Summary
They wanted to sing like trumpets, Maxene Andrews once said. They were jive, hep, and socko all at once. America fell in love with them from the late 1930s and remained smitten into the early 1950s, and the romance only faded because the trio -- Maxene and her sisters Patty and LaVerne -- began to face mounting personal and professional difficulties. Today they probably remain best known for "Boogie-Woogie Bugle Boy," a bouncy swing tune that debuted in 1941's Buck Privates, a B comedy featuring a couple of former burlesque comics named Abbott and Costello.
They were the Andrews Sisters, and Stars Never Fade Productions pays homage to the trio -- who epitomized American patriotism, loyalty, mom's apple pie, and get-it-done grit during the war years - - with the musical revue The Andrews Sisters. Anne Bransford, Stephanie Duran, and Julie Trujillo play the girls, while producer/ director Greg Grissom (who cameos as Bing Crosby) provides a biographical narrative bridge between numbers.See the full content of this document
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Swingtime Revisited
"They broke through at the end of the Depression and before the war years, at a time when people wanted uplifting music, and the Andrews Sisters wanted to give that to them -- and they did," Grissom said.
As H. Arlo Nimmo records in his 2004 book, The Andrews Sisters:A Biography and Career Record (M...See the full content of this document
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