Patty (centre) with sisters Maxine (left) and LaVerne.
Patty Andrews, the last survivor of the three singing Andrews Sisters, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 94.
Andrews died at her home in suburban Northridge of natural causes, said family spokesman Alan Eichler.
Andrews Sisters hits such as the rollicking Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy Of Company B and the poignant I Can Dream, Can’t I? captured the home-front spirit of the Second World War.
Patty was the Andrews in the middle, the lead singer and chief clown, whose raucous jitterbugging delighted American servicemen abroad and audiences at home.
She could also deliver sentimental ballads like I’ll Be With You In Apple Blossom Time with a sincerity that caused hardened GIs far from home to weep.
From the late 1930s through the 1940s, the Andrews Sisters produced one hit record after another, beginning with Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen in 1937 and continuing with Beat Me Daddy, Eight To The Bar, Rum And Coca-Cola and more.
