Kaye teamed with the very popular Andrews Sisters ( Patty, Maxene, and LaVerne ) on Decca Records in 1947, producing the number-three Billboard smash hit " Civilization ( Bongo, Bongo, Bongo )".

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Maxene Andrews remembers visiting Costello with sisters Patty and LaVerne during his illness, and she also remembered how Costello's demeanor changed after the tragic loss of his son, saying, " He didn't seem as fun-loving and as warm ... He seemed to anger easily ... there was a difference in his attitude.

* The Andrews Sisters, Patty, Maxene and LaVerne grew up in Mound as children from 1918 through 1931 and always came back to visit at least one week each July.

In 1947, Ives recorded one of many versions of " The Blue Tail Fly ( Jimmy Crack Corn )", but paired this time with the incredibly popular Andrews Sisters ( Patty, Maxene, and LaVerne ).

The group consisted of three sisters: contralto LaVerne Sophia Andrews ( July 6, 1911 – May 8, 1967 ), soprano Maxene Angelyn Andrews ( January 3, 1916 – October 21, 1995 ), and mezzo-soprano Patricia Marie " Patty " Andrews ( born February 16, 1918 ).

The Andrews Sisters broke up in 1951 because Patty joined a different group, with her husband acting as her agent.

Shortly after her Off-Broadway debut in New York City in a show called Swingtime Canteen, Maxene suffered another heart attack and died at Cape Cod Hospital on October 21, 1995, making Patty the only surviving Andrews Sister.

Patty Andrews married agent Marty Melcher in 1947 and left him in 1949, when he pursued a romantic relationship with Doris Day ( at the time of his death, Melcher left Day in millions of dollars of debt after mismanaging her money for years, unbeknownst to Day ).

LaVerne and Maxene Andrews are interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California with their parents, and room remains in the crypt for Patty if she chooses it as her final resting place.

Patty Andrews lives quietly in Northridge, California.

Midler told Carson in an interview that she always wanted to move like the sisters, and Patty Andrews once remembered, " When I first heard the introduction on the radio, I thought it was our old record.

* The Andrews Sisters, an American close harmony singing group, LaVerne Sophia, Maxene Angelyn and Patricia " Patty " Marie Andrews

In his 1994 book " My Singing Teachers ," Torme cited Patty Andrews, lead singer of The Andrews Sisters, the most successful show business act of the 1940s ( second only to Bing Crosby ), as one of his favorite vocalists, saying, " They had more hit records to their credit than you could count, and one of the main reasons for their popularity was Patty Andrews.

Krabappel appears to be desired by many men ( and in one case even women, when Patty Bouvier once had a sexual fantasy with Edna ), as seen in Sideshow Bob's outrage ( in " Brother from Another Series ") wherein his romantic date with her is ruined by a spying Bart: " You only get one chance with Edna Krabappel!

Sarandon has appeared in two episodes of The Simpsons, once as herself (" Bart Has Two Mommies ") and another as a ballet teacher, " Homer vs. Patty and Selma ".

Once LaVerne died, Maxene and Patty continued to perform as a duo until 1968, when Maxene announced she would become the Dean of Women at Tahoe Paradise College, teaching acting, drama, and speech at a Lake Tahoe college and worked with troubled teens ), and Patty was once again eager to be a soloist.

Following this, Adams joined The Patty Duke Syndrome and once played in a bar in Jacksonville.

Dave was once involved with local Game Master Patty Gauzweiller ; he later broke it off but she still has feelings for him, leaving him a target for her flirtatious tactics.

Distraught, once they return to Sesame Street, Big Bird and Patty enlist the help of Kermit the Frog and Grover to ask children how Santa does it.

Patty is a housewife with a beehive hairdo who loves both her husband and son, although she is continually frustrated with her husband's failed attempts to kill Zebra-which more often than not, result in Larry being forced to go to Kentucky Fried Chicken and purchase food, which he eats by himself in shame ( although Patty does do some grocery shopping and Larry once stole a frozen zebra from a pair of male lions that also moved into the neighborhood, which he claimed to catch )- as well as his lack of intelligence and common sense which led to her leaving him at least once.

( He once said he originally intended to develop Peppermint Patty as a character distinct from the Peanuts strip ; however, he never had time to pursue a separate project and ended up introducing the character into the strip.

At Marcie's urging, Patty also went to a sleep disorders treatment center to be tested for narcolepsy ; once again, though, it was determined that staying up too late at night, and not narcolepsy, was the cause of Patty's falling asleep in class.

Besides guard duties, Peppermint Patty also retains Snoopy's services as an attorney, once even enlisting his help to openly defy the school's dress code.

His true love was the unattainable Little Red-Haired Girl, and having a girl actually like him was unexplored territory, although Patty once angrily expressed her jealousy to Charlie Brown for his affection of that girl.

Like Peppermint Patty, Marcie also has an unrequited crush on Charlie Brown ( whom she usually calls " Charles ", or occasionally " Chuck ", like Peppermint Patty does ); she once confessed a fondness for Charlie Brown and would be willing to marry him if he asked her.

As he does with Peppermint Patty, Charlie Brown often responds to Marcie's inquiries by trying to evade the issue, though it seems as if Charlie has feelings for her, which more than once has made Marcie so angry that she kicked him in the shins in frustration.

Four years later, when Athens, Greece hosted the Games, she once again was defeated in the first round, this time by Patty Schnyder of Switzerland.

He escaped any taint from the coming quiz show scandal, though he told The American Experience he had been horrified by some of the testimony to Congress -- including that of child star Patty Duke ( who once played The $ 64, 000 Challenge ), who eventually admitted in tears that she had been coached to lie to Congressional investigators.

Mia Farrow said she was as " sweet and pure a human being as I have ever known ", while Patty Duke remembered her as " a gentle, gentle creature.

Ironically, an earthquake shook the area that very morning and the ceremony was nearly cancelled, which caused Patty to joke, " Some people said that earthquake this morning was LaVerne because she couldn't be here, but really it was just Maxene and I on the telephone.

* Cathy Lane, Patty Lane's " identical cousin ", is said to have lived here in the theme song to The Patty Duke Show.

" In Susan Choi's book, American Woman, which mirrors the Patty Hearst scandal of the 1970s, the Bay's waters are said to welcome main characters Jenny and Pauline home after they've traversed from the East coast.

Moore's friends said she had a deep fascination and obsession with Patty Hearst.

Schulz has said in several interviews that he named Peppermint Patty after a dish of peppermint candies he had in his office, and simply thought the name too good to pass up.

Schulz said that he had developed the Peppermint Patty persona in response to the burgeoning Women's Liberation Movement that was sparked in the latter half of the 1960s, and that he desired to create a character that defied gender stereotypes and embraced social norms that had yet to become fashionable.

In a television interview, Schulz said that in the 1950 debut of the strip, it was solely Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and a few minor characters, then showed the first strip, in which the " minor characters " he spoke of were clearly Patty and Shermy.

" Some characters just don't seem to have enough personality to carry out ideas ," he said, referring to Violet, Patty, and Shermy.

" They thought I wasn't pretty enough ", she said in an interview, but heeding advice from director Paul Schrader, who had directed her in the film Patty Hearst, she " cut her long tresses into a bob " and re-auditioned with this new haircut, successfully, after the producers lost their first choice.

While Marge was genuinely surprised when Patty came out to her, Homer sarcastically said, " Here's another bomb for ya, Marge: I like beer!

Series creator Matt Groening said he suggested that Kavner voice Patty and Selma as characters who " suck the life out of everything ...." Al Jean said Kavner makes Patty's voice more masculine and a lower register, while Selma's voice is a little sweeter.

Tony Brown said he'd give Roger 30 seconds to sell him, and he quickly played the tape of Patty singing " I Did ".

" It was said that Eva carried an inventory in her head of all the spare bedrooms in Fairbanks ," writes Stanton Patty.

Writer David Stern said he wanted to go back to a " Patty and Selma episode ", because it was sustained so well when he wrote " Principal Charming ".

Marcie, who was watching this and calling her ' sir ' throughout the special, reminded Peppermint Patty that she said the wrong thing again like she did in the supermarket.