The McGuire Sisters were a singing trio in American popular music. The grou… Read Full Bio ↴The McGuire Sisters were a singing trio in American popular music. The group was composed of three sisters:
Ruby Christine McGuire (July 30, 1926 – December 28, 2018), Dorothy "Dottie" McGuire (February 13, 1928 – September 7, 2012) and Phyllis McGuire (born February 14, 1931). Among their most popular songs are "Sincerely" and "Sugartime", both number-one hits.
The McGuire sisters were born in Middletown, Ohio, and grew up in Miamisburg near Dayton . Their mother, Lillie, was a minister of the Miamisburg First Church of God, where as children they sang in church at weddings, funerals, and revivals. When they started singing in 1935, the youngest sister, Phyllis, was four years old. Eventually, they sang at occasions outside church, and by 1949 were singing at military bases and veterans' hospitals, performing a more diverse repertoire than they had in church.
The McGuire Sisters signed with Coral Records in 1952. In the same year, they appeared on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, and Godfrey hired them for his other shows, where they remained for seven years. The November 1953 issue of Cosmopolitan called them "Godfrey's Merry McGuires". The sisters often were compared to the Andrews Sisters. Maxene Andrews said in an interview with Joe Franklin on WOR (AM) radio in 1979, "The McGuire Sisters were fine once they stopped imitating the Andrews Sisters." While working on the Godfrey show, the McGuires befriended the singer Lu Ann Simms and attended her wedding to the music publisher Loring Buzzell in July 1956. Buzzell's publishing firm, Hecht-Lancaster & Buzzell Music (co-owned by Harold Hecht and Burt Lancaster) provided two songs for the McGuire Sisters, "May You Always" and "Theme from The Unforgiven (The Need for Love)".
The McGuire Sisters and the Andrews Sisters met several times during their careers. Phyllis credited Patty, Maxene, and LaVerne Andrews during a television interview with Maxene in the 1990s, hosted by Sally Jessy Raphael, saying that her sisters and she met the Andrews Sisters in New York in the early 1950s and received important advice. The McGuires moved when they sang, often executing dance routines in lavish production numbers on countless television specials. The Andrews Sisters performed similarly in films in the 1940s, and were the first female vocal group to move when they sang, rather than just standing at a microphone. The sisters had mimicked that style, as well as those of the Mills Brothers and the Dinning Sisters ever since they were young, when they would perform short shows for family and friends in their parents' living room. Phyllis McGuire recounted that she and her sisters did not know any popular songs when they became famous (only the hymns taught to them by their mother), the trio imitated other singing groups long before their success.
They performed for five Presidents of the United States (Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush), and for Queen Elizabeth II. In 1958, their mother appeared as a guest challenger on the television game show To Tell the Truth. The sisters maintained a busy television schedule, making frequent appearances on popular variety programs hosted by Ed Sullivan, Dean Martin, Danny Kaye, Milton Berle, Andy Williams, Perry Como, and Red Skelton. The trio was dressed and coiffed identically and performed synchronized body movements and hand gestures with military precision. Their recordings of "Sincerely", "Picnic", and "Sugartime" all sold more than one million copies.
They retired from public appearances in 1968, giving their last performance that year on The Ed Sullivan Show. Phyllis McGuire continued to perform solo for a time. The demise of the group is often attributed to Phyllis' long-standing personal relationship with mobster Sam Giancana (although for years she claimed that their friendship was strictly platonic), which reportedly blacklisted the group.
During one of his 1960s court appearances for which Phyllis was subpoenaed, Giancana told reporters outside the courthouse, "Phyllis knows everything" about the rumored unethical behaviors of John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert. Phyllis has resided in a famously showcased mansion in Las Vegas for decades, boasting its own beauty parlor, a swan moat, and a replica of the Eiffel Tower which actually rose through the home's roof.
When asked by Barbara Walters during a 1980s ABC-TV 20/20 interview from within the mansion if any of the money to build the lavish home came from Giancana, Phyllis denied the innuendo, claiming that she invested heavily in oil when the sisters were at the height of their popularity. In the same interview, she acknowledged that her relationship with Giancana was in fact a love affair, saying, "When I met him, I did not know who he was, and he was not married, and I was an unmarried woman. And according to the way I was brought up, there was nothing wrong with that. And I didn't find out until sometime later really who he was, and I was already in love."[7]
The sisters reunited in 1986, performing at Toronto's Royal York Hotel for the first time since their retirement.[8] Numerous nightclub engagements followed in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, and New York City's Rainbow & Stars, showcasing the group and Phyllis' impersonations of Peggy Lee, Judy Garland, Pearl Bailey, Ethel Merman, and even Louis Armstrong.
Singing their greatest hits as part of their act, they were also featured performing specialty numbers such as the frantic "I Love a Violin", the a cappella "Danny Boy", and a segment during which Phyllis retired backstage as Christine and Dorothy shared the spotlight playing a concert arrangement of "The Way We Were" on twin pianos. Other highlights in the act were a comical Trinidad-flavored tune, a soft rendering of "Memory" from Broadway's Cats, and a "Money Medley", which they also performed live on the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon in 1994. Since then, the sisters had made occasional public appearances together, including in 2004, when they reunited to perform in a PBS special Magic Moments: Best of '50s Pop. The sisters' command of their vocal cords and harmonious blend had not significantly diminished.
After their careers wound down, they opened a restaurant in Bradenton, Florida, calling it McGuire's Pub.
They were inducted into the National Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 1994, and in 2001, they were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame. They also have been inducted into the Coca-Cola Hall of Fame and the Headliners' Hall of Fame. They were inducted into the Hit Parade Hall of Fame in 2009.
Christine has two children, Herold and Asa; Dorothy had two, Rex and David. Phyllis has no children.
On September 7, 2012, Dorothy McGuire died at her son's home in Paradise Valley, Arizona, after suffering from Parkinson's disease and age-related dementia; she was 84. Dorothy's husband of 54 years, Lowell Williamson, died 6 months later on February 25, 2013, after sustaining a fractured back from a fall; he was 89.
Christine McGuire died in Las Vegas, Nevada in December 2018 at the age of 92.
The McGuire Sisters, and most especially Phyllis McGuire, who lives in Las Vegas, were the subjects of the 1995 HBO movie Sugartime, which depicted a romantic relationship between Phyllis and mobster Sam Giancana. Giancana was played by actor John Turturro, and Phyllis was played by actress Mary-Louise Parker.
The 1982 Robert Altman film Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean prominently features the music of The McGuire Sisters. Their #1 single "Sincerely" is lip-synced by the film's stars Cher, Karen Black and Sandy Dennis as "The Disciples of James Dean."
They performed for five US Presidents - Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush), and for Queen Elizabeth II
In 1968, they retired from public performance apart from Phyllis who continued as a solo act but they reunited seventeen years later for a number of shows.
In 1994, they were inducted into the National Broadcasting Hall of Fame and In 2001, they were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame.
Discography
Year Single (A-side, B-side)
Both sides from same album except where indicated Chart positions Album
US CB US
AC UK[15]
1953 "Picking Sweethearts"
b/w "One, Two, Three, Four" — — — — Non-album tracks
"Toodle-Ooh Siana"
b/w "Miss You" — — — —
"Where Good Times Are"
b/w "Hey, Mister Cotton Picker" — — — —
"Are You Looking for a Sweetheart"
b/w "You'll Never Know Till Monday" — — — —
1954 "Uno, Due, Tre (The Italian Square Dance)"
b/w "Lonesome Polecat" (from Musical Magic) — — — —
"Pine Tree, Pine over Me" / 26 27 — —
"Cling to Me" — 49 — —
"Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight"
b/w "Heavenly Feeling" (Non-album track) 7 8 — — By Request
"Muskrat Ramble" (see below)
b/w "Not As a Stranger" (Non-album track) — — — —
"Muskrat Ramble" / 10 9 — —
"Lonesome Polecat" 28 33 — — Musical Magic
"Christmas Alphabet"
b/w "Give Me Your Heart for Christmas" 25 34 — — Greetings from the McGuire Sisters
1955 "Sincerely" / 1 2 — 14 By Request
"No More" 17 — — 20
"Open Up Your Heart (and Let the Sun Shine In)"
b/w "Melody of Love" — — — —
"The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane"
b/w "Hearts of Stone" (non-album track) — — — —
"It May Sound Silly" / 11 14 — — Chris, Phyllis, Dottie
"Doesn't Anybody Love Me?" flip — — — Musical Magic
"Something's Gotta Give" / 5 4 — — Chris, Phyllis, Dottie
"Rhythm 'n Blues" flip 32 — — Teenage Party
"Kiss Me and Kill Me with Love"
b/w "If It's a Dream" — — — — Non-album tracks
"He"
b/w "If You Believe" 10 4 — — Greetings from the McGuire Sisters
"Give Me Love" / 95 30 — — Non-album track
"Sweet Song of India" — 34 — — Chris, Phyllis, Dottie
"Be Good To Me" / — 46 — — Teenage Party
"My Baby's Got Such Lovin' Ways" — 40 — —
"I'd Like to Trim a Tree with You"
b/w "The Littlest Angel" — — — — Greetings from the McGuire Sisters
1956 "Missing"
b/w "Tell Me Now" (non-album track) 44 36 — — Musical Magic
"Picnic" / 13 20 — — Chris, Phyllis, Dottie
"Delilah Jones" 37 36 — 24
"Weary Blues" / 32 42 — — Sugartime
"In the Alps" 63 — — —
"Ev'ry Day of My Life" / 37 33 — — Chris, Phyllis, Dottie
"Endless" 52 36 — —
"Goodnight, My Love, Pleasant Dreams"
b/w "Mommy" (from Children's Holiday) 32 23 — — Musical Magic
1957 "Kid Stuff"
b/w "Without Him" — 36 — — Musical Magic
"Blue Skies"
b/w "He's Got Time" (from Greetings from the McGuire Sisters) — — — — Do You Remember When
"Please, Don't Do That to Me"
b/w"Drownin' in Memories" — — — — Teenage Party
"Beginning to Miss You"
b/w "Rock Bottom" — — — —
"Around the World In 80 Days"
b/w "Interlude" 73 — — — Sugartime
"Kiss Them for Me"
b/w "Forgive Me" — — — —
"Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town"
b/w "Honorable Congratulations" — — — — Greetings from the McGuire Sisters
"Sugartime"
b/w "Banana Split" 1 7 — 14 Sugartime
1958 "Ding Dong"
b/w "Since You Went Away to School" 25 43 — —
"Volare"
b/w "Do You Love Me Like You Kiss Me" 80 — — — May You Always
"Sweetie Pie"
b/w "I'll Think of You" — — — —
1959 "May You Always"
b/w "Achoo-Cha-Cha" 11 21 — 15
"Summer Dreams" / 55 64 — — Sugartime
"Peace" 85 97 — — May You Always
"Red River Valley"
b/w "Compromise" (Non-album track) — — — — Showcase
"Some of These Days"
b/w "Have a Nice Weekend" (Non-album track) — — — —
1960 "Livin' Dangerously"
b/w "Lovers Lullaby" 97 — — — Non-album tracks
"Theme from The Unforgiven (The Need for Love)"
b/w "I Give Thanks" (Non-album track) — — — — Showcase
"The Last Dance"
b/w "Nine o'Clock" (Non-album track) 99 — — —
"To Be Loved"
b/w "I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)" — — — —
1961 "Just for Old Time's Sake"
b/w "Really Neat" (Non-album track) 20 17 — — Just for Old Time's Sake
"Tears on My Pillow"
b/w "Will There Be Space in a Space Ship" (Non-album track) 59 55 12 — Showcase
"Just Because" / 99 96 — —
"I Do, I Do, I Do" — tag — —
"I'm Just Taking My Time"
b/w "I Can Dream, Can't I" (Non-album track) — — — — Subways Are for Sleeping
1962 "Sugartime Twist"
b/w "More Hearts Are Broken That Way" 107 130 — — Showcase
"Mama's Gone, Goodbye"
b/w "I Really Don't Want to Know" — — — — Songs Everybody Knows
1963 "Summertime (Is the Time for Love)"
b/w "Cordially Invited" — — — — Non-album tracks
1964 "Now and Forever"
b/w "Never" — — — —
"Candy Heart"
b/w "Dear Heart" — — — —
"Ticket to Anywhere"
b/w "I'll Walk Alone" — — — —
1966 "Truer Than You Were"
b/w "Grazia" — — 30 — Right Now!
Phyllis McGuire solo singles
Year Single (A-side, B-side) Chart positions Album
US CB US
AC
1964 "I Don't Want to Walk Without You"
b/w "That's Life" 79 85 13 Non-album tracks
"Just a Little Lovin'"
b/w "You Don't Have the Heart to Tell Me" — — —
1965 "Run to My Arms"
b/w "Someone Else Is Taking My Place" — — —
1966 "My Happiness"
b/w "Vaya Con Dios" — — — Phyllis McGuire Sings
Ruby Christine McGuire (July 30, 1926 – December 28, 2018), Dorothy "Dottie" McGuire (February 13, 1928 – September 7, 2012) and Phyllis McGuire (born February 14, 1931). Among their most popular songs are "Sincerely" and "Sugartime", both number-one hits.
The McGuire sisters were born in Middletown, Ohio, and grew up in Miamisburg near Dayton . Their mother, Lillie, was a minister of the Miamisburg First Church of God, where as children they sang in church at weddings, funerals, and revivals. When they started singing in 1935, the youngest sister, Phyllis, was four years old. Eventually, they sang at occasions outside church, and by 1949 were singing at military bases and veterans' hospitals, performing a more diverse repertoire than they had in church.
The McGuire Sisters signed with Coral Records in 1952. In the same year, they appeared on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, and Godfrey hired them for his other shows, where they remained for seven years. The November 1953 issue of Cosmopolitan called them "Godfrey's Merry McGuires". The sisters often were compared to the Andrews Sisters. Maxene Andrews said in an interview with Joe Franklin on WOR (AM) radio in 1979, "The McGuire Sisters were fine once they stopped imitating the Andrews Sisters." While working on the Godfrey show, the McGuires befriended the singer Lu Ann Simms and attended her wedding to the music publisher Loring Buzzell in July 1956. Buzzell's publishing firm, Hecht-Lancaster & Buzzell Music (co-owned by Harold Hecht and Burt Lancaster) provided two songs for the McGuire Sisters, "May You Always" and "Theme from The Unforgiven (The Need for Love)".
The McGuire Sisters and the Andrews Sisters met several times during their careers. Phyllis credited Patty, Maxene, and LaVerne Andrews during a television interview with Maxene in the 1990s, hosted by Sally Jessy Raphael, saying that her sisters and she met the Andrews Sisters in New York in the early 1950s and received important advice. The McGuires moved when they sang, often executing dance routines in lavish production numbers on countless television specials. The Andrews Sisters performed similarly in films in the 1940s, and were the first female vocal group to move when they sang, rather than just standing at a microphone. The sisters had mimicked that style, as well as those of the Mills Brothers and the Dinning Sisters ever since they were young, when they would perform short shows for family and friends in their parents' living room. Phyllis McGuire recounted that she and her sisters did not know any popular songs when they became famous (only the hymns taught to them by their mother), the trio imitated other singing groups long before their success.
They performed for five Presidents of the United States (Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush), and for Queen Elizabeth II. In 1958, their mother appeared as a guest challenger on the television game show To Tell the Truth. The sisters maintained a busy television schedule, making frequent appearances on popular variety programs hosted by Ed Sullivan, Dean Martin, Danny Kaye, Milton Berle, Andy Williams, Perry Como, and Red Skelton. The trio was dressed and coiffed identically and performed synchronized body movements and hand gestures with military precision. Their recordings of "Sincerely", "Picnic", and "Sugartime" all sold more than one million copies.
They retired from public appearances in 1968, giving their last performance that year on The Ed Sullivan Show. Phyllis McGuire continued to perform solo for a time. The demise of the group is often attributed to Phyllis' long-standing personal relationship with mobster Sam Giancana (although for years she claimed that their friendship was strictly platonic), which reportedly blacklisted the group.
During one of his 1960s court appearances for which Phyllis was subpoenaed, Giancana told reporters outside the courthouse, "Phyllis knows everything" about the rumored unethical behaviors of John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert. Phyllis has resided in a famously showcased mansion in Las Vegas for decades, boasting its own beauty parlor, a swan moat, and a replica of the Eiffel Tower which actually rose through the home's roof.
When asked by Barbara Walters during a 1980s ABC-TV 20/20 interview from within the mansion if any of the money to build the lavish home came from Giancana, Phyllis denied the innuendo, claiming that she invested heavily in oil when the sisters were at the height of their popularity. In the same interview, she acknowledged that her relationship with Giancana was in fact a love affair, saying, "When I met him, I did not know who he was, and he was not married, and I was an unmarried woman. And according to the way I was brought up, there was nothing wrong with that. And I didn't find out until sometime later really who he was, and I was already in love."[7]
The sisters reunited in 1986, performing at Toronto's Royal York Hotel for the first time since their retirement.[8] Numerous nightclub engagements followed in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, and New York City's Rainbow & Stars, showcasing the group and Phyllis' impersonations of Peggy Lee, Judy Garland, Pearl Bailey, Ethel Merman, and even Louis Armstrong.
Singing their greatest hits as part of their act, they were also featured performing specialty numbers such as the frantic "I Love a Violin", the a cappella "Danny Boy", and a segment during which Phyllis retired backstage as Christine and Dorothy shared the spotlight playing a concert arrangement of "The Way We Were" on twin pianos. Other highlights in the act were a comical Trinidad-flavored tune, a soft rendering of "Memory" from Broadway's Cats, and a "Money Medley", which they also performed live on the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon in 1994. Since then, the sisters had made occasional public appearances together, including in 2004, when they reunited to perform in a PBS special Magic Moments: Best of '50s Pop. The sisters' command of their vocal cords and harmonious blend had not significantly diminished.
After their careers wound down, they opened a restaurant in Bradenton, Florida, calling it McGuire's Pub.
They were inducted into the National Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 1994, and in 2001, they were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame. They also have been inducted into the Coca-Cola Hall of Fame and the Headliners' Hall of Fame. They were inducted into the Hit Parade Hall of Fame in 2009.
Christine has two children, Herold and Asa; Dorothy had two, Rex and David. Phyllis has no children.
On September 7, 2012, Dorothy McGuire died at her son's home in Paradise Valley, Arizona, after suffering from Parkinson's disease and age-related dementia; she was 84. Dorothy's husband of 54 years, Lowell Williamson, died 6 months later on February 25, 2013, after sustaining a fractured back from a fall; he was 89.
Christine McGuire died in Las Vegas, Nevada in December 2018 at the age of 92.
The McGuire Sisters, and most especially Phyllis McGuire, who lives in Las Vegas, were the subjects of the 1995 HBO movie Sugartime, which depicted a romantic relationship between Phyllis and mobster Sam Giancana. Giancana was played by actor John Turturro, and Phyllis was played by actress Mary-Louise Parker.
The 1982 Robert Altman film Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean prominently features the music of The McGuire Sisters. Their #1 single "Sincerely" is lip-synced by the film's stars Cher, Karen Black and Sandy Dennis as "The Disciples of James Dean."
They performed for five US Presidents - Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush), and for Queen Elizabeth II
In 1968, they retired from public performance apart from Phyllis who continued as a solo act but they reunited seventeen years later for a number of shows.
In 1994, they were inducted into the National Broadcasting Hall of Fame and In 2001, they were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame.
Discography
Year Single (A-side, B-side)
Both sides from same album except where indicated Chart positions Album
US CB US
AC UK[15]
1953 "Picking Sweethearts"
b/w "One, Two, Three, Four" — — — — Non-album tracks
"Toodle-Ooh Siana"
b/w "Miss You" — — — —
"Where Good Times Are"
b/w "Hey, Mister Cotton Picker" — — — —
"Are You Looking for a Sweetheart"
b/w "You'll Never Know Till Monday" — — — —
1954 "Uno, Due, Tre (The Italian Square Dance)"
b/w "Lonesome Polecat" (from Musical Magic) — — — —
"Pine Tree, Pine over Me" / 26 27 — —
"Cling to Me" — 49 — —
"Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight"
b/w "Heavenly Feeling" (Non-album track) 7 8 — — By Request
"Muskrat Ramble" (see below)
b/w "Not As a Stranger" (Non-album track) — — — —
"Muskrat Ramble" / 10 9 — —
"Lonesome Polecat" 28 33 — — Musical Magic
"Christmas Alphabet"
b/w "Give Me Your Heart for Christmas" 25 34 — — Greetings from the McGuire Sisters
1955 "Sincerely" / 1 2 — 14 By Request
"No More" 17 — — 20
"Open Up Your Heart (and Let the Sun Shine In)"
b/w "Melody of Love" — — — —
"The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane"
b/w "Hearts of Stone" (non-album track) — — — —
"It May Sound Silly" / 11 14 — — Chris, Phyllis, Dottie
"Doesn't Anybody Love Me?" flip — — — Musical Magic
"Something's Gotta Give" / 5 4 — — Chris, Phyllis, Dottie
"Rhythm 'n Blues" flip 32 — — Teenage Party
"Kiss Me and Kill Me with Love"
b/w "If It's a Dream" — — — — Non-album tracks
"He"
b/w "If You Believe" 10 4 — — Greetings from the McGuire Sisters
"Give Me Love" / 95 30 — — Non-album track
"Sweet Song of India" — 34 — — Chris, Phyllis, Dottie
"Be Good To Me" / — 46 — — Teenage Party
"My Baby's Got Such Lovin' Ways" — 40 — —
"I'd Like to Trim a Tree with You"
b/w "The Littlest Angel" — — — — Greetings from the McGuire Sisters
1956 "Missing"
b/w "Tell Me Now" (non-album track) 44 36 — — Musical Magic
"Picnic" / 13 20 — — Chris, Phyllis, Dottie
"Delilah Jones" 37 36 — 24
"Weary Blues" / 32 42 — — Sugartime
"In the Alps" 63 — — —
"Ev'ry Day of My Life" / 37 33 — — Chris, Phyllis, Dottie
"Endless" 52 36 — —
"Goodnight, My Love, Pleasant Dreams"
b/w "Mommy" (from Children's Holiday) 32 23 — — Musical Magic
1957 "Kid Stuff"
b/w "Without Him" — 36 — — Musical Magic
"Blue Skies"
b/w "He's Got Time" (from Greetings from the McGuire Sisters) — — — — Do You Remember When
"Please, Don't Do That to Me"
b/w"Drownin' in Memories" — — — — Teenage Party
"Beginning to Miss You"
b/w "Rock Bottom" — — — —
"Around the World In 80 Days"
b/w "Interlude" 73 — — — Sugartime
"Kiss Them for Me"
b/w "Forgive Me" — — — —
"Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town"
b/w "Honorable Congratulations" — — — — Greetings from the McGuire Sisters
"Sugartime"
b/w "Banana Split" 1 7 — 14 Sugartime
1958 "Ding Dong"
b/w "Since You Went Away to School" 25 43 — —
"Volare"
b/w "Do You Love Me Like You Kiss Me" 80 — — — May You Always
"Sweetie Pie"
b/w "I'll Think of You" — — — —
1959 "May You Always"
b/w "Achoo-Cha-Cha" 11 21 — 15
"Summer Dreams" / 55 64 — — Sugartime
"Peace" 85 97 — — May You Always
"Red River Valley"
b/w "Compromise" (Non-album track) — — — — Showcase
"Some of These Days"
b/w "Have a Nice Weekend" (Non-album track) — — — —
1960 "Livin' Dangerously"
b/w "Lovers Lullaby" 97 — — — Non-album tracks
"Theme from The Unforgiven (The Need for Love)"
b/w "I Give Thanks" (Non-album track) — — — — Showcase
"The Last Dance"
b/w "Nine o'Clock" (Non-album track) 99 — — —
"To Be Loved"
b/w "I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)" — — — —
1961 "Just for Old Time's Sake"
b/w "Really Neat" (Non-album track) 20 17 — — Just for Old Time's Sake
"Tears on My Pillow"
b/w "Will There Be Space in a Space Ship" (Non-album track) 59 55 12 — Showcase
"Just Because" / 99 96 — —
"I Do, I Do, I Do" — tag — —
"I'm Just Taking My Time"
b/w "I Can Dream, Can't I" (Non-album track) — — — — Subways Are for Sleeping
1962 "Sugartime Twist"
b/w "More Hearts Are Broken That Way" 107 130 — — Showcase
"Mama's Gone, Goodbye"
b/w "I Really Don't Want to Know" — — — — Songs Everybody Knows
1963 "Summertime (Is the Time for Love)"
b/w "Cordially Invited" — — — — Non-album tracks
1964 "Now and Forever"
b/w "Never" — — — —
"Candy Heart"
b/w "Dear Heart" — — — —
"Ticket to Anywhere"
b/w "I'll Walk Alone" — — — —
1966 "Truer Than You Were"
b/w "Grazia" — — 30 — Right Now!
Phyllis McGuire solo singles
Year Single (A-side, B-side) Chart positions Album
US CB US
AC
1964 "I Don't Want to Walk Without You"
b/w "That's Life" 79 85 13 Non-album tracks
"Just a Little Lovin'"
b/w "You Don't Have the Heart to Tell Me" — — —
1965 "Run to My Arms"
b/w "Someone Else Is Taking My Place" — — —
1966 "My Happiness"
b/w "Vaya Con Dios" — — — Phyllis McGuire Sings
Goodbye
The McGuire Sisters Lyrics
We have lyrics for these tracks by The McGuire Sisters:
's Wonderful Don't mind telling you, in my humble fash That you thrill…
Achoo Cha Cha Aah, aah, aah, a-choo! (Gesundheit) My sweetheart′s embrace…
All I Do Is Dream Of You All I do is dream of you the whole night…
Always May you always walk in sunshine Slumber warm when night wind…
Apple Blossom Time I'm writing you, my dear, Just to tell you, In September, yo…
Around The World Around the world I've searched for you. I've traveled on Whe…
Banana Split Dum be dum yum yum yum Dum be dum yum yum…
Blue Skies Blue skies, blue skies Smiling at me now, how now Nothing bu…
Bye Bye Blackbird No one here can love or understand me Oh, what hard…
Cling to Me Cling to me my darlin′, darlin' Twine your lovin′ arms aroun…
Cuddle Up a Little Closer Cuddle up a little closer, lovey mine Cuddle up and be…
Delete Me!!! Just For Old Times Sake Oh darling, just for old time's sake Turn back the hands…
Delilah Jones Delilah was a high flying flootie Delilah needed seventeen p…
Ding Dong (bell ringing) Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong, ding dong, d…
Do You Love Me Like You Kiss Me Endless, endless My love for you Is endless, endless What…
Does Your Heart Beat for Me Is the moonlight tonight enchanted, It fills me with longing…
Doesn't Anybody Love Me Doesn′t anybody love me? Doesn't anybody care? Doesn′t anybo…
Don How many arms have held you And hated to let you…
Endless Endless, endless My love for you Is endless, endless What ca…
Ev Every day of my life I'll be in love with…
Give Me Love Don't give me no heartaches, Don't give me no pain, And don'…
Give Me Your Heart for Christmas Is the moonlight tonight enchanted, It fills me with longing…
Goodnight My Love Goodnight, my love Pleasant dreams and sleep tight, my love …
Goodnight Sweetheart Goodnight, sweetheart, well, it's time to go Goodnight, swee…
Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight CHORUS: Goodnight, sweetheart, well, it's time to go, Goodn…
Happy New Year Happy New Year, Happy New Year Happy, Happy New Year, new…
He He can turn the tides and calm the angry sea He…
Heart Mommy told me something A little kid should know It's all ab…
Hokey Pokey You put your right foot in You put your right foot…
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Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town You better watch out You better not cry You better not pout,…
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something Something's gotta give Something's gotta give Something's go…
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@loissimmons6558
When Bennett Cerf was given the first question to the Mystery Guest, he refers to "burial services" that day at the Polo Grounds. He was referring to the Giants loss to the Dodgers that day, in fact having lost two out of three to the Dodgers over the weekend and 6 out of 7 during the week of May 23. They lost all the momentum that they had built up the previous week. On May 15 they were 9 games back, on May 22 6 games back and on the evening of May 29 9 games back again.
I'm not sure if Bennett thought the WML staff was sneaking Laraine Day back on the program as the Mystery Guest after having been on the panel so recently or if he thought that a member of the Dodgers was being brought on the show. Maybe he saw something or someone in the audience or around the studio when he arrived that made him suspicious that the MG was connected somehow with the Dodgers or Giants. It was literally a blind stab and it proves that they were made at times when they were not correct.
As to the game itself, the Dodgers won 8-5. The offensive stars of the game were Jim Gilliam and Duke Snider, both of whom homered and had three RBI's. Gilliam also tripled. The Dodgers ended the week the way the started it: with a 6 game lead. But the team that was in second place during Memorial Day weekend was the Cubs. The Cubbies had finished in 7th place in 1954. 33 games out of first with a record of 64-90.
The week ended far better than it started for the Dodgers. The began the week with a short road trip to Pittsburgh and their first game on Tuesday saw the Pirates as the rudest of hosts, giving the Dodgers their worst defeat of the season, a 15-1 shellacking. The Dodgers actually scored first blood in the second inning on a lead off double by Sandy Amoros and a pair of outs before the roof began to cave in against Johnny Podres in the third when the Bucs score three runs, two of them unearned after an error by Gilliam. After Podres was taken out, two relief pitchers in particularly poured gasoline on the flames when the Pirates scored 7 runs in the 5th inning (6 off of Russ Meyer) and 4 runs in the 7th (all surrendered by Tommy Lasorda who also gave up a run in the 6th). Former Dodger first baseman, Preston Ward batting in the #8 spot, was the hitting star with a perfect day at the plate: a home run, triple, single and two walks plus 3 RBI's. Gene Freese and Roberto Clemente also notched 3 RBI's.
The only good thing about Tuesday's game is that a 15-1 loss looks no different in the standings than a 2-1 loss. After Wednesday's game was washed out, the Dodgers managed to earn a split of the series on Thursday when Don Newcombe raised his record to a perfect 7-0 with a 6-2 win. The game was tied 2-2 in the late innings on a duel between Newk and Ronnie Kline, with sloppy fielding by both teams leading to three of the four runs. The Dodgers thought they had broken the tie in the 7th inning when Jackie Robinson's single brought home Gil Hodges. Bur home plate umpire Larry Goetz ruled that Hodges was out and in the resulting argument, Manager Walt Alston was tossed out of the game by Goetz. One of Robinson's complaints about Alston in 1954 was that he never argued with umpires. He was thrown out of only one game in his first year as Dodgers skipper. But already in the first two months of the season, he had been ejected twice, both on calls at home plate that the Dodgers felt had cost Robinson an RBI. Things would never be great between Robinson and Alston, but at least they showed signs of thawing.
The Dodgers finally broke the tie in the 9th inning. Once again Amoros got things started with a lead off double. After Hodges bunted him to third, Carl Furillo singled to right and Amoros trotted home with the go ahead run. When Robinson followed with a single, Manager Fred Haney sent Kline to the showers and brought in little Elroy Face. The fork ball specialist promptly surrendered a triple by Newcombe to make the score 5-2. With switch-hitting Gilliam at the plate, batting left-handed against the righty slants of Face, the PIrates correctly guessed that the Dodgers were going to try a suicide squeeze bunt and called for a pitch out. But the strategy went awry when the pitch got away from catcher Jack Shepard. Newcombe was credited with a steal of home. It was part of the best offensive season for the hard-hitting pitcher. While he only had one other stolen base in his career, he was in the midst of a season in which he batted .359 with 7 home runs (a Dodger record later tied twice by Don Drysdale). This was why Newk was used as a pinch hitter 106 times in his major league career.
Newcombe kept the Pirates in check in the bottom of the 9th and the Dodgers headed back to NY for a three game series at the Polo Grounds. And Friday's game would be the only one the Giants would win all week. The first three Dodger batters in the game combined to put the Dodgers in front. Gilliam led off with a walk, Pee Wee Reese's single moved him to third and Snider's fly ball brought him home. But that was all Sal Maglie allowed. The Giants broke Carl Erskine's shutout on Bobby Hofman's game-tying pinch home run and won the game the following inning when Hank Thompson singled and Willie Mays homered.
The Dodgers evened the series on Saturday and they put the game out of reach early when they jumped on Jim Hearn for 4 runs in the first, capped by Hodges' 3-run homer. The Giants eventually pulled within one run, but Sandy Amoros's lead off home run off Hoyt Wilhelm in the 9th was the final blow in the 5-3 victory. Ed Roebuck retired the Giants in order in the bottom of the ninth for his fourth inning of shutout relief to earn the save.
That set the stage for the Dodgers deadly (to the Giants in Bennett's POV) win on Sunday. That put the Dodgers at 30-10 for the season, a gaudy .750 winning percentage. They would finish Memorial Day weekend (still always celebrated on May 30 at that time, which happened to be a Monday) at home hosting the Pirates in a doubleheader.
@icturner23
I love how Mr. Fritz went from being deadly serious to grinning broadly during his segment.
@allenjones3130
The McGuire Sisters were one of the greatest singing groups of all time.
@jmccracken1963
That much said, this was a fascinating set of contestants this evening. Too bad that Jack Conway wasn't able to get much more air time. And Fred Allen is very witty and funny this evening! Thank you very much for sharing these gems of yesteryear with us!!!!!
@patriciapersinger8710
jmccracken1963
@lauracollins4195
John Daly is extra fun in this episode, more relaxed. :)
@AaronHahnStudios
About time hey! ;-)
@ToddSF
Bennett was no idiot. Once he figured out that the first contest was a U.S. customs inspector, he also figured he might have checked Dorothy Kilgallen's luggage and stamped her passport when she recently returned from Europe and chose the latter line of questioning to establish not just his profession, but the very connection to Miss Kilgallen disclosed to the audience. Very good, Bennett!
@loissimmons6558
There was definitely a cat and mouse game between the WML staff and the panelists. The regulars eventually were likely to recall the kind of tricks that were played on them in the past and which might be in the process of being repeated.
@siggylloyd3566
Lmao, I love how instead of simply saying Bennett IS clever, you tell us what he IS NOT.
@oswaldomilano3848
a delightful episode, thanks for sharing these jewels