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E MORNING HERALD; HAGERSTftWtf/tf AftYtAtfD4Love Me Tender’ Not So■ +Tender To BarbershoppersMlilLove Me Tender, Love. Me True, ft* sung.by a certain ilde* burned person who‘is a.current rave on thif jukes, may rate'ace-high with dur town s tccn agors. But to a group of 25'local men the *ong Is rightly known as “Aura Lee, To them, its present rendition It something less .than satisfying.We're talking about 25 of our townsmen who are confirmed Bar bcrshoppcrs” and are convinced that the finest expression of music today, sung by American males of good character is harbership harmony, •The Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America i* a fabulous singing organization, now some 19 years old, spread over The entire United‘Slates and Canada with some 26,900 members in more than 600 chapters. In its ranks are men of every variety and charac-ter but all with'one common d*-; Bominatbr. They love to ilng, or ^ listen to, harbership harmony, that exclusively American form of rau»? ic with thrilling and fascinating chord progressions. Sung only a capella, any accompaniment li as out of place as a drum with a string quartet,-In Hagerstown the singing society's chapter 1* headed by Ft' *age Armct, - Other chapter ©filers, are Paul E, Burger, Edward. A, Caskey, Hubert C; Smith and David 0, Brimlow.The roster of the chapter In-hides, P, Page Armcl, Paul E, ] Burger, David G. Brimlow, Edward i A, Caskey, Ralph E, Dickeo, Donald R. Dlngee,' William Donley, Roy Duffey, Ronald Dprrwachter, William Fritz, John W, llarshman, Raymond K. Heckman, Robert Hull, Joseph L, McGill Icy, J. Christian Monath, Connie Nakopoulos, Nick Pctrakis, Harold Y. Sandy, Joseph E. Schindler, Kenneth E, Sinn, Hubert E. Slocum, Clarke L, Jennings, Hubert C, Smith and John W, Whitmore, musical director. ___To these men, Curse of An Aching Heart is far more satisfying than any prelude and “Good-by Old Dixie, Goodby” can turn these sedentary individuals into screaming bobby-soxers. They sing anything, new or old, but prefer the “Gay 90” songs, such as Bird in a Gilded Cage,” Heart of Myi Heart,” “1 Love You Best of All,” | Honey, Honey Bless Your Heart, Just a Dream of You Dear and “Love Me and the World Is Mine,” They also frOwn on any association of modern barbershopiog with a bar, lamp-posl or bottle-har-mony,” for barbershop harmony Is close, requiring ccntirAioux tone adjustment by acute ear sense for accuracy, expression, balance and blend.The Hagerstown Chapter likes;;aI:visitors (male) who enjoy singingpopular songs, or merely listening io others sing. Nearly every chapter in the society’s international membership has a few non-singing members who conic just to hear what they can’t express, though they’d like to.If you like to sing, or just like singing, and are an American male of good character, you owe it to yourself to get an invitation from some of these men listed here to attend one of their meetings.
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Morning Herald
Hagerstown, Maryland, US
Thu, Mar 28, 1957
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