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ill*Musical Sojourn Down Lather LaneBy IH (,H \, Ml I I.K,ANII* N(iifcit«r»» Hr IterThe organization known official*in 1930 and winding up with tf Four Pttchikers in 1959, the cc lection proves that where chanly as the SPEBSQSA may sound pions are concerned the oldlike an alphabetical nangover from the early days of the .New Deal, but its origins are even older than thatThe initials stand for the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barberlet Singing in America. At the Bone exception to th tweet of a pitch pipe, the society s 26.000 members sselves down into 6,500 quartets and, resplendant in jackets and skimmer straw hats evoke the good old lurn-of the-century days in a hurricane of harmonv.are still the best Down the decadsuch vintage numbers as La Night on the Back PorchSweetheart of Sigma Chi “Shine’ and Hard Hearted Ha nah ’ copped the crown for tl various chamnionshin quartoI* nuEV us os «was 1165 when a g The Four Hearsemen won wi I Believe Notably absent fro the hoary hit parade was Swathe song that proha In did more for tonsorial harmon ing than any other tune m historM9kRecommended and “Brighten the Corner** 'DeccaThe Schmitt Brothers, warbling reverent repertoire, again demlt; strate why they artf»-America's most popular quartcHAWAII ANNETTEAnnette, Walt Disney'scharmer, salutes the 50th st with a lilting medley of island writes that goes off course „ graphically with the unaceounta inclusion of Now Is the Hour, AustriJAZZ OASIS CaHI *Ji\ eThe album is a fine With chapters meeting once a tion for those unfamiliar with t week in bars, club rooms, school SPEBSQSA and a must for thebasements and even a few bona who belong fide barber shops in almost every state, the society has become in the last to years America’s largest anil most dedicated singing or-anization.Alt hoy gh almost all its members are untrained amateurs andweekend warblers at best, the society’s over all competence wasfirmly established when a quartetcalled the Buffalo Bills went pro A, *’ ”fur, ,,t i : i i vontes that goes off course efesstona) in a big way by joining K * 1UUI*the cast of the hit Broadway musical. The Music Man” Made up of four guys from Buffalo, N. V , the Buffalo RiU.s caught the ear of composer Meredith Willson by winning the 1950 SPEBQSA national championships with a wonderfully resonant version of the old barbershop standby Roses of Picardy.They were neither the lirst * meki. the lovelv nor tin- last of the society's championship quartets to turn professional. The Schmitt Brothers, foursinging siblings from Milwaukee, turned their 1951 i into a gold mine ofpearanees and nthat hasthe country’s most widely travelledW ^ m.have logged more than a million |miles in the pastsalutes thfs palmist yearsTen \ ears of Barbershop Champions” an album dedicated to preserving the sounds of the nationalcontest winners in the past dec ade and the songs that won themthe crowns.1 Beginning with the Buffalo Bills j highway district.ttonal Charlie Barnet big band for a swinging quarthat hits aTake the A Train,Five and other far-out1ap-l dates I hem as:*r andwho brightened Rodgers and Ha merstein's Flower Drumon Broadway, gives an Oriental flavor to My Stood Still, Sometimes I’m Ifpy and ievlt;He0% m*Split Awardw a vSha/4 *’ f.AP—Two State Hi artment engineers vplit a $500 check for using soto help solve a construct ?m. the denaaward wby a constructsare William King lames Rylander, both senior dent engineers of thezmeW*1*
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Big Spring Daily Herald
Big Spring, Texas, US
Fri, Jul 15, 1960
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