Posted on 01/30/2013 5:33:48 PM PST by massmike
Patty Andrews, the last surviving member of the singing Andrews Sisters trio whose hits such as the rollicking "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B" and the poignant "I Can Dream, Can't I?" captured the home-front spirit of World War II, died Wednesday. She was 94.
Andrews died of natural causes at her home in the Los Angeles suburb of Northridge, said family spokesman Alan Eichler in a statement.
Patty was the Andrews in the middle, the lead singer and chief clown, whose raucous jitterbugging delighted American servicemen abroad and audiences at home.
She could also deliver sentimental ballads like "I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time" with a sincerity that caused hardened GIs far from home to weep.
From the late 1930s through the 1940s, the Andrews Sisters produced one hit record after another, beginning with "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" in 1937 and continuing with "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar," "Rum and Coca-Cola" and more. They recorded more than 400 songs and sold over 80 million records, several of them going gold (over a million copies).
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Shasta Root Beer, if I remember correctly.
Furldy Acky Sacky Want Some Seafood, Mama?
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From an otherwise forgettable Abbott and Costello movie...
Check out The Puppini Sisters, they have a wonderful sound.
Great patriotic entertainers from a time when patriots weren’t considered a right wing extremist threat by our own government.
Here's the Nazi version by Karl "Charlie" Schwedler
Bei Mir--Charlie & His Orchestra (c. 1943)
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