[40] Levy was the sisters' manager from 1937 to 1951. But the women were determined to convey the effect of three trumpets. They adopted a girl and a boy, Aleda Ann and Peter. The group's career spanned more than five decades and resulted in 90 million records and 46 top 10 hits. [22], The trio reunited in 1956 and signed a new recording deal with Capitol Records, for whom Patty was already a featured soloist. In 1972, Bette Midler introduced "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" to a new generation of music fans with her own hit version. After LaVerne died, Maxene and Patty continued to perform periodically until 1968, when Maxene became the Dean of Women at Tahoe Paradise College,[25] teaching acting, drama, and speech at a Lake Tahoe college and working with troubled teens, and Patty was once again eager to be a soloist.[26]. [5] All three attended Franklin Junior High School and North High School, both in Minneapolis. They had no children. They returned to the hit parade in April 1939 with their recording of the novelty song "Hold Tight, Hold Tight." The Andrews Sisters (from left, Maxene, Patty and LaVerne) in the 1940s. The group was also inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1998. Highest chart positions on Billboard; The Andrews Sisters' harmonies and songs are still influential today, and have been copied and recorded by entertainers such as Patti Page, Bette Midler, Christina Aguilera, Pentatonix, and others. Omissions? After selling more than 75 million records, the Andrews Sisters broke up in 1953 when Patty decided to go solo. The Manhattan Dolls, a New York City-based touring group, performs both the popular tunes sung by the Andrews Sisters and some of the more obscure tunes such as "Well Alright" and "South American Way". Maxene died in 1995. They were particularly inspired by the Boswell Sisters, who scored a number of hits in the early '30s. She was 14 when they began to perform in public. Styles. Formed . The Andrews Sisters, from left, Maxene, Patty and LaVerne, epitomised the 1940s era, 1894 shipwreck confirms tale of treacherous lifeboat. By 1956 they were together again, but musical tastes were changing and they found it hard to adapt. Like her older sisters, Patty learned to love music as a child (she also became a good tap dancer), and she did not have to be persuaded when Maxene suggested that the sisters form a trio in 1932. They broke up in 1967 after the death of LaVerne, but their music is still played over certain radio . [1] The sisters have sold an estimated 80 million records. 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. Patty's solo aspirations caused the trio to break up in 1953, though they reunited a few short years later. Journal. The show opened in March 1974 and was the sisters belated Broadway debut. 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. The Andrews Sisters were an American close harmony singing group of the swing and boogie-woogie eras. 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." It started in 1937 and its still going. Though their fame declined in the postwar years, their act remained popular into the 1960s. 13. Patty remained in seclusion in her Northridge home near Los Angeles with husband Wally for years. Maxene had a successful comeback as a cabaret soloist in 1979 and toured worldwide for the next 15 years, recording a solo album in 1985 entitled "Maxene: An Andrews Sister" for Bainbridge Records. Patty, ever the trouper, continued on television, in clubs and in film cameoswherever there was an audience.In 1973, Patty and Maxene reunited for their first Broadway musical, the nostalgic "Over Here" (Tony-winning Janie Sell played the LaVerne counterpart) in which they performed their old standards following the show's second act; but it did little to repair the strained Patty/Maxene off-stage relationship, especially since LaVerne wasn't around to foster peace-making tactics. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. "[1] In 1951, they recorded "The Windmill Song" which is an adaptation of the French song "Matre Pierre" written in 1948 by Henri Betti (music) and Jacques Plante (lyrics). Peter Andreas (later "Andrews") was Greek and his wife was of Norwegian ancestry raised in the Lutheran faith. [52], The Andrews Sisters sing the title song as the opening credits roll and also perform two specialty numbers in the all-star revue Hollywood Canteen (1944). Their reign is all the more remarkable given that they swam against the current of contemporary music trends while making it seem effortless. [12] They encouraged U.S. citizens to purchase war bonds with their rendition of Irving Berlin's song "Any Bonds Today?". Following Maxenes death in 1995, Patty continued to perform, sometimes as a featured vocalist with the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Their big break came in 1937 when they were signed by Decca Records, but their first recording went nowhere. Over Here! Maxene and LaVerne did appear together on The Red Skelton Show on October 26, 1954, singing the humorous "Why Do They Give the Solos to Patty" as well as lip-synching "Beer Barrel Polka" with Skelton in drag filling in for Patty. Entertainers. In June 1956, the three reconciled. "With that," Maxene said, Patty "started to cry. All of a sudden, all hell broke loose.". The Andrews Sisters -- LaVerne Andrews (born July 6, 1911; died May 8, 1967), Maxene Andrews (born January 3, 1916; died October 21, 1995), and Patty Andrews (born February 16, 1918) -- were each born in Mound, MN, the children of a Greek immigrant father and a Norwegian immigrant mother who ran a restaurant in Minneapolis. [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. The Andrews Sisters - Artist Details. The group's other Top Ten hits for 1945 were "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" and "Along the Navajo Trail," both with Crosby, and "The Blond Sailor." In the years just before and during World War II, the Andrews Sisters were at the height of their popularity, and the group still tends to be associated in the public's mind with the war years. The sisters got into a bitter money dispute with the producers and with each other, leading to the shows closing in January 1975 and the cancellation of plans for a national tour. The Westonka Historical Society has a large collection of Andrews Sisters memorabilia. When Decca settled with the union in 1943, they embarked on a series of hits, many of them with Bing Crosby. [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. Patty Andrews, center, with her sisters Maxene, left and LaVerne, in the 1940s. lasted only a year, and its end marked the last time the sisters would ever sing together. Comical references to the trio in television sitcoms can be found as early as I Love Lucy and as recently as Everybody Loves Raymond. You get with an orchestra, and you listen to three great trumpets playingso we knew that this is the way you wanted to blend. Then in one year, our dream world ended. Maxene died from a heart attack in 1995, andPatty passed on January 30, 2013. After the Belasco band broke up that summer, they were signed to Decca Records on their own. You might not be familiar with The Andrews Sisters, but you should be if you're at all interested in entertainment history. [35][37] Some of the trio's late-1930s recordings have noticeable Boswell Sisters vocal influences. The sisters were LaVerne Sofia Andrews (b. July 6, 1911, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.d. [68][69], The Andrews Sisters became the most popular female vocal group of the first half of the 20th century. 1975 in New York City, NY. Nyot Nyow!)" Instrumental to the sisters' success over the years were their parents, Olga and Peter, their orchestra leader and musical arranger, Vic Schoen (19162000), and Jack and David Kapp, who founded Decca Records. She was 94. )," "Well, All Right," "Hold Tight, Hold Tight" (with Jimmy Dorsey ), "Oh, Johnny! 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. No other female vocal group, and very few male ones, came close to their success from the late '30s to the early '50s, an era when first big bands and then solo singers dominated popular music. 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. Their first major hit was "Bei Mir Bist Du Schon", was very well liked by Nazi Germany, until the discovery that the songwriters were a Jewish race. It launched the careers of many now notable theater, film, and television stars, including John Travolta, Marilu Henner, Treat Williams, and Ann Reinking. She was 79. "During her lifetime, there was no such thing that existed for us. Read Full Biography, The Andrews Sisters were the most successful female vocal group of the first half of the 20th century in the U.S. One source lists 113 singles chart entries by the trio between 1938-1951, an average of more than eight per year. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). 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. The group consisted of three sisters: contralto LaVerne Sophia (July 6, 1911 - May 8, 1967), soprano Maxene Anglyn (January 3, 1916 - October 21, 1995), and mezzo-soprano Patricia Marie "Patty" (February 16, 1918 - January 30, 2013). 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 two remained together until LaVerne's death from liver cancer on May 8, 1967, at the age of 55. Disbanded . By this point however, rock-and-roll and doo-wop were dominating the charts and older artists were left by the wayside. 15), "That's the Moon, My Son" (1942) (No. 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." 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. The girls vocalized perfectly and stepped in swinging time for two other Bud Abbott - Lou Costello comedies, In the Navy (1941) and Hold That Ghost (1941).Box-office sellouts on stage and in personal appearances across the nation, they were given their own radio show in late 1944, which continued through 1946, featuring such weekly guest stars as Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Eddie Cantor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Carmen Miranda, Judy Garland, Ethel Merman, Rudy Vallee, and many other prominent celebrities. Patty and Maxene's careers experienced a resurgence when Bette Midler covered "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" in 1973. Although they were well-established by the time the U.S. entered World War II, their optimistic tenor made them perfect boosters of the war effort, and in later years they remained closely identified with the war years, remembered as wearing military uniforms and singing their signature song, "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.". After his death in 2010, Patty began a slow and steady decline and died on January 30, 2013, just two weeks before her 95th birthday.Fortunately, The Andrews Sisters' legendary feuding can never overshadow their exhaustive musical contributions and unparalleled success during 36 years of performing together. The sisters performed their hits in service comedy films like Buck Privates and Private Buckaroo. [7] After singing with various dance bands and touring in vaudeville with Leon Belasco (and his orchestra)[8] and comic bandleader Larry Rich, they first came to national attention with their recordings and radio broadcasts in 1937, most notably via their major Decca record hit, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schn" (translation: "To Me, You Are Beautiful"),[9] originally a Yiddish tune, the lyrics of which Sammy Cahn had translated to English and "which the girls harmonized to perfection. Not long before she died, Maxene told music historian William Ruhlmann, I have nothing to regret. LaVerne Andrews died of cancer in 1967 and Maxene Andrews died in 1995 after suffering a heart attack. She said, "We had been together nearly all our lives. 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. 2. In November 1933, they joined a vaudeville troupe for six months, traveling around the Midwest. Their second effort featured the popular standard Nice Work If You Can Get It, but it was the flip side that turned out to be pure gold. They were getting ready to perform outside Naples, Italy, for troops headed to the Pacific when Patty was handed a piece of paper to read. 2023 BBC. (Tonight's The Night) was a song recorded by the Andrews Sisters in 1939 arranged with Vic Schoen. Their first professional engagement came in December 1932 at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis. They never reconciled and were still estranged when Maxene Andrews died in 1995. My Rated Discographies . 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. Oh!," and their first two duets with Bing Crosby in 1939: "Ciribiribin" and "Yodelin' Jive" (both featuring jazz violinist Joe Venuti and his orchestra).The country was absolutely enthralled and captivated. Patty Andrews had a strong desire to stand out and didn't like that her career identity seemed permanently tied to the Andrews Sisters. Patty Andrews, a soprano, was lead singer for the trio, Maxene sang second soprano, and LaVerne took the lowest line. This song charted on June 17, 1939 at #5. Following the collapse of their father's Minneapolis restaurant, the sisters went on the road to support the family. 3.50. Patty Andrews, Singer With Her Sisters, Is Dead at 94, https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/31/arts/music/patty-andrews-singer-with-the-andrews-sisters-dies-at-94.html. FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY. The McGuire Sisters are Christine McGuire, Dorothy McGuire and Phyllis McGuire. Pablinchi. 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). It was like God had given us voices to fit our parts. For the most part, the Andrews Sisters did not focus on romantic material, but rather sang upbeat songs, often borrowed from other cultures. 1932 in Minneapolis, MN. Other hits followed, and in 1940 they were signed by Universal Pictures. The sisters grew up singing together in Minnesota. This button displays the currently selected search type. (Between 1940-1948, they appeared in 17 films, including lending their voices to two animated features for Disney.) LaVerne had a very low voice. "Patty was an outstanding presence. 18), "The Pussy Cat Song (Nyow! 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The Andrews Sisters were a popular harmonizing singing group consisting of three sisters, Patty Andrews, Maxene Andrews and Laverne Andrews. After that, the sisters pursued solo careers into the 1990s. But, in a sense, they had no competition. With their precise harmonies and perfectly . 14), Patty Andrews appeared in season two, episode six, of, This page was last edited on 1 March 2023, at 05:28. Well, All Right! Maxene suffered a serious heart attack while performing in Illinois in 1982 and underwent quadruple bypass surgery, from which she successfully recovered. Maxene appealed to Patty for a reunion, personally if not professionally, both in public and in private, but to no avail. (Tonight's The Night) was a song recorded by the Andrews Sisters in 1939 arranged with Vic Schoen. [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. Their recording of Bei Mir Bist Du Schn became a favorite of the Nazis, until it was discovered that the song's composers were of Jewish descent. 5000 Greatest songs ever list by artist. In Give Out, Sisters (1942), they posed as rich society matron types out to better their careers while featuring their big hit "Pennsylvania Polka." During World War II, the sisters were a staple of popular culture, recording with Glenn Miller and Bing Crosby, appearing in films with Abbott and Costello, and performing live around the country. 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? Childhood was, for the most part, lost to them. In an interview in 1971, Patty said: "There were just three girls in the family. Shortly after her Off-Broadway debut in New York City in a show called Swingtime Canteen, Maxene suffered another heart attack and died at Cape Cod Hospital on October 21, 1995, making Patty the last surviving Andrews Sister. 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