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Patty, because she's only nineteen, felt it all in her heart, head, and voice. Even Daddy Andrews needed no convincing when the going got tough. He would just recall those pleasant days when his little girls would upset the routine of his thriving bowling alley with frequent outbursts of song, and then smile proudly. And Mother Andrews, perhaps more than any of them, had the greatest faith. For wasn't it she, in her quiet way, who had rocked the children to sleep with Norwegian lullabies that gave them their first musical baptism? LJOW the eventful nod from Fate *^ came was never in the girl's dream book. A little Jewish melody that most thought would live and die in New York's Ghetto, tossed the girls into this country's ether waves, across its many footlights, and upon a million phonograph records. "We couldn't hum 'Bei Mir Bist du Shoen,' let alone pronounce it, when our manager first told us about it," says Patty, "but it became our national anthem." The Andrews speak of this tune reverently. It was their pot o' gold, their bank night, or whatever you want to call the jackpot a few of us get a chance to break in a lifetime. Their original Decca recording sold 150,000 copies ■ and brought them offers from all over the country. From it stemmed their current engagement with Glen Miller's band over CBS. Edgar Bergen knew the girls were good, almost ten years ago. He happened to catch their act, which was part of an annual kiddie show put on by a Minneapolis dancing school. La Verne was fifteen, Maxene twelve, and Patty only ten, but the now-famous ventriloquist saw in them future stars. Bergen wanted to put the girls in his act. But it wasn't Charlie McCarthy who squashed the deal. The girls and Mother Andrews decided the offer was a bit premature. The 'kiddie show was a huge success. The director of the dance school was urged to devise another edition featuring the kid trio. 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