The Andrews Sisters (music) and Jacques Plante (lyrics). The English lyrics were written by Mitchell Parish. The Andrews Sisters formally broke up in 1953. Maxene and LaVerne tried to continue the act as a duo and met with good press during a 10-day tour of Australia, but a reported suicide attempt by Maxene in December 1954 put a halt to any further tours (Maxene spent a short time in the hospital after swallowing 18 sleeping pills, an occurrence that LaVerne told reporters was an accident). Maxene and LaVerne did appear together on "The Red Skelton Show" on October 26, 1954 singing the humorous
The Andrews Sisters group that performed from the 1930s to the 1950s in Finland was one such singing group. Most of the Andrews Sisters' music has been restored and released in compact disc form. Over 300 of their original Decca recordings, a good portion of which was hit material, has yet to be released by MCA/Decca in over 50 years. Many of these Decca recordings have been used in such television shows and Hollywood movies as "Homefront", "ER", "Agent Carter", "The Brink's Job", "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation", "Swing Shift", "Raggedy Man", "Summer of '42", "Slaughterhouse-Five", "Maria's Lovers", "Harlem Nights", "In Dreams", "Murder in