In the early 30’s the sisters appeared in vaudeville and toured with the Larry Rich band before joining Leon Belasco at New York’s Hotel Edison in 1937. With their new manager Lou Levy, later to marry Maxine, they signed for Decca Records and almost immediately had a massive hit in 1938 with ‘Bei Mir Bist Du Schon’, a Yiddish song from 1933, with a new lyric by Saul Chaplin and Sammy Cahn. This was followed by the novelty ‘Hold Tight, Hold Tight’, and ‘Roll Out The Barrel’, an Americanized version of the old Czechoslovakian melody, ‘The Beer Barrell Polka’, which became one of World War II’s smash hits and helped them become the most popular girl vocal group of the war years. The Andrews sisters were of course one of the most famous female outfits who entertained the troops throughout World War II’s various theatres of war.