I think this was $5.00 bucks at a record show. I thought it was a Greatest Hits collection. In actuality, it is the greatest hits that Pickwick could afford to pay for. Perhaps I was thrown off by the trippy album cover. Anyway, bottom line, screwed by Pickwick yet again.
The Andrew Sisters were one of the premier female vocal groups of the 1940’s. Hailing from Minnesota, they sold “well” over 75 million records as well as entertained troops during WWII. They are all dead, the last survivor being Patty who died at age 94 in 2013.
I recently saw Abbott and Costello’s “Buck Privates” which featured the Sisters doing their big hit, “The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”. First off, I was kind of taken aback at the sexism in the 1940s. Second, I found it funny that Hollywood could make people think that the army actually had servers in it. But besides this, I found Abbot and Costello very funny and the Sisters’ performance very good.
I was trying to find a better video and I stumbled on this which I found interesting.
And of course, it would be derelict of me not to mention the use of the Sisters in Bioshock.
Like I stated above, this is a collection of songs packaged on the budget Pickwick label. I believe the biggest hit on here is “Don’t Sit Under The Apple Tree”. There are also some tropical numbers such as “My Little Grass shack”, “Rum and Coca Cola”, and “Ciribiribin” .
For a sample, I picked “Pistol Packin’ Mama”.
It is an alright album but not worth the $5.00 I paid. So meh. I have not meh’d in along time. Feels kinda good.