“Patty Andrews, the lead singer of the Andrews sisters group was born in Mound, Minnesota on February 16, 1918 in a house that occupied the property where The Gillespie Center stands today.
During the 1920’s Laverne, Maxene and Patty Andrews spent their summers in Mound, living with their parents in a house across the street from the grocery store that was owned by Pete and Ed Sollie, bachelor uncles of the three girls. (Today, Green T Accounting occupies the Sollie grocery store building and The Gillespie Center is on the land where the Andrews Sisters’ house once stood.)” - From a commentary by Tom Rockvam that appeared in The Laker Newspaper during 2005.
They started their career as imitators of an earlier successful singing group, the Boswell Sisters. After singing with various dance bands and touring on Vaudeville, they first came to national attention with their recordings and radio broadcasts in 1937. Their music entertained Allied troops worldwide during World War II, sold war bonds, appeared in several films (including a few Abbott and Costello features), and performed for soldiers serving overseas. Their first film with Abbott and Costello, the pre-war comedy Buck Privates, introduced their best-known recording, "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" which would win Best Song at the Academy Awards.
They also recorded many songs with Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye and other popular artists of the era. Their popularity was such that after the war they discovered that some of their records had actually been smuggled into Germany after the labels had been changed to read "Hitler's Marching Songs."
After a brief hiatus after the war, the sisters regrouped, performing in clubs throughout the United States and Europe. They broke up in 1953, with Patty's choice to go solo. Their last appearance together was in 1962 on The Dean Martin Show. Laverne, who had cancer, retired soon after; she died five years later, in 1967 at the age of 55.
After a long silence, the two surviving sisters had something of a comeback when Bette Midler recorded a cover of their song "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy." Maxene and Patty appeared both together and separately throughout the 1970s, with Maxene releasing a solo album in 1986. Their most notable comeback; however, was in the Sherman Brothers' nostalgic World War II musical: "Over Here!" which premiered on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre in 1974. The musical featured the two then living sisters (Maxene and Patty) and was written with them in mind for the leads. It launched the careers of many, now notable theater and film icons (John Travolta, Marilu Henner, Ann Reinking, et al). Ironically it was the last major hurrah of the sisters and was cut short due to a frivolous lawsuit initiated by Patty's husband to the show's producers.
Throughout their long career, the sisters had sold over 60 million records. The group was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1998.
The last of the three sisters Patty Andrews died of natural causes at her home in Northridge, California on January 30, 2013, just 17 days before her 95th birthday. The sisters were interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California, close to their parents.
I Want To Linger
The Andrews Sisters Lyrics
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when it's time for us to say goodbye?
I wanna linger a little longer,
A little longer dear.
see that moon a-shinin' up above,
There's no time like this for makin' love!
I hate a-leavin' you!
Let me linger just a little,
A little longer with you,
A little longer with you.
I wanna linger a little longer,
A little longer dear.
Come look at that moon a-shinin' up above,
There's still time for makin' love!
I love your lovin', your lovely lovin',
I hate a-leavin' you, believe me!
Let me linger just a little,
A little longer with you,
A little longer with,
I wanna linger with,
A little longer with you.
"I Want To Linger" is a classic song about a couple bidding farewell but wanting to stay together a bit longer. The first verse expresses the singer's sadness about saying goodbye and how she sighs as a result. She then expresses her desire to linger a little longer with her lover, especially because of the romantic moon shining above them. The chorus is a repetition of this desire to stay a bit longer and enjoy the feeling of being together, making love and basking in each other's affections. The second verse repeats the themes established in the first, this time with a plea to her lover to let her stay just a bit longer, and professing her love for his affection.
The song's lyrics convey the universal feeling of not wanting to let go of a special moment, and the Andrews Sisters' rendition of it has made it an enduring classic. Their ability to harmonize and convey emotion through their voices adds depth and complexity to the song's simple lyrics. "I Want To Linger" is a timeless love song that captures the yearning to hold onto the present and revel in it a bit more.
Line by Line Meaning
Can't you hear me sigh
when it's time for us to say goodbye?
I express my sadness that our time together has come to an end.
I wanna linger a little longer,
A little longer dear.
see that moon a-shinin' up above,
There's no time like this for makin' love!
I want to stay with you a bit more and enjoy our romantic moment under the moonlight.
I love your lovin', your lovely lovin',
I hate a-leavin' you!
Let me linger just a little,
A little longer with you,
A little longer with you.
I am deeply in love with you, and it's painful to leave you. Please let me stay a little longer with you.
Come look at that moon a-shinin' up above,
There's still time for makin' love!
The moonlight still shines, and we have more time for lovemaking.
I wanna linger a little longer,
A little longer dear.
Once again, I express my desire to stay just a bit more with you.
I love your lovin', your lovely lovin',
I hate a-leavin' you, believe me!
Let me linger just a little,
A little longer with you,
A little longer with,
I wanna linger with,
A little longer with you.
I swear to you that I truly love you and that it pains me to leave you. Please, let me stay a little longer with you, as I yearn for it.
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: I MARSHALL HENRY, STANLEY MURPHY
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J Parker
on Crazy Arms
And I'll move the mountains
If he wants them out of the way
Crazy, he calls me
Sure I'm crazy
Crazy in love, I'd say
I say I'll go through fire
And I'll go through fire
As he wants it, so it will be
Crazy, he calls me
Sure I'm crazy
Crazy in love, you see
Like the wind that shakes the bough
He moves me with a smile
The difficult I'll do right now
The impossible will take a little while
I say I'll care forever
And I mean forever
If I have to hold up the sky
Crazy, he calls me
Sure I'm crazy
Crazy in love am I
Like the wind that shakes the bough
He moves me with a smile
The difficult I'll do right now
The impossible will take a little while
I say I'll care forever
And I mean forever
If I have to hold up the sky
Crazy, he calls me
Sure I'm crazy
Crazy in love am I
sonichits has completely wrong lyrics for this song. Correct ones are - Now blue ain't the word for the way that I feel
And the storm's brewing in this heart of mine
This is no crazy dream I know that it's real
You're someone else's love now you're not mine
Crazy arms that reach to hold somebody new
But my yearning heart keeps saying you're not mine
My troubled mind knows soon to another you'll be wed
And that's why I'm lonely all the time
Please take the treasured dreams I have for you and me
And take all the love I thought was mine
Someday my crazy arms will hold somebody new
But now I'm so lonely all the time
interlude
Crazy arms that reach to hold someone new
But my yearning heart keeps saying you're not mine
My troubled mind knows soon that you soon will be wed
And that's why I'm lonely all the time
Crazy arms and lonely all the time
Harold Chernofsky
on Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
i love them