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The Barbershop Harmony Society, legally and historically named the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc. (SPEBSQSA), is the first of several organizations to promote and preserve barbershop music as an art form. Founded by Owen C. Cash and Rupert I. Hall in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1938, [2 ...
1947 – Doctors of Harmony. 1946 – Garden State Quartet. 1945 – Misfits. 1944 – Harmony Halls. 1943 – Four Harmonizers. 1942 – Elastic Four. 1941 – Chord Busters. 1940 – Flat Foot Four. 1939 – Bartlesville Barflies.
Bill Spangenberg (1947–62) Jim Jones (1962–67) The Buffalo Bills were a barbershop quartet formed in Buffalo, New York in 1947. [1] The quartet won the 1950 International Championship and is best known for appearing in the 1957 Broadway production The Music Man and its 1962 film version. The quartet was in existence for 20 years, until ...
The Mid-Atlantic District is one of 17 districts of the Barbershop Harmony Society [ 1 ] (formerly known as SPEBSQSA or the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America). The district, with three regional divisions, has approximately 90 chapters in the following states: VA, MD, PA, NJ, DE, DC, WV, NY.
Founded in 1980–81, its members are the champions from the district's annual quartet contest, from 1947 to present. AFWDC's primary purpose is to raise funds to subsidize the travel expenses of Far Western District quartets which qualify to compete at the Barbershop Harmony Society's international quartet contest.
Power Play is a barbershop quartet based in Michigan. They were the 2003 Barbershop Harmony Society International Quartet Champion. Each member of the quartet is a member of the Slamka family. Power Play was formed in 1988, and won the Pioneer (Michigan) District quartet championship in the fall of 1989. They have competed in international ...
Yesteryear (quartet) Yesteryear is a barbershop quartet that – coached by Darryl Flinn, Lance Heilmann, [ 1 ] Larry Ajer, Greg Lyne, and other big names in barbershop – won the 1997 SPEBSQSA international competition. The original version of Yesteryear was formed in February 1984. Over the years, five personnel changes led to the ...
The Ritz (quartet) The Ritz is a barbershop quartet from the Johnny Appleseed District of the Barbershop Harmony Society. Each member of the quartet was a vocal music teacher at the high school or university level. After coming in fourth at the San Francisco convention in 1990, the quartet won the international championship in Louisville in 1991.