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5 unusual facts about Barbershop Music


Blanchard River

In 1908, Tell Taylor wrote Down by the Old Mill Stream, a popular song of the early 20th Century and a barbershop favorite, while sitting on the banks of the Blanchard River.

Goodbye, My Coney Island Baby

As was Mr. Wilson's original rendition Coney Island Baby was often included in the repertoire of a barbershop quartet.

"Goodbye, My Coney Island Baby" is a popular barbershop song composed in 1924 by Les Applegate.

Hallmark of Harmony

Hallmark of Harmony is the male barbershop chorus of the Sheffield Barbershop Harmony Club, based in Sheffield, England.

Ladies Association of British Barbershop Singers

Ladies Association of British Barbershop Singers is the largest ladies barbershop association in the UK, this year topping 2000 members.


Alexandria Harmonizers

The Alexandria Harmonizers are an international champion barbershop chorus based in Alexandria, Virginia.

Anders Bircow

In 1979 he formed the comedy group Linie 3 along with Preben Kristensen, with whom he had previously had the four-man group Barbershop Harmony, and Thomas Eje.

Homestead Harmonizers

The Homestead Harmonizers is a chorus created in response to a charter to operate a barbershop chorus in Beatrice, Nebraska issued on December 12, 1988 by the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc..

Link Hogthrob

Hogthrob appears in several scenes in the background and gets a moment in the spotlight as part of a barbershop quartet, singing "Smells Like Teen Spirit".

Northwest Vocal Project

They perform a wide variety of styles within a cappella music, including traditional barbershop, jazz, Broadway, and light classical.

The Four Freshmen

The Four Freshmen is an American male vocal band quartet that blends open-harmonic jazz arrangements with the big band vocal group sounds of The Modernaires (Glenn Miller), The Pied Pipers (Tommy Dorsey), and The Mel-Tones (Artie Shaw), founded in the barbershop tradition.

Virginians

The Virginians chorus was recently selected to participate at the seventh annual Russian Barbershop Music Festival with Greg Lyne, held in St. Petersburg, Russia.


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