found: Data from CINE for Ernie Andrews--blues for Central Avenue [MP] 1987(Ernie Andrews; jazz singer)
found: LC database, May 2, 2008(hdg.: Andrews, Ernie, 1927-)
found: Oxford music online, June 21, 2013:New Grove dict. of jazz, 2nd ed. (Andrews, Ernie; born December 25, 1927, Philadelphia; American singer)
found: African American National Biography, accessed November 13, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Andrews, Ernie; jazz singer; born 25 December 1927 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; recorded with Greene's new G&G label; performed in Central Avenue clubs in Los Angeles with big bands of Andy Kirk and Benny Carter (1940s-1950s); recorded for the Aladdin, Columbia, and London labels (1940s-1950s); gradually matured as a singer of swing standards, blues, and ballads (1950s-1960s); recorded a pair of big band albums for GNP Crescendo (1950s); sang with the Harry James Orchestra (1959-1969); lived in Baltimore and worked on the East Coast regularly (1969-1974); was gradually discovered by the jazz world (1980s); recorded as a leader for the High Note label)
found: Wikipedia, July 14, 2017(Ernie Andrews; born Ernest Mitchell Andrews Jr., December 25, 1927, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; grew up in Los Angeles; American jazz, blues, and pop singer)