The vocal trio The McGuire Sisters consisted of real-life sisters Ruby, Dorothy,
and Phyllis McGuire. Natives of Middletown, Ohio, the trio first began
performing in public at the beginning of the 1930s when Phyllis, the baby of the
group, was just 4 and Ruby, the oldest, was 9. They started performing in their
mother’s church, and over the course of the next twenty years they built up a
secular setlist as well. By 1949 they were performing at military bases, and
that encouraged them to audition for the popular Arthur Godfrey Show by simply
showing up at the studio unannounced an...