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The Dapper Dans barbershop quartet, at Disneyland's Main Street, USA WPA poster, 1936. Barbershop vocal harmony is a style of a cappella close harmony, or unaccompanied vocal music, characterized by consonant four-part chords for every melody note in a primarily homorhythmic texture.
A key aspect of the Society's mission is in the preservation of barbershop music. To this end, it maintains the Old Songs Library. Holding over 100,000 titles (750,000 sheets) this is the largest sheet music collection in the world excepting only the Library of Congress.
The song was included on their 1968 album, Live at the Talk of the Town. Country music pioneer Jimmie Rodgers references "Sweet Adeline" in his song "My Old Pal". The song was briefly sung by drunkards in the film Victor/Victoria. The song was part of a medley of barbershop songs sung by the Beagle Boys in an episode of DuckTales.
The song was performed on multiple episodes of The Royle Family, played by titular character Jim Royle on his signature banjo. Since the song refers to a young man wanting to find a wife like his mother, it is perhaps inevitable that some commentators have suggested, with varying degrees of seriousness, that the song's title and lyrics promote ...
"Wedding Bells (Are Breaking Up That Old Gang Of Mine)" is a popular barbershop song composed by Sammy Fain with lyrics by Irving Kahal and Willie Raskin. Published in 1929, the song laments the loss of childhood friendships as they are replaced by adult relationships. [1]
"Goodbye, My Coney Island Baby" is a popular barbershop song composed in 1924 by Les Applegate. [1] [2] The tune was later adopted by Texas A&M for their Aggie War Hymn, the words of which were written in 1918 by J.V. "Pinky" Wilson, while he was serving in France during World War I.
History is important to Peoria barber Mitch Snyder. That is why Snyder's rebranding of a six-decade-old Peoria barbershop is centered on preserving and honoring the shop's history and fostering a ...
The song was the most frequently recorded song of the acoustic recording era, starting with its first known recording by Richard Jose in 1903. [4]Later 20th-century recordings of the song include those of John McCormack, Bing Crosby (recorded November 8, 1947), [5] Jerry Lee Lewis (1956 and 1973), Georg Ots (in Estonian and Finnish, 1958), Tapio Rautavaara (in Finnish, 1967) and Jo Stafford ...