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120550bk Andrews 15/9/03 9:34 PM Page 2 1. Ti-Pi-Tin 2:38 9. Rhumboogie 2:49 16. Pennsylvania Polka 2:50 19. Tico-Tico 2:22 (María Grever–Raymond Leveen) (Don Raye–Hughie Prince) (Lester Lee–Zeke Manners) (Zequinha Abreu–Aloysio Oliveira– Decca 63301-A Decca 67383-A Decca DLA 3003-B Ervin Drake) Recorded 21 February 1938, New York Recorded 23 March 1940, New York Recorded 28 May 1942, Los Angeles Decca 71833-A Recorded 7 March 1944, New York 2. Where Have We Met Before? 2:49 10. Hit The Road 2:51 17. Pistol Packin’ Mama 3:04 (Louis Prima–Mitchell Parish–Jimmy Klaer) (Hughie Prince–Don Raye–Vic Schoen) (Al Dexter) 20. Straighten Up And Fly Right 2:34 Decca 63316-A Decca DLA 2056-B With Bing Crosby (Nat ‘King’Cole– Irving Mills) Recorded 22 February 1938, New York Recorded 15 July 1940, Los Angeles Decca L. 3197-A Decca 72059-C Recorded 27 September 1943, Los Angeles Recorded 2 May 1944, New York 3. Says My Heart 2:48 11. (I’ll Be With You) In Apple-Blossom (Burton Lane–Frank Loesser) Time 3:03 18. Shoo Shoo Baby 2:56 21. Rum And Coca-Cola 3:14 Decca 63911-A (Albert Von Tilzer–Neville Fleeson) (Phil Moore) (Jeri Sullavan–Paul Baron–Morey Amsterdam) Recorded 5 June 1938, New York Decca 68351-A Decca L 3220-A Decca 72460-A Recorded 13 October 1943, Los Angeles Recorded 23 October 1944, New York 4. Love Is Where You Find It 2:47 Recorded 14 November 1940, New York (Harry Warren–Al Dubin–Johnny Mercer) 12. Yes, My Darling Daughter 2:46 Decca 64423-A (Jack Lawrence–Albert Sirmay) All tracks with Vic Schoen’s Orchestra. Recorded 8 June 1938, New York Decca DLA 2357-A Transfers, Production & Digital Noise Reduction by Peter Dempsey 5. One–Two–Three O’Leary 3:03 Recorded 7 January 1941, Los Angeles (Woody Herman–Wally Bishop) 13. I,Yi,Yi,Yi,Yi (I Like You Very Much) Decca 64427-B 2:53 Also available in the Naxos Nostalgia series ... Recorded 8 June 1938, New York (Harry Warren–Mack Gordon) 6. Chico’s Love Song 3:07 Decca DLA 2356-A (Lester Lee–Jerry Seelen–Dan Shapiro) Recorded 7 January 1941, Los Angeles Decca 66592-A 14. Honey 2:45 Recorded 15 September 1939, New York (Seymour Simons–Haven Gillespie– 7. Down By The Ohio 2:59 Richard A.Whiting) (Jack Yellen–Abe Olman) Decca 69578-A Decca 67226-A Recorded 30 July 1941, New York Recorded 21 February 1940, New York 15. A Zoot Suit (For My Sunday Gal) 2:44 8. Tuxedo Junction 3:10 (Ray Gilbert–Bob O’Brien) (Vic Schoen) Decca DLA 2849-B Decca 67384-A Recorded 26 January 1942, Los Angeles 8.120546* 8.120613* 8.120697* Recorded 23 March 1940, New York * Not Available in the U.S. 5 8.120550 6 8.120550 120550bk Andrews 15/9/03 9:34 PM Page 1 THE ANDREWS SISTERS Hit The Road If You Can Get It”(from the 1937 RKO musical I’ll Be With You In Apple-Blossom Time, other classic Andrews Sisters tracks, including 1906 vintage entitled “L’année passée”, this Original 1938-1944 Recordings A Damsel In Distress),“Joseph, Joseph”, US No.5) and its follow-up In The Navy and their US No.1 (their second) Shoo Shoo was to provide the Andrews Sisters with their “Short’nin’ Bread”,“Tu-Li-Tulip Time”,“‘Sha- Hold That Ghost (in this last, a classic of the Baby, cover-versions of Tico-Tico (US No.24 third US No.1 hit, in January 1945, and Sha”,“Lullaby To A Jitterbug”, Says My Heart Abbott and Costello comedies, the Sisters sang – a Latin-American standard which was a nominally their second million-selling record – Between the two World Wars a trend for they toured the RKO theatre circuit and by the (cover of the Burton Lane–Frank Loesser hit “Aurora” (US No.10) and “Sleepy Serenade” – bigger hit for rhythm pianist Ethel Smith) Nat or their fourth, counting two others syncopated close-harmony vocalising following year were touring with the Larry from the Paramount musical comedy US No.22) while their record hit-list for that ‘King’ Cole and Irving Mills’ Straighten Up meanwhile with Bing Crosby). flourished. Deeply rooted in barbershop and Rich orchestra and later worked in vaudeville Cocoanut Grove), Love Is Where You Find year included “Scrub Me, Mama,With A Boogie And Fly Right (US No.8) and Rum And further back still in Negro minstrelsy its more and Chicago nightclubs. They made their New It (a Dubin–Warren-Mercer collaboration from Beat” (US No.10),“Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” Coca-Cola (based on a Trinidadian melody of Peter Dempsey, 2003 recent precursors had included the Revelers, York debut with Leon Belasco’s New York 1938 Warner Brothers musical Garden Of The (US No.6),“The Nickel Serenade” (US No.22), a the Comedy Harmonists, the Mills Brothers Hotel Edison Orchestra and in March 1937, at Moon) and María Grever’s Ti-Pi-Tin. US No.22 revival of the 1928 Al Jolson song and, among the girls, the Boswell Sisters, the the height of the Swing Era, while still in In 1939 their list of hits included “Hold “Sonny Boy” and a No.11 cover-version of Andrews Sisters’ closest role-models. The residence with the band they cut their first Tight, Hold Tight (I Want The Seafood, Mama)”, Harry Warren’s I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (created by Andrews had their own characteristic style, records – four sides for Brunswick (in actual “Beer Barrel Polka” and Chico’s Love Song Carmen Miranda in the 1941 20th Century Fox however, allied to a rhythmic incisiveness fact two Patti solo vocals, and two trios) – and and the following year their Silver Screen musical That Night In Rio). which makes them still for many the Number in October they were ‘discovered’ by Jack baptism (between 1940 and 1947 they were to In 1942 the Sisters made three more One favourite close-harmony group, a Kapp, then President of the US Branch of the appear in twenty-odd light-musicals, invariably movies: What’s Cookin’, Private Buckaroo partisanship borne out by record sales English Decca Record Company, and signed to as themselves) began when they were paired (another military farce, this aired their hits exceeding 60 million – making them the a contract. With their second Decca master, by Universal with the Ritz Brothers in “Three Little Sisters” (US No.8),“That’s The biggest girl-group success in popular recording “Bei mir bist du schön”, a rehash of a 1932 Argentine Nights. From this moderate box- Moon, My Son” (US No.18) and “Don’t Sit history. Like Glenn Miller and Vera Lynn, their tune by Jewish musicals composer Sholem office success came the two Don Raye songs Under The Apple Tree” – US No.16) and Give sound is the very essence of wartime Seconda, the girls struck gold. The equivalent Rhumboogie (US No.11) and Hit The Road Out, Sisters (this last, in which the girls were nostalgia. of US No.1 in 1938 (the charts as we now (US No.27) while among their other 1940 rather unusually for reasons of plot cast as rich The Sisters, who all hailed from know them were not set up until 1940), the record best-sellers were “Ferryboat Serenade” old maids, featured Pennsylvania Polka,US Minneapolis, Minnesota, of part-Norwegian, song provided a lasting signature tune and (their first US No.1 hit),“Beat Me Daddy, Eight No.17) and among their other hits were “Strip part-Greek parentage, comprised Laverne their first million-selling record, thus kick- To The Bar”(US No.2),“Say ‘Sí,sí’” (US No.4), Polka” (US No.6) and “Mister Five-By-Five” (US (1915-1967), Maxene (1918-1995) and lead- starting one of the most prolific, if often “The Woodpecker Song” (US No.6) and Down No.14). Their partnership on disc with “Ol’ singer Patricia (aka Patti or Patty, born 1920). stormy, of partnerships in popular music By The O-Hi-O (US No.21). Groaner” Bing Crosby, which began in 1939 The girls began vocalising as a trio at a very history. Viewed essentially as escapist fodder to the and lasted until 1947, was also to produce early age and from local radio slots they The Andrews Sisters’ popularity soon propagandists behind the US war-effort, the several sizeable hits, and some perennially progressed with professional determination, reached a peak on radio and the golden spring Sisters were soon in demand to make more popular non-hits, such as this 1943 cover- via vaudeville and nightclubs, to eventual of the US Cold War was soon to give rise to low-budget movies (all for Universal). First, in version of Al Dexter’s C&W favourite Pistol stardom. After winning a juvenile talent some early Andrews Sisters boogie-style 1941, came Buck Privates (featuring their Packin’ Mama. contest at the Minneapolis Orpheum, in 1931 indispensables, including (in 1938) “Nice Work revival of the 1920 Albert Von Tilzer standard From 1943 and 1944 come a range of Cover art based on original monochrome photo from Michael Ochs Archives/Redferns 2 8.120550 3 8.120550 4 8.120550 120550bk Andrews 15/9/03 9:34 PM Page 1 THE ANDREWS SISTERS Hit The Road If You Can Get It”(from the 1937 RKO musical I’ll Be With You In Apple-Blossom Time, other classic Andrews Sisters tracks, including 1906 vintage entitled “L’année passée”, this Original 1938-1944 Recordings A Damsel In Distress),“Joseph, Joseph”, US No.5) and its follow-up In The Navy and their US No.1 (their second) Shoo Shoo was to provide the Andrews Sisters with their “Short’nin’ Bread”,“Tu-Li-Tulip Time”,“‘Sha- Hold That Ghost (in this last, a classic of the Baby, cover-versions of Tico-Tico (US No.24 third US No.1 hit, in January 1945, and Sha”,“Lullaby To A Jitterbug”, Says My Heart Abbott and Costello comedies, the Sisters sang – a Latin-American standard which was a nominally their second million-selling record – Between the two World Wars a trend for they toured the RKO theatre circuit and by the (cover of the Burton Lane–Frank Loesser hit “Aurora” (US No.10) and “Sleepy Serenade” – bigger hit for rhythm pianist Ethel Smith) Nat or their fourth, counting two others syncopated close-harmony vocalising following year were touring with the Larry from the Paramount musical comedy US No.22) while their record hit-list for that ‘King’ Cole and Irving Mills’ Straighten Up meanwhile with Bing Crosby).