{"id":2164,"date":"2022-11-24T08:54:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T19:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=2164"},"modified":"2022-11-24T08:56:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T19:56:52","slug":"the-andrews-sisters-swing-and-boogie-woogie-million-sellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=2164","title":{"rendered":"The Andrews Sisters &#8211; Swing and Boogie-Woogie Million Sellers."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Three young ladies, known as &#8220;The Andrews Sisters,&#8221; started their career as imitators of an earlier successful singing group, the\u00a0&#8220;Boswell Sisters,&#8221; who were popular in the 1930s. The Andrews Sisters sang with various bands and for several radio broadcasts while they were struggling to establish a reputation during the mid-1930&#8217;s. A failed radio performance in 1937 turned out to be the sisters\u2019 big break. Although they were fired soon after their first night on the program\u00a0<em>Saturday Night Swing Club<\/em>, they were signed to a recording contract by a <em>Decca Records<\/em> executive who had heard the broadcast.\u00a0On 24 November 1937 they recorded their first major hit, <em>Bei Mir Bist Du Sch\u00f6n<\/em> (<em>To me, You are Beautiful<\/em>). The song went on to become the first million-selling record by a female singing group. The sisters, Laverne, Maxene and Patricia, have sold an estimated 80 million records. In 1984 a dance\/pop trio from The Netherlands, &#8220;The Star Sisters,&#8221; charted internationally when they\u00a0recorded a medley imitating the\u00a0Andrews Sisters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stars on 45 Proudly Presents The Star Sisters (Video)\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F5AtZIc3KOE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three young ladies, known as &#8220;The Andrews Sisters,&#8221; started their career as imitators of an earlier successful singing group, the\u00a0&#8220;Boswell Sisters,&#8221; who were popular in the 1930s. The Andrews Sisters sang with various bands and for several radio broadcasts while they were struggling to establish a reputation during the mid-1930&#8217;s. A failed radio performance in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashback"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2164"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2169,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions\/2169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}