Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Lokacin da Andrews ke da watanni shida, iyalinsa suka koma Auburn, ME, kuma ya kasance a can har sai mahaifiyarsa ta mutu. A shekara ta 1946, sai ya koma Dorchester, MA. Bayan kammala karatunsa daga makarantar sakandare a shekarar 1948, Andrews ya shiga rundunar sojan Amurka kuma ya shafe shekaru uku da watanni uku a Jamus inda, ban da aikin soja wanda ya hada da shiga cikin Jirgin Sama na Berlin a lokacin Blockade
, ya nishadantar da sojoji lokaci-lokaci a kan ayyuka na musamman. Bayan da aka sallame shi da girmamawa daga Sojojin, Andrews ya auri ƙaunataccen makarantar sakandare, ya haifi 'ya'ya maza biyar da' yarta ɗaya, kuma ya ci gaba da aikinsa a matsayin mai yin kiɗan ƙasa tare da ƙungiyoyi da yawa a yankin kudu maso gabashin Massachusetts. Ofaya daga cikin wasanninsa na farko ya kasance a cikin 1954 a "Nick's Place" a bakin rairayin bakin teku na Nantasket a Hull, MA. Daga 1952 zuwa 1954, Andrews ya yi wasa a majami'u da yawa tare da abokinsa kuma "maɓallin" mai kunnawa, Victor Jenkins.