appeared in Paramount's The World Turns Backward (1947) and teamed with Bing Crosby on "You Don't Have to Know the Language." [64], They recorded 47 songs with crooner Bing Crosby, 23 of which charted on Billboard, thus making the team one of the most successful pairings of acts in a recording studio in show business history. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. 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. They began singing together as children; by the time they were teenagers they made up an accomplished vocal group. Christina Aguilera used the Andrews Sisters' "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" to inspire her song "Candyman" (released as a single in 2007) from her hit album Back to Basics. But, in a sense, they had no competition. We got on the carousel and we each got the ring and I was satisfied with that. Soundtrack: Repo Man. Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content. ", in 1937. . [29], The two sisters did reunite, albeit briefly, on October 1, 1987, when they received a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, even singing a few bars of "Beer Barrel Polka" for the Entertainment Tonight cameras. 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 hit established the trio, which began to get extensive radio and personal-appearance work. Universal responded in like by signing them to some of their nonsensical "B" musicals derived purely for escapism as the U.S. prepared itself and became embroiled in WW2. In addition, they produced three hi-fi albums, including a vibrant LP of songs from the dancing 1920s with Billy May's orchestra. "There was no such thing as being married at that time," she said. Both sisters maintained solo careers into the 1990s. 1. Patty Andrewss first marriage, to the movie producer Marty Melcher, lasted two years and ended in divorce in 1949. Maxene and Patty went through painful divorces (Maxene split with the group's manager Lou Levy; Patty lost agent and husband, Martin Melcher to singer Doris Day), and lost their parents within a year of each other, as did their mentor Jack Kapp of Decca Records. It was also the last time they sang together. The Andrews Sisters typically appeared as themselves in films, and often Patty took the romantic lead. The Andrews Sisters cooled as a recording act after 1948, as they began to focus on nightclub performing and Patty Andrews became more of a focus of the group as well as launching a concurrent solo recording career. Maxene appealed to Patty for a reunion, personally if not professionally, both in public and in private, but to no avail. The Andrews Sisters were an American close harmony singing group of the swing and boogie-woogie eras. She was 14 when they began to perform in public. As a teenager she worked as a piano accompanist, and she was likely the only sister who could read music. (1942), and Swingtime Johnny (1943). [12] They encouraged U.S. citizens to purchase war bonds with their rendition of Irving Berlin's song "Any Bonds Today?". As music biographer Michael Freedland said, "The Andrews Sisters were swing personified. 4 The Home Front" CD program notes by Edward Habib, Bei Mir Bist Du Schn (Means That You're Grand), Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else but Me), Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front, Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!! [70], Early comparative female close harmony trios were the Boswell Sisters, the Pickens Sisters, and the Three X Sisters. The Andrews sisters items and images on display were donated in 2010 by Maryland resident Robert Boyer, a fan who had amassed the largest known collection of memorabilia related to the group, including publicity photos, personal snapshots, news clippings, recordings, movie posters, correspondence, magazines and recordings in various formats. A final salute to the Andrews Sisters came in 1991 in the form of Company B, a ballet by the choreographer Paul Taylor subtitled Songs Sung by the Andrews Sisters. The work, which featured nine of the trios most popular songs, including Rum and Coca-Cola and, of course, Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, underscored the enduring appeal of the three sisters from Minneapolis. "[31], They found instant appeal with teenagers and young adults who were engrossed in the swing and jazz idioms, especially when they performed with nearly all of the major big bands, including those led by Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Buddy Rich, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Gene Krupa, Joe Venuti, Freddie Slack, Eddie Heywood, Bob Crosby (Bing's brother), Desi Arnaz, Guy Lombardo, Les Brown, Bunny Berigan, Xavier Cugat, Paul Whiteman, Ted Lewis, Nelson Riddle, and mood-master Gordon Jenkins, whose orchestra and chorus accompanied them on such successful soft and melancholy renditions as "I Can Dream, Can't I?" The two remained together until LaVerne's death from liver cancer on May 8, 1967, at the age of 55. [citation needed]. 1975 in New York City, NY. But the women were determined to convey the effect of three trumpets. Patty died of natural causes at her home in Northridge, California, on January 30, 2013, at the age of 94. In Private Buckaroo (1942), they put on a show for servicemen singing, among others, the huge hit "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree with Anyone Else But Me". The sisters have sold an estimated 80 million records. The sisters' private relationship was often troubled and Patty blamed it on Maxene: "Ever since I was born, Maxene has been a problem, and that problem hasn't stopped," she said. The group consisted of three sisters: contralto LaVerne. In 1969, Patty appeared in Lucille Ball's third series Here's Lucy, in the sixth episode of the second season, titled "Lucy and the Andrews Sisters". They returned to the hit parade in April 1939 with their recording of the novelty song "Hold Tight, Hold Tight." Some radio stations were reluctant to play the record because it mentioned a commercial product by name, and because the lyrics were subtly suggestive of local women prostituting themselves to U.S. servicemen serving at the then naval base on Trinidad. "I Wanna Be Loved," with the same sort of arrangement, also topped the charts in June. ", Along with Bing Crosby, separately and jointly, The Andrews Sisters were among the performers who incorporated ethnic music styles into America's Hit Parade, popularizing or enhancing the popularity of songs with melodies originating in Brazil, Czechoslovakia, France, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Russia, Spain, Sweden and Trinidad, many of which their manager chose for them. In 1953, the group broke up with Laverne going to New York to study dramatics. [41] "Her art was. Stricken with cancer, LaVerne retired from the act in 1966 and died the following year. The critics' major complaint was that Patty's show concentrated too much on Andrews Sisters material, which did not allow Patty's own talents as an expressive and bluesy vocalist to shine through. Their next big hit was "I Can Dream, Can't I?," a gold single on which Patty sang lead with her sisters providing backup; it hit number one in January 1950. . Patty did not attend her sister's memorial services in New York City, nor in California. Read about our approach to external linking. [citation needed] Elvis Presley was a fan. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: It's an only-in-America tale of how three Minnesota sisters of Norwegian-Greek heritage came to have a huge hit with a . "With that," Maxene said, Patty "started to cry. All of a sudden, all hell broke loose.". Song was written by Franic Fay, Dan Howell and Don Raye. 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. The Andrews SistersAlbum - Golden HistLP abc Records UK (33 1/3)Song ListLista Piosenek Side oneStrona Pierwsza(A)0:00 Will be with you in apple blossom tie . 1947 brought the Top Ten hits "Tallahassee" (with Crosby), "Near You," and "The Lady From 29 Palms." They were the Benny Goodman and the Glenn Miller and the Artie Shaw bands combined into vocal harmony." The harmonies ended up being closer than the Andrews Sisters were Keystone Features/Getty Images The sisters grew up singing together in Minnesota. Entertainers. Patty started her own solo act in 1980, but did not receive the critical acclaim her sister had for her performances, even though Patty was considered to be the "star" of the group for years. [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. Patty and Maxene never did fully reconcile. The Andrews Sisters, from left, Maxene, Patty and LaVerne, epitomised the 1940s era, 1894 shipwreck confirms tale of treacherous lifeboat. The sisters specialised in swing and played with some of the top band leaders of the era, including Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey. The Andrews Sisters Guy Lombardo +1. In 2008, Mound dedicated "The Andrews Sisters Trail". LaVerne denied the suicide attempt to reporters. Genre. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Peter Andrews did not think it honorable to have his daughters in show business and decided they should go back to school and become secretaries. Still, it did not stop concentration camp inmates from secretly singing it, this being most likely since the song was originally a Yiddish song "Bei Mir Bistu Shein", and had been popularized within the Jewish community before it was recorded as a more successful "cover" version by the Andrews sisters. DeYoung fulfilled concert appearances, including an appearance on The Dean Martin Show on November 30, 1967, but she did not record with Patty and Maxene. Patty also led them through more than a dozen movies, like Hollywood Canteen. They never reconciled and were still estranged when Maxene Andrews died in 1995. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. 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