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This is Maxene Andrews as you've never heard her before...her first solo album. It's the 1940's come back to life...but, at the same time, it's new and fresh. It's yesterday...it's today...it's wonderful!
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Record World named Chuck Mangione 1975's Most Promising Male Jazz Artist. After seven nominations, Chuck won his first Grammy Award in 1976 - for Best Instrumental Composition for Bellavia, the title tune for his second A&M album - in a field of nominees which included Stevie Wonder, Earth, Wind, And Fire, Chick Corea, Quincy Jones, and Henry ...
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LaVerne, Maxene, and Patty Andrews were born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Olga Sollie and Peter Andrews. Peter had changed his surname from Andreos to Andrews upon his arrival in America from his homeland in Greece. LaVerne Sophie was born to the couple on July 6, 1911, followed by Maxene Angelyn on January 3, 1916, and Patricia (Patty) Marie on F...
In 1941 war clouds were growing darker as Adolf Hitler's (1889–1945) German army conquered most of Europe. Americans remained deeply divided about their role in the European war; most preferring that the United States remain out of it. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, the United States officially entered World War II a...
Like many Hollywood films of the early 1940s, music provided an escape for the American public. Throughout the nation youth crowded dance halls and nightclubs to do dances called the jitterbug and the lindy. Bandleaders were in abundance and became music industry superstars. The list of the most famous always included Jimmy Dorsey (1904–1957). He f...
After appearances at the Paramount Theater in New York City, the Andrews Sisters would go over to Times Squarebetween shows and do free shows on a big stage set up in the center of the square. People formed long lines to buy war bonds used to finance the war, and the entertainers would provide music while they waited. The sisters would sing for two...
Patty, Maxene, and LaVerne recorded songs intended to give the American people a reason to smile during the war. Even those on the home front who were spared the agony of seeing loved ones listed in the local newspaper under the headings of "killed, wounded, or missing in action," were still suffering from the distress that accompanied long years o...
Books
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. Sforza, John. Swing It!: The Andrews Sisters Story. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2000. Simon, George T. The Big Bands. New York: Macmillan, 1967. Terkel, Studs. The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two.New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.
Web sites
"The Andrews Sisters." Bigbands.http://www.bigbands.net/andrewsbio.htm (accessed on July 18, 2004).
Maxene: An Andrews Sister, an Album by Maxene Andrews. Released in 1985 on Bainbridge (catalog no. BT6258; Vinyl LP). Genres: Vocal Jazz, Jazz Pop.
Discover Maxene: An Andrews Sister by Maxene Andrews released in 1985. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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