Her name is either too good to be true or a typo, and the former is the case with this 60's "party" recording artist who was actually Thelma Oliver, a Broadway singer who seems to have been somewhat attracted to censorship scandals. Judy Andraws was the vocalist credited on Smarty Party Songs, a 1965 release on New York producer and songwriter Joe Davis' Beacon label. Oliver may have been looking out for her own legal interests by hiding behind the Andraws monicker, or perhaps both her and Davis were poking fun at the oh-so-clean Julie Andrews phenomenon, at that point in full swing. While the lyrics and subject matter of the Smarty Party Songs hardly had anything to do with the type of songs Andrews performed in the Sound of Music or Mary Poppins, it had been Davis' release of the single "My Pussy Belongs to Daddy" with the flip side of "Tony's Got Hot Nuts" by singer Faye Richmonde that had really gotten him in trouble with the law. Although he had been convicted for obscenity near the end of 1964, and strangely enough the charge was for printing the label with the titles of the songs, not the actual songs, he continued recording "blue" material, cooking up the Andraws project with Oliver in the spring of the following year. His appeal on the charges took pretty much all of 1965, with some of his newer party releases such as Smarty Party Songs burbling on the shelves of the more daring stores the whole time. Indeed, Davis was proud of the fact that an attache at the Japanese Embassy in New Delhi, India, had ordered a box of 10 "party" albums, including the Andraws release and the Spanish-language Para Hombres set. This particular obscenity conviction, although resulting in only a $1,000 fine and a six-month suspended sentence for Davis, went all the way to the Supreme Court in the appeals process, winding up with a 1966 decision that the records were indeed obscene, as Judy Andraws and her kind were clearly without "literary or scientific or artistic or any other form of social importance." It would not be the real Judy Andraws' last brush with obscenity laws; when Thelma Oliver agreed to bare her breasts during a scene in the film The Pawnbroker, the censors were once again all too eager to put their foot down. ~ Eugene Chadbourne, All Music Guide