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== Setting records == [[Image:Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters.jpg|thumb|right|The Andrews Sisters performing with [[Bing Crosby]] on October 30, 1943]] They recorded 47 songs with crooner [[Bing Crosby]], 23 of which charted on ''[[Billboard magazine|Billboard]]'', thus making the team one of the most successful pairings of acts in a recording studio in [[show business]] history. Their million-sellers with Crosby included "[[Pistol Packin' Mama]]",{{sfn|Gilliland|1994|loc=tape 1, side A}} "[[Don't Fence Me In (song)|Don't Fence Me In]]",<ref name=pc1b/> "[[South America, Take It Away]]", and "[[Jingle Bells]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pgwu9Pyy9c|title=Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters: "Jingle Bells"|last=MsCatreona|date=December 30, 2013|access-date=May 2, 2018|via=YouTube|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170201155600/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pgwu9Pyy9c|archive-date=February 1, 2017}}</ref> 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". Their recording of ''[[Bei Mir Bist Du Shein|Bei Mir Bist Du Schรถn]]'' became a favorite of the [[Nazis]], until it was discovered that the song's composers were of [[Jewish]] descent. 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.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9mE2-RxDyZsC&q=bei+mir+bist+du+schon+was+a+popular+song+before+it+was+recorded+by+the+andrews+sisters&pg=PA76|title=The Andrews Sisters: A Biography and Career Record|first=H. Arlo|last=Nimmo|date=January 22, 2004|publisher=McFarland|access-date=May 2, 2018|via=Google Books|isbn=9780786432608}}</ref> Edward Habib in the CD program notes for ''Songs That Won the War Vol. 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]]." 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.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/passionforpolkao00gree|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/passionforpolkao00gree/page/134 134]|quote=the andrews sisters ethnic styles.|title=A Passion for Polka: Old-Time Ethnic Music in America|first=Victor|last=Greene|date=November 23, 1992|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520075849|access-date=May 2, 2018|via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HqkeBgAAQBAJ&q=the+andrews+sisters+ethnic+styles&pg=PA32|title=Swing It!: The Andrews Sisters Story|first=John|last=Sforza|date=January 13, 2015|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|access-date=May 2, 2018|via=Google Books|isbn=9780813148977}}</ref> The Andrews Sisters became the most popular female vocal group of the first half of the 20th century.<ref>{{cite news|author=Schoifet, Mark|url=http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-01-30/patty-andrews-last-survivor-of-wartime-sister-trio-dies-at-94|date=January 30, 2013|title=Patty Andrews, Last Survivor of Wartime Sister Trio, Dies at 94|work=Bloomberg L.P.|publisher=BusinessWeek|access-date=January 31, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130203020336/http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-01-30/patty-andrews-last-survivor-of-wartime-sister-trio-dies-at-94|archive-date=February 3, 2013}}</ref> * 75โ100 million records sold from a little over 600 recorded tunes * 113 charted [[Billboard (magazine)|''Billboard'']] hits, 46 reaching [[Top 40|Top 10]] status (more than [[Elvis Presley]] or [[The Beatles]]) * 17 [[Hollywood (film industry)|Hollywood]] films (more than any other singing group in [[motion picture]] history) * record-breaking theater and cabaret runs all across [[Americas|America]] and Europe; * 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 [[Ed Sullivan]], [[Milton Berle]],<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LQKhAwAAQBAJ&q=the+andrews+sisters+milton+berle&pg=PA11|title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2013|first=Harris M. Lentz|last=III|date=May 20, 2014|publisher=McFarland|access-date=May 2, 2018|via=Google Books|isbn=9780786476657}}</ref> [[Perry Como]],<ref name=Andrewsappearances/> [[Frank Sinatra]],<ref name=Andrewsappearances/> [[Dean Martin]],<ref name=Andrewsappearances/> [[Sammy Davis Jr.]],<ref name=Andrewsappearances/> [[Johnny Carson]],<ref name=Andrewsappearances>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HqkeBgAAQBAJ&q=the+andrews+sisters+johnny+carson&pg=PA195|title=Swing It!: The Andrews Sisters Story|first=John|last=Sforza|date=January 13, 2015|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|access-date=May 2, 2018|via=Google Books|isbn=9780813148977}}</ref> [[Joey Bishop]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_4O9hZYncI| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200622213208/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_4O9hZYncI&gl=US&hl=en| archive-date=2020-06-22 | url-status=dead|title=The Joey Bishop Show S3 E31 - Joey & The Andrews Sisters 5/30/64|website=YouTube|access-date=May 2, 2018}}</ref> [[Art Linkletter]]<ref name=Andrewsappearances/> and [[Jimmy Dean]].<ref name=Andrewsappearances/> Early comparative female close harmony trios were the [[Boswell Sisters]], the [[Pickens Sisters]], and the [[Three X Sisters]].{{citation needed|date = February 2013}}
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