An early Forties soundie from the Dinning Sisters:
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Yes indeed, it's not at all unlike the Andrews Sisters and their Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy from 1941. The Dinnings were signed by Capitol Records as an answer to The Andrews Sisters, who recorded for Decca.
Lucille (Lou) Dinning once said, "Let's face it, the Andrews Sisters were way ahead of us. We tried our darndest to be as commercial as they were, but weren't flashy enough. We were all kind of shy. We came from a farm in Oklahoma. We never took dancing lessons or anything."
Well I like those harmonies – and those teeth.
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