LaVerne Andrews

Born July 6, 1911

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Died May 8, 1967

Brentwood, California

Maxene Andrews

Born January 3, 1916

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Died October 21, 1995

Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Patricia (Patty) Andrews

Born February 16, 1918

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Entertainers

"He was a famous trumpet man from out Chicago way/He had a boogie sound that no one else could play/He was the top man at his craft/But then his number came up and he was gone with the draft/He's the boogie-woogie bugle boy of Company B."
—Lyrics from "Boogie-Woogie Bugle Boy"
From left: Patty, Maxene, and LaVerne Andrews. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.

During World War II (1939–45), a trio of sisters known as the Andrews Sisters topped the music charts with hits such as their Oscar-nominated "Boogie-Woogie Bugle Boy." Their names were LaVerne, Maxene, and Patty Andrews, and they were the best-selling female vocal group in the twentieth century...