Sisters Martha Boswell (1905-1958), Connie Boswell (December 3, 1907-October 11, 1976), and Helvetia "Vet" Boswell (May 20, 1911 - 1988) were born in a middle-class family on Camp Street in uptown New Orleans, Louisiana.

It come to exist as easily known locally piece however inside their early teens, making appearances in Up to date Orleans theaters & radio. It processed their foremost recordings for Victor Records in 1925. It did non attain national attention, nonetheless, until it moved to New York City in 1930 and started making national radio broadcasts. Fallowing two or three recordings using Okeh Records, they mass produced many recordings for Brunswick Records throughout the Thirties.

A title of their song "Rock and Roll" is a an early use of the term (though far from either the foremost). These are non one of a sisters' hoter amounts; it refers to "the rolling rocking rhythm of the sea".

Connie Boswell continued to have a solo career as a singer after a sister work skint higher. Connie changed a spelling of her title to Connee, reputedly because it processed it gentler to sign autographs.

A Andrews Sisters started out when Boswell Sisters imitators. Todays groups "The Pfister Sisters" & "Boswellmania" prove my point to imitate a sister's recordings.