Editing The Andrews Sisters

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| name            = The Andrews Sisters
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| caption         = Maxene (top left), LaVerne (top right), and Patty (center) in October 1943
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| origin          = Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
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| years_active    = 1925–1967 
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| associated_acts = {{hlist|[[Bing Crosby]]|[[Glenn Miller Orchestra]]|}}
|past_members=LaVerne Andrews<br>Maxene Andrews<br>Patty Andrews
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'''The Andrews Sisters''' were an American [[close harmony]] singing group of the [[Swing music|swing]] and [[boogie-woogie]] eras. The group consisted of three sisters: [[contralto]] '''LaVerne Sophia Andrews''' (1911–1967), [[soprano]] '''Maxene Anglyn Andrews''' (1916–1995), and [[mezzo-soprano]] '''Patricia Marie Andrews''' (1918–2013).<ref name=foxnews>{{cite web |url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/last-surviving-andrews-sisters-member-patty-andrews-dies-at-94/ |title=Last surviving Andrews Sisters member Patty Andrews dies at 94 |work=Fox News |date=January 30, 2013 |access-date=July 2, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130618104841/http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2013/01/30/last-surviving-andrews-sisters-member-patty-andrews-dies-at-4/?test=latestnews |archive-date=June 18, 2013}}</ref> The sisters have sold an estimated 80 million records.<ref>{{cite news |title=Patty Andrews of Andrews Sisters Dead at 94 |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1536347/patty-andrews-of-andrews-sisters-dead-at-94 |newspaper=Billboard |date=January 30, 2013 |access-date=September 21, 2020}}</ref> Their 1941 hit "[[Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy]]" can be considered an early example of [[jump blues]]. Other songs closely associated with the Andrews Sisters include their first major hit, "[[Bei Mir Bistu Shein|Bei Mir Bist Du Schön (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 music|calypso]].

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. The group was among the inaugural inductees to the [[Vocal Group Hall of Fame]] upon its opening in 1998.<ref name="VocalGroupHallofFame">{{cite web | url=http://www.vocalgroup.org/inductees/andrews_sisters.htm | title=Vocal Group Hall of Fame – The Andrews Sisters | access-date=January 31, 2013 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130522062330/http://www.vocalgroup.org/inductees/andrews_sisters.htm | archive-date=May 22, 2013}}</ref> Writing for ''Bloomberg'', Mark Schoifet said the sisters became the most popular female vocal group of the first half of the 20th century.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Schoifet |first1=Mark |title=Patty Andrews, Last Survivor of Wartime Sister Trio, Dies at 94 |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-01-30/patty-andrews-last-survivor-of-wartime-sister-trio-dies-at-94 |access-date=August 20, 2019 |publisher=Bloomberg |date=January 30, 2013 |archive-date=May 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200512215100/https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3AkFXJc6hMCdIJ%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F2013-01-30%2Fpatty-andrews-last-survivor-of-wartime-sister-trio-dies-at-94+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-b-1-e |url-status=dead }}</ref> They are still widely acclaimed today for their famous close harmonies. They were inducted into the Minnesota Rock/Country Hall of Fame in May 2006.

== Early life ==
The sisters were born to Olga Bergliot "Ollie" (née Sollie; 1886—1948) and Peter Andreas. Peter Andreas (later "Andrews"), (1890—1949) was [[Greek American|Greek]] and his wife Olga Andrews was of [[Norwegian American|Norwegian]] ancestry raised in the [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] faith. The Sollie family disapproved of Olga's marriage, but the relationship was repaired once their first child, LaVerne, was born July 6, 1911. Their second daughter, Anglyn, died at eight months of age on March 16, 1914. Maxene arrived on January 3, 1916, and Patty was born February 16, 1918.

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 (Minneapolis)|Orpheum Theatre]] in [[Minneapolis]], where LaVerne played piano accompaniment for the [[silent film]] showings in exchange for dancing lessons for her and her sisters. Following the collapse of their father's Minneapolis restaurant, the sisters went on the road to support the family.<ref name="startribune">{{cite web|agency=Associated Press file photo|url=http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/189120371.html|title=Patty Andrews, last of the famed sisters, dies|publisher=StarTribune.com|access-date=July 2, 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130207043301/http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/189120371.html|archive-date=February 7, 2013}}</ref> All three attended Franklin Junior High School and [[North Community High School|North High School]], both in Minneapolis.<ref>Minneapolis Tribune, October 9, 1938, pg 21. Retrieved May 10, 2021.</ref>

== Career ==
===History===
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They started their career as imitators of an earlier successful singing group, the [[Boswell Sisters]], who had been popular until their breakup in 1936.<ref name="Berkvist 2013">{{cite news|last=Berkvist|first=Robert|date=January 30, 2013|title=Patty Andrews, Singer With Her Sisters, Is Dead at 94|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/31/arts/music/patty-andrews-singer-with-the-andrews-sisters-dies-at-94.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|page=A21|edition=National|location=New York|access-date=March 14, 2020}}</ref> After singing with various dance bands and touring in [[vaudeville]] with [[Leon Belasco]] (and his orchestra)<ref>{{Cite journal|title = Book Reviews: Popular, Rock & Country Music – "The Andrews Sisters: A Biography and Career Record," by H. Arlo Nimmo|last = Shambarger|first = Peter|date =Fall 2004|journal = ARSC Journal}}</ref> 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 Bistu Shein|Bei Mir Bist Du Schön]]" (translation: "To Me, You Are Beautiful"),<ref name="s">{{cite web|url=http://www.dvrbs.com/swing/SholomSecunda-BeiMirBistDuSchoen.htm|title=Sholom Secunda – The Story of Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen|website=www.dvrbs.com|access-date=May 2, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020035939/http://www.dvrbs.com/swing/SholomSecunda-BeiMirBistDuSchoen.htm|archive-date=October 20, 2017}}</ref> originally a [[Yiddish]] tune, the lyrics of which [[Sammy Cahn]] had translated to English and "which the girls harmonized to perfection."<ref>{{cite book|last=Nimmo|first=H. Arlo|title=The Andrews Sisters: A Biography and Career Record|page=328|year=2004|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786432608|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9mE2-RxDyZsC&pg=PA328|access-date=December 12, 2013}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pattyandrews-idUSBRE90T1HW20130130|title=Last of 1940s hitmakers Andrews Sisters dies in California|first=Jill|last=Serjeant|work=Reuters|date=January 30, 2013|access-date=February 3, 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130202045658/http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/30/us-pattyandrews-idUSBRE90T1HW20130130|archive-date=February 2, 2013}}</ref>

Instrumental to the sisters' success over the years were their parents, Olga and Peter, their orchestra leader and musical arranger, [[Vic Schoen]] (1916–2000), and [[Kapp Records|Jack and David Kapp]], who founded Decca Records.

==== World War II ====
[[File:Apple Tree Andrews Sisters.jpg|thumbnail|The Andrews Sisters singing 'Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me)' in the 1942 film ''[[Private Buckaroo]]'']]
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. They had numerous hit records during these years, both on their own and in collaboration with fellow [[Decca Records]] artist [[Bing Crosby]]. Some of these hits had service or military related themes, including "[[Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy]]", "Three Little Sisters", "[[Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (with Anyone Else but Me)]]", "[[Hot time in the town of Berlin: when the Yanks go marching in|A Hot Time In the Town of Berlin]]" and "[[Rum and Coca-Cola]]". The sisters performed their hits in service comedy films, such as ''[[Buck Privates]]''<ref>{{Cite web |title="The Andrews Sisters: Queen of the Jukebox" [online exhibit] |url=https://thesongbook.org/about/news-media/the-songbook-blog-items/the-andrews-sisters-queens-of-the-jukebox/ |website=[[Great American Songbook Foundation]]}}</ref> and ''[[Private Buckaroo]]''.
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During the war, they entertained the [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] forces extensively in Africa and Italy, as well as in the U.S., visiting [[United States Army|Army]], [[United States Navy|Navy]], [[United States Marines|Marine]], and [[United States Coast Guard|Coast Guard]] bases, war zones, hospitals, and munitions factories.<ref>Andrews, Maxene and Bill Gilbert. ''Over Here, Over There: The Andrews Sisters and the USO Stars in World War II''. New York: Kensington Publishing Corp, 1993.</ref> They encouraged U.S. citizens to purchase [[War bonds#Second World War|war bonds]] with their rendition of [[Irving Berlin]]'s song "[[Any Bonds Today?]]". They also helped actress [[Bette Davis]] and actor [[John Garfield]] found [[California]]'s famous [[Hollywood Canteen]], a welcome retreat for [[Soldier|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).

While touring, they often treated three random servicemen to dinner when they were dining out. They recorded a series of Victory Discs ([[V-Discs]]) for distribution to [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] fighting forces only, again volunteering their time for studio sessions for the Music Branch, Special Service Division, of the Army Service Forces, and they were dubbed the "Sweethearts of the [[Armed Forces Radio Service]]" for their many appearances on shows such as "Command Performance", "[[Mail Call (radio program)|Mail Call]]", and "[[G.I. (military)|G.I.]] Journal."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-01-30/local/36647222_1_boswell-sisters-sister-act-andrews-sisters|title=Patty Andrews, the last surviving member of the Andrews Sisters, dies at 94|first=Adam|last=Bernstein|newspaper=Washington Post|date=January 30, 2013|access-date=February 3, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130203105229/http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-01-30/local/36647222_1_boswell-sisters-sister-act-andrews-sisters|archive-date=February 3, 2013}}</ref>
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The sisters' 1945 hit "[[Rum and Coca-Cola]]" became one of their most popular and best-known recordings, but also inspired some controversy. 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 naval base on [[Trinidad]]. The song was based on a Trinidadian [[calypso music|calypso]], and a dispute over its provenance led to a well-publicized court case.<ref name="cip.law.ucla.edu">{{Cite web |url=http://cip.law.ucla.edu/cases/case_baronfeist.html |title=Columbia Law School & UCLA LAW Copyright Infringement Project |access-date=October 19, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100704224037/http://cip.law.ucla.edu/cases/case_baronfeist.html |archive-date=July 4, 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref>  The sisters later told biographers that they were asked to record the tune on short notice and were unaware either of the copyright issue or of the implications of the lyrics.<ref name="Sforza2015">{{cite book|last=Sforza|first=John|title=Swing It!: The Andrews Sisters Story|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HqkeBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA76|year=2000|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|isbn=978-0-8131-4897-7|page=76}}</ref>

=== Interruption ===
[[Image:The Andrews Sisters 1952.JPG|thumb|right|The Andrews Sisters in April 1952, one year before their formal break-up. ''From top:'' LaVerne, Patty, Maxene.]]
An ad in the 1951 'Radio Annual' showed photos of the Andrews as children, as contemporary singers, and as old women in the then-future year of 1975, although the act would not make it that long.<ref>1951 Radio Annual, p.12 (Radio Daily Corp., New York, 1950)</ref> In the 1950s, Patty Andrews decided to break away from the act to be a soloist.<ref name="NPR">{{cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2013/01/31/133568889/patty-andrews-leader-of-the-andrews-sisters-dies|title=Patty Andrews, Leader Of The Andrews Sisters, Dies|last=Blaszyk|first=Amy|date=January 30, 2013|publisher=National Public Radio|access-date=February 17, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216101543/http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2013/01/31/133568889/patty-andrews-leader-of-the-andrews-sisters-dies|archive-date=February 16, 2016}}</ref> She had married the trio's pianist, Walter Weschler, who became the group's manager and demanded more money for Patty.<ref name=foxnews/> When Maxene and LaVerne learned of Patty's decision from newspaper [[gossip column]]s 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historytheatre.com/files/play-guide_christmas-of-swing_2012.pdf|title=Christmas of Swing|first1=Bob|last1=Beverage|first2=Ron|last2=Peluso|work=HistoryTheater.com|page=4|access-date=February 3, 2013}}{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=SheriffIsInTown |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Patty attributed the breakup to the deaths of their parents: "We had been together nearly all our lives," Patty explained in 1971. "Then in one year our dream world ended. Our mother died (in 1948) and then our father (in 1949). All three of us were upset, and we were at each other's throats all the time."<ref name=foxnews/> In 1951, they recorded "[[The Windmill Song]]" which is an adaptation of the French song "Maître Pierre" written in 1948 by [[Henri Betti]] (music) and Jacques Plante<!--- not the ice hockey player ---> (lyrics).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://secondhandsongs.com/work/231770
|title=Secondhand Songs "The Windmill Song"|website=Secondhandsongs.com|access-date=February 25, 2022}}</ref> The English lyrics were written by [[Mitchell Parish]].<ref>{{Google books|oFghAQAAIAAJ|Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series|page=PA573}}</ref> The Andrews Sisters formally broke up in 1953.<ref name="NPR"/>

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<ref>[https://www.proquest.com/docview/166728962 Los Angeles Times article] ([[Portable Document Format|PDF]]) December 22, 1954.</ref> 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). 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. This however did not sit well with Patty, and a cease-and-desist order was sent to Skelton. 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.<ref name="Eonline">{{cite web|url=http://www.eonline.com/news/383541/patty-andrews-dies-singer-was-last-surviving-member-of-the-andrews-sisters|title=Patty Andrews Dies, Singer Was Last Surviving Member of the Andrews Sisters|first=Natalie|last=Finn|work=E Online.com|date=January 30, 2013|access-date=February 3, 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130203070622/http://www.eonline.com/news/383541/patty-andrews-dies-singer-was-last-surviving-member-of-the-andrews-sisters|archive-date=February 3, 2013}}</ref>

The trio reunited in 1956 and signed a new recording deal with [[Capitol Records]], for whom Patty was already a featured soloist. By this point, however, rock-and-roll and [[doo-wop]] were dominating the charts, and older artists were left by the wayside. The sisters recorded a dozen singles through 1959, some of which attempted to keep up with the times by incorporating rock sounds. None of these achieved any major success. In addition, they produced three [[hi-fi]] albums, including a vibrant [[LP album|LP]] of songs from the dancing 1920s with [[Billy May]]'s orchestra. In 1962, they signed with [[Dot Records]] and recorded a series of [[stereo]] albums until 1967, both re-recordings of earlier hits which incorporated up-to-date production techniques as well as new material, including "[[I Left My Heart in San Francisco]]", "[[Still (Bill Anderson song)|Still]]", "[[The End of the World (Skeeter Davis song)|The End of the World]]", "[[Puff the Magic Dragon]]", "[[Sailor (song)|Sailor]]", "[[Satin Doll]]", "[[Mr. Bass Man]]", the theme from ''[[Come September]]'', and the theme from ''[[A Man and a Woman]]''. They toured extensively during the 1960s, favoring top nightclubs in [[Las Vegas]], [[California]], and [[London|London, England]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9mE2-RxDyZsC&q=the+andrews+sisters+in+london&pg=PA328|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>

Eldest sister LaVerne died in 1967 at the age of 55 after a year-long bout with [[cancer]],<ref name="05091967 Los Angeles Times">[https://www.proquest.com/docview/155624739 Los Angeles Times article] ([[Portable Document Format|PDF]]) May 9, 1967.{{subscription required}}</ref> during which she was replaced by singer Joyce DeYoung (May 24, 1926 – March 7, 2014). 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. LaVerne had founded the original group and often acted as the peacemaker among the three during the sisters' lives, more often siding with her parents, to whom the girls were extremely devoted, than with either of her sisters. Their last appearance together as a trio was on ''[[The Dean Martin Show]]'' on September 29, 1966.

After LaVerne died, Maxene and Patty continued to perform periodically until 1968, when Maxene became the Dean of Women at Tahoe Paradise College,<ref name="10081968 St Petersburg Times">{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cqJQAAAAIBAJ&pg=5642,6029172&dq=andrews+sisters&hl=en|title=St. Petersburg Times – Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com|access-date=May 2, 2018}}</ref> teaching acting, drama, and speech, and working with troubled teens; and Patty was once again eager to be a [[Solo (music)|soloist]].<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hR0MAAAAIBAJ&sjid=u1wDAAAAIBAJ&dq=andrews%20sisters&pg=5682%2C6029193 St. Petersburg Times] August 10, 1968.</ref>

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". The episode has Patty enlisting the help of Lucy, her daughter Kim (played by [[Lucie Arnaz]]), and her son Craig ([[Desi Arnaz Jr.]]) to perform a medley of Andrews Sisters hits for the Andrews Sisters Fan Club reunion. Lucy played LaVerne, Kim (Lucie Arnaz) played Maxene, and Craig (Desi Arnaz Jr.) played [[Bing Crosby]]. She also had a cameo as herself along with many other stars in the 1970 film ''[[The Phynx]]''.

==== Comeback ====
Patty and Maxene's careers experienced a resurgence when [[Bette Midler]] covered "[[Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy]]" in 1973. The next year, the pair debuted on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] in the [[Sherman Brothers]]' nostalgic [[World War II]] [[musical theatre|musical]]: ''[[Over Here!]]'', which premiered at the [[Shubert Theatre (Broadway)|Shubert Theatre]] to rave reviews. This was a follow-up to Patty's success in ''[[Victory Canteen]]'', a 1971 California revue. ''Over Here!'' 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. It launched the careers of many now notable theater, film, and television stars, including [[John Travolta]], [[Marilu Henner]], [[Treat Williams]], and [[Ann Reinking]]. 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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cD9SAAAAIBAJ&pg=4875,1202172&dq=andrews+sisters&hl=en|title=Andrews Sisters in pay dispute|work=St. Petersburg Times|date=December 27, 1974|page=6–D}}</ref> ''Over'' ''Here!'' lasted only a year, and its end marked the last time the sisters would ever sing together.<ref>{{Cite news|title = Maxene Andrews, 79, of the Andrews Sisters|url = https://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/23/obituaries/maxene-andrews-79-of-the-andrews-sisters.html|newspaper = The New York Times|date = October 23, 1995|access-date = February 14, 2016|issn = 0362-4331|first = John S.|last = Wilson|url-status=live|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160205071549/http://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/23/obituaries/maxene-andrews-79-of-the-andrews-sisters.html|archive-date = February 5, 2016}}</ref>

Patty continually distanced herself from Maxene, until her death, and would not explain her motives regarding the separation. Maxene appealed to Patty for a reunion, personally if not professionally, both in public and in private, but to no avail. Maxene suffered a serious [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]] while performing in [[Illinois]] in 1982 and underwent [[quadruple bypass surgery]], from which she successfully recovered. Patty visited her sister while she was hospitalized. 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]]''. 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 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. 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.<ref name="Sforza">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HqkeBgAAQBAJ&q=laverne+andrews+cremated&pg=PA154|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 two sisters did reunite, albeit briefly, on October 1, 1987, when they received a star on Hollywood's [[Hollywood Walk of Fame|Walk of Fame]], even singing a few bars of "[[Beer Barrel Polka]]" for the ''[[Entertainment Tonight]]'' cameras. The [[1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake]] had shaken the area that morning and the ceremony was nearly cancelled, which caused Patty to joke, "Some people said that earthquake this morning was LaVerne because she couldn't be here, but really it was just Maxene and me on the telephone." Besides this, and a few brief private encounters, they remained somewhat estranged for their remaining years, with Maxene dying in 1995.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cgtrCF00D8AC&q=patty+and+maxene+andrews+estranged&pg=PA321|title=Blind Journey: A Journalist's Memoirs|first=Jack|last=Hawn|date=October 1, 2010|publisher=Strategic Book Publishing|access-date=May 2, 2018|via=Google Books|isbn=9781609760113}}</ref>

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. Not long before she died, Maxene told music historian William Ruhlmann:<blockquote>I have nothing to regret. We got on the carousel and we each got the ring and I was satisfied with that. There's nothing I would do to change things if I could...Yes, I would. I wish I had the ability and the power to bridge the gap between my relationship with my sister, Patty.<ref name="Swing It"/></blockquote>Upon hearing the news of her sister's death, Patty became distraught. Several days later, Patty's husband, Wally, fell down a flight of stairs and broke both of his wrists. As a result, Patty did not attend either the California or New York memorial services for Maxene.<ref name="NYT-MaxeneObit">{{cite news |last=Mydans |first=Sheryl |title=Maxene Andrews, 79, of the Singing Sisters, Dies |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240408001517/https://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/23/obituaries/maxene-andrews-79-of-the-singing-sisters-dies.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=October 23, 1995 |access-date=April 8, 2025}}</ref> [[Bob Hope]] said of Maxene's death, "She was more than part of The Andrews Sisters, much more than a singer. She was a warm and wonderful lady who shared her talent and wisdom with others."<ref name="Swing It">{{cite book |last=Sforza |first=John |title=Swing It!: The Andrews Sisters Story |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IPoMEFUgOwUC&pg=PA171 |year=2004 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |location=United States of America |isbn=9780813190990 |pages=171, 289}}</ref>

=== As musical innovators ===
They found instant appeal with teenagers and young adults who were engrossed in the [[Swing music|swing]] and [[jazz]] idioms, especially when they performed with nearly all of the major [[big band]]s, 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 (bandleader)|Les Brown]], [[Bunny Berigan]], [[Xavier Cugat]], [[Paul Whiteman]], [[Ted Lewis (musician)|Ted Lewis]], [[Nelson Riddle]], and [[Gordon Jenkins]].{{citation needed|date = February 2013}}

=== Many styles ===
While the sisters specialized in [[traditional pop]],<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xR7MdpuSlAEC&q=Andrews+Sisters+traditional+pop&pg=PT979|title=All Music Guide: The Definitive Guide to Popular Music|first1=Vladimir|last1=Bogdanov|first2=Chris|last2=Woodstra|first3=Stephen Thomas|last3=Erlewine|date=November 9, 2001|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|via=Google Books|isbn=9780879306274}}</ref> [[Swing music|swing]], [[boogie-woogie]], and novelty hits with their trademark lightning-quick vocal syncopations, they also produced major hits in [[jazz]], [[ballads]], [[Traditional folk music|folk]], [[country music|country]], seasonal, and [[religious music|religious]] titles, being the first Decca artists to record an album of [[gospel music|gospel]] standards in 1950.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8X5VVWbN_E|title=Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, The Andrews Sisters – May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You – Gospel|last=gospel|date=March 24, 2012|access-date=May 2, 2018|via=YouTube|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314003357/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8X5VVWbN_E|archive-date=March 14, 2016}}</ref> Their versatility allowed them to pair with many different artists in the recording studios, producing [[Top 40|Top 10]] hits with the likes of [[Bing Crosby]]<ref name=pc1b>{{Pop Chronicles 40s|1|B}}</ref> (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]].<ref name=recordings>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YJxeFWmNc_EC&q=the+andrews+sisters+ballads+folk+jazz+country+western&pg=PA2|title=The Andrews Sisters: A Biography and Career Record|first=Harry|last=Nimmo|date=May 2, 2018|publisher=McFarland|access-date=May 2, 2018|via=Google Books|isbn=9780786417315}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9mE2-RxDyZsC&q=alfred+apaka+the+andrews+sisters&pg=PA428|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> In personal appearances, on radio and on television, they sang with everyone from [[Rudy Vallee]], [[Judy Garland]], and [[Nat "King" Cole]], to [[Jimmie Rodgers (pop singer)|Jimmie Rodgers]], [[Andy Williams]], and [[The Supremes]].<ref name=recordings/><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HqkeBgAAQBAJ&q=the+andrews+sisters+jimmie+rodgers+andy+williams&pg=PA149|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> Some of the trio's late-1930s recordings have noticeable [[Boswell Sisters]] vocal influences.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YJxeFWmNc_EC&q=the+andrews+sisters+boswell+sisters+influence&pg=PA85|title=The Andrews Sisters: A Biography and Career Record|first=Harry|last=Nimmo|date=May 2, 2018|publisher=McFarland|access-date=May 2, 2018|via=Google Books|isbn=9780786417315}}</ref>

== Marriages, family, and deaths ==
LaVerne Andrews married Lou Rogers,<ref name="05091967 Los Angeles Times" /> a trumpet player in [[Vic Schoen]]'s band, in 1948. The two remained together until LaVerne's death from liver cancer on May 8, 1967, at the age of 55. Lou died in 1995.<ref>{{Cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=9mE2-RxDyZsC&pg=PA409 | title = The Andrews Sisters: A Biography and Career Record | isbn = 9780786432608 | last1 = Arto Nimmo | first1 = H | year = 2004|page=409| publisher = McFarland }}</ref>

Maxene Andrews married music publisher [[Lou Levy (publisher)|Lou Levy]] in 1941, separating in 1949. They adopted a girl and a boy, Aleda Ann and Peter.<ref>{{Cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=9mE2-RxDyZsC&pg=PA409 | title = The Andrews Sisters: A Biography and Career Record | isbn = 9780786432608 | last1 = Arto Nimmo | first1 = H | year = 2004|page=4| publisher = McFarland }}</ref> Levy was the sisters' manager from 1937 to 1951. Later in life, according to her adopted daughter, Maxene entered a thirteen-year relationship with a woman and later spent many years with her manager Lynda Wells as life partners. "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.<ref name="thecurrent.org">{{Cite web|url=https://www.thecurrent.org/feature/2019/06/05/the-current-rewind-andrews-sisters|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190607152737/https://www.thecurrent.org/feature/2019/06/05/the-current-rewind-andrews-sisters|url-status=dead|archive-date=2019-06-07|title=The Current Rewind: The Andrews Sisters & Lynda Wells|website=www.thecurrent.org|access-date=June 7, 2019}}</ref> "Her art was. Her singing was." But Wells says that their status as companions, and Maxene's health issues as she got older, led Maxene to adopt her as a daughter. "There was no such thing as being married at that time," she said. "During her lifetime, there was no such thing that existed for us."<ref name="thecurrent.org"/> Maxene died October 21, 1995, at age 79. The ashes of LaVerne and Maxene Andrews are interred in the Columbarium of Memory of the [[Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)|Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery]] in [[Glendale, California]],<ref name="Sforza"/> close to the ashes of their parents.

Patty Andrews married agent [[Marty Melcher]] in 1947 but left him in 1949, when he pursued a romantic relationship with [[Doris Day]]. She then married Walter Weschler, the trio's pianist, in 1951. Patty died of natural causes at her home in [[Northridge, California]], on January 30, 2013, at the age of 94. Weschler, her husband of nearly 60 years, had died on August 28, 2010, at the age of 88.<ref name=startribune/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nwitimes.com/entertainment/columnists/offbeat/offbeat-singer-patty-andrews-manager-husband-dead-at-age/article_235eef80-ae3a-5e04-b86d-ff2a4936feae.html|title=OFFBEAT: Singer Patty Andrews manager husband dead at age 88|first=Philip|last=Potempa|website=nwitimes.com|date=September 2010 |access-date=May 2, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201040025/http://www.nwitimes.com/entertainment/columnists/offbeat/offbeat-singer-patty-andrews-manager-husband-dead-at-age/article_235eef80-ae3a-5e04-b86d-ff2a4936feae.html|archive-date=December 1, 2017}}</ref>

Joyce DeYoung Murray, who replaced LaVerne from late 1966 to 1968, died in March 2014 at the age of 87.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/146268707/joyce-marie-murray|title=Joyce Marie DeYoung Murray (1926–2014) Find A Grave-herdenking|website=[[Find a Grave]]}}</ref>

== Legacy ==
The Andrews Sisters were the most imitated of all female singing groups and influenced many artists, including [[Mel Tormé]], [[Les Paul and Mary Ford]], [[the Four Freshmen]], [[the Supremes]], [[the Beach Boys]], [[the McGuire Sisters]], [[the Lennon Sisters]], [[the Pointer Sisters]], [[the Manhattan Transfer]], [[Barry Manilow]], and [[Bette Midler]].{{citation needed|date=August 2021}} Their style was even emulated internationally; the Harmony Sisters, a popular [[Finland]] group that performed from the 1930s to the 1950s, was one such example.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2006/12/14/harmony-sisters-laulaa |title=Harmony Sisters laulaa |date=December 14, 2006 |access-date=April 25, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170110020853/http://yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2006/12/14/harmony-sisters-laulaa |archive-date=January 10, 2017}} YLE – Finnish Broadcasting corporation</ref>

Most of the Andrews Sisters' music has been restored and released in [[compact disc]] form. Over 300 of their original Decca recordings, a good portion of which was hit material, has yet to be released by [[Music Corporation of America|MCA]]/Decca. Many of their Decca recordings have been used in such television shows and Hollywood movies as ''[[Homefront (U.S. TV series)|Homefront]]'', ''[[ER (TV series)|ER]]'', ''[[Agent Carter (TV series)|Agent Carter]]'', ''[[The Brink's Job]]'', ''[[National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation]]'', ''[[Swing Shift (film)|Swing Shift]]'', ''[[Raggedy Man]]'', ''[[Summer of '42]]'', ''[[Slaughterhouse-Five (film)|Slaughterhouse-Five]]'', ''[[Maria's Lovers]]'', ''[[Harlem Nights]]'', ''[[In Dreams (film)|In Dreams]]'', ''[[Murder in the First (film)|Murder in the First]]'', ''[[L.A. Confidential (film)|L.A. Confidential]]'', 
''[[American Horror Story]]'', ''[[Just Shoot Me]]'', ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'', ''[[Mama's Family]]'', ''[[War and Remembrance (miniseries)|War and Remembrance]]'', ''[[Jakob the Liar]]'', ''[[Lolita (1997 film)|Lolita]]'', ''[[The Polar Express (film)|The Polar Express]]'', ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'', ''[[Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front]]'', ''[[Memoirs of a Geisha (film)|Memoirs of a Geisha]]'', and ''[[Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!)]]''. Comical references to the trio in television [[sitcoms]] can be found as early as ''[[I Love Lucy]]'' and as recently as ''[[Everybody Loves Raymond]]''. In 2007, their version of "[[Bei Mir Bist Du Schön]]" 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]].'' The 2010 video game ''[[Mafia II]]'' features numerous Andrews Sisters songs, with "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy", "[[Strip Polka]]" and "Rum and Coca-Cola". The 2011 video game ''[[L.A. Noire]]'' features the song "[[Pistol Packin' Mama]]", where the sisters perform a duet with [[Bing Crosby]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uneKBnzr0-A|title=L A Noire OST Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters Pistol Packin Mama|last=Trent Rannells Sr.|date=January 24, 2013|access-date=May 2, 2018|via=YouTube|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312084732/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uneKBnzr0-A|archive-date=March 12, 2016}}</ref> The sisters were again featured in a ''Fallout'' game in 2015, when their songs "Pistol Packin' Mama" and "Civilization" were featured in the game ''[[Fallout 4]]''.

[[Christina Aguilera]] used the Andrews Sisters' "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" to inspire her song "[[Candyman (Christina Aguilera song)|Candyman]]" (released as a single in 2007) from her hit album ''[[Back to Basics (Christina Aguilera album)|Back to Basics]]''. The song was co-written by [[Linda Perry]]. The London-based trio the [[Puppini Sisters]] uses their style harmonies on several Andrews Sisters and other hits of the 1940s and 1950s as well as later [[rock music|rock]] and [[disco]] hits. The trio has said their name is a tribute to The Andrews Sisters. 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]]. 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".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Toplcxv-jpc |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/Toplcxv-jpc| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|title=Flying Legends 2013 Clips featuring the Manhattan Dolls|last=WillzUK75|date=July 17, 2013|access-date=May 2, 2018|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.themanhattandolls.com/WWII.html|title=The Manhattan Dolls|website=themanhattandolls.com|access-date=May 2, 2018|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160317222656/http://www.themanhattandolls.com/WWII.html|archive-date=March 17, 2016}}</ref>

In 2008 and 2009, the [[British Broadcasting Corporation|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. The North American premiere of the show was June 21, 2009, in their summer vacation enclave of Mound, Minnesota. In 2008, Mound dedicated "The Andrews Sisters Trail". The sisters spent summers in Mound<ref name=foxnews/> with their uncles Pete and Ed Solie, who had a grocery store there. Maxene Andrews always said that the summers in Mound created a major sense of "normalcy" and "a wonderful childhood" in a life that otherwise centered on the sisters' careers. The Westonka Historical Society has a large collection of Andrews Sisters memorabilia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.westonkahistoricalsociety.org/movestory.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130416030548/http://www.westonkahistoricalsociety.org/movestory.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=April 16, 2013|title=Westonka Historical Society|website=westonkahistoricalsociety.org|access-date=May 2, 2018}}</ref>

In 2019, the [[Great American Songbook Foundation]] held an exhibition titled "The Andrews Sisters: Queens of the Jukebox," which led discussions about the lives and impact of the Andrews sisters' careers on the music industry alongside a collection of archival artifacts and historic memorabilia.<ref>{{Cite web |date=18 January 2019 |title=Andrews Sisters exhibit on display at Palladium |url=https://youarecurrent.com/2019/01/18/andrews-sisters-exhibit-on-display-at-palladium/ |website=Current Publishing}}</ref> The [https://thesongbook.org/library-archives/ Songbook Library & Archives] houses most comprehensive [https://songbook.accesstomemory.org/robert-boyer-collection collection of Andrews Sisters memorabilia] available today.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Inside the Archives |url=https://thesongbook.org/library-archives/inside-the-archives/ |website=[[Great American Songbook Foundation]]}}</ref>

== Filmography ==
Patty, Maxene, and LaVerne appeared in 17 Hollywood films. Their first picture, ''[[Argentine Nights]]'', paired them with another enthusiastic trio, the [[Ritz Brothers]].<ref>[https://www.proquest.com/docview/165092700 Los Angeles Times article] [[Portable Document Format|PDF]] May 15, 1940.</ref> [[Universal Pictures]], always budget-conscious, refused to hire a choreographer, so the Ritzes taught the sisters some eccentric steps. Thus, in ''Argentine Nights'' and the sisters' next film, ''[[Buck Privates]]'', the Andrews Sisters dance like the Ritz Brothers.{{citation needed|date = February 2013}}

''[[Buck Privates]]'', with [[Abbott and Costello]], featured the Andrews Sisters' best-known song, "[[Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy]]."<ref>"Songs That Won The War Vol. 4 The Home Front" CD program notes by Edward Habib</ref> This [[Don Raye]]-[[Hughie Prince]] composition was nominated for [[Academy Award for Best Original Song|Best Song]] at the 1941 [[Academy Awards]] ceremony.<ref name=Oscar>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1942/G|title=The 14th Academy Awards &#124; 1942|website=Oscars.org}}</ref>

[[Universal Pictures|Universal]] hired the sisters for two more Abbott and Costello comedies and then promoted them to full-fledged stardom in B musicals. ''[[What's Cookin'?]]'', ''[[Private Buckaroo]]'', ''[[Give Out, Sisters]]'' (in which they disguise themselves as old women as part of the zany plot) and [[Moonlight and Cactus (1944 film)|''Moonlight and Cactus'']] were among the team's popular full-length films.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O6kfBgAAQBAJ&q=universal+the+andrews+sisters++what's+cookin'+private+buckaroo+and+give+out+sisters&pg=PA231|title=City of Dreams: The Making and Remaking of Universal Pictures|first=Bernard F.|last=Dick|date=January 13, 2015|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|access-date=May 2, 2018|via=Google Books|isbn=9780813158891}}</ref>

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 film)|Hollywood Canteen]]'' (1944). They can be seen singing "You Don't Have to Know the Language" with [[Bing Crosby]] in Paramount's ''[[Road to Rio]]'' with [[Bob Hope]], that year's highest-grossing movie. Their singing voices are heard in two full-length [[Walt Disney]] features: "[[Make Mine Music]]",<ref>[https://www.proquest.com/docview/165677198 Los Angeles Times article] ([[Portable Document Format|PDF]]) Hedda Hopper. June 30, 1946.</ref> in a segment which featured animated characters [[Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet]]; and "[[Melody Time]]", in the segment ''[[Little Toot]]'' (both of which are available on [[DVD]] today).{{citation needed|date=December 2021}}

== Stage and radio shows ==
The Andrews Sisters were the most sought-after singers in theater shows worldwide during the 1940s and early 1950s, always topping previous house averages.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CgwEAAAAMBAJ&q=the+andrews+sisters+topping+house+averages&pg=PT17|title=Billboard|date=September 12, 1942|access-date=May 2, 2018|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GwwEAAAAMBAJ&q=the+andrews+sisters+topping+house+averages&pg=PT57|title=Billboard|date=January 17, 1942|access-date=May 2, 2018|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xAwEAAAAMBAJ&q=the+andrews+sisters+topping+house+averages&pg=PT18|title=Billboard|date=July 17, 1943|access-date=May 2, 2018|via=Google Books}}</ref> The trio headlined at the [[London Palladium]] in 1948<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9mE2-RxDyZsC&q=the+andrews+sisters+london+palladium&pg=PA472|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> and 1951.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9mE2-RxDyZsC&q=the+andrews+sisters+london+palladium+1951&pg=PA473|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> They hosted their own radio shows for [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] and [[Columbia Broadcasting System|CBS]] from 1944 to 1951,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9mE2-RxDyZsC&q=the+andrews+sisters+radio+show&pg=PA441|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> singing specially written commercial jingles for such products as [[Wrigley's]] [[chewing gum]],<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HqkeBgAAQBAJ&q=the+andrews+sisters+wrigley's+chewing+gum&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> [[Dole Food Company|Dole]] pineapples,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HqkeBgAAQBAJ&q=the+andrews+sisters+dole+pineapples&pg=PA37|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> [[Nash Motors|Nash]] motor cars, [[Kelvinator]] home appliances,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RwVkMMLqMdkC&q=the+andrews+sisters+kelvinator+home+appliances&pg=PA263|title=Sold on Radio: Advertisers in the Golden Age of Broadcasting|first=Jim|last=Cox|date=January 25, 2013|publisher=McFarland|access-date=May 2, 2018|via=Google Books|isbn=9780786451760}}</ref> [[Campbell's]] soups, and [[Franco-American (Campbell's)|Franco-American]] food products.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HqkeBgAAQBAJ&q=the+andrews+sisters+singing+commercial+jingles&pg=PA261|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 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.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9mE2-RxDyZsC&q=the+andrews+sisters+show+eight+to+the+bar+ranch&pg=PA203|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>

== 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 Schön]]'' 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>

* 75–100 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}}

== Repertoire ==
{{unreferenced section|date = February 2013}}

===Discography===
====Albums====
*''[[Don't Fence Me In (Decca album)|Don't Fence Me In]]'' (with Bing Crosby) (1946, [[Decca Records|Decca]])
*''The Andrews Sisters'' (1946, Decca)
*''A Collection of Tropical Songs'' (1947, Decca)
*''[[Selections from Road to Rio]]'' (with Bing Crosby) (1948, Decca)
*''Irving Berlin Songs'' (1948, Decca)
*''The Andrews Sisters in Hi-Fi'' (1957, [[Capitol Records|Capitol]])
*''Fresh and Fancy Free'' (1957, Capitol)
*''The Andrews Sisters Sing the Dancing '20s'' (1958, Capitol)
*''Greatest Hits'' (1961, [[Dot Records|Dot]])
*''Great Golden Hits'' (1962, Dot)
*''The Andrews Sisters Present'' (1963, Dot)
*''Greatest Hits Vol. 2'' (1963, Dot)
*''Great Country Hits'' (1964, Dot)
*''The Andrews Sisters Go Hawaiian'' (1965, Dot)
*''Favorite Hymns'' (1965, [[Dot Records|Hamilton]])
*''The Andrews Sisters – Great Performers'' (1967, Dot)
*''Boogie Woogie Bugle Girls'' (1973, [[Paramount Records|Paramount]])
*''The Andrews Sisters in Over Here!'' (1974, [[Columbia Records|Columbia]])
*''In The Mood (Famous Twinset Series)'' (1974, Paramount)
*''Sixteen Great Performances'' (1980, [[MCA Records|MCA]])
*''50th Anniversary Collection Volume One'' (1987, MCA)
*''Christmas With The Andrews Sisters'' (1988, [[Pickwick Records|Pickwick]])
*''All-Time Favorites (10 Best Series)'' (1991, Cema)
*''Their All Time Greatest Hits'' (1994, MCA)
*''20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Andrews Sisters'' (2000, MCA)

====Chart records====
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! rowspan="2"| Year
! style="width:400px;" rowspan="2"| Single
! colspan="3"|Chart positions
|- style="font-size:smaller;"
! style="width:40px;"| [[Billboard Hot 100|US]]
! style="width:40px;"| [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs|US<br />R&B]]
! style="width:40px;"| [[US Country]]
|-
|-
| rowspan="9"| 1938
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Bei Mir Bistu Shein|Bei Mir Bist Du Schön (Means That You're Grand)]]"
| 1
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Nice Work If You Can Get It (song)|Nice Work If You Can Get It]]"
| 12
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "Joseph, Joseph"
| 18
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "Ti-Pi-Tin"
| 12
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Shortenin' Bread]]"
| 16
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "Says My Heart"
| 10
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "Tu-li-Tulip Time"
| 9
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "Sha-Sha"
| 17
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "Lullaby to a Jitterbug"
| 10
| –
| –
|-
| rowspan="8"| 1939
| style="text-align:left;"| "Pross-Tchai (Goodbye)"
| 15
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "Hold Tight, Hold Tight (Want Some Sea Food, Mama?)"
| 2
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "You Don't Know How Much You Can Suffer"
| 14
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Beer Barrel Polka]] (Roll Out the Barrel)"
| 4
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "Well All Right (Tonight's the Night)"
| 5
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Ciribiribin]] (They're So In Love)" <small>(with Bing Crosby)</small>
| 13
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "Yodelin' Jive" <small>(with Bing Crosby)</small>
| 4
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "Chico's Love Song"
| 11
| –
| –
|-
| rowspan="7"| 1940
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Say "Si Si"|Say Si Si (Para Vigo Me Voy)]]"
| 4
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[The Woodpecker Song]]"
| 6
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "Down By the O-Hi-O"
| 21
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "Rhumboogie"
| 11
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "Ferryboat Serenade"
| 1
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "Hit the Road"
| 27
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar]]"
| 2
| –
| –
|-
| rowspan="10"| 1941
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat|Scrub Me, Mama, With a Boogie Beat]]"
| 10
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy]]"
| 6
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (I Like You Very Much)|I Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (I Like You Very Much)]]"
| 11
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[(I'll Be With You) In Apple Blossom Time]]"
| 5
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "Aurora"
| 10
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Sonny Boy (song)|Sonny Boy]]"
| 22
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "The Nickel Serenade"
| 22
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "Sleepy Serenade"
| 22
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "I Wish I Had a Dime (For Every Time I Missed You)"
| 20
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "Jealous"
| 12
| –
| –
|-
| rowspan="9"| 1942
| style="text-align:left;"| "The Shrine of St. Cecilia"
| 3
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "I'll Pray For You"
| 22
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "Three Little Sisters"
| 8
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree]]"
| 16
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Pennsylvania Polka]]"
| 17
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "That's the Moon, My Son"
| 18
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Mr. Five by Five|Mister Five By Five]]"
| 14
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Strip Polka]]"
| 6
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "Here Comes the Navy"
| 17
| –
| –
|-
| rowspan="5"| 1943
| style="text-align:left;"| "East of the Rockies"
| 18
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Pistol Packin' Mama]]" <small>(with [[Bing Crosby]])</small>
| 2
| 3
| 1
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "Victory Polka" <small>(with [[Bing Crosby]])</small>
| 5
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Jingle Bells]]" <small>(with [[Bing Crosby]])</small>
| 19
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Shoo Shoo Baby (song)|Shoo-Shoo Baby]]"
| 1
| –
| –
|-
| rowspan="7"| 1944
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Down in the Valley (folk song)|Down In the Valley]]"
| 20
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Straighten Up and Fly Right]]"
| 8
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Tico-Tico no Fubá|Tico Tico]]"
| 24
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "Sing a Tropical Song"
| 24
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby|Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby]]" <small>(with [[Bing Crosby]])</small>
| 2
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Hot time in the town of Berlin: when the Yanks go marching in|A Hot Time In the Town of Berlin]]" <small>(with [[Bing Crosby]])</small>
| 1
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Don't Fence Me In (song)|Don't Fence Me In]]" <small>(with [[Bing Crosby]])</small>
| 1
| 9
| –
|-
| rowspan="7"| 1945
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Rum and Coca-Cola]]"
| 1
| 3
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive|Accentuate the Positive]]" <small>(with [[Bing Crosby]])</small>
| 2
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[The Three Caballeros]]" <small>(with [[Bing Crosby]])</small>
| 8
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[George Martin Lane|One Meat Ball]]"
| 15
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "Corns For My Country"
| 21
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Along the Navajo Trail (song)|Along the Navajo Trail]]" <small>(with [[Bing Crosby]])</small>
| 2
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "The Blond Sailor"
| 8
| –
| –
|-
| rowspan="10"| 1946
| style="text-align:left;"| "Money Is the Root of All Evil"
| 9
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "Patience and Fortitude"
| 12
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "Coax Me a Little Bit"
| 24
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[South America, Take It Away]]" <small>(with [[Bing Crosby]])</small>
| 2
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Route 66 (song)|Get Your Kicks On Route 66]]" <small>(with [[Bing Crosby]])</small>
| 14
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)|I Don't Know Why]]"
| 17
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[The House of Blue Lights (song)|House of Blue Lights]]"
| 15
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Rumors Are Flying]]" <small>(with Les Paul)</small>
| 4
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Winter Wonderland]]" <small>(with [[Guy Lombardo]])</small>
| 22
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Christmas Island (The Andrews Sisters song)|Christmas Island]]" <small>(with [[Guy Lombardo]])</small>
| 7
| –
| –
|-
| rowspan="12"| 1947
| style="text-align:left;"| "Tallahassee" <small>(with Bing Crosby)</small>
| 10
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[There's No Business Like Show Business]]" <small>(with [[Bing Crosby]] and [[Dick Haymes]])</small>
| 25
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "On the Avenue"
| 21
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Near You]]"
| 2
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "The Lady From 29 Palms"
| 7
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "The Freedom Train" <small>(with [[Bing Crosby]])</small>
| 21
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Civilization (1947 song)|Civilization (Bongo, Bongo, Bongo)]]" <small>(with [[Danny Kaye]])</small>
| 3
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Jingle Bells]]" <small>(with [[Bing Crosby]])</small><small>(re-entry)</small>
| 21
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town" <small>(with [[Bing Crosby]])</small>
| 22
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Christmas Island (The Andrews Sisters song)|Christmas Island]]" (with [[Guy Lombardo]])<small>(re-entry)</small>
| 20
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "Your Red Wagon"
| 24
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "How Lucky You Are"
| 22
| –
| –
|-
| rowspan="13"| 1948
| style="text-align:left;"| "You Don't Have To Know the Language" <small>(with [[Bing Crosby]])</small>
| 21
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "Teresa" <small>(with [[Dick Haymes]])</small>
| 21
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "Toolie Oolie Doolie (The Yodel Polka)"
| 3
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "I Hate to Lose You"
| 14
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "Heartbreaker"
| 21
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Sabre Dance]]"
| 20
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Woody Woodpecker]]" <small>(with [[Danny Kaye]])</small>
| 18
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Jimmy Crack Corn|Blue Tail Fly]]" <small>(with [[Burl Ives]])</small>
| 24
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Underneath the Arches (song)|Underneath the Arches]]"
| 5
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[You Call Everybody Darlin'|You Call Everybody Darling]]"
| 8
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "Cuanto La Gusta" <small>(with [[Carmen Miranda]])</small>
| 12
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "160 Acres" <small>(with [[Bing Crosby]])</small>
| 23
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "Bella Bella Marie"
| 23
| –
| –
|-
| rowspan="9"| 1949
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Christmas Island (The Andrews Sisters song)|Christmas Island]]" <small>(with [[Guy Lombardo]])</small><small>(re-entry)</small>
| 26
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "The Pussy Cat Song (Nyow! Nyot! Nyow!)"<small>([[Patty Andrews]] and [[Bob Crosby]])</small>
| 12
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "More Beer!"
| 30
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "I'm Bitin' My Fingernails and Thinking of You" <small>(with [[Ernest Tubb]])</small>
| 30
| –
| 2
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Don't Rob Another Man's Castle]]" <small>(with [[Ernest Tubb]])</small>
| –
| –
| 6
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[I Can Dream, Can't I?]]"
| 1
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "The Wedding of Lili Marlene"
| 20
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" <small>(with [[Russ Morgan]])</small>
| 22
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Charley, My Boy]]" <small>(with [[Russ Morgan]])</small>
| 15
| –
| –
|-
| rowspan="8"| 1950
| style="text-align:left;"| "Merry Christmas Polka" <small>(with [[Guy Lombardo]])</small>
| 18
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?|Have I Told You Lately That I Love You]]" <small>(with [[Bing Crosby]])</small>
| 24
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Quicksilver (song)|Quicksilver]]" <small>(with [[Bing Crosby]])</small>
| 6
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[The Wedding Samba]]" <small>(with [[Carmen Miranda]])</small>
| 23
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[I Wanna Be Loved]]"
| 1
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "Can't We Talk It Over"
| 22
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[A Bushel and a Peck]]"
| 22
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Mele Kalikimaka]]" <small>(with [[Bing Crosby]])</small>
| 36
| –
| –
|-
| rowspan="3"| 1951
| style="text-align:left;"| "A Penny a Kiss, a Penny a Hug"
| 17
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Sparrow in the Tree Top]]" <small>(with [[Bing Crosby]])</small>
| 8
| –
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Too Young (Sidney Lippman and Sylvia Dee song)|Too Young]]" <small>(Patty Andrews)</small>
| 19
| –
| –
|-
| 1952
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Sing, Sing, Sing]]"
| 17
| –
| –
|-
| 1955
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Suddenly There's a Valley]]" <small>(Patty Andrews)</small>
| 69
| –
| –
|}

====Other songs====
Highest chart positions on ''Billboard''; with [[Vic Schoen]] and his orchestra, unless otherwise noted:
* "[[A Bushel and a Peck]]" (1950) (No. 22)
* "A Hundred and Sixty Acres" (with [[Bing Crosby]]) (1948) (No. 23)
* "A Penny a Kiss-A Penny a Hug" (1950) (No. 17)
* "Aurora" (1941) (No. 10)
* "Bella Bella Marie" (1948) (No. 23)
* "Can't We Talk it Over?" (with [[Gordon Jenkins]] and his orchestra and chorus) (1950) (No. 22)
* "[[Charley, My Boy]]" (with [[Russ Morgan]] and his orchestra) (1949) (No. 15)
* "Chico's Love Song" (1939) (No. 11)
* "[[Christmas Island (The Andrews Sisters song)|Christmas Island]]" (with [[Guy Lombardo]] and his [[Royal Canadians]]) (1946: No. 7; 1947: No. 20; 1949: No. 26)
* "[[Ciribiribin|Ciribiribin (They're So in Love)]]" (with [[Bing Crosby]] & [[Joe Venuti]] and his orchestra) (1939) (No. 13)
* "Coax Me a Little Bit" (1946) (No. 24)
* "Corns for My Country" (1945) (No. 21)
* "Cuanto La Gusta" (with [[Carmen Miranda]]) (1948) (No. 12)
* "Down By the O-HI-O" (1940) (No. 21)
* "Down in the Valley (Hear that Train Blow)" (1944) (No. 20)
* "East of the Rockies" (1943) (No. 18)
* "(Everytime They Play the) Sabre Dance" (with [[The Harmonica Gentlemen]]) (1948) (No. 20)
* "Heartbreaker" (with [[The Harmonica Gentlemen]]) (1948) (No. 21)
* "[[Here Comes the Navy]]" (1942) (No. 17)
* "Hit the Road" (1940) (No. 27)
* "How Lucky You Are" (1947) (No. 22)
* "[[I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)]]" (1946) (No. 17)
* "I Hate to Lose You" (1948) (No. 14)
* "[[Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?]]" (with [[Bing Crosby]]) (1950) (No. 24)
* "I'll Pray For You" (1942) (No. 22)
* "I'm Biting My Fingernails and Thinking of You" (with [[Ernest Tubb]] and The Texas Troubadors directed by [[Vic Schoen]]) (1949) (No. 30)
* "I Wish I Had a Dime (For Ev'rytime I Missed You)" (1941) (No. 20)
* "[[I Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (I Like You Very Much)]]" (1941) (No. 11)
* "Jealous" (1941) (No. 12)
* "[[Jimmy Crack Corn (children's song)|The Blue Tail Fly (Jimmy Crack Corn)]]" (with [[Burl Ives]], vocal and guitar accompaniment) (1948) (No. 24)
* "Joseph! Joseph!" (1938) (No. 18)
* "Lullaby to a Jitterbug" (1938) (No. 10)
* "Merry Christmas Polka" (with [[Guy Lombardo]] and his [[Royal Canadians]]) (1950) (No. 18)
* "[[Mister Five By Five]]" (1942) (No. 14)
* "Money Is the Root of All Evil (Take it Away, Take it Away, Take it Away)" (with [[Guy Lombardo]] and his [[Royal Canadians]]) (1946) (No. 9)
* "More Beer!" (1949) (No. 30)
* "[[Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh!]]" Decca 2840 (1940)
* "[[On the Avenue]]" (with [[Carmen Cavallaro]] at the piano), Decca 24102 A (1947) (No. 21)
* "[[One Meat Ball]]" (1945) (No. 15)
* "[[Patience and Fortitude]]" (1946) (No. 12)
* "Pennsylvania Polka" (1942) (No. 17)
* "Pross Tchai (Goodbye-Goodbye)" (1939) (No. 15)
* "Put That Ring On My Finger" (1945)
* "Quicksilver" (with [[Bing Crosby]]) (1950) (No. 6)
* "Rhumboogie" (1940) (No. 11)
* "[[Route 66 (song)|Get Your Kicks on Route 66]]" (with [[Bing Crosby]]) (1946) (No. 14)
* "Says My Heart" (1938) (No. 10)
* "[[Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat]]" (1940) (No. 10)
* "Sha-Sha" (with [[Jimmy Dorsey]] and his orchestra)(1938) (No. 17)
* "[[She Wore a Yellow Ribbon]]" (with [[Russ Morgan]] and his orchestra) (1949) (No. 22)
* "[[Shortenin' Bread]]" (1938) (No. 16)
* "Sing a Tropical Song" (1944) (No. 24)
* "Sleepy Serenade" (1941) (No. 22)
* "[[Sleigh Ride]]" (1950)
* "[[Sonny Boy (song)|Sonny Boy]]" (1941) (No. 22)
* "[[Sparrow in the Treetop]]" (with [[Bing Crosby]]) (1951) (No. 8)
* "[[Straighten Up and Fly Right]]" (1944) (No. 8)
* "Strip Polka" (1942) (No. 6)
* "Sweet Marie" (with [[Carmen Cavallaro]] at the piano), Decca 24102 B (maybe 1947?) (No. ?)
* "[[Tallahassee]]" (with [[Bing Crosby]]) (1947) (No. 10)
* "Teresa" (with [[Dick Haymes]]) (1948) (No. 21)
* "That's the Moon, My Son" (1942) (No. 18)
* "The Blond Sailor" (1945) (No. 8)
* "The Freedom Train" (1947) (No. 21)
* "[[The House of Blue Lights]]" (with [[Eddie Heywood]] and his orchestra) (1946) (No. 15)
* "The Lady from 29 Palms" (1947) (No. 7)
* "The Nickel Serenade" (1941) (No. 22)
* "The Pussy Cat Song (Nyow! Nyot Nyow!)" (Patty Andrews and [[Bob Crosby]]) (1949) (No. 12)
* "[[The Three Caballeros (song)|The Three Caballeros]]" (with [[Bing Crosby]]) (1945) (No. 8)
* "The Wedding of Lili Marlene" (with [[Gordon Jenkins]] and his orchestra and chorus) (1949) (No. 20)
* "The Wedding Samba" (with [[Carmen Miranda]]) (1950) (No. 23)
* "[[Maître Pierre (song)|The Windmill Song]]" (with [[Gordon Jenkins]] and his orchestra) (1951) (No. ?)
* "[[The Woodpecker Song]]" (1940) (No. 6)
* "[[There's No Business Like Show Business (song)|There's No Business Like Show Business]]" (with [[Bing Crosby]] and [[Dick Haymes]]) (1947) (No. 25)
* "Three Little Sisters" (1942) (No. 8)
* "[[Tico-Tico no Fubá]]" (1944) (No. 24)
* "Ti-Pi-Tin" (1938) (No. 12)
* "[[Too Young (popular song)|Too Young]]" (Patty Andrews with [[Victor Young]] and his orchestra) (1951) (No. 19)
* "[[Torero]]" [[Capitol Records|Capitol]] F 3965 (recorded on March 31, 1958)
* "Tu-Li-Tulip Time" (with [[Jimmy Dorsey]] and his orchestra) (1938) (No. 9)
* "[[Winter Wonderland]]" (with [[Guy Lombardo]] and his [[Royal Canadians]]) (1946) (No. 22)
* "[[Woody WoodpeckerNo. "The Woody Woodpecker Song"|The Woody Woodpecker Song]]" (with [[Danny Kaye]] and [[The Harmonica Gentlemen]]) (1948) (No. 18)
* "[[You Call Everybody Darling]]" (recorded in London with Billy Ternant and his orchestra) (1948) (No. 8)
* "You Don't Have to Know the Language" (with [[Bing Crosby]]) (1948) (No. 21)
* "You Don't Know How Much You Can Suffer" (1939) (No. 14)
* "Your Red Wagon" (1947) (No. 24)

== Film, theatre, and television ==
''(partial list)''

=== Filmography ===
*''[[Argentine Nights]]'' (Universal Pictures, 1940)
*''[[Buck Privates]]'' (Universal Pictures, 1941)
*''[[In the Navy (film)|In the Navy]]'' (Universal Pictures, 1941)
*''[[Hold That Ghost]]'' (Universal Pictures, 1941)
*''[[What's Cookin'?]]'' (Universal Pictures, 1942)
*''[[Private Buckaroo]]'' (Universal Pictures, 1942)
*''[[Give Out, Sisters]]'' (Universal Pictures, 1942)
*''[[How's About It]]'' (Universal Pictures, 1943)
*''[[Always a Bridesmaid (1943 film)|Always a Bridesmaid]]'' (Universal Pictures, 1943)
*''[[Swingtime Johnny]]'' (Universal Pictures, 1944)
*''[[Moonlight and Cactus (1944 film)|Moonlight and Cactus]]'' (Universal Pictures, 1944)
*''[[Follow the Boys (1944 film)|Follow the Boys]]'' (Universal Pictures, 1944)
*''[[Hollywood Canteen (film)|Hollywood Canteen]]'' (Warner Brothers, 1944)
*''[[Her Lucky Night]]'' (Universal Pictures, 1945)
*''[[Make Mine Music]]'' (Walt Disney Studios, 1946) – voices only, as singers of one segment
*''[[Road to Rio]]'' (Paramount Pictures, 1947)
*''[[Melody Time]]'' (Walt Disney Studios, 1948)  – voices only, as singers of one segment
*''[[Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?]]'' (1975) – newsreel archive footage only

=== Soundtracks ===
*''[[Breach (2007 film)|Breach]]'' (background music) (2007)
*''Land of the Lost'' (2009)
*[[Fallout 3]] (2008) (Civilization)
*[[Fallout 4]] (2015) (Civilization-Pistol Packin' Mama)
*''[[Mafia II]]'' (2010) [Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy – Rum and Coca-Cola – Straighten Up And Fly Right – Strip Polka – Hot Time in the Town of Berlin (with Bing Crosby) – Victory Polka (with Bing Crosby)]
*Bioshock (2006)
*Fallout 76 (2018)

=== Broadway ===
*''[[Over Here!]]'' (1974; Shubert Theater, New York City, 9 months)

=== Dance ===
*''Company B'' (1991); Choreographed by [[Paul Taylor (choreographer)|Paul Taylor]], Performed by [[Paul Taylor Dance Company]], [[American Ballet Theatre]], [[Miami City Ballet]], The [[Sarasota Ballet]], and [[Pacific Northwest Ballet]].

=== Television ===
* Appearance on ''[[The Joey Bishop Show (sitcom)|The Joey Bishop Show]]''
* They were parodied on ''[[Sesame Street]]'' as the Androoze Sisters ([[Muppets]]), named Mayeeme (Audrey Smith), Pattiz (Maeretha Stewart), and Lavoorrnee ([[Kevin Clash]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYkBDl9Pspc|title=Sesame Street – Everybody's Song|last=TheOriginalTellyMonster|date=January 30, 2008|access-date=May 2, 2018|via=YouTube|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310195721/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYkBDl9Pspc|archive-date=March 10, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-7ZJjLy5D8|title=Sesame Street: A New Way to Walk|last=Sesame Street|date=March 27, 2009|access-date=May 2, 2018|via=YouTube|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171205034444/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-7ZJjLy5D8|archive-date=December 5, 2017}}</ref>
* Patty Andrews appeared in season two, episode six, of ''Here's Lucy'', entitled "Lucy And The Andrews Sisters", in which Lucy, Kim, and Craig help Patty recreate the Andrews Sisters with [[Bing Crosby]] for a one-night only performance at a convention of the Sisters' oldest fan club.

== See also ==
* [[List of best-selling music artists]]

== References ==
{{Reflist|30em}}
* Nimmo, H. Arlo. ''The Andrews Sisters.'' Jefferson: McFarland & Co, Inc., 2004.
* Sforza, John. ''Swing It! The Andrews Sisters Story.'' Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2000.

== External links ==
{{Archival records|title=Andrews Sisters collection, 1940–2011|location= [[Music Division, Library of Congress]]|description_URL=
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20201028203806/https://www.cmgww.com/music/andrews/ Official website] (archived)
* {{IMDb name|id=1679536}}
* {{IMDb name|name=Patty Andrews|id=0028809}}
* {{IMDb name|name=Maxene Andrews|id=0028782}}
* {{IMDb name|name=LaVerne Andrews|id=0028739}}
* {{Find a Grave|104311861|Patty Andrews}}
* {{Find a Grave|3052|Maxene Andrews}}
* {{Find a Grave|2092|LaVerne Andrews}}
* [https://songbook.accesstomemory.org/robert-boyer-collection Robert Boyer Collection of Andrews Sisters Materials] in the [[Great American Songbook Foundation]] Library & Archives
* [https://thesongbook.org/andrews-sisters-online-exhibit "The Andrews Sisters: Queens of the Jukebox"] online exhibit at [[Great American Songbook Foundation]]
* [http://www.mnopedia.org/group/andrews-sisters The Andrews Sisters] at MNopedia
* {{discogs artist}}
* [https://vocalgroup.org/inductees/the-andrews-sisters/ Andrews Sisters] at [[Vocal Group Hall of Fame]]
* [https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/301483 The Andrews Sisters] at [[Discography of American Historical Recordings]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtG2Pfk3xck Digitized audio of "We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye"] on Soviet-era [[Ribs (recordings)]] at [[YouTube]]

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