If World War II had a soundtrack, it would sound like The Andrews Sisters.

Their close harmonies floated from kitchen radios to barracks bunks, becoming as iconic to the era as Victory Gardens, war bonds and scrap-metal drives.

But how many of you knew these swing-era superstars hailed from Minnesota?

Long before Prince walked in the Purple Rain or Dylan revisited Duluth’s Highway 61, The Andrews Sisters — LaVerne, Maxene and Patty — were Minnesota music icons.

And it all started 100 years ago.

The Minneapolis natives officially formed their trio in 1925 when they were just kids. LaVerne was 14, Maxene was 9 and Patty was 7. Over the next three decades, they’d record more than 600 songs, notch 12 No. 1 hits, land 46 top-10 singles (more than Elvis or the Beatles) and sell over 100 mil

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