Andrews Sisters - Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy REACTION 

The Andrews Sisters where so popular that lots of Big Bands refuse to be on the same bill as them. The band leaders knew they would be second billings to the Andrews Sisters.

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I liked the Devine Miss M's version also.

@@marshaverduzco2859 I like both versions

They were in several Abbot and Costello movies, that's where I heard them first.

Armitage,who also is a Legend! Baltimore Maryland is trying to save a house were Cab Callaway lived,but it looks as if it maybe torn down!!!Very sad!

I saw Cab and his daughter perform at Vine Street Bar and Grill around 1987. What a treat!

Minnie the Mooncher

She reacted to the Nicholas Brothers dancing to Cab Calloway, but didn't really pay attention to the music. A shame, but you can understand being captivated by the Nicholas Brothers

@@tonylaca7087 ,Reefer Man! ( sung by Cab Callaway)✌

sukie584 Bette’s version rocks too!

Adrienne Pender indeed!

Bette's was too fast for dancing. This one was better. An iconic song for soldiers being drafted in th army. Some famous band leaders were drafted. Glenn Miller's plane disappeared although I think he was entertaining not serving. Irving Berlin was drafted. But he was a songwriter not a band leader.

liberty Ann this shows differently abt being too fast. But the original captures the sound of the 40s perfectly. . ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zhzD_PCdlWw.html

The Pointer Sisters did a great version too !

Seconded.

harold wilkes , Here Here !

She couldn't pronounced bugle.

Picky, picky.

@@ingriddubbel8468 She couldn't read that word, like she never saw it before.

I like that cool comparison!!😁

The flip side of a pillow! That is neat.

OMG, I've asked for that about 3 thousand times.

@@peterblood50 I love that one!!

I have the full version of sing sing sing love it January 1st 1938 it was recorded.most used song in media even a cookie commercial also have Andrew sisters greatest hits. I love bie mier bist do shoen

Excellent taste!

Masterpiece.

That's a wonderful story, Lily! That generation was amazing. So glad that we have our stories to remember them by. Thanks for sharing!

@@terrymurphy2032 My mother was in Nottingham during WW2, and she worked as a bomb girl. She had wonderful stories about the handsome American GIs that were stationed in England and all of the dances she and her friends went to. She talked about drawing the line on their legs to make it look like they were wearing hosiery when they weren't. When the war ended and after years of hiding lights, they turned on every light in the house, pulled down the blackout curtains and had huge bonfires in the streets. As she was telling me this, she got this far away look on her face and her eyes glimmered as she said, "I kissed many a Yank that night." Naughty mama!

Storm Tater, my dad served in the US Navy in WW2. He told me stories of all the beautiful women he met (& probably kissed). Maybe your mom was one ! Dad fell hopelessly in love with a girl from the Philippines. My grandma was just horrible about her. That was considered a different race way back then...and forbidden ! Dad came home alone but he never stopped loving that girl.

@@tammycambell5560 Oh Tammy, that breaks my heart for your dad. The homefront was very hostile to any foreign women that our boys dared to fall in love with, or heaven forbid, marry and bring home. My parents met on a base in England where my mother was a member of the Royal Air Force, and my dad served in the American Air Force. They married, had my brother in England, and my dad brought his young family back home. They called the women War Brides, and people treated them terribly. My mother told me that people would help her at stores until they heard her accent, then they would refuse to help her or check her out. She was even spat on a few times. It was terribly traumatic to a young woman who had lost her entire family during the war (father, mother, sister and brother) and had no one to return home to. Even after close to 20 years of marriage, the family treated her like an outsider. Decades later after most of the elder generation had died, including both of my parents, my aunt apologized to my siblings and me. They were flawed people, just like we all are, and though it was difficult, we all forgave them. I hope your Dad found love again and was content in his life. Best to you.

@@kaseythompson4670 You know, it's sad but Dad ended up marrying a shrieking harridan (my mother) who relentlessly stalked him until he broke down and married her. A few years before he died he handed me a small linen bag and asked me to hold onto it for him. I split the contents with my brother. It contained a handful of black sand.

More like Jive, they really Jazz up the joint.

Not true. My Aunt Margie enlisted in the Army Nurse Corps in 1940. You're talking about the start of the WACS, which was the Women's Army Corps.

My late Mom was part of the Navy W.A.V.E. S. (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service).

What a wonderful story. Thanks for sharing. My mother was from that time.

Damn. I forgot that. I loved those movies. Cheers!

Heck, I was born in '78 and I love that stuff--Glenn Miller forever

barb rarick I was born in 1947. I remember sitting in front of a huge console radio that was nearly as big as me, listening to all this music. Still love Big Band.

@@lindaterrell5535 Lucky! I remember conversations with a woman who was 80 years old in 2010 and she reminisced about dancing to the Big Bands on the Steel Pier in Atlantic City--so jealous.

vinnynj78 My mom would tell me stories of how she played hooky to see Frank Sinatra.

@@lindaterrell5535 ,64 years old and big bands.....boogie!

Mike Caetano Doo wap, Doo wap, Doo wap, Doo wap, Doo wap.. lol I remember that song as a Cling Wrap jingle.

@@linfinster When commercials mangle pop songs to sell things I try my best to block them from my mind. [grin]

Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington's version of Don't Mean a Thing is the more definitive version.

My mom loves that "Don't sit under the apple tree" doing. For some reason that's all she listens to, is songs from this time period.

Why Don't You Do Right is awesome

People knew that to begin with.

Vince Klortho No there was the actual swing band that played candyman

@@robbiefrentz9427, incorrect. The song was introduced by Aguilera, and the clip is a deliberate and explicit referencing of the Andrews Sisters. It was not really an appropriation, since everybody who has any knowledge of the swing era in the history both of jazz and dance music knows all about the Andrew Sisters.

larry baby The song actually was released in 1971. To my surprise also though it was way earlier. It originally was released for willie wonka . And im pretty sure christina was not born at that time. However I really like her version and depiction and yes she did it about the. Sisters. But that’s not what I said. Im still correct when i said that song was out before christina. Sang her version

@@robbiefrentz9427, got it. thank you. I was wrong, apologies.

Yes, it was a classy and sophisticated time back then.

@@canadiangirl5159 My dear. Those skirts were a little too short! Shocking! Just kidding! Excellent performance!

Great point

When the USA entered WW2, the military needed fabric for uniforms, parachutes and tents; so the 1930s long hemlines on women's skirts rose to conserve fabric. After the war, in 1947 Christian Dior announced "the New Look," and hemlines again (for adult women) descended to midi length until the early 1960s.

@@JudgeJulieLit Could that be why I had to wear short pants in school (in England) until I was 14 (1967)? And on the very first day that I wore long trousers one of the school bullies tripped be on my way from one class to another and ripped a hole in the knee. Sad to say I was a lttle too young to truly appreciate miniskirts, but me and my friend did like to sit at the bottom of the stairs on double decker buses. [He turned out to be gay and died of AIDS.]

Sun Son Sounds like you Could reread and realize it was a simple observation, on a word, with no exclamation marks. We can learn something new every day, or over react as you did. I have watched her long enough to comment back as she wants. If someone gives me some info, I don’t flip out. You read so much more into it, than was commented. I never applied a race to India, either. You did; without knowing her full history.

@Sun Son they were popular to all back in the day. Youth is no reason, and color matters even less. Plenty of white kids when I was a teen in the 70's knew Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway. If you like and take an interest in music, or anything else, you will take the time to learn about it. And most certainly youth and color are not barriers to that. Expand you horizons, take the time to learn. Today the total knowledge of all of mankind is right there at your fingertips online. There is no excuse to not have a depth of knowledge, none.

Sun Son I guess, you have a lot to learn then. Its sad you have missed what planet earth will never get back in musicians, going back centuries. Once upon a time this was the norm to learn history of everything. More radio would help. Music--- 'THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE.'. Not enough exploring, but plenty of snowflaking, today.

bob garr 👍👍👍👍 They do not realize how little effort they put into anything, anymore. Tunnel visioned and offended, are main trains of thought. And never able to take info from elders to increase their own knowledge; to then pass on the next person .

Sun Son Don’t know what your problem is, but I do not need direction, from you.

She needs to go to England so she can learn proper English. Not cockney.

Markywellsboy So true!

100% true !!!! Absolutely, and that my friends is the difference between then and music made after circa 2000. Now talent is not required, good looks and being photogenic is the important thing instead of the ability to read music, play an instrument, compose, write lyrics and have a voice with range, tone and pitch. Such a shame.

Ella Fitzgerald never needed to light herself on fire and do backflips half naked across the stage.

@@manfredadams3252 Miss Ella , along with the other Ladies of this era had class & finesse!

And keep your clothes on.

Not cab calloway?

@@andrewyoung2796 just trying to introduce her to something newer.

Isabel Jimenez Loved Setzer in the Stray Cats, he’s a talented man

Any live Brian Seltzer is worth checking out, especially the stuff with his swing orchestra.

I love Jump, Jive, and Wail.

I *LOVE* Rosemary Clooney. My sister called me up on Thanksgiving to see if I had any rosemary, and she specified the herb, because she knew I had a Rosemary Clooney CD.

@@kathleen109 Lol! I love that. I own a copy of "Rosemary Clooney: Girl Singer" on DVD.

True. The Andrew Sister actually began as what is now called a "tribute group" or "tribute band" to the Boswell Sisters. One of the Boswell Sisters was crippled & was wheelchair bound, which limited them somewhat in the days before wheelchair ramps, etc. Some marketing people in the music industry thought wouldn't it be great, if we had The Boswell Sisters, but with the better flexibility in touring, & other things, such as the dance number in the video, that not having one member in a wheelchair would give us? The Andrew Sisters were not just influenced by the Boswell Sisters but were a copy and marketed themselves as such. The recording industry noticed them, got hold of them, and quietly disassociated The Andrew Sisters from being a copy of the Boswell Sisters and marketed them as their own group. Not to take away from The Andrew Sisters, as they turned out to be their own group and had a fabulous career. I don't know, how the Boswell Sisters felt about this, or if they had any ambition in music further, than what they'd already achieved, which was pretty impressive, considering, that they were from down south, and these daughters of a Norwegian and a Greek immigrant from up North, The Andrew Sisters, thought enough of the Boswell Sisters to form a tribute group in the days, when cultural regions of the country were much more defined, than nowadays.

Mandy Barnett 😍

I like Bing, but the Johnny Mercer and the Pied Pipers cover is better!

Mattdirk59 The original is always the best

@Steve, Nanci Griffith, so remarkable! Have never heard her version, will make a point to check it out👍🏻

@Steve , just listened to Nanci's, loved it! Thanks

@Steve, yes, Outbound Plane, Love At The Five And Dime. Initially hearing other artists versions then backtracking to Nanci!

They weren't "ahead of their time," they were right in sync with their time - Jazz, Boggie Woogie, Big Bands, Scat, etc were popular in the 30s and 40s. There were actually other's before the Andrew Sisters including the Boswell Sisters.

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OldGamer61, yes, love it.

True.

Hey I'm a bit of an old fart myself, and I think it is kind of ignorant to say that there are not famous people around with great voices and the talent to match. If you don't know who Jacob Collier is, I definitely recommend him as a starting point. The kid is off the charts genius. Moon River - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VPLCk-FTVvw.html just won him another grammy this year

So right!

@@troubleondemand7703 Well what I think he is saying is that you can make it as a musician even without talent these years, which I mean- Yeah. Though people like Harry Styles stepping down from One Direction and following his passion gives me hope.

Charles Velten That is true but I would hazard a guess that that was no live recording

They didn't need any auto tune. They had talent.

I used to love that song Aquarious. When the moon is in the seventh house and jupiter aligns with mars and peace will guide the planets and love will steer the stars.My mom had a big variety of music.lol