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CONVENTION NUMBER
VOLUME VI NO.4 ceVOTED TO T>
WHY FIVE IN FINALS? The new procedure of screening final ists down to five for the Int'L Finals is a direct result of trial-and-error. No getting away from the fact that it's a strain for most quartets to face Mayer (above L to R) or Paul Alexan a great audience while under stress of dra!, Publicity Chairman (below) as competition. The main audience edt· they and co-workers on many other • icisms heard from the Cleveland '46 finals was "W,e came to see some fun committ€'es set the green lights for -and the boys were serious". So, Sec "MEET ME IN MILWAUKEE" tional Preliminary winners will be by Frank H. Thorne, Infl. Pres. screened at Milwaukee largely before our own folks. Then the five Finalists This is a persona] message to all will be part of the show of lnterna· members who have never attended tional Champions which will give the one of our int'l. conventions and con· audience thrilling competition and tests. I need not tell those who have also the ga)'ety that goes with the attended that the International is to Int'l. Champs when they can "play to SPEBSQSA what the World's Series the audience" entirely. is to a baseball fan, the ultimate. But to you newer members I stress at TAKE YOUR PICK tendance, not just for the immediate Near-normal times revive wider choicl." fun (and there's a week's enjoyment of transportation, eating, shopping. crowded into two days), but because Milwaukee is accessible by practically you'll get to know your Society betteT every means of transportation except in those two streamlined days than cable cars. Remember, it's on one of in a year of just buzzing 'round your our great inland seas, Lake Michigan. Maybe you'll be able to include a lake neighborhood chapters. You'll under trip. Famous restaurants and other stand better the enthusiasm that local institutions are utilizing this made hall-carriers out of those who issue of the Harmonizer to invite a were exposed to Owen Cash's idea SPEBSQSA in Milwaukee next month. visit, in some cases just for hospital early and you'll see the results. ity's sake. This is the first year since the So ciety grew to man·size that we have near-normal conditions on travel, THEY'LL BE THERE TOO! housing, food, all that combines with the Int'1. Contests to make the Inter· national the Big Event in the lives of all SPEBSQSA members. New members, and many old ones, should know that the host chapter at an Int'1. Convention does not profit from the affair. In fact it invariably costs the local boys money, both as a chapter and personally. Cleveland area chapters, hosts to last year's In ternational, are good examples. They worked to put over the biggest financial success to date. The proceeds went to maintainence of the Int'l. or ganization which binds the Society into a cooperative unit. It would cost a sman fortune for the host chapter or chapters to maintain an entertain ment headquarters for the rest of us THE CHORDOLIERS, Rock Island, Illinois Fourth Plaee-1946 Int'l. Finals Visiting Firemen. (All seen by Beaudin) MAY, 1947 tional organizations which are so es signment. but down go the penalty sential to the successful effort of our marks. They call them as they hear flne, but young, institution. We have them. They pass in the scores as each so many new problems bobbing up at quartet finishes. The secretary of the the most unexpected moments; new judges is the only one who can know ideas, many of which are good, but who is winning because, during the some of which could easily jeopardize contest, he is the only one who has the our future, even our existence, so our composite score of each quartet. When Well! This is my swan song as your very growth is of itself a problem the contest is over the chairman of International President. The year has when we realize that almost 50% of the judges checks the secretary's en rolled by all too fast. It has been our present members have been in tries; time penalties, if any; and there tough going at times, but the fine co the society a year or less. It would are your 30 quartets; there are your operation and kindly helping hands seem to be safest, therefore, that we 15; there are your five; and there which were time and again extended be sure that we make haste slowly. eventually are your new gold medal by our international board members lion world champions. and officers, by the district and chap Consider for a moment our contest ter officers, and by Carroll Adams and judging rules. Several years ago All hail to the champs and our heart and Bill Otto of the Detroit office, are we had practically none. Each year felt thanks to all the flne contestants something that will live forever in more problems presented themselves. and to the various members who give my memory. I still remember how disgusted one of of their time and concentrated energy [ have been so fortunate as to have Jur members became when we first to help judge and select the winners. met a considerable number of our ruled.- that a member could sing in Well! Guess that is about all. You members in both large and small com only one quartet and yet today 1 think have been swell. One of the finest munities. I have sung for and talked most all of us would think it ridiculous demonstrations of kindly cooperation to many fine and enthusiastic audi to even think otherwise. Another indi was the friendly response our chap ences. Beneath it all, there is an un vidual felt that we were most unrea ters showed in regard to the vital dercurrent of friendliness, of genuine charge for the Harmonizer. approved enjoyment and comradeship that I sonable when we refused to allow a fifth man on the stage to direct a by the international board last Janu doubt any other society can match. ary. It was also a tribute to Carroll We all love to sing, or to hear others quartet's singing. We have come a long way since then. Adams, to Deac Martin, to Jim Knipe do so, and there is just something and the Harmonizer's editorial board especially fine about it all, particular However, our rules have constantly for the fine magazine which they have ly as compared to the perverted teach met a demand for clarification; for provided us. ings and practices of war and political more p:recise methods of judging, for strife. correctlOn of abuses; and of course J am proud of the fact that our mem bers so well live up to our Code of Fritz Drybrough, President of the for trying new ideas to flnd a better Louisville Chapter - after emceeing procedure. There is not one word in Ethics, Article IX. I feel so very the first and very successful Louis our rules that has not been given close sincere in regard to the value of its ville Parade-was so completely worn scrutiny and careful consideration teaching that I want to quote it: and been voted on by committees com out that he wondered if the work in "We shall by our stimulus to good volved was worth the effort. I said, posed of quartet mem bel'S and experi HFritz, today you gave a big lift to enced judges. music and vocal harmony endeavor several thousand residents of your to spread the Spirit of Harmony The judges' panel is really something, throughout the world. community and you therefore surely too. It has taken a tremendous amount helped to make it a better place in of work and study to compose it. In It is of course of vital importance which to live, and that is worthwhile." our forthcoming contest it would be He smilingly agreed and started to to our enjoyment of our musical ac wise, also coopel·ative, if you would tivity that we produce harmony plan his next show. Properly carry appreciate the fact that Our judges ing out the worthwhile objectives of concentrate on only one of four as that is welcome and pleasing to the our society will spread benefit and signments; that is, on either: ear. It is equally important, for those participating in any capacity in the good of our souls and the world our various activities can look back (1) Musical and Voice Arrangement at large, that we maintain within with satisfaction on their accomplish ment. (2) Harmony Accuracy our hearts a feeling of harmony to~ ward each other and toward OUl" (3) Voice Expression (which includes I have met. among our members, fellow men throughout the world." many fine individuals from all walks blend, shading, attacks and releases, of life. They arc noticeably eager, enunciation, time and rhythm). Barbershopper! Let us be determined enthusiastic, and above all, loyal. (4) Costume and Stage Presence. to live up to those words, to spread These attributes our society Cannot good fellowship and friendliness with Jt is easy to realize, therefore, that buy with money. We must earn such in, as well as without, our Society. support and during my term of office you alone cannot possibly catch all I have tried my very best to justify the errors you would hear if you were By so doing we will grow strong, we such confidence as has been placed in concentrating as the judges do on will be healthy, we shall be able to me. Pertinent questions have been only one of the ahove assignments. keep alive the heritage bestowed upon asked and the answers have many Some of our very finest members us by that friendly friend, our times placed a different light on some fellows whom I, as well as many founder, Owen C. Cash. We shall not of our problems. There is great need, others, hold in highest possible respect perish. however, for a better understanding -will have the difficult job of picking CARRY ON! of the tremendous value and l·esponsi and classifying some of our very best bilities of our district and interns· quartets. Brother, that is a tough as· F.B. T. 6 Sit. HARMONIZER
RADIO IS DIFFERENT SO YOU WANT YOUR A quartet that sings in public reaches "PICTURE IN THE PAPER!" Published quaritJl'ly by the InttlfiUltional its audience through hearing and OffioeN and the othe.- ZQembers of the Intunll· Here's a helpful hint to members of tiow Boa.rd 01 Directors 01 the Society for sight, two approaches. The quartet, quartets who may have had the ex the Preservation and Encouragement of Buber judged by sound alone, may be just Shop Quartet Singing in Amezica, Inc., for perience of presenting a picture to the dilltribution to the members of the Society. fair, but its appearance can often local newspaper; and then it was make up for lack of vocal perfection. tnrned down or didn't appeal', some VOLUME VI No.4 We've seen just-fair quartets captUl'e times without any explanation. MAY, 1947 an audience by antics that were grand 25c per Copy stage business. We're sure that Newspaper columns are not quite as George O'Brien and the other Slap wide as this column. When a quartet happies won't mind if we single them has its picture taken standing in CARROLL P. ADAMS typical quartet formation it is a wide Executive Editor and Business Mgr. out as a perfect example of the fact picture. If the editor tries to com· 18270 Grand River Ave.. Detroit 23, Mich. that an audience can love a quartet press it dO'\\'TI to about 2 inches wide, Phone: VE 7·7300 which bragged for years about its the faces and figures become mean DEAC (C. T.) MARTIN, Editor world's-wol'st status as singers. ingless miniatures. And two columns But radio is different. No gesture, wide frequently demands mOl'e space than he is allowed. CONTRIBUTING EDITORS no twinkle of the eye, no detail of Roscoe Bennett W, L. Otto costume or general appearance gets If a quartet groups itself, as in the Georlife W. Campbell W. Welsh Pierce across to the invisible audience. There, pictures of the Four Keynotes and O. C. Cash Sigmund Spaeth the quartet stakes its appeal on three the Four Naturals in the Feb. Jame. F. Knipe Walter Jay Stephells elements, 900 points in judging, Ar Harmonize,r (p. 24·25), the picture ]. George O'Brien R. H. Sturges rangement, Harmony AccUl'ucy and Frank H. Thorne has a much better chance of making Voice Expl·ession. A sweet, sad, long the local paper because the tall thin drawn-out number via radio can be picture makes an excellent one column come a dirge that will have listeners cut. Either one of the pictures men crying, just before they switch it off. PROPER PUBLICITY tioned, but particularly the Four In general, the bright, faster mov Naturals grouped in "ladder fnshion," In the February issue Walter Jay would reproduce well in one column. Stephens wrote that public relations ing selections are best for radio. And for the Society locally and interna· be very sure that your quartet is a Perhaps few realize the competition tionally is "good conduct and getting Voice quartet, not entertainers who for space in their local papers. Most credit for it/' A main teaching job must be seen to be appreciated, be papers are still rationing even their that every chapter still has to do is fore going on radio. Results some advertisers who want to spend money. to convince all who write news and times are pretty terrible unless a So make it just as easy as you can headlines on the local papers that the foursome realizes that radio is dif for the editor to use the picture of Society is long past the gag stage. ferent. your quartet. We must never take ourselves too ---_._---~ seriously or become "blue nosers" but it is our duty to protect ourselves "BETTER BE SAFE THAN SORRY" against erroneous statements made about the Society in the local press, The Society's growth, dramatized by But instead of getting up to date bearing in mind that such statements the map and graph in this issue, facts from the lnt'l. Office the pro are almost invariably due to ignorance raises a problem when a newer chap gram chairman often copies material and not malice. Practically all news ter wants background facts about the from an old program from some other papers are interested in Society do organization. The lnt'l. Office has a chapter. In that wayan original mis ings, but occasionally some headline wealth of this material which any statement or error may be repeated writer will write a line that will give chapter can requisition, as when need many times. Particularly when you an entirely wrong impression, as in an ed to print a program. print The Code of Ethics be sure that Eastern city where a large newspaper it is the Revised Code. announced a forthcoming Society The program used at any public affair event under the headline "And the should furnish authentic information Your program offers one of the best Beer Will Flow." about origin, growth and development possible pieces of promotion to inter of the Society. It should include some est new members. Call upon the Int'l. We can't expect newspaper people to thing about Barbershop Harmony as Office for facts that are up to date. know about the Society unless we a musical form. It should include facts If you send a pl'inter's proof to the teach them. It's a pleasant duty and about the district organization if there Int'I. Office, errors if any, can be one that pays dividends, both locally is one, and facts about the local chap· caught, thus avoiding embanassmcnt and internationally. tel', where it meets, etc. to the local chapter.
INTERNATIONAL OFFICERS, 1946-1947 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Pre$idu/t.•.. ••...... •....•..•.... FRANK H. THORNE, 6216 W. 66th Place, Chicago 38. Illinois (Vice-President, National Aluminate Corporation) The Officers (except Secretary) and Immediate Past Preside"t••.. ...•.•...... PHIL EMBURY, 30 Park Street. Warsaw, N. Y, (President. Embury Mfg, Co.) Term uPiring in Junt. 1949 First Vice-President. ...•... .CHARLES M. MERRILL. 414 Fint National Bank Bldg., Reno, Nevada (Attorney) O. H. KING COLE, 901 Marshall St.. Manilowoc Wis. (Vice-President, Kingsbury Breweries) SeCrelllfY •••••••••• , ••••• , ••. •CARROLL P. ADAMS, 18270 Grand River Ave" Detroit 23, Mich. Treasurer...... ••...JOSEPH E. STERN, 311 R. A. Long Bldg.• Kansas City 6, Mo. W. LESTER DAVIS, 210 Huron Slreel, London. (Joseph E. Stern & Co., Realtors) Ontario (Treasurer, John Lab.ltt LimiLed) -Vice-President. .,,, J. D. BEELER, 1830 W. Ohio St.• Evansville 2, Ind. (Vice·Pres. & Gen. Mgr., Mead Johnson Terminal Corp.) E. H. DICK, 305 N. W. 27tl;. Oklahoma City 3. Vice-Prcsident , C. W. COYE, 1714 John St.• Muskegon. Mich. Okla. (President, General U)nSl. Corp.) (Industrial Engineer) TED E. HABERKORN, Sr., Medical Arts Bldg., Vice-President. . MAURICE E. REAGAN, 325 CastIegate Road, Pittsburgh 21, Pa. Fort Wayne 2. Ind. (Elec. Engineer, Westinghouse Electric Corp.) (Vice-Pres., The MediC MAY, 1947 £7iS~ HARMONIZER 7 SEEKING PUBLIC ACCEPTANCE by Walter Jay Stephens International Chairman Public Relations Editor's Nole:-In accordance with the previous stated policy of stressing the four-point publicity program which will be found on another page of this issue, Walter Jay Stephens elaborates upon the fourth publicity point. The other three points were in previous issues. Evel'y member should be interested in trying to avoid practices that are of fensive to the public interest and to seek public acceptance of our Society on the basis of good conduct. Our Public Relations program cannot be properly fulfilled without the sup port and untiring efforts of every member to live up to and reflect a high standard of "Good Conduct.II The highest function of our Public Rela tions platform is reputation building and all must do their part in order to make it effective. A horse may have four legs but can't trot on two highways at the same time. We can't have public opinion favorable and unfavorable at the same THE HI-LOS, Milwaukee, Wis. time,-nol' can our public relations Fifth Place-1946 Int'1. Finals program properly function to explain and justify to the public our high (As seen by Beaudin). ideals and fine principles without the good conduct of every single member. evel y one of OUl membels assists by \vl1o seldom have opportunity to be a The meaning of the public interest is reflectmg Ius own "good conduct." part of the vocal presentation. in fact as easily sensed as defined, The reputation of our Society is up It's not unusual nowadays for one Public interest is a combination of to you, and you, and you, quartet to borrow another's arrange intangibles, social, economic, govern ment. lVIany are common property mental and moral. The public interest " ARRANGED BY _ since they've been printed to make has many facets-some have cultural " them widely available. We doubt that significance; some are social; some Like the policeman in "The Pirates," credit should be given to the arranger have their basis in an objective code an arranger's life is not a happy one. in every case. It could become of moral conduct. Woven all thr'ough He bears about the same relation to monotonous. But thel'e are many oc the public interest however is a re a song sung by a Society Foul' as casions when a quartet can accom gard for the homely virtues of honor script writers who put words into the plish two things by mention of "the and honesty and decency and sobriety, mouth of radio celebrities. Today's arrangement we're about to sing." As each of which contributes its share to audience is experienced enough to Canoll said, (1) it can lend interest the rich pattern of what is accepted know that there are writers back of to theil' song, And (2) it's just the as the common interest. a Bel1nY or Allen quip that bring decent and friendly thing to do in Thus when our Society perfOl'lllS pub laughs from millions. But "Wasn't many cases, HE good!" is just natural. licly and asks the public for its And by that same token a few, \~ell suffrage, the public is justified in as Which introduces all Inter-Office chosen words about a song can lend suming that each and every member memo printed in "Ovel' the Editor's zest to the numbel'. Who wrote the of SPEBSQSA will behave in such a Shouldel'," this issue, in which Car music and words-when-maybe why way as Lo contribute to the common roll Adams suggests that we give (there's a stOl'Y back of many songs) good. more credit to arrangers, those for -and other intimate details are good And so our Public Relations program gotten men who wrap up sweet har "sales" build up for singing the song can be only successful 80 long as monies in attractive packages, but itself. ARTHUR A. MERRILL, 1567 Kingston Ave.. A, H. FALK, 219 W, Commercial St., Appleton. MAYNARD L, GRAFT, 1350 Belvoir Blvd., Schenectady 8. N. Y. Wis. (Buyer, H. C. Prange Company) Cleveland 21, Ohio (Commercial Engineer, General Electric Co,) (Service Engineer, Ohio Bell Telephone Co,) ROBERT L. IRVINE, 914 Jackson Ave:, River WALTER JAY STEPHENS, 35 East Wack!"r Forest, Ill. Dr.. Chicago I, Ill. (Asst, Credit Mgr.• Sears. Roebuck & Co.) WILLIAM W. HOLCOMBE, 869 Brondway, (Vke-presid!"nt and Director. St('11lar Co., Inc.) Paterson 4, N. J. (Social Work Director) GUY L. STOPPERT, 1326 w. Dartmouth St.. Term expiring ill Jllne, 1948 ("lint 4, Mich. JOSEPH J. MURRIN, 3340 Beacb Ave., Chicago (Exec. Sec., Associated Male Choruses of 51, IH. (Lieutenant. Police Dept.) G. MARVIN BROWER, 107 Michigan. N. W. America. Inc.) Grand Rapids 2, Mich. VIRGIL E. PILLIOD, 2910 Olive St.. St. Louis 3, (Proprietor, Brower Memorials) Tt:rm t:.t;piring in Jllne, 1947 Mo. (President, Nu-Process Broke Engineers) SANDFORD BROWN, 30 East 42nd Street, OTTO BElCH. clo Paul F. Beich Co., Blooming New York City 17, N. Y. ton, 111. (President, Paul F. Seich Co.) EDWIN S. SMITH, 34660 Michigan Ave., Wayne. Mich. (Real Estate and Insuronce Broker) WALTER E. CHAMBERS, P, O. Box 208, Rock Island. Ill, LUMAN A. BLISS, 4001 Lowell Court, Midland, (McCabe Hause Company) Mich. (The Dow Chemica! Company) COPYRIGHT, MAY. 1947 W. D. COMMON. P. O. Box 1018, Dayton 1, Ohio W. P. FERRIS. 225 Springdale Ave., York, Pa. (General Manager. Moraine Box CO.) (President, Ferris Factories, Inc.) The Society for the Pre~rvation and Encouragement of Bar1>cr Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc.• Detroit. Michigan s fitu, HARMONIZlk Important International News Briefs TAKE A TRIP THROUGH about Society people and event:'S (news went to Britaill in 1939, and covered HARMONYLAND requires space to print it) ~hat so~e the globe after that." thing had to be done about It. A WIde· In the very early, informal days of the spread poll among members had al Taking a tip from SPEB, Tell Muhl Society, Bing Crosby was a member, ready been made and in every case "" although there was no chapter func stein, canary raiser of Provo, Utah, members had said in substance "Con_ trains his canaries in 4's. He says tioning in his immediate vicinity. But tinue the Harmonizer by all means." there is no question now about his be that aimless solo chirping may be all Do you realize that 1,120,000 pages right for the ordinary house pet, but ing a bona fide member of the Holly went into the February issue? The wood Chapter. One of the Sportsmen, if you want to raise prize winning Harmonizer Committee hopes that singers they must be trained as a a Hollywood quartet, met Bing in the your 64 pages were worth the quarter studio recently, handed him an ap team. This again raises a question charged to your chapter for your copy. posed in The Way I See It column of plication card and asked him to send \:>' a check, which Crosby very promptly the Harmonizer recently: would a March ESQUIRE told the full story canary in the home and a bird seed uid. of "Sweet Adeline" with a full' page \:>' diet have any worth, prenatally 01' picture in color of a quartet render when children are small, in helping Did you see H. T. Webster's "The ing Harry Armstrong's song, which produce a crop of future tenors for Timid Soul" in your Sunday Paper will never die as long as four men the Society? about mid-January, in which Casper l'emain to harmonize. \")1' Milquetoast's associates organized a Chicago Chorus made"" its second ap· barbershop quartet in his office? Tht:! Robert Ekblad, Senior in architecture pearance on America B. C. "Wake Up boss's objection ended with the boss at Kansas State College is listed in and Smile" program, March 8, with singing lead on l "welcoming the Ohio chapter into the WOODSHEDDERS "SHINE" (J$ Keep Posted realm of good harmony and good fellowship. Hands across the border, sonal appearances booked by the As and long may we serve to continue sociated Clubs. His local programs that good will and good fellowship deal with "Music for Fun" and in so existent between the land of the variably draw attention to the activi Maple Leaf and the land of the ties of the Society. Sig occasionally Stars and Stripes:' appears at a service club luncheon as ~ well as for the dinner clubs that fill As guests of honor, April 22, at the most of his solid schedule. 25th wedding anniversary of Mr. and ~ Mrs. lfDick" Richards (Pres. WJR De While secretaries are well informed troit and WGAR Cleveland), Bing (llwho the hell picked that key?") on procedures governing the last three L. to R.-Gene Van Loo tenOr" months (April, May, June) of the Crosby became the unofficial mascot Dave Evans, lead: Art T'rumbuU·. of the Progressive Four, Detroit. He bari; Aloysius Elliott, bass, at Three Society's fiscal year, many member!; River!', Mich. Charter Night. also like to know such details. loved 'em, and so did the other guests who heard a fine show including the On March 31, chapter secretaries sent Don Large chorus, WJR Studio Or their Quarterly Membership Report chestra, and 30 men from Detroit for Jan" Feb. and March '47, listing Symphony. WEYHING BROS. all additions to the roster during ~ that quarter; and chapter treasurers Orricill.l S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A. Jewelers submitted per capita tax on these Chicago Chapter has issued a most in ne'" members. teresting little folder, "The Chicago Official Past Chapter Presidents' On and after April 1, new members Chorus" recording the aims, methods LAPEL EMBLEM can be accepted on the basis of the details of membership and operation' ---10 K. Gold-- ensuing fiscal year, ending June 30, a picture of the Chorus and the di: 1948. Putting it differently, per capita rectors and chairmen. Each voice $5;00 tax on new members sent in between group has a chairman and committee...... u. 10% I'ItDER"'''' TAX April 1 and June 30, '47 will be cred \:)7 Ordl/r these jrom Int'l Sec. Ad~rnJ ited to the fiscal year ending June Again those Harmony Halls, Elastic 30, '48. Foul' and Four Harmonizers utilize Special 10K Gold ~ space in the Harmonizer to inform LAPEL EMBLEMS On May 5 the Lamplighters, Cleve domestic disc jockeys of the availabil ity of three sets of top notch records for members of 1st place quartet in land, and the Clef Dwellers, Detroit, District Contests competed in "The Quiz of Two Cit by three Int'l. champions. No excuse ies." WGAR presented the Lamplight nowadays for not having at least one $7.50 each ers, WJR the Clefs. This magazine set available for the record player PL.U5 u% I'ItDItRAL T.vI when you want to "explain" the Ordilr thflse from Int" Sec. AdDrnJ is put to bed too early in the month Society, its harmonies and harmonists to publish results. ~ to a skeptic. And don't overlook the Neff collection made at the Int'!. meet, Special 10K Gold When President Truman arrived in when you want to re-create, what LAPEL E~1BLE~1S Key West in mid-March, SPEB mem O. C. Cash calls, "the sweetest music fOr Past District Presidents bers were raised to two, according to this side of heaven." the Key West Citizen, the other being $7.50 each PLUS 20% F"E;OE;R"'L. TAX Historian Dick Sturges, who promptly ~us S;0le thinks '" it would be a good invited the President to join him in Ide~ If the Harmonizer would do a Order these/rom Int', Sec. AdllTrls organizing a local quartet to sing" senes of tabloid histories of famous the Missouri Waltz. Affairs of state popular song writers such as Jerome saved the day. & Schwartz, Ernie Ball, Von Tilzer WEYHING BROS. ~ Sterling, ehas. K. Harris, Paul Dres~ Orrldal S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A. Jewelers Hamilton, Ohio's charter night, March ser, for examples. Anybody inter DETROIT, MICH. 24, was doubly pleasant because of a ested? Execeditor Adams' ears aTe .lrd Floor Dayld Broderick TOwer letter from Hamilton, Onto chapter open. It's your magazine. ~:=.:.-~~~:...:::.::::.::._~======GETTING READY FOR TEACHER <>-0--<> ST. LOUIS·CLAYTON ENTERTAIN MUSIC TEACHERS NAn. ASS'N. The Music Teachers National Ass'n., meeting in St. Louis, March I, had opportunity to sample both quartet and choral effects of the SPEB brand. Here, the chorus tunes up backstage while two members of Clayton'~ Nettle-Rathert·Wayman-Bugg f 0 u r~ some (in dark coats) blend in before going ou~ front. Said Peter W. Dyke~ rna, professor emeritus, Columbia Univ., "This is one of the most im portant things, this utilization of the love of music in nl.en who are not primarily musicians." \ ,~ \ __\.J I 0-0-0 MAY, 1947 10 ."7lte HARMONIZER "Hold That Line" ... of /SPEBSOSA GROWTH CURVE \. .. ·, ., I " ·· ·, · ,• -_.-.." , I «" - ....,... · ...... "., "41 "'J ,.-, lOU .... ".. ,.-. The di,tribullon of $PEBSQSA Ch.,plel'6 ",s 01 January I, 1947 SOCIETY GROWTH from L:lck IM.p II.llnt'l. Hqs. office. In the February issue this gl'aph told the story of the growth of the Society year by year, The rise sinee 1942 has been startling'. WARSAW, N. Y. HOLDS TWO Many will call the above map and the graph, repeated from Feb., the most PARADES SIMULTANEOUSLY This means that the majority of our interesting pictures ever published in members have tuned into the Society New York State's first chapter held the Harmonizer. Speaking of the Feb. after it struggled through the grow its first Parade (Parades) April 26. issue, you know that it took 1,120,000 pages to print 17,500 copies of that ing pains period, Demand for tickets in this town of 64 page number. But within 30 days In consequence neWel' members fre 4,000 friendly folks was so great that after publication Cal'l'oll Adams was duplicate performances were given in sending SOS's HHave you any spare quently say "1 didn't know that" when the Veterans Memorial Building and copies? We need them to inform told about some Society policy, rule the Farman Theatre, the latter pro prospective chapters about the Socie 01' action, made long ago for theil' gram starting 30 minutes after the ty." Before the Feb. Harmonizer had benefit and which they have accepted reached you the graph line had gone first. Both auditoriums were packed. without any thought. Warsaw Chapter Chorus opened the above 15,000, and in early May it is shows, followed by The Optimists, E. above the 18,000 line. The whole point of this comment is, Aurora; Model T's., Batavia; Melody don't take chances when planning Mutilators, Genesee; 0 b I i gat 0 r 5, WHO ARE BARBERSHOPPERS? chaptenvise Or fol' a public event. If Olean; Frequently Flat Four, War By Walter Jay Stephens thp.re is any doubt about the suit saw; Velvatones and Try-Cy-Synchxo International Chairman ability of some idea or suggestion, nizers, Binghamton - Johnson City; Public Relations Melotones and Melody Men, Buffalo. consult the Intel'l1ational Office about The programs concluded with West The members of the Society for the the policy involved, inghouse Quartet and Elastic Four. Preservation and Encouragement of Bill Coddington of East Aurora, Dis Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc., are referred to as Ba1' "TYPICALLY AMERICAN" trict President, MC'd at the Theatre bershoppers. and Phil Embury at the Legion A query as to the means of livelihood Memorial Building. Pres. Thorne led Barbershoppers - are enthusiasts of the 39 members in newly chartered and lovers of good music-they have community singing. a "song in their hearts." Seneca Falls, N. Y. brought out this The Parades proved that a successful Barbershoppers - are masters of list: chapter and chorus can be maintained blends and strive to develop harmony, Shipper, Power House Operator, in a town of 4,000 and that a Parade not only in musical expression but al Sales, Printing, Salesman, Engineel', so on a spiritual basis among all man of big league talent can be both Managel', Motor Co., 2 Fanners, Minis musically and financially successful in kind. imagi~ ter, Draftsman, Assembler, 2 Machin~ a small tOWIl. Barbershoppers-stimulate the nation-thrill with the joys of har A ists, Theatel' Managel', Music Instruc Shows were preceded by a dinner at monious chords and blends and enjoy tor, Lt, State Police, Retail Liquor, the Masonic Temple for the quartets, the gift of goodfello\Vship. Veterinarian, N. Y. Vet. Counsellor, Society members and families; After~ Barbershoppers - are talent scouts Dentist, Bench Hand (Pumps), En glow f01' the 300 SPEB'ers and their they are always reaching for perfec gineer-Contractor, Student, Chief Op~ families, with sandwiches and coffee, tion by blending with others, erator, Guard Chief, Advertising, Po held at the Legion Memorial Home, Barbershoppers-encourage and pro~ mote Harmony, friendliness, and good lice Officer, Funeral Director, Sales will in our communities. Engineer, Retail Meat, Jeweler, Ga Al GREGG'S "GREYHOUND" NITE CLUa Barhershoppers-uphold their code of rage & Sales, Lab. Technician, 2 Phy 221 20th Street ethics on a lofty plane to conform to sicians. Where Good Fellows and Song Fellows Meet the Society's high ideals and fine prin ciples in performing to serve the pUb And if that isn't "typically American" Rock Isl.nd, Illinois lic interest. what is 1 MAY, 1947 Going to the 1947 International CONTEST AND CONVENTION 7• 7• ==MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, JUNE 13·14, 1947== IF SO, ACT NOW!! Tear out the CO UPO N and MAIL IT TODAY ~ The best 30 quartets in the Society, sur Date . vivors of the Sectional Preliminaries will be at Milwaukee, PLUS AT LEAST Carroll P. Adams, Int'i. Sec. 5 PREVIOUS CHAMPIONS who will SPEBSQSA, Inc. 18270 Grand River Ave. sing Saturday afternoon and night. Detroit 23, Mich. Your $5.00 registration,* (for each per Enclosed is my check for $ for son), will get you a book of tickets that which please send me at $5.00 each, in· covers the whole works. cluding tax, COmbination Books of tickets, for myself and my party for the Ninth Annual Convention and Internation· * al Quartet Contest in Milwaukee on June .As soon as you receive your books, 13th and 14th, 1947. I understand that this (each of which contains a coupon en registration fee covers admission to the titling you to apply for hotel accom two International Preliminaries on Friday modations for one person), tear out forenoon and afternoon; the Semi-Final on the coupons and mail them to the Friday night; the Jamboree on Saturday af· ternoon; a reserved seat for the Finals on Milwaukee Housing Committee speci Saturday night; a badge; a souvenir pro· fying hotel accommodations desired. gram; and a coupon which is exchange· able for hotel accommodations. NO SINGLE ROOMS WILL BE AVAIL ABLE. MILWAUKEE HOTELS WILL Name . (Print distinctly) NOT ACCEPT RESERVATIONS DI Mail address .... RECT. ALL MUST CLEAR THROUGH THE MILWAUKEE HOUSING COM· City...... Zone State . MITTEE. Member of Chapter 12 Stu HARMONIZER CHARTERED SINCE FEBRUARY 1st., 1947 No. of Dare Charter Sponsoring ~ame and Address of Chapter Secretary Chartered Location Members Chapter 2/6/47 Springville, N. Y. 20 Gowanda, New York Leo H. Pearson, Springville, New York. 2/6/47 Rod.--ville, Conn. 57 Hartford, Conn. Frank H. C1.·atty, 38 Prospect Street. 2/7/47 Hamilton. Ohio 66 Cincinnat.i, Ohio James R. Fisher, 304 Marcia Avenue. 2/10/47 Corry, pi. 16 Jamestown, N. Y. A. J. Schaub, 501 So. Center Street. 2/10/47 Kingman, Kansas 40 Hutchinson. Kansas Stanley A. Reynolds, 229 North Main Street. 2/13/47 Union, !\'Iissouri 22 Hermann, Mo. Herbert B. G. Maune, Union, Mo. 2/18/47 East. Liberty, Pa. 17 Pittsburgh, Pa. H. G. McCullough, 201 Collins Ave., Pittsburgh 6 2/18/47 Marinette, ·Wis. 32 Green Bay, Wis. Walter E. Pfleger, 1012 Carney Blvd. 2/24/47 Vicksburg, Michigan 35 Kalamazoo. Mich. Duane Rubert, 409 So. Main Street. 3/13/47 Marlborough, Mass. 29 Northampton, Mass. and Robert Chamberlain, ]96 Lincoln Street. Tampa, Fla. 3/14/47 Hart, Michigan 25 Grand Rapids, 1\·[ich. Loyal Churchill, Hart. Michigan 3/19/47 Morrison, Illinois J7 Monmouth, Ill. George Greer, 405 S. Healon St. 3/19/47 Birmingham, Ala. 42 Detroit, Mich. Vance Busby, 2306 3rd Ave., No. 3/21/47 Bakersfield, Calif. 19 San Francisco, Calif. Bates S. Dewey, Rt. 7, Box 322. 3128/47 Marquette, Michigan 40 Iron Mountain. Mich. Dr. Luther S. West, 137 Ridge St. 3128/47 La Crosse, Wisconsin 57 Manitowoc, Wis. Paul Youngdale, 114 No. 14th. 3/31/47 Clear Lake, Iowa 20 Sioux City, Iowa B. D. Merriman, 208 W. Main St. 4/2/47 Pampa, Texas 41 Lubbock, Texas Dr. W. C. JoneB, 900 Christie St. 4/2/47 Philadelphia, Pa. 44 York, Pa. R. R. Galbraith, Sr., 986 Allengrove St. 412/47 Seneca Falls, N. Y. 39 Geneva, New York F. L. Huntington, Jr., 85 Cayuga Street. 4/9/47 Bloomsburg, Pa. 42 York, Pa. Charles H. Henrie, 639 E. 5th Street. 4/9/47 Fremont, Ohio 50 Toledo. Ohio Charles A. Johnson, 915 Christy Blvd. 4/9/47 Albuquerque, N. M. 25 Sunts Fe, N. M. Don Ironside, 223 N. 9th Street. 4/11/47 Waterloo, Iowa 20 Rock {gland. Ill. George H. Deitz, 1419 E. 4th Street. 4/14/47 La Grange, 111. 23 Oak Park, Ill. Robert Haeger, 421 S. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park 4/15/47 Peto15key, Mich. .'~5 Boyne City, Mich. Kenneth Willson, 1313 Howard Street. 4/16/47 Quincy. Mass. 18 Nort.hampton, Mass. Sylvester J. Ryan, 99 E. Squ8ntum St., N. Quincy 4/16/47 Vermillion, S. Dak. a7 Sioux City, Iowa Burdette Benson, 17 S. Yale Street. . 4/18/47 Berkeley, Calif. 20 San Francisco, Calif. Donald B. Carr, 1709 Channing Way. 4/18/47 Santa Rosa, Calif. 45 San Francisco, Cali f. John O. Frankiorter,125 Sherman St.t Healdsburg 4/22/47 :\Ieriden, Conn. 32 Hartford, Conn. John F. Bellew, 69 Gale Avenue. 4/23/47 Brantford, Onto 16 Hamilton. Onto Harry Wood, 33 F'air Ave. 4/24/47 Chicopee, Mass. 20 Springfi~ld, l\'Iass. Dennis C. Ryan, 14 Hope St. Willimansett 4/25/47 Gaylord, Mich. 27 Boyne City, Mich. Harry Glidden, 503 Main St. 4/29/47 Klamath Falls, Ore. 18 Eugene, Oregon L. H. Stone, Box 598 4/29/47 Orinda, Cal. 23 Eugene, Oregon .M. A. Murphy, 71 EI Toyonal 4/30/47 Austin, Minn. 20 Bloomington, Ill. Kermit Meyer, 709 Nicholson St. ------CONTEST - 1935 STYlE Int'l. Bd. Member Guy L. Stoppert THREE 4'S FROM MATOON, Ill. find:!! that the fall ] 935 issue of The Keynote, published by Assoc. Glee Clubs, had a two-page report of New Left-Lions Four with Dr. S. H. York's barbershop contest staged in Allen. TAle LaMar. Tom Kenny. Me" Central Park and l'eported (of all Ayers. Lower Left-Alley Cau com· things) by Sigmund Spaeth, who tlosed of Fred Smith, L. M. Lucas. probably has done more than any O. M. Westrup, R. W. Noll. Below other to bridge the gap between The Dischords cOllsisting of Jim old time songs and O. C. Cashts Sheridan. Doc Whitley. Glen Steven>. dream child. They had city-wide eliminations leading to the Finals in Byrol:l Speagles. n seUing of the old time shop. Fifteen thousand turned out to see the Bay City Four (Brooklyn), who arrived on tandem bicycles, win the mugs em blematic of the Greater N. Y. cham pionship. ConLestants wore 1905, 01' earlier, costumes, and arrived in every sort of vehicle from brewery and milk wagons to stage coaches, fire engines and pre-World War I autos. Judges were Ex - Mayor· and - Governor AI Smith, Luther S t e \V a r Land Sig Spaeth. The account moves us Lo wonder how many of the dozen or more quartets in Lhe Fh)als have SUl" vived. Maybe Spaeth will give us a follow-up ator)' in Augu>;.t. MAY, 1947 Jarvis Albro, lead Chuck Sarle, tenor Seated-Howard Heath, bass Dill Oursler, bad Congratulations to Saginaw's ~ARONS of HARMONG)( BILL » CHUCK » JARVE and HOWARD [J you Jeel II slight sensation, or a tingling little thrill Often, much too often, do UH slight liJe's little joys, Wbenyolt glance at him besideyolt, as he sits serene and still, But tonight llY capture many, in the singing of O1/r boxr. You'll know he too is hearing a something sweet and rare~· We're privileged to listen, as they sing for me dnd )'OU. It tlCeds be that, to efear his face of worry and of care. They're champions, we knew it, in every SCJlse, that's truc. Helen Rank Campau MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION OF CHAPTERS OF S. P. E. B. S. Q. S. A. FOUN by O. C. Casb ing Her Now" and other popular tunes ing all those old boys who thought of of the day. It sounded awful pretty. me so kindly at Christmastime. It was The rest of the boys in the band would terribly nice of them. Don't think I'm gather around and argue about the "uppity" or "high falutin" if you don't chords and sometimes we would al get acknowledgment of all your let most stop band practice for the night. ters and cards. This Society cor Merle is now a big newspaper owner, respondence has just about got me ['tn still thinking about that "To publisher and editor, but I bet he down. I'm ready to holler HCalf the Ladies" number in February. It would give his eye tooth to have just rope." But I do like to hear from you was a splendid idea and I am sorry I one more of those instrumental bar old "codgers" from time to time even didn't get in on it in 80nte, way, but bershop sessions in the back room of if I can't answer all my mail. the last time I W1'ote a piece conce1'n Jim Davis' barber shop, with all the ing the ladies (the one about the boys we used to know when we were • • • proper way to handle women attend kids. I'd sure like to join him, too. Since I wrote to you folks last I have ing our conventions) I didn't receive You notice I said we had three cornets attended a few Parades and am more much favQ1·able. fan mail from the in this quartet. Well, at that time astonished, as time goes on, at the en more obstinate sex. So far, the girls trumpets were reserved for the ex thusiasm with which these entertain~ don't seem to pay much attention to clusive use of Gabriel and a few of ment.s are received. The Parades at what I tell them. But I want to try his more musical angels. Nowadays Omaha and Dayton, Ohio were tre once '»tore. it seems like everybody is blowing mendous successes. Also, I happened I have had a lot of difficulty with trumpets. I don't think it's right. to be in New York earlier this year, these women's quartets, especially Now since these barbershop quartet and the boys cooked up a "little par with the baritones. The girls have girls have so much trouble getting ty," (as they said) which developed been messing up my part so badly the proper vocal effect on our ar into a gathering of more than a and refusing to take my advice that I rangements, especially the baritone, I hundred on the spur of the moment have just about despaired of doing suggest they work up some combina with some very fine quartets, Harry anything about it. I tell this female tion in brass, or saxophones, take our Armstrong, Sig Spaeth, Bob Goepe} baritone and that one to go up an arrangements and see if they can't hit and other notables present. This was eighth of an inch on a certain note these chords right on the nose, as they a very nice occasion. and they think it is sufficient or are written, and quit trying to im sounds better, to go up only a six prove on the way us artists do them. • • • teenth of an inch. I believe I have an idea in this piece that will remedy this Now, getting off that subject onto an Well this leaves all in fairly good situation. other, I am wondering if the reports health. We-had the usual run of colds which headquarters has been sending and bilious spells during the winter, When I was a boy at Bluejacket, out that we have 17,749 members and but all of us have had a round or two playing first, or solo cornet, in the 1,300 organized quartets, is correct. of calomel and have been taking Black Bluejacket Silver Cornet Band, me \Ve may want to have an audit made Draught regularly and the family is and Merle Woods, his brother Roscoe of these figures in the light of what feeling tolerably well at present. I and another fellow used to get to I am about to tell you. At Christmas have all my early plowing done, hogs gether before band practice and rib time I received 16,179 greetings from up a brass quartet. We had three barbershoppers all over North Ameri killed and meat cUl'el Corinne and cornets playing lead, tenor and bari ca and about 1,200 cards with pictures Betty are getting ready for canning, tone, and Merle filled in the bass with of four guys and funny quartet names and have the soap all made and put slide trombone, playing it up kinda printed on them. Until I get myoid away. So we are right on schedule high like. I remember we used to age pension, of course, I can't afford with our spring work. Hoping you harmonize on "Sweet Bunch of to ach.l1owledge all these greetings are the same, I am Daisies" and "T Wonder Who's Kiss- and I am taking this means of thank O. C. Cash. O. C. VISITS N. Y. Bob Goepel of Manhattan Chapter sprang a surprise on our Founder • earlier this year when O. C. Cash was in New York. O. C. was told that there would be a "little gathering" MANHATTAN one evening and when he arrived. HARMONISTS about 100 Manhattannites, including sp.veraJ quartets, greeted him and did General J. R. Kilpatrick, him honor. Included were several Harry Armstrong. composer of song- writers, whose music was bar "Sweet Adeline." George Rup bershopped during the evening. Luck pert. host to Manhattan Chap ily Henry Schubert, Detroit Chapter; ter. Stan Lomax. with Sigmund Dean Snyder, District of Columbia Spaeth at the piano. Chapter; Bill Snyder of Chicago; "Stiny" Steinhauser, director of York, Penna. Chorus; and Board Member Bill Holcombe, Paterson, N. J., were in town and present, making it prac~ • tically a national meeting. MAY. 1947 £II.. HARMONIZER BARBERSHOP BAFFLERS (No. 13) "NEVER SO CLOSE TO HEAVEN" Compiled by 01..1., Merrill, (R,no Ch.pl,r) I"tmlltionll Flnt V!".p,••ld,nl Four quartets from Toledo Chapter sang on a program at Sunset Home Each of the following quotations is 10. III love you as I never loved be for Old Ladies in late February, Said the first line of an old refrain whose fore" one 80-year-old inmate: "I've been title is buried in the la!St line. Sing 11. "When you hear dem a bells go here 12 years, but tonight I was never them through and see if you can come ding, ling, ling" so close to Heaven." The Toledo boys up with the title. vow that entertainment of those who 12. "Every Sunday down to her house need it most must, and will, continue. we go" 1. "Sure, I love the dear silver that Toledo nowadays is an inspiring ex shines in your hair" 13. "Can't you see the night am ample of a chapter that had gl'een falling? Whip-poor-will am sing lights when it opened, then for some 2. III love the silver in your hair" ing low" reason "they turned amber for a long (Confusing isn't it?) time" according to Carl J. Murphy. 14. "Just a song at twilight when Now it looks like good traveling ahead. 3. "I'll be down to get.. you in a taxi, the lights are low" honey" 15. "If you lak-a-me lak I lak-a-you 4. "As 1 walk along the Bois Boo and we laka-both the same" long with an independent air" CENTRAL STATERS CONVENE 16. "I care not fol' the stars that 5. "With someone like YOll, a pal shine" IN OZARKS good and true" On July 12-13 the Central States Dis 17. "Now the same old moon is shin trict Board will take over Holiday 6. "Give me your smile, the love ing and the roses bloom as fair" light in your eyes" House at Eldon, Mo. situated at Bag nell Dam on the Lake of the Ozarks, 18. "The pale moon was rising above 7. "Down in de cornfield hear dat the green mountains" for the annual district meeting. A main mournful soundII lodge of 14 rooms, half a dozen cot 19. "Picture tonight a field of snowy tages, swimming pool, tennis, central 8. "Tis the song, the sigh of the white" dining facilities add up to a unique weary" setting for the business meeting, with 20. "You made me what I am today; no wOl'1'ies as to "how the family's n. "The girl of my dreams is the 1 hope you're satisfied" sweetest girl of all the girls I enjoying itself" while the Board is in know" AO!~wers on next page session. FOUR HARMONIZERS ----- 1943 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS ---- offer SET OF THREE VINYLITE RECORDS $5.68 Postpaid Medley "Tbe Old S011gS" a11d "Sbi11e" "/'111 Always Cbasi11g Rai11bows" "Tbat T/(mbled Dow11 Sback i11 Atblo11e" "Ob SlISal1ab Dmt off tbat Old Pia11o" IIRolling Home" "Cm,'t Yo/( Hear Me Calli11g Caroline" These Records are Non-breakable and are grooved to play on any machine. ------. Find enclosed 0 Check 0 Moueyorderfor$ for which please ?Itait t4 sen~d me sets of The FOflr Harmo11izers records post-paid. HARMONY RECORDS Name..... SUIlE 602 20 W. JACKSON BOULEVARD Address. CHICAGO 4, ILLINOIS City...... State. MAY, 1947 16 .o/he HARMONIZER ------_.._------ --~--======I ?1~J(~1¢ ?1tu"." combined quartets in the closing num ber which, according----- to report, "sent "Bloomington's own" Twin City 4 was harmony tingles chasing each other". BARBERSHOPPERS in good company at the Consistory York's double·date was a huge suc I31dg., Feb. 23, Parade; in fact was cess including a sell-out for both per welcome to Milwaukee! practically surrounded by The Har formances. monaires, Gary; Keystone Barber In Mllwauku the Schwaben·Hol lend$ a trlle portr.yal of thi$ city $0 I.molll lor ib Old ettes, guests from Peoria; John Han Time Bur Gardens and Old COllntry atmol son's Corn Belt Chorus, those seren ANSWERS TO phere. Hele YOll will find gellllille hOlpitalfty ading Serenaders from K. C.; the .nd lood that 1$ evell a lillIe belte, lhall you champion Elastics; with the St. Louis BARBERSHOP wo ... ld ,emembel it. Police to keep things in order. Int'l. BAFFLERS The SlY and thrilli1l9 Alpille tUlln by Swiu Pres. Frank H. Thorne, billed in pro Illd Bn.,iall artish colorfully_costumed will be gram as "Mr. Harmony himself" gave (See Previous Page) lemembeled whell thinkin, 01 dillin, in a highlights of SPEB. Joe Bunting 1. Mother Machree pe,fect setllns. M.e.'d. A Pre-glow touched off the 2. I Love You Best of All "LIFE", AmeriCI's leadill! magnin. says, harmony fireworks which still glowed 3. The Darktown Strutters Ball "Theil folk IIrnu as played ill Milwaukee', at the After-glow in Eagles Hall. 4. The Man That Broke the Bank at Schw.ben·Ho I art even belter kllowlI ill the Unit.d Statn than grut G.rman Symphonic Monte Carlo works"•••. And in the sp.ci.1 h,u. titl.d ~~ 5. Let the Rest of the \Vorld Go By "A leiter to G. 1.'1", prlnt.d the Schw.ben 6. The SUllshine of Your Smile Hoi m.n... al I lead ing rnl.urant "where the Ushered into two York, Penna., Jan. 7. Massa's [n De Cold Ground Iood lerv.d is the thingl you Ilk. most to eat." 25 Parades by young ladies from Wm. 8. Hard Times Come Again No More Penn High School, the afternoon and You have not seen Milwaukee evening audiences were greeted by 9. The S...veetheart of Sigma Chi Balcony and Side-Aisle Entertainers, 10. When You \Vere Sweet Sixteen until you have visited the otherwise Three Spirits of Rhythm 11. There'll Be A Hot Time In The and The Tin Can Quartet. York Old Town Tonight SCHWABEN - HOF chorus opened a splendid show which 12. The Sunshine of Paradise Alley included The Celtics, Baltimore; Four 13. Down Among the Sugar Cane Chords, Jersey Ramblers, and Essex 4, 14. Love's Old Sweet Song Newark; Dallas Townsmen, Chord 15. Under the Bamboo Tree Recommended by Makers, Beauty Parlor Prestidigita 16. Love Me and the \Vorld Is Mine tors and Yorko 4; The Toppers, Penns 17. Where the Morning Glories Twine DUNCAN Grove; Potomac Clippers, Washing Around the Door HINES ton, D. C.; Withered 4, Paterson; and 18. The Rose of Tralee two Int'l. Champions, the Elastic 4 19. Down Where the Cotton Blossoms 2042 No. 12 St. and Garden State Quartet. Grow MILWAUKEE, Director H. M. Steinhauser led the 20. The Curse of An Aching Heart WiSCONSIN -'------_._--- Limited suppl~! . recorded album featuring the Flat Foot Four in 1509 BROADWAY DETROIT, MICH. /I The Flat Foot Four Sing Many Old Favorites In Barber Shop Eight Recorded Sides 01 "Sarber Shop Melodies" With a twirl of our handlebar moustache and a meI0 dles· II jaunty tilt to our derby, we proudly offer the re We've a limited stock of this much-wanted album, recorded cord album you all want in your collection. Yes, by the National Barber Shop Quartel Champions of it's "Barber Shop Melodies" by the Flat Foot 1940. Use the coupon below and get your order in early. Four! Eight recorded sides of music from the "good 01' days," including "Old Aunt Dinah, Maggie Blues, Oh Joe. and Annie Laurie. Remember, these Columbia albums are nearly as rare a, 1910 issues of the Police Gazette, prized as a picture of Fritze 'Scheff. So don't delay. Get your order in now. $3.57. plus 50c tax. (add lIe state tax if you live in the State of Michigan) WURLITZER. . the musical department store pi~nos' Of9"ns' dccordions . musicdl instruments· r"dios • records !It.. HARMONIZER 17 COMMITTEE ON DISTRICTS Imaginary Letter to the Editor FORMED as dreamed up by Welsh Pierce lnt'l. Pres. Frank H. Thorne has Dear Carroll: even experts is human and not above appointed a new Int'I. Committee to expressin' their own feelings. Profes deal with District Organization and When we had the bite put on us for sor Reagan puts down for all to see Activities. Maynard L. Graft, of two bits a throw for the Harmonizer a statement that says "The Tenor Cleveland, is Chairman. Serving with I figure they must be somethin' to it, sings in a 800 cycle tone," and then him are C. W. (Shad) Coye, Muske so [ look it over pretty close. And, befol'e anyone can raise the bid he gon; Charles Merrill, Reno; Dick what do you know, right there in the puts in his opinion of us Tenors, which Common, Dayton and Bill Coddington middle is a article by Mollie Reagan, is "Fa." Was I burned up. Who is E:ast Aurora, N. Y. who is a expert with a capital "X," he to "Fa" us Tenors before we even tellin' me just what 1 want to know. get a chance to sneak a falsetto into How to improve and be a better Bar the cyclone which is sure to develop FLAT FOOT FOUR RECORDS bershopper and how to brush up on the way he twists things around! DISCOVERED your SOUI' notes so they won't be quite so. Now, CalToll, I'm not tryin' to belittle Wurlitzer's Detroit store has discovM the expert, but he sure does take a ered a limited supply of the famous Carroll you shoulda been there when lot for granted. Take, for instance, Flat Foot Fom·, 1940 Nat'1. Champs, I tries out this self-help routine. After the line where he says, "As we move albums and announces their avail locking myself in the you-know-what on to the second chord." As WHO ability in this issue. l'oorn, where the acoustics are kind moves on? Far as I can tell every to your web-footed friend, I open to body is still right where we were with The four recordings include: Annie page 26, Vol. VI, No.3. There she the Lead comin' in third with 11,4 Laurie, Old Aunt Dinah, Ride, Tendel' waz all Wl'it down for me, some of it times 400 on the cyclotron. And the foot, Ride; Oh, Joe, Maggie Blues, in words I thought I could understand Baritone, says our expert, has "fifth My Mother's Rosary, Harbor Lights but later 1 finds out, ugh-ugh. It didn't place on the chord and sings 1112 times Yodel, Shine. take very long to find out how the 10udcL' than whoever is 400!" Now there's a allegation for you to chew No collection of quartet recordings piece got its name: "Relative Pitch." can be called adequate if it does not What comes out when you try what on. Fifth place indeed! I guess our include this famous four, right off it says there sounds like the noise expert got so wrapped up in his so their beats in Oklahoma City. Three made by a "relative" when you foldi's he plum' forgot we are sup posed to be talking about Quartets! of them are still on the police force. "pitch" him out on his ear for stayin' See bass Sam Barnes' letter, this too long. Take that first order on 1 could go on, Carroll, about the way issue "With the Int'I. Champions ..." what to do with "Let Me Call You he had me singing "Ladimisol" and and get your Flat Foot l'ecords while Sweetheart." The worst thing you "Rifilado," but you can guess by now they are available. The WUl'litzer ad can do, according to the book, is to the only fun I had in my attempt at gives details. use the right words. The new ones self-improvement was in the making come out something like "Fasolfi 00 of Summertime. I forget how many dido Famire" and no matter how I swallows do make a Summer, but I THREE CHORAL NUMBERS tries, even taking all parts in a quick was definitely way past Springtime breath like Perk does, it always comes The Harmonizer has received copies when I gave up my on-theMjob trainM of The Blue Room (Harms, Inc.) and out sounding like "Abdul Abulbul ing. What finally threw me I think Ameer." And us not cottonin' up to Ida Red and Going Home Train (both was this~"the Baritone sings a 600 Russia right now, either! Witmark) harmonized for male voices. cycle tone on love (which is OK by Blue Room is fol' a-cappela use, the But, says I, one swallow don't make me) and must drop a 583-1/3 note on others include piano accompaniment. no Summer, although one teeny one you" (which is definitely not OK' by They are available through your might make it easier for me to get me. Even if th~ note is in cents I'm music store. into the groove on this cycle business not takin' the rap fo,· $5.83-1/3, I that comes up next. So I downs me don't care who signed it.) a swallow and sure enough pretty So you see, Carroll, why I am no hetM soon I am right in there with the ex tel' than I eVel' was and why 1 haven't "PAGING THE PRESIDENTS" perts with my head goin' round and joined up yet with no Champeen Quar The Conference of Chapter round in a cycle. tet. Maybe when they officially take Presidents and Secretaries will on that fifth Baritone I'll make it. be in the Banquet Room, 5th Under the deluliion that I am a Tenor (a matter long disputed by recal Singpcerely yours, floor, Hotel Schroeder, Sat. morning, June 14, 9:00 to noon. cib'ant contemporaries) I bi-focal EFER IFER Milw.\ukee around to see what it says I should do and find out, for one thing, that P. S. Tell Mollie I'm only kidding. ._-_._-- » DEFIANCE, OHIO MINSTRELS « « MAY, 1947 by Sigmund Spaeth eral books about the Hutchinsons, in~ The chorus is almost too good to be eluding a scholarly treatise by Philip true: D. Jordan called Singin' Yankees. I married the girl of my dreams, old Jesse Hutchinson, of Milford, New pal, Hampshire, had no less than sixteen She's the fairest I have ever seen, children, most of whom grew up to And I'd rather stay at home tonight, be singers. They were known as "the Than to sing for a king and a queen. tribe of Jesse" and mixed their music I remember our quartet would meet OT so long ago this department with strong views on temperance, oft at night N ran a paragraph about John W. abolition and other controversial mat And sing for the parties till nearly Bratton, composer of The Sunshine of ters. daylight, Paradise Alley and other hits, and The most famous quartet in the family But my life's ways were changed for writer of the words for Geoffrey the better, it seems, O'Hara's current One World. Now it consisted of three brothers, Judson, John and Asa, and their sister Abby, I married my sweetheart, the girl of becomes our duty to record the death my dreams. of this grand old man of popular who seems to have been the most musical and certainly the most attrac music. These virtuous sentiments are ex tive of the lot. This may be con pressed in music that is ideally fitted He had reached his eighties before he sidered the first example of feminine for close harmony, so the paradox is died, and he was one of the landmarks interference with a male quartet. inevitable. Anyway, we love the of The Lambs, where he discoursed ladies, particularly when we can sing almost daily on the great figures of The four Hutchinsons toured England about them with plenty of wicked songwl'iting in the past. Bratton was as well as the United States, under swipes and minors. himself an important man in that the management of Jesse, Jr., who picture, one of the founders of the was a better business man than a ICHARD GRANT, Vice-President American Society of Composers, singer. It is hard to tell how good R of the Manhattan Chapter, has a long and honorable record, not only Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) they were, but their harmony obvious ly appealed to an enormous public. as a music teacher and choral direc and famous for both lyrics and music, tOr at Penn State College, in Boston vocal and instrumental. As late as John Hutchinson records the fact that and with the War Department, but 1936 he had a hit song in Sweetheart, "the further they got away from Lon also as composer and arranger of Let's Grow Old Together, and his text don, the better people liked them." male quartets. Three volumes of for One World is a truly inspiring Singable Song8 fo?' Male Voices have poem. Regardless of how or what they sang, been published under his editorship the Hutchinsons definitely paved the by Hall & McCreary, Chicago. John W. Bratton was born in Wil~ way for modern concert tours and pos mington, Delaware, in 1867. He re~ sibly for the barbel"Shop quartet. They Dick has shown exceptional ability in ceived his musical education in Phila~ flourished at the time that minstrel whipping the Manhattan Chorus into delphia, where he became a church shows were popular, and they did al shape with surprisingly few re singer and also took part in light most as well. Many a good song of hearsals, and their showing at a re cent Ladies' Night at the Hotel operas. A baritone, Walter Ford, be· the middle nineteenth century was popularized by this versatile family. Pennsylvania, New York, was a came his first songwriting partner, revelation to the large audience. Dick and it was this team that turned out As for the inclusion of women in Grant knows how to handle communi not only The Sunshine of Pu'rudise quartets, this report cannot be entire ty singing, too. He would make an Alley but I Love You in the Sante Old ly unfavorable. We have lately heard ideal conductor for some of the more Way and many other successes, in~ several excellent female combinations, serious male choruses in the East. eluding an almost forgotten "kid" particularly the Wisconsin Chordettes, song called Only Me. in which King Cole has a family in • terest, and the Sweet Adelines, from THE CANADIANAIRES Alter the death of Ford, Bratton the hot-bed of barbershop harmony, wrote both words and music for his Tulsa, Oklahoma. Incidentally, Joe Windsor Chapter songs, eventually concentrating most Jones has a daughter, Barbara, now lyon the former. His material was singing solos with Phil Spitalny's All performed by such stars as Frank Girl Orchestra. Her deep, mellow Daniels, Edna May, George Gl'ossmith, tones would be a help to any male Adele Ritchie, May Irwin and Fran trio, not to speak of the improvement cis Wilson. He was responsible for in appearance. a number of complete shows and also HE feminine problem is discussed made a career as a manager on Broad T also in a song called J Married the way. The name of John W. Bratton Girl of my Dl'eams, by Richard HEarl" .will remain high up on the roster of Hammonds (Nordyke Music Publica the Old Songsters. tions, Hollywood), featured by the Maple City Four. The composer's ANDY BROWN, International Di point of view is a bit disturbing to S rector and a leading spirit in the those who consider barbershop harp Manhattan Chapter, of which he was mony the best possible excuse for an the first Vice-President, sends in a occasional evening with the boys. review of the book, Harps in the After a glowing description of a In their "barber aprons" are bring Wind, by Carol Brink, dealing with typical barbershop quartet, in waltz ing a lot of joy and encouragement to the singing Hutchinson family, which time, Hammonds allows his hero to such groups as hospitalized veterans. first gave our country vocal harmony accordini to the Windsor Star. L. to turn down the gang (Jake, Oscar and R.-Harold Podvin, Harold Deadman. in a big way. Actually there are sev Gus) when a stag party is mentioned. Earl Wood. Syd Straw. 91.e HARMONIZER 19 O'GRADY." Jerome, in later years, ventured into the music publishing business, and with George M. Cohan published "OVER THERE" . . . ~ grand 'Story Behind The Song' itself. Jean Schwartz was born in Budapest. His sister, a brilliant musician and a pupil of Franz Liszt, taught him everything he knew about music. The Schwartz family emigrated to New York at the beginning of the Gay Nineties, and eventually his great love for music drew him to the publishing By Walter Karl, Cleveland, "who doesn't like that nauseous word" either. Karl business. Shortly after his introduc is bass of the Lamplighters. tion to Tin Pan Alley, he met Jel'ome, ACHIEVEMENT COMMITTEE'S "CHINATOWN, MY CHINATOWN" who was one of the most popular lyric writers of the day. Their first col METHODS The Story Behind the Song on the laboration was HWHEN MR. SHAKE In the past Achievement Award cer Cover· SPEARE COMES TO TOWN." It tificates have been based on quarterly reports alone. This year the commit· By Ted Livingston, See., was an overnight success and marked tee is canvassing the International Manhattan (N. Y.) Chapter the beginning of an association which Board and District Officers, in addi The covel' of this issue features an lasted for more than fifteen years. tion to studying the reports. other perennial favorite. The barber Schwartz later married Rozika, one Here's what they look for. shop arrangement of "CHINATOWN, of the famous Dolly Sisters. By 1923, MY CHINATOWN," arranged by he decided to retire to California to Achievements for Community Benefit 'Molly' Reagan, is in "Barbershop How many free shows have been Classics," published by Remick Music live, but soon came back to Broadway. given - to hospitals - for the Corp. Jerome died in New York, June 25, benefit of charity drives? 1932, and Schwartz returned to Holly How much has been collected When "CHINATOWN, MY CHINA from shows and donated to TOWN" was introduced in the musi wood to stay, however not in l'etire charity? cal comedy, "UP AND DOW N ment. He is one of the few living How many other appearances BROADWAY" in 1910, which fea song writers who has written tunes have been made? tured Eddie Fay, Marie Dressler was from Cake Walk Days through to the Achievements for SPEBSQSA a popular Broadway comedienne star Boogie Woogie Craze-almost fifty How many new chapters have ring in "TILLIE'S NIGHTMARE." years of writing the songs which keep been sponsored? America was singing Straus' "CHOC America singing. How many joint meetings have OLATE SOLDIER" melodies, along been held with other chapters? with songs like "A PERFECT DAY," How many quartets have been "AH, SWEET MYSTERY OF LIFE," sent to outside parades? "ALL ABOARD FOR BLANKET Has the chapter sponsored a dis BAY," "CALL ME UP SOME RAINY trict contest, or an International AFTERNOON," "COME, JOSEPH Board meeting? INE, IN MY FLYING MACHINE," Has the chapter given the organ ization good publicity? How "GEE BUT IT'S GREAT TO MEET much newspaper space? Radio A FRIEND FROM YOUR HOME time? TOWN," "LET ME CALL YOU SWEETHEART," "MOTHER MA Achievements for Chapter Benefit MOIOH.8I8 How many new quartets have CHREE," "ON MOBILE BAY/' "PUT .."'88ENGEH8 YOUR ARMS AROUND ME, HON been organized? DAIL Y SERVICE Does the chapter maintain an ac EY" "SOME OF THESE DAYS"-a tive schedule of affairs? Ladies golden age of American music. MILWAUKEE - MUSKEGON nights? Cabarets? Picnics? Boat Rides? The writers, William Jerome and s.s. M.lZWAVKEE Has a Parade been held? Jean Schwartz, wrote many songs What per c en t attendance at which have become milestones in American songlore. When you recall CLIPPER! meetings? SAVE 240 If your chapter is small, don't despair hits of yesterday and remember -the chapters are divided into four "CHINATOWN, MY CHINATOWN," DRIVING MILES "BEDELIA," "HELLO, CENTRAL, groups, depending on population. So, For In/ormotion arid Resen'ot/ons you're competing only with chapters GIVE ME NO MAN'S LAND," comparable to your own. "ROCK-A-BYE YOUR BABY WITH DETROIT· Che"y 3095 The 1946-47 committee is Ed Smith A DIXIE MELODY," "MY IRISH 1227 Washington Blvd. (Wayne), Monty Marsden (Detroit), MOLLY 0," "ROW, ROW, ROW," GRAND RAPIDS 9·3470 Guy Stoppert (Flint), Art Merrill "HELLO, HAW A I I, HOW ARE 107 Lyon Street, N, W. (Schenectady), Chrm. YOU," "WHERE THE RED, RED MUSKEGON 26-693 EXTENSION BOOKLET REVISED ROSES GROW," and some thousand "The Mart" or more others, you begin to under MINNEAPOLIS The "'SPEBSQSA extension booklet stand Jerome and Schwartz' claim to 722 Second Ave" Sout.h titled,~'How to Organize a Chapter fame. of SP~BSQSA in Your Community" CHICAGO· STAte 9839 has been brought up to date and re Billy Jerome was born in Cornwall, 132 West Monroe Street. printed. 'fhis little 8-page, 3lhx8" New York, and studied law before he The £L.....EH Line booklet contains everything a would became known as a minstrel show General Offices be Chapter organi7.er needs to know singer-a favorite at Tony Pastor's. 350 N. Plankinton Ave., Milwaukee, Wis. from the price of Membership Pocket His wife, Maude Nugent, was a popu Cards to information on how to con lar perfol'mer in her own right, and duct the preliminary meeting. the w r i t e r of "SWEET ROSIE MAY, 1947 20 fJ71u HARMONIZER WITH THE INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONS "Once a Champion Always a Champion" The Bartlesville Barflies, '39 The Flatfoot Four, '40 The Chordbusters, '41 Bartlesville. Okla. Oklahoma City, Okla. Tulsa, Okla. The Elastic Four, '42 The Four Harmonizers, '43 The Harmony Halls, '44 Chicago, Ill. Chicago, Ill. Grand Rapids, Mich. The Misfits, '45 The Garden State, '46 Chicago, m. Jersey City, N. J. Each member serves the Society in work as a Beat Patrolman in Capitol lead a few songs while Percy took the his own way. We need organizers, Hill and am on different shifts each tenor and I the baritone. We suspect chorus people and administrators, month. Red works from 4 o'clock un ed we had a couple of new members in among others, as well as singers. But til 12. Britt attends Club meetings the making 50 I sent him some litera no single contribution quite equals regularly and sings either with I'The ture of the Society and, he being from that of the quartet which has worked Boresome FOUl'some" or as a Solo. . .. New York, sent him a list of chapters its way through the crowd to top posi Since Johnnie Whalen's death we have in that state." tion. "Worked" is the word. There tried several times to find a Tenor, fore the doings, views, plans of our but have had no success." A song titled Saddle and Ride was "International Gallery" always make '" * '" sent the Harmonizers by Governor interesting news. This news will be From Int'I. Pres. Frank H. Thorne, Roy Turner of Oklahoma (written a regular Harmonizer feature, if we comes a glimpse of what goes on when and composed by him) which they can get enough of the champs to champions are singing. His revelation sang for him when in Oklahoma City, "talk" for each issue. is comparable to what we'd know if April 19th and 20th, we'd ever find out what the catcher • says to the pitcher when he calls "The Harmonizers were working a Herman Kaiser, pleasant company, "time" and walks out to the mound. Hotel date one evening and preceding gentleman always and llsweet" bass of Here's the strictly Inside Dope: their stint was a girl trio of musi the first recognized national cham "When the Elastic Four sing, 'By the cians. Schwab spoke up and said to pions reports: Mill,' Doyle is liable to ask me most Leo, Huck and Fred: 'That's a beauti anything but some how or other we ful number they are playing, what is HBarfiies Make Third Final Appear hold our voices in the pitch so we can it?' A burst of laughter and the un ance-Immediately after the Nationa.l called for remark: IYou Dope that's Contest in Grand Rapids in June all get started together. However, in Bar~ a Saginaw, Michigan show, Jim con Melancholy Baby they're playing and 1942, Durand the baritone for the we've been singing it for three years flies went to the army so the quartet fidentially fixed it up with Struble and at the time fOl' the break turned to now.' My retort was that if we'd just ceased operations. He returned in the him and said, 'Is my father in your once sing a song as it is written may Spring of 1946 and the quartet was saloon?' To our consternation Her be I and a lot of other people would promptly invited to sing on the big man responded, out of pitch, in a deep recognize it when we sing it." Parade in Oklahoma City. They ac bass, 1get away from them swinging cepted with the idea that they would doors! Roy (lead Frisby) looked from make their final appearance, because Writes E. V. (Cy) Perkins for the McCaslin and Hall were quite busy in one to the other, took a deep breath Misfits (not that the other three can't the Flying "L" Ranch quartet an and started out, and to our amaze· write): II One of the pleasantest en organization gaining rapidly in' na ment, we were right back in pitch. gagements we ever had was when we tional popularity. Soon afterward Anxious moments!" were privileged to present a program there was to be a Parade in their own • • • to underprivileged children at an home town of Bartlesville which was From Charlie Schwab, Tenor of Omaha institution, Jan. 18, this year. being promoted by the local Junior Chicago Four Harmonizers: How those kids did enjoy the show! Chamber of Commerce and, of COUI'se, "After the show at Kansas City, Per And of course that made it a com they would have to appeal' on such a cy Frank; and I were waiting to board plete success from our standpoint.... program, so they made another final our plane for Chicago, we were appearance. On March 15, 1947, their stal·tled when our captain and co Singing on a television broadcast is a services were again demanded by the pilot came over to us and said: 'You thrill the Misfits have enjoyed on 4 Bartlesville J. C. C. organization in boys will have to come up front and occasions. Working under bright, and their Annual Parade, so they made sing a few songs with us.' When I exceedingly hot lights, is not the their Third Final appearance on that asked him how he knew we were bar· easiest assignment, but it's a great date. In spite of all their inactivity bel'shoppers he replied that he saw thrill to have someone stop you on the some of their most severe critics ad street later and say IWhat da you the show the nite previous and loved know! I heard your broadcast the mitted that they could still produce a it. Once up in the air we held the pretty fair type of harmony." captain to his promise and had him (Comi11ued OfJ Pa!,' 21) May the Barflies make several "final" appearances each year fOl' many years to come ... Ed. "PASS THE BISCUITS" • • • From good old Sam Barnes, the orig inal HOh Joe" himself, comes news about the Flatfoot Four: "~t this time, we are all enjoying good health, and keeping busy at our respective jobs: Britt and I are on the Oklahoma City Police Force, and Red Elliott is Night Jailer at the Ok lahoma County Jail, Oklahoma City. It is difficult for us to get together anymore, as we all work different shifts. Britt works in the Traffic De partment and is on- the day shift. I The &Lutic Four burning Miraody's biscuits to a crisp, MAY, 1947 VERNON ASHBY, lead BILL HENN, tenor JIM LESLIE, bari LEE FLEMING, bas.' THE ongfellows EVANSVILLE, INDIANA THIRD PLACE ... INDIANA CONTEST 1945 FINALISTS ... INTERNATIONAL CONTEST DETROIT - 1945 SECOND PLACE ... INDIANA CONTEST ... 1946 FINALISTS ... INTERNATIONAL CONTEST ... CLEVELAND - 1946 1947 CHAMPIONS OF !NDIANA-KENTUCK y DISTRICT THIS SPACE PROVIDED FOR BY A GROUP OF WELL-wISHERS f31u. HARMONIZER PIONEER RECORDING QUARTETS - THE CRITERION QUARTET With Int'l. Champions By G. H. ("Curly") Crossett, Flint Chopter (eM/inNed from Page 20) The "Criterion Quartet," like the that they sang "Ole' Uncle Moon," other night, and I saw you as well, American and the Columbia Stellar, "Will There Be Any Stars In My ... As many barbershoppers know, won a tremendous following through Crown"-"When the Corn is Waving, we sometimes wear red, white and the sale of their phonograph record:; Annie Dear"-"Adeste Fidelis"-HMy blue ties that snap-on to OUl' collars, which were always of the highest We were quite proud of those ties un quality-something unusual; for most til the evening of Oct. 26, '46 when recOl'ding quartets made a "bad one" in the middle of a program at Madi now and then. As far as I have been son, Wis., Pete Buckley reached for a able to determine, there are no surviv low one, and one side of his tie slipped ing members of this once famous off and spun 'round like a top. We've quartet. But, like most of the other wondered since whether the applause Pioneer Record Artists, their records was entirely because of our singing. remain, which is a lucky break for Warning All Quartets-If you can't posterity and lovers of barbershop stand up under a bUl"st of laughter harmony. you'll do well to tie your own ties.... Only recently, my good friend, Bill And this could happen only to the Misfits, during a show in Chicago, McKenna of Jersey City sent me an April 2, this year. During the School obituary notice on the passing of Al Days act, Pickle·Puss-Perkins was bert C. Campbell, one of the original skipping the rope when he approached members of the famous "Peerless Quartet." Mr. Campbell was the last too closely to the edge of the platform surviving member of that unforgetta and skipped himself off the platform, ble singing organization which was which fortunately was only a foot organized by Frank C. Stanley many high, so Pickle-Puss skipped right years ago. But to get back to our back with everybody applauding, story-I recall, with unbounded de· (what they thought was) a planned light the rendition of that Barber stunt in the act. Anything can hap Shop Ballad "Lucky Jim" by the pen to the Misfits." "Criterion" on the Edison disc record. It was a veritable gem, and contained • !>ome of the sweetest harmony I ever And thus ends the first installment heard. How they could sing! Another CRITERION QUARTET from our biggest ball-carriers. More song that they sang to perfection was L. to R.-Horatio Ren(h. lead; Geo. in August. W. Reardon, bari (standing-rear); Paul Dresser's masterpiece, "My Gal, John Young, tenor; Donald Chalmers, Sal." The "Criterion Quartet" simply bass. Young also sang under the took poor old HSal" apart and put her name of Harry Anthony. and was tenor of the Knickerbocker quanet. The Chapter Reference Manual should back together in the most pleasing be the Bible of all Chapter officers. way imaginable; piece by piece, like Wild Irish Rose"-"Wayside Cross" a strip tease disrobing, only the thrill "Dixie"-liOld Time Religion"-"Ken you got from it was much greater at tucky Babe," and many others. the finish! Anyway, us old geezers that like our barbershop harmony Time marches on-but I hope that think so! each of you who reads this, will do LABOR DAY his or her part to help keep the names The good old "Criterion" mixed 'em of these wonderful old quartets ever POW.WOW up-that is, they sang comic songs, fresh in the minds of all, for though sentimental, sacred, or what have you, they are gone, they did much to Aug. 30, 31 and Sept, 1 and no matter what type they har-. brighten the lives of many with their monized, it was sure to be cleverly songs of barbershop harmony, and done. Without half trying, I recall their names must not be forgotten. CHARL~VOIX NEW HAVEN, CONN., CHAPTER CHORUS The Beautiful MIC~IGAN /Hllke your own reservations tlO'W -at- CABINS, STROUD'S BANCROFT'S FOSTER'S McLAIN'S BOSS HOTELS, LAKE VIEW CHARLEVOIX This great chorus sings under the names of First Row, L. to R.-Edward Cappatl, Walter MicVety, Frank Alfano, Robert ·Bamberg. Julius Frainzman, Joseph Sroka, BARTLE"IT HOUSE Harold Becker, Pres. George Kelley, Roy Tower, Paul E. Miller, Charles Bristol, HALLETT Arthur Johmon. Middlt Row, L. to R.- Albert Dickiman, James Sullivan, John GRAY GABLES Damato, Nicholos Quatrono. Oliver Jermine, Edward Chapman, David Chapman, Frank Chamber of Commerce If necessary Pauly, Harold Lynch, James Powers, Ni(holos Cirie, James Denimons. Ba(k Row, L. to R.-Erie Cramer, Carl Koch, Ferdinand H~sse, John Perrelli, Joseph Chapman, George Bamberg, Paul H. Miller. Jack Emerson. MAY, 1947 ==CHAPTER== PtflJflntJ II A NIGHT OF HARMONyll SATURDAY, MAY 31st » » SYRIA MOSQUE - 8:30 P. M. • MISFITS (Chicago) 1946 Int'/. 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(Genesee) Quartet Parade May 17 Wilmington, Delaware Quartet Parade May 17 Iron Mountain, Michigan Charter Night May 18 Joplin, Missouri Sectional Preliminary May 18 Hammond, Indiana Quartet Parade Charter ight & Quartet May 21 Elgin, Illinois Parade May 23 Gowanda, New York Charter Night May 23 Newark, New Jersey District Board Meeting May 23 Brazil, Indiana l\'tinstrel and Parade May 24 Greenville, Michigan Quartet Parade May 24 Marlboro, Massachusetts Charter Night May 24 Michigan Association Annual Meeting May 25 Rushville, Illinois Quartet Parade May 31 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Qual·tet Parade May 31 Port Angeles, Washington Charter Night May 31 Wallaceburg, Onto Ladies Night Quartet Parade June 7 Terryville, Connecticut (to be held in Bristol) June 8 Barrington, Illinois Quartet Parade June 12.13-14 Milwaukee, Wisconsin Convention Central States Assoc., Annual 'Meeting July 12-13 (Eldon, Mo.) Wisconsin District Summer Meeting July 20 (Oshkosh) June 28 Miami Valley (0.) Chapters Quartet Parade AUI(. 30-31 & Sel'l. 1 Charlevoix, Michigan Lauol' Day \Veek-end Party September 13 Binghamton·John:5on City, Quartet Parade New York September 13 Holyoke, Massachusetts Qual·tet Parade September 20 Beaver Dam, Wisconsin Quartet Parade September 20 Olean, ew York Quartet Parade September 20 Elkhart, Indiana Quartet Parade The perfect harmony of huly September 27 Hornell, New York Quartet Parade October 4 Northampton, Mass. Quartet Parade fine ingredients and old-time October 11 Hamilton, Ontario District Contest master brewing skill, blend to October 11 St. Louis, Mo. Quartet Parade create one grand note of enjoy October 11 Adrian, Michigan Quartet Parade October] 1 Mishawaka, Indiana Quartet Parade ment ... the famous Kingsbury October 18 Berea, Ohio Quartet.. Parade flavor that has long made the October 18 Mt. Pleasant, Mich. Quartet Parade "Aristocnt of Beer" an out October 18 Middletown, Ohio Quartet Parade October 18 Cortland, New York Quartet Parade standing favorite from October 19 Monmouth, Illinois Quartet Parade coast to coast· October 24 'Washington, D. C. Harvest of Harmony October 25 Lansing, Michigan Cavalcade of Quartets October 25 Lorain, Ohio Quartet Pal'8de No\'cmber 1 Flint, Michigan Quartet Parade * November 1 Detroit, Michigan Quartet Parade November 1 Muncie, Indiana Quartet Parade November 2 Dixon, Illinois Concert November 7 Chicago, Illinois Quartet Parade November 8 Midland, Michigan Quartet Parade Novembej· 8 Topeka, Kansas District Contest November 16 Buffalo, New York Quartet Parade November 15 Paterson, New Jersey Quartet Parade November 22 Louisville, Kentucky Quartet Parade December 6 Bay City, Mich. (tentative) Quartet Parade December 6 Pontiac, Michigan Quartet Parade KINQSBURY BREWERIES CO. December 13 Evansville, Indiana Quartet Parade Mlllitowoe & Sholtoyp. . WllOIlllln January 31, '48 Cleveland, Ohio Quartet Parade MAY, 1947 81t. HARMONIZER ------~------ BROKEN PEN OR ARM? An Open Letter to Secretaries In my position as Secretary of the Central States Ass'n. of Chapters I cannot help observe the many, many unnecessary letters that the Int'!. Office must write as follow-ups to CLEVELAND RAMBLERS members, some of whom are chapter Black light on a secretaries. 1 marvel at the patience blacked out Slagc was of Carroll Adams and Bill Otto. utilized to give startling In any fraternal organization COUT· luminous color effects tesy is one of the strongest bonds, by Al Stewart. tenor; and the least a member can do is to Geo. v, Cripps, lead; reply promptly, or acknowledge let Leon Miller, bad; and ters where matters must wait for Lou Dusenbury, bass. ;'!t board or membership action. Cleveland's Feb. 15 Fa· The new secretaries and officers rade. elected during April have a l'esponsi bility to chapter and Society, and the prompt handling of correspondence and Quarterly Reports is important, and "close harmony." H. T. White, Kansas City. COLLEGES NEED CHAPTERS A CHORUS MEMBERSHIP Our colleges are full of men who love barbershop. They should be in our organization. We should have active PROVES A POINT! chapters in each large university in this country. Last March 30th, at Rock Island, Illinois, I witnessed an If you are near a large college, and have contacts, send the facts to a event that proved conclusively the need for more chapter member of our College Chapter Com chorus organizations. Four boys who call themselves the mittee: J. E. (Joe) Stern, 311 R. A. Long "Big Towners" won the annual state quartet contest. As Building, Kansas City. members of Frank Thorne's great Chicago Chorus, they R. L. (Bob) Irvine, 914 Jackson Ave., River Forest, Ill. received their basic training as chorus men. They had W. W. (Bill) Holcombe, 869 Broad never met before ... in fact, never sang in a quartet prior way, Paterson, N. J. A. A. (Art) Merrill, 1567 King.ton to their chorus start. Ave., Schenectady 8, N. Y. (chairman). While it is true that our Society was founded to "En courage and Preserve Quartet Singing:' good chorus WISCONSIN GOVERNOR IS A training does that very thing. Good blend, harmony, ar MEMBER rangement, voice expression and stage presence are As a result of the death of the gov absolutely necessary for good quartet singing. But a ernor, Lieutenant Governor Renne bohm, a member of Green Bay Chap~ chorus takes the "wallflower:' that same guy who is the tel', recently stepped into the chief foundation of our Society, and unconsciously gives him executive's position. Harmony should reign henceforth in the Badger state an opportunity to express his hidden talents. It encour· as it certainly did in Green Bay Feb ages him in better quartet singing and in greater appre ruary 15th when the chapter pre sented its 2nd Harmony Jubilee. The ciation of his fellow man so necessary in this Atomic Age. show was as smooth as the cover of the program. Thanks, Malt Hannon, Dr. Higgins, Tommy Green and Hint to program builders--consider Stan Yearsley ... The Big Towners ... lor proving a point, using Kromekote Cover stock for your program. The 3 color lhat chorus participation pays dividends. SPEBSQSA emblem shines forth like a million dollars on that glossy sur· H. M. "Hank" Stanley face. And if you want to see a beau tifully planned program with a wealth of swell material about SPEBSQSA get hold of a copy of the Green Bay program. KLING BROS • ENGINEERING WORKS "DECLARED OUT" IN ERROR 1320 N KOSTNER AVE. CHICAGO 5', ILL., U. S. A. We regret that the name of the MANUFACTURERS OF Springfield, Mass. chapter was Combination Sheaf, Punch and Capers; Rotary. Bar omitted from the Northeastern ond Angle Shears; Single and Double End Punches; Plale. Angle. Bar Benders, High Speed Friction Saws District full page ad in Feb. and Grinders i.sue.-Editor. MAY, 1947 !!It.. HARMONIZER DIRECTORY OF 11 DISTRICTS Showing limits 0/ those districts which This window 'include more than one state. stopped Terre CENTRAL·WESTERN NEW YORK Haute-but ILLINOIS not from INDIANA·KENTUCKY MICHIGAN attending OHIO the Parade ONTARIO. CANADA WISCON IN CENTRAL STATES BARBERSHOP HARMONIES DELIGHT tees had prepared well. How could Eastern Colorado an audience lose with the Clef Iowa TORONTO AUDIENCE Dwellers, Detroit; Melo-tones, Buf Kansas Toronto had its first real taste of bar falo; \Vestinghouse Quartet, Pitts ~rshop harmony on March I, at Mas burgh; Queen Cit}' Four, Toronto; Missouri sey :\fusic Hall. The occasion, the Hi-Los, Milwaukee; The Four Gentle ebraska local chapter's first Parade. The re men, Toronto; The Four Aces, Lon Oklahoma sponse "terrific," according to a De don; Doctors at Harmony, Elkhart; Texas troiter who went to see how they do Cowling Bros., Toronto; the Lamp these things in our Sister Country. lighters, Cleveland, and community MID·ATLANTIC STATES lilt was the greatest outpouring of singing led by Ca.pt. !lot. Plunket, who spontaneity I have ever seen," he says. emceed. Delaware "Only on rare occasions was the audi District of Columbia ence willing to wait until the last Eastern Pennsylvania notes of the final chol'd died out. Sev Great.er New York area ~ral times the applause started several chords before the end-and it wasn't Maryland bad manners-it was just sheer enjoy New Jersey ment." In which t.he musie eritics of NORTHEASTERN the Toronto papers joined. See sev eral of their comments in flI See by N. E. portion of N. Y. State the Papers," this issue. Connecticut President Alfred Neale, his co-chair Maine man A. H. Cowling and their commit- Massachusetts New Bl'unswick, Canud8. New Hampshire H Rhode Island T E Vel'mont FAR WESTERN * * Arizona E C California evada L I Oregon Washington August issue will carry names and A T addresses of district presidents and secretaries ejected in Ma~" S CAESAR HAD HIS BRUTUS CROSBY HAD HIS DAY 4 Quartet lItrouble" on the Jack Benny weekly half hour reached its peak SIX NEW RECORDS when, in "desperation", ~farch 16, EACH BOOK OF" 3 RECORDS - 54.85 ••. BOTH BOOKS - S9.70 he presented Dennis Day, Dick - (Shlpped E&pre8IJ Cbra:e. CeLlect) Haynes, Andy Russell and Bing Crosby. For the first time in history Book No. II Book No. III this aggregation started, approxi Pass the Biscuits Mirandy We Th.ree mately together, skidded around the That's an Irish Lullaby Wait For Me Mary I Hope to Die first turn, and then Crosby "stumbled Way Down South on a high note and nearly broke up Darkness on the Delta the show by ad-libbing loudly "Who Sidewalks of New York I Get The Blues When It Rains: the hell picked this key, Dennis Sweet Rosie O'Grady For Me and l\b Gal Day?lI, according to News Week. Coney Island Bab)' Maybe And did that sound natural to barber shopper listeners all over the coun· Distributed by S. P. E. B. S. O. S. A.. Inc. try! "Only a barbershopper", says Jim Knipe of Cleveland, "can appre CARROLL P. ADAMS, I11t/. Secy. ciate the anguish of soul that ex SEND ORDERS TO- { 18270 Grand River Ave. ploded those ill-timed words into the Detroit 23, Mich. living rooms and nurseries of the MAKE CHECKS PAVABLE TO SPEBSQSA, INC. land". MAY, 1947 28 ,o/,u HARMONIZER HUSTLING HUTCHINSON, KANS. BARRINGTON, ILL. CHARTERED, OKLAHOMA CITY PARADE AND It is likely that Hutchinson, Kans. FOX RIVER VALLEY SPONSORSH IP RANCH FROLIC will soon lay claim to being the Sing On Feb. 28, Fox River Valleyites Grady Musgrave, Pres. and Gen. ingest Town, based on a membership "went over the hill" to Barrington's Chairman of Oklahoma City's Parade, of 145 (Feb.) most of whom are Ranch Barbecue, and Frolic, April 19 regularly active. The chapter is do Counh'y Club for charter presentation night. Al Strahle of the sponsoring 20 reports: "The greatest Quartet Pa ing so well that the Free Press prac· rade of the year. 5,000 present. George tically gave the Feb. 13 issue to pro chapter emceed the atfair which in W. Campbell led community singing. motion of the Elks Minstrel Show, cluded chorus work by both chapter The quartets on stage were Misfits, heavily s a I ted this year with choruses, three quartets from Fox Foul' Harmonizers, Harmony Halls, SPEBSQSA talent and quartets, as River and a Barrington four. Lany Chol'dettes, Flying "L" Ranch, Song "the greatest show of the year." The Favoright, lllinois Association secre· fellows, Chordbusters, Kansas City issue had everything from funda tary, presented an engraved gavel to Serenaders, and McPhee Three. After mental aims of our Society, through glow was held at the Biltmore Hotel. news of the organization and its local Pres. Carl Easterberg of the newly chartered chapter. "All singel's and their friends went to history to a half page cartoon fea· Flying "L" Ranch and Gov. Roy J. turing the Officers Quartet which in Turner's ranch at 8 :30 a. m., 20th. cludes Paul Goodman referred to as About 1,000 in all. "the power-behind-the throne," John • Payne, Chorus Dil'., Juco 4, Coca Cola "Had visitors from 27 states at the 4, Lost Chords, Mellon-Aires, Tune The Chapter Reference Manual should Parade. All had a wonderful time. Twisters, and the Salt City 4. be the Bible of all Chapter officers. Biltmore Hotel had quartets in every corner singing from Friday night to Sunday night. Hundreds of pounds of barbecue meat consumed. Looking • forward to Oklahoma City getting the MARVIN LEE SAYS ••• WE CAN LEARN A LOT FROM 1948 International Convention." ThejollO'i.('itlf?, SO'llgs are i/1 Public ENDICOTT Compressed into this telegl'aphic re port are the highlights of an occasion D(lIlIoi'1l atld yGll may use them Not only SPEB'ers but also industrial concerns that dominate small towns that is becoming one of the famous otl;n.vhere, anytime, afl)'way. annual events of the southwest. Any can learn from Endicott, N. Y. Co barbershoppers who have attended a operation is the answer. International typical Parade need not draw heavily DEEP RIVER Business Machine and Endicott-John upon imagination t.o fill in a hundred son Shoe Co. are the major industries details of such an event when 5,000 DREAMING in the 16,000 pop. city. When a worth guests attend a SPEB affair and 1,000 FOR HE'S A JOLLY GOOD while local project, like barbershop singers turn out to enjoy the hospital singing, comes along IBM and E-J ity of Bill Likins, owner of Flying FELLOW give it moral and physical support. "L" Ranch and Roy Turner, his neigh HOME ON THE RANGE bor. Both al'e died-in-the-wool barber· That's partly why the lineup of guest shoppers. MAN ON THE FLYING quartets at the Endicott Chapter Show, March 22nd, reads like a Who's TRAPEZE Who in bilrbershopping - Gar den OH PROMISE ME State, Misfits, Westinghouse, New York Police, New Haven's Four PREACHER AND THE BEAR Naturals, along with the Waltones, SHORTENIN' BREAD Seven Valley 4, Four Sharps, Try-Cy * Synchronizers, Velvatones, Garfield 4 Fraternal Order of STAR SPANGLED BANNER and Withered FOUl' (N..1.), and the YOU TELL ME YOUR Harmoneers. Getting that gang to DREAM, I'LL TELL gether means a sizable "nut," but with EAGLES low fixed expenses because, for ex YOU MINE ample, IBM furnished gratis sound equipment and engineers of the new New Milwaukee Aerie No. 0137 ===.__ .~~= est and best, the operation ended up in the black. What's left goes to a Ten Public Domain Song Titles local project for helping handicapped Extends will be listed in each fu ture people to become self supporting. The issue of the HARMONIZER. "moral" support mentioned included its best wishes attendance at all functions-dinner, show, Afterglow and Morning Glow .. Keep These Lists For Reference by the Johnson brothers and V-P Kirk to the of IBM, and other executives. 1nternational Convention of the TELL CITY Societyfor the Preservation HARMONIZES and Encouragement of Is it "Tell Me You'lI Forgive Barber Shop Quartet Me" this lively Hoosier group is giving out? Small Singing in America, town. but Big Times for All. 1ncorporated Tell City News photo. * MAY, 1947 BALTIMORE CHAPTER NO. I e~ukiu ITS AMBASSADORS of HARMONY 1947 MID ATLANTIC STATES CHAMPIONS HARMONEERSQUARTET J. George Gumtner, Tenor; William V. Bogy, Lead; John C. Be1l, Bass; (seated) Robert MacEnery, Baritone 1945 - 3rd Plttce Winners - Bastem Sectiollal Preliminary - New York * * 1946 - [lltemettional Semi-Fillet/ists - Cleveland, Ohio * * ------.~. ------ It is the constant aim of our chapter to further the advancement of our Society's ideals and principles ------.~.------ AND TO KEEP AMERICA SINGING HOWARD PEACOCK, President _0_ ROBERT MacENERY, Secretary gt.e HARMONIZER regularly. Maybe the facts will lead • somewhere ... but where? And why Why IS a Baritone? should you? A S64, Question Answered Here My own research department bogged Nationwide (unbiased) continuous SPEBSQSA. 1 just happen to know down in determining Why is a Bari rel:iearch over the past 9 years proves them better. tone. So I've arrived at the inde that, out of every 100 male children pendent conclusion that each one of "Baris I Hat·e K11oun" born, 39.1 grow up to become basses, the harmony hounds mentioned was Some of them sing awful, as that droppE:'d on cement when he was a 13.28 become those gifted people able prominent bari Owen Cash says, but baby. The trouble with me-I wasn't to sing baritone harmony, 43.04 de· where can you find an equal number dropped far enough or often enough. velop into leads, while a bare (and of basses, leads or tenors that can Deac I do mean bare) 4.59 newborn in project ideas about harmony to three fants can be expected to become real others, or to another quartet, as can barbershop tenors. Just how those Maurice Reagan of Pittsburgh, Cy Fishing for FISH is FI/fl. (ractions crept into the study is be Perkins of Chicago, Don Webster of Fishing for CHORDS may bl! FUfl. )'ond my slipstick, though it's prob Cleveland; Phil Embury of ¥larsaw -BUT (N. Y. not Poland), Bob Shreves of GETTING CHORDS QUICKLY AND able that somebodY in the statistical SURELY WITH THE POCKET-HANDY department sharped or flatted some· Clayton (Mo.), Paul Crane of Lake wood (0.), and Ray Hall of Grand KOCHORD WHE£1 where along the line. Furthermore. is the most fun of all I don't see any place in the figures Rapids, everyone of them a bari known to be able and ready at any Here they are-all of them. Simply move indi· for the babies that grow up to be hour of the 24. And I include Frank cators to get ANY CHORD in ANY PITCH crows. But far be it from me to Dragoo (deceased) of the old Har question statistics. This is just a re mony Kings, Springfield, 111. 3.3.)·) d,",,,,.thed K.~nlh port on the findings of my betters, C.4·4 ...... nl~d Mlh 4·3·3·2 M"tn,h and it deals entirely with (L. to R.) Each has his own method. Perkins 4·3·5 _101 the No. 2 man, the bari. I do wish yips like a wirehaire-d, "Hey! you're the fractionating statisticians had put wrong. That's sour. Take it this him where he regularly appears in way." Reagan gently suggests, "Now No.3 spot. But statisticians are al let's try it like this". Suum cuique to each his own, as the sign over ways over their heads when counting Jake 'Worth's bar in Boston used to beyond two. say, but any and all of those baris "Baris Bom That Way" get results. Most si.gnificant is the fact that, out If I listed all the good harmonists, of 528 baritones interviewed, 501 said in addition to baris, that I know in the they were born that way, while the Society this page wouldn't hold them. others admitted to singing tenor for For example, and just to prove that a few years after their voices I'm not hepped on baris but have dis changed, until they found peace along covered something about them, there's side the bass. }I·urther research de Lou Dusenbury of Cleveland, Pres. veloped the fact that the 501 were Frank Thorne, Chicago, and Charle:y practically normal children, only 16 Merrill of Reno, aU basses and with being rated as incorrigible by par ideas about harmony. They can even ents and truant officers, and of these sing. But the last two are not real ,(od.o CWe- (BOB, BERNIE, HAP and AL), look back over our four years of association with SPEBSQSA and consider oursel ves privileged beyond words to be mem bers of this fine organization. To thousands of swell guys and gals in many a city and hamlet who encouraged us as neophytes and seem to enjoy our harmonies, we say "SEE YOU IN MILWAUKEE" "~ut Wiebersebn! ': THE TOM CATS ===='OF MASSILLON, OHIO==== 1947 OHIO CHAMPIONS Standing L to R: Bernie Harmelink. lead; Bob Smith, tenor; Al Gretzinger, bass Seared:- "Hap" Goudy, bad *======THE TOM CATS ======THE TOM CATS ======* ,..------ WINNERS AND RUNNERS-UP IN DISTRICT CONTESTS TOP LEFT-lst-Illinois-Big Towners, CENTER LEFT - 2nd - Michigan - Clef BOTTOM LEFT-lst-Indiana-Ky.-Song Chicago. L. to R-Dr. Leonard }. Higgins, Dwellers, Oakland County. L. to R.-Dick fellows, Evansville. L. to R.-Vernon C. tenor; Stanley W. Yearsley, lead; Thoma!}. Wischeart, ttnor: Bill Johnston, bari; Dun AshbY lead; Bill Henn, tenor; Jim Leslie, Guarini, bad; Matthew L. Hannon, bass. can Hannah, lead; Harold Bauer, bass. (De· bad; Leet Fleming, bau. TOP RIGHT-2nd-Illinois-Smeets Bros., troit News Staff Photograph). BOTTOM RIGHT - 2nd - Indiana-Ky. Joliet. L. to R.-John, Henry, Walter and CENTER RIGHT-lst-Michigan-Barons Sentimental 4, Ft. Wayne. L. to R.-Fred Bob. of Harmony, Saginaw. L. to R.-Jarvis B. Hagadorn, tenor; "Bob" Kloephenstine. bari; Albro, lead; Charles Sarle, tenor; W. R. DeWayne Schele, lead; Walter Vollmer, bass. Oursler, bari; Howard Heath. bass. Ellu. HARMONIZER 33 How "Sweet Adeline" Came Into Being Harlowe R. Hoyt in There was a young fellow who hung "But there's no such name as Ade The Cleveland Plain Dealer around the shops, writing an occa line," Armstrong objected. Harry Armstrong was a boy in Som sional lyric and using the money to "So what?" retorted Gerard. "It enille, Mass., when the young bucks pay his way through college. He took rhymes, doesn't it." of that day gathered in the village a turn at the chorus--since that was Back they went to Witmark's. It was barbershop and made sweet music to all there was at the time-but gave it published but dogged it on the stock the accompaniment of a g u ita r up and said it couldn't be done. His room shelves. Times had changed whanged by the tonsorial artist him name was Jimmy 'Valker, afterwards since the song first was crooned and self. From these sessions he emerged mayor of New York, and collaborator it was too "old fashioned." And then, with a chorus. It was fine singing for with Ernest R. Ball, who hailed from one momentous day, the Quaker City there was a repeat on each line that Cleveland, in "Will You Love Me in Four came to Witmark's in search of gave the supporting trio a chance to December As You Do in May." Jim songs. After many suggestions, do their stuff along with the lead.... my was a one-song man, too. "Sweet Adeline" was hauled forth as Hot with the idea that he would make Armstrong was still shopping around a last resort. The quartet took it Oil a fortune, composing popular ditties, when he met Richard G. Hursch, who sight. Three days later, ,they sang it Armstrong went to Boston. He grad wrote under the name of Richard at the old Hammerstein Theater. It uated to the sheet music department Gerard. AftP-r many week's considera was a sensation. of Jordan Marsh where the late Harry tion, Gerard came up with the line In Boston von Tilzer told him about New York. IlPor You I Pine, Sweet Rosalie." Coney Island proved his landing spot With a revamped chorus and a new John F. Fitzgerald was running for and there the country lad commenced verse, they started out to sell it. mayor of Boston early in the century. to learn the facts of life, all this time, "Sweet Adeline" was sweeping the he was hawking "My Old New Eng Witmark's refused it. Howley, Hav country. And Fitzgerald adopted it land Home." iland and Dresser returned it after as his campaign song not because it Missing Lyricists nine months. Remick-Whitney-Warner held any particular significance but Any number of established lyric kept it for a year. Armstrong sent because it was close harmony that writers were given an opportunity to it to Boston and another year passed gave a quartet opportunity for thick climb upon the band wagon but each before it returned. And then, walking stuff and, more likely than not, in and everyone of them missed out. down Broadway one day, the pair saw spired the audience to join in the Charles Lawler had written the words the sign "Farewell Performance of chorus. Fitzgerald still holds it as to "The Sidewalks of New York." He Adelina Patti." Gerard mulled it his own personal property and Harry took the music, kept it for six months over. Armstrong recently played the com and then returned it, saying he could "For you I pine, sweet Adeline," he position with the mayor soloing to his do nothing with it. announced. heart's content. ,--~------'------ OSHKOSH WISCONSIN CHAPTER No. 6 Invites you to the WISCONSIN ASSOCIATION OF CHAPTERS' === SECOND ANNUAL === STATE CHORUS CONTEST AND PICNIC HEAR AND SEE WISCONSIN'S FAMOUS CHAPTER CHORUSES IN THRILLING COMPETITION IN THE LAND O'LAKES JULY 20th~ 1947 AMERICAN LEGION CLUB For Full Details, Hotel Reservations Lake Winnebago Write: HAROLD J. SCHUMERTH OSHKOSH, WIS. 168 W. New York Ave., Oshkosh, Wis. MAY, 1947 34 gil_ HARMONIZER Coast to Coast, - by Districts FOUNDER EXPOUNDS News about District Contests and District Meetings MICHIGAN DISTRICT ASSOCIATION ers, Mishawaka; and the Northern aires, So. Bend. EIGHTH ANNUAL CONTEST That evening President Frank H. Decisions in the \V. K. Kellogg Audi Thorne as M. C. greeted a complete torium Battle Creek, Feb. 15, show ly filled house. Many who were what work, added to good voices, can turned away listened from the Shrine Club where the program was "piped." do. The Barons of Harmony, Sag Final judging placed the top five in inawJ took first in Michigan. This is the following order; Songfellows, O. C. Cash gives words of wisdom the qnartet that had to rehearse at Sentimental 4, Tone Poets, Ky. Trou at Int'l Board Meeting. Omaha. Same 7 a. m. because one member worked badors, 4 Bits of Harmony. Guest Cash in reverse on left hecause of quartets included the Elastics, Har mirror background. nights (Feb. '47 Harmonizer). monaires of Gary ('46 District Cham Next came the Clef Dwellers of Oak pions), Doctors of Harmony, Elkhart, land County, the Travelers of Grand who took third in the Int'l Contest, and the McPhee Trio. Rapids, the Continentals, formerly of Proof that the average age of a Out of the 21 quartets competing in Muskegon, now 'Whitehall Chapter, Society member is lower than when the ballroom of Hotel Ft. Armstrong and the Town Criers of Kalamazoo. the llgraybeards" started it pops out on the previous afternoon and eve The judging panel was made up of of the Contest. Six quartets were ning, the three placing quartets and composed of men under 24. Sec. "Jimmy" Doyle, Gh'm'n, Leo Ives, the Tune Twisters, Oak Park, and the Adams comments that the average Rock Islanders landed in the finals. "Ffuck" Sinclair and Arvid Anderson, age of all quartets was the lowest in with Charley Schwab, clerk, all of Society history, therefore Hmighty in The Corn Belt Chorus with John Chicago. spiring to see the new generation Hanson directing, and the Illinois '45 taking hold." Ind.-Ky. District rules state champion and '46 international Twenty-six quartets lined up at the do not permit use of the same num medalist Chordoliers rounded out the starting line that morning, and 15 bers in preliminaries and finals. There concert phases of the afternoon, aug competed in the finals. The audience fore the all-day audience heard wide mented by The Vaudevillians (former Super-Atomic 4) and "Lady Winder was delighted with several little variety. mere"I Mrs. Percy Frank, of K.C., known "oldies" not previously used by in a riotous old time vaudeville act Michigan quartets. A contest official ILLINOIS STATE CONTEST that had everything but the trained comments that the average quality of The Bigtowners, "just four guys out seals; and the audience didn't miss qua I' t e t s among the 15 finalists of the Chicago chorus", so they said, them. Henry M. Stanley, president of equalled that of the '43 Nat'l Finals got the nod from Judges J. E. Stern the Illinois Association, presented the and exceeded the average quality in (Ch'm'n}, Chas. Faulhaber, Bob winners with a check for $200 from the '42 Nat'l Finals. A guest quartet Shreves and Deac Martin in the. Sun tile Association to apply on expenses came from the ranks of the judges, day afternoon finals of the Illinois to Milwaukee in June. T. Alvin State Contest, Rock Island, High Strahle, Fox River Valley Chapter, three of the Four Harmonizers with Geneva, Ill., was particularly effect chairman Doyle filling in for their School Auditorium, March 30. The Smeets Brothers of Joliet, making a ive as an unassuming MC of prelim regular bass, Fred Stein. The retiring hit with their "Mother Played the inaries and finals. district champions, the Acoustical Organ" number, took second place,. Following the finals an Afterglow Persecuting Four of Jackson received while four young men with GI but a certificate for "championship be supper was served at American tons, the Vikings of Rock Island, Legion Hall, preliminary to the coast haviour" from President Bob Walker placed third. to-coast Mutual broadcast which in of the Michigan Association. Kellogg cluded the Corn Belt Chorus, first, Auditorium was a sellout for the ALPINE FOUR second and third place winners, the evening Finals. Chordoliers and an interview with "Hank" Stanley. ILL. ASS'N. ANNUAL MEETING INDIANA·KENTUCKY DISTRICT Twenty-two chapters of the Ill. Ass'n. CONTEST were represented at the annual state Twenty~four quartets presented them board meeting, Rock Island, March selves at Chamber of Commerce Audi 29-30. Among decisions made, future torium, Ft. Wayne, on the morning state contests will be held in the Fall of Feb. 1 for judging by judges Mark to eliminate any conflict with Int'I. P. Roberts, Ch'm'n., of Detroit, Don preliminaries. In the future three prizes of $150, $100, and $50 will be Webster of Cleveland, A. L. Anderson given to the three top quartets rather and "Jimmy" Doyle of Chicago; with than $200 to the state contest win Int'l Sec. Carroll P. Adams as time ners. keeper. In late afternoon the judges announced the 10 finalists to appear Illinois will maintain a State Head at Quimby Auditorium that evening quarters at Milwaukee. The Ass'n. voted to pay expenses of the State would be the Tone Poets, So. Bend; Intrepid explorers in the heights of harmony: L, to R.: H. B. Melchior. Pres. and Sec. up to $150 to the Int'l. Four Tones, Brazil; Sentimental Four, C. W. Melchior, Harry Taylor, Joy S. mid-year meeting. A committee will Ft. \Vayne; Four Bits of Harmony, Johnson, Pt. Angeles, Wash. develop emblems for winners in fu Hammond; Carpenter Bros., Gary; ture state contests. Morrison, Ill., Ken t u c k y Troubadors, Louisville; youngest in the state ass'n. received Four Shades of Harmony Brazil' • much commendation for its activities. Song-fellows, Evansville; CI~se Shav: The Chapter Reference Manual should including a Morrison quartet entered be the Bible of all Chapter officers. in the state contest. 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L,,=,=~'E.'==N,,,,:=W=Y=or=3~,,,=2=O,=N==.,,~,='=~'E.'=~,~ 36 gl.~ HARMONIZER · f om th Ch t {(New, Item' culled in p 1~1"~"94 Everyone gets a chance to sing and WATT FOUR? a lot of fine combinations turn up this Dixon, III. by \Y. Welsh Pierce way, .. Dixon held a big Parade and The State of Illinois happens to be fol' a small chapter put over a s'\\'ell one of the states comprising a Dis job, Read about it elsewhere in this trict within itself. We are Area "E," issue ... Elgin is new, In fact they with the "E" standing fOr "Enter won't receive their Charter until May prise," no doubt. Out of some fifty 21st but that hasn't deterred them, chapters, with gosh-knows how many Three quartets and a fine chorus have been going great guns. To paraphrase total members, just about every pos~ sible Society activity takes place with a radio slogan "Time to Watch Elgin" in any given length of time. , . . ... Jacksonville aided and abetted Aurora has a new Director in Bob Bloomington on its Parade and then Haeger and is off to a fine year. turned around and staged a mammoth Especially well liked was a combina show of its own on March 16th. Al tion meeting with Fox River Valley most 1500 people turned up with ... A change in meeting night for tickets so they were let in to wi tness Beardstown cured their "Directoritis" as fine a program as anyone could "Cousins" to Cleveland's Lampligbt and as a result their membership wish. Quartets augmented by 175 ers. the Watt Four thus far has not "pulse" jumped with 1000/0 increase men in the Corn Belt ChOl'llS gave a sung Mazda's in lhe ColO Groun'. L. since Charter Night in July, 1946 ... to R.-John Eisenberg. tenor; Randall rousing program ... Joliet sent its Warfel, bad; Ray Leake, lead: Wm. Belvidere entered the charmed circle Harmony Four out on 22 singing Guppy, bass, and president of Dixon with a gala Charter Night, sponsored dates in three months and then turned Chapter, and conducted by Oak Park. It is re their "Smeets Brothers Quartet" over ported that this fine new chapter is like barbershop ... Macomb put on a rapidly stealing the limelight away to the judges at Rock Island who bigger and better Ladies Nite pro from other, and older, civic organiza promptly voted them second place gram. Three hundred people will tions . , . Bloomington's fine Parade winners in the 1947 Illinois State Con swear to it. A new combination the is reported elsewhere. This active test ... Lincoln's two quartets made llWesternaires" is composed of stu crowd does fine inter-chapter work 15 civic appeal'ances during the quar dents and faculty at Western State and is a well-deserved leader~ in Dis ter. Looks like Lincoln citizens must See Page 40 trict affairs ... When it comes to travel as a unit Cambridge earns some kind of accolade, having recent ly joined in a three-way round robin of meetings with Galesburg and Rock Island. Nice going ... Since lust DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHAPTER heard from Charleston has been very active. Trips to Bloomington, Jack sonville and Decatur-quartets on radio 1;everal times-Chorus on sev eral Parades with Corn Belt Chol'us Big Quartet Festival in making, with 3600 seats assured of being filled-all from a chapter with but 34 members ... Chicago No. 1 loafed, as usual. They did move their meeting place; published a membership l'oster and HARVfST OF HARMONY by-laws booklet; entel'tained Chorcl ettes from Sheboygan on Ladies In ill beautifi" vited Night; held two Chorus and Quartet shows; appeared twice on na tion-wide radio shows at 8:00 in the CONSTITUTION HALL morning; outfitted the Chorus with new coats and sent the "Big Towners" FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1947 to the Illinois District Contest and had them cop the 194·7 Distl'ict Cham pionship. That and a two~hour show at Vaughan Hospital for wounded vets Plan now to visit the Singing Capital of a was all they did ... Cissna Park now meets in the local High School every Singing Nation in golden October and sample Friday. Post graduate wOl'k of the the finest quartet harmony in the East. highest order ... Decatur is proud of its Chorus and five organized quar tets. They do great work and keep Information concerning tickets will be given ve,·y busy indeed. Paul Marshall, in Ihe nexl issue of Ihe "HARMONIZER," Chorus Director, is helping immense ly by forming impromptu quartets out of the Chorus at each rehearsal. MAY, 1947 The ja1n01.l8 "Oln:e Fou'r"-Lefi to Tight, FTecl D. Graves, J. Frank Rice, O. C Cash and Bill Down ing-enjo:l/ing their /tnt exposu.re to good music. Leave that lyric live~ boys! ... HAt. might be rt "deathless" Iyrie the Okie Four is listen WHAT THE MUSIC CJHTlCS SAY •.. Ting to-but bro-ther! ... the kiss of death goes on .it when When llAHTUnO AIOSCONJNI heard Marion An drews. he :';;lid "A voice like hers is heard only onCe they sing it! You call be sure or their enjoyment in listening, in :I hllndrt~d years." When :i\lo.~c{)llilli henrd rirothel' though ... for the radio of their choice is, of course, a. Spartan. W, E. (Bill) Downillg of the Okie Four, he went the whole hog and said. "A \'oice like his \\"ilInot likely be No one enjoys kidding the Okie Four more than they do heard ng-ain in 500 years, Or at least let Wi so hope:' themselves ... but the kidding stops when they're talking REAJ\,[S NA YLOH. olltst;lnrling music:~l critic. \\"as about Spartan. Eaeh of the members of this famous quartette IIllerl.... spee<":hle,<;s after he heard Brother J, Frank nice, lead of t.he Okie Four. sound ofT with "Don't is appreciative of good music faithfully reproduced and they Cr,v, Little Gil'l, Don't Cry," He managed to gasp: join thousands of Spartan owners everywhere in agreeing "ll is like n voice from heaven; ill(:orporeal, h,vper cCiilalic. trallscendental lind diiiClllhodie,l-which it lhat Spartan is tmly-"R.adio's richest voice since 1926." should be." For your own radio and record enjoyment see and hear "A heroic baritone of the first water:' was nlGPUK the new Spartans at your dealer's TODAYl The Spartan FAITHS' verdict. on Brother O. C. Cash aller he had hemd Brother Cash softell lip "Coney hland Baby:' dealer in YOUI' community is no farther away tha.n your tele nn original Okie cOlllpo:,;ition ;lnd ;l number whieh phone. You'll find him listed in the classified section of your Ihe)' sing with great Sllccess. "!Jut I can't see how a man can do that on waleI' alone:' telephone book. When KITCIIlCOOVSKI ga\-e his Ift,;t double-hass recital with the StOll.\' Point Jazz Band, he happened to brellk the lowest string. Fortulllltcly, Bwther Fred Graves, Okie bass, had entered the pl.wilioll a few momenLs before to get wann, sill(.'C it was a bad ni~ht Olll. Brother Graves took a fmntie nod from Dr, l":itchic.:Qo\'ski and, stepping' illlo the wings, supplied the subterranean note elLch time the recitalist fiddled where the string wasn't at. .Kext day, the weekly papers were enraptured, "Never hilS a string bass RADIO'S RICHEST VOICE SINCE 1926 sounded so awful before," wrote one critic, It was pre THE SPARKS-WITHINGTON COMPANY, JACKSON, MICH. sumed that the word "awhil" was a typographical el'l'Or and t.hat. the word "awesome" was intended. "Dr. Sparton 0/ Canada. Limited. London, Ontario Kitchicoovski hns rCI.\ched a new low," said another. DON'T SEND AROUND TOMORROW ARRANGED BY WORDS AND MUSIC BY DON WEBSTER FREDERICK S. RANDALL COPYRIGHT 1944 BY fREDERICK 5. RANDALL, KALAMAZOO. 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HARMONIZER .:.:..::..:..::::=.:.._------ Over the Editor's Shoulder The following have been selected, "Those who have the real work to do from the many letters that come to in our Society, are like the army which the. editors, because of the wide in· crosses the seas and the Alps to do terest of the subject matter. LMnited battIe for their native heath ... they space in this quarterly makes it come in for endless criticism from the necessary to shorten same. hot·stove strategists back home ... From exchange of letters: I remember, when this last vast war "The problem is not so much to give started, and the boys departed, and the local Secretary his proper credit the home campaigners started, some as to get the local President to do body dug up a statement from cen· some work! The Iot'l Office has turies ago, by a general, to the home emphasized the importance of the guard of those times ... in effect it Secretary's job and outlined his duties was ... Hii you want a hand in this, in great detail. join us and come along.. if you re ever had. The editorial work is great main at home, where you cannot pos and the information most compre This is udoin' what comes natcherly." sibly understand our problems, watch hensive. I was, perhaps, most im The chapter, however, looks to the your tongues," pressed with the inner workings of President for leadership, and Presi Russell Cole, our 18270 office and the idea of the dents, being human, are inclined to bog Chouteau, Okla. salute to the ladies. It's a grand idea, down partly because they are not be and should be an annual tribute. The ing screamed at by the International Directory of Chapters is a fine fea Office, like the Secretaries are! ture, and I like "I See By The Papers." But the whole issue is so swell I had It is true that you send a copy of all Hatch Graham's piece about Canton, better not stick out my chin any your News Bulletins to Chapter Presi Ill. quartets in the February Harmon~ further." dents, but there is never a reminder izer inspired Past Int'l Pres. Hal to him that he has duties to perform. Staab, in part, as follows: "Northamp H. T. \Vhite, Secretary, Why not needle him a little ... ask ton always had its quota of real bar Central States Association, him what his committees are doing bershop singers. When I was a kid, urge him to get rid of incompetent nearly 50 years ago, I remember hear~ committee chairmen-inactivity on his ing them singing evenings, usually on Editor's Note: Thanks for the flowers, part is resented by those who are street corners. One quartet for many Phil and "Hec". The Feb. issue working for the good of the chapter. years sang evenings on a particular wasn't perfect. There were errors In my opinion the local President corner, and when the old lady who of omission and commission. Our should be required to head at least lived in the corner house passed away, job is to try to sieve out from a one impol·tant local committee." she left a request for that quartet to mass of material, nowadays, those Hugo L. Stangel', Sec., Chicago. sing at her funer:al. things that, we believe, have widest Some ten years later, when Carroll interest. Members help when they Adams and myself, among others, write what they like, and what they were singing "Blue-Bell" one night at don't like. It's your magazine. midnight at that same corner, a lawyer, Tom Hammond, later to be come a Judge on the Supreme Bench of Massachusetts, came out in his To Founder O. C. Cash: bathrobe and gave us a lecture on "Last night 1 attended the concert of "",~ the Barbershop Quartets given at the ,.'AlDOl. W-:<:'-,: disturbing the peace. Apparently we :.:..'" weren't as good as our predecessors. Henry Snyder High School in Jersey MORE Carroll, Board Member Bill Holcombe, City and I know you will be interested and I sang in the same church choir in the enclosed program. THAN when we were kids. Carroll was the "The hall was crowded with about EVER Soprano Soloist, and years later the three thousand people and it certainly old choirmaster told my unbelieving took me back about fifty years when wife that I was his best alto. In gram that good old-fashioned harmony HOTEL mar school, four of us had a quartet, started to pour out and believe me I and one of our prize numbers was never heard such voices, it was my FORD "Kentucky Babe." idea of a perfect evening." A MODERN PLACE to STAY U J. J. Weidener, Bogota, N. ~. "Hotel Medford is delightfully I' loY tronsformed, newly remodeled "February Harmonizer is out of this and refurnished; with ils C?~· From the Music Critic of The Wichita world ... If the fellows want a quali Falls, Tex., Daily Times: ple1ely new Coffee Shop It IS ty mag they are getting it. Maybe even heller able to serve Ydu "As I see it over the "music desk" for comf~rl we should have followed that other with more ond mo' , possibility (just once) of an alternat these papers, this movement finds its ernity than e .... er. ed pulp sheet to show some of the greatest significance in the fact that boys what they could have gratis. But through SPEBSQSA thousands of I know very well that the representa American men are discovering, after tive membel's want a real magazine." all these years, that male voices in ensemble provide us with our best, Phil Embury, most thrilling musical instrument. Immediate Past President. More pointedly, men are discovering that song is something worthy of their patronage and performance, rather than being left entirely to the wimmen folks. Hooray!" And from Kansas City: "Have just finished going over February Harmon W. L. Underwood, izer, the most interesting issue I have \Vichita Falls, Texas Chapter. MAY, 1947 40 ,o/h HARMONIZER '7ttue0i4 '7dtiH9d- ?!tte4-<.q_'d- 'Pad 'Piju Song Leader Class Contim"J F'Qm Pag, J6 by Roscoe D. Bennett Milwaukee Teachers College. A pitchpipe for the One can never tell what ideas are in Geo. W. Campbell's class for teacher is the new order of "apple the minds of members of SPEBSQSA. song leaders - Pere Marquette polishing" ... A new high in intel' working ideas, that is ... Take for Room, 5th floor, Hotel Schroe chapter activities would seem to be instance Robert E. Rockefeller, secre der, Sat. morning, .June 14, 9:00 Mattoon's six visits to Charleston. tarY of the Belding Chapter ... That till lunch. However, Mattoon still had time to cha'pter needed a tenor badly for its stage a gala IIFamily Night." for top quartet, the Beldingaires ... Be· members, guests and the wives of ing a business man, R?cky suggested both. Also, this spritely chapter advertising in the Beldmg Banner ... participated in two Corn Belt Chorus The ad was inserted and a tenor BEAVER DAM shows at Jacksonville and Blooming joined the chapter and everything is Lon ... Northwest Suburban Chapter, serene and happy again ... Lansing BEST LITTLE TOWN which meets in Park Ridge kept six Chapter visited Alma Chapter dur 8)1 n quartets and a chorus of 40 quite busy ing a snowstorm in March ... Some on civic and church dates. A monster of the boys spent the night in their Parade on January 26th must have cars, others in an oil refinery and DAM SITE been quite hot since the "After-Glow" in the heart of \Viscon;;in'" ] others mushed homeward . . . Some [ ramou$ cheese country la!:ited fOl' 6 Yz hours ... Good news didn't get back for three days-so bad comes from Springfield that a new was the snow ... Jackson IS so proud PRESENTS quartet, the Capitol-Airs, has been of its new chorus it, has been taking -----2ndANNUAL----- formed out of two well-loved fours, it everywhere along with quartets ... the Sangamo Electric and the Har Now the boys are building a minstrel mony Kings, both of which are now show around the chorus ... G. Marvin QUARTET PARADE broken either through death or other Brower is retiring as president of the SATURDAY EVENING wise. Methinks that Dragoo, Master Grand Rapids Chapter but not as the September 20tll, 1947 son, Leamon anfl O'Heren can give state's most active MC ... During the a lot of pleasure to a lot of people ... last quart.er he officiated at Traverse New Wayland College Auditorium South Town (Chicago) had a Charter City, Hart, the state contest at Battle Night ancl show that gained ~hel1~ a Creek Holland, Kalamazoo and t.he (SEATING CAPACITY. 2.000) lot of praise. Also a combmatlOl1 Great'Lakes Invitational ... A re We promise to Mave It packed Ladies Night ancl Contest (to pick the cording of the Lions quartet of the Chapter Champs) was a huge success. Ludington Chapter revealed some Featuring All in all a fine chapter doing fine thing was \vrong ... To remedy it things and having a whale of a lot of they recruited FO UR new voices ... HARMONY HALLS fun. Now the boys are turning to raise MID-STATES 4 money to buy a recorder for the chap HI-LOS (Wis. '46 Champs) SOUTHTOWN GETS CHARTER tel' ... There are 45 membel'~ in t.his new group with thl'ee quartets FOUR KEYNOTES PRESENTS "NIGHT OF HARMONY" Two new quartets have been organ (Wis. '47 Champs) On Feb. 11, Southtown Chapter, ized in the Dearborn Chapter, "Dear Chicago, received its charter in a BEAVER DAM'S FAMOUS bornaires" and "Father and Son" and FOURTEENERS eel'emony at Hamilton Park Field two more are trying ... There is some House which had everything from his talk of closing the chapter member plus other top notch Wisconsin tory of the Society to a Parade of ship at 60 . Traverse City Chaptet' quartets and Beaver Dam's popular chorus. three Int'l. Champion quartets. Bill P(Jf:,~ Lasher and"Andy" Anderson brought (oJlt;lIl1td 011 44 honors to Southtown MC's. The pro WM. D. MORGAN, Gen'l Ch'mn. gram included the Southtown Chorus, Joe Meissner and Anderson in a vocal duo, Boulevard 4, Pitchblenders, Her man (the Great) Struble, alone and with the Elastics, Four Harmonizers, Mid-States 4, The Misfits and the • McPhee family. SOUTH TOWN CHARTER NIGHT DIXON, ILL. PARADE Int'\. Pres. Thorne presents SOllth "Capacity Crowd Enjoys Harmony at Town (Chicago) ch3rter to Wm. J. Winter Sing, Local Groups Aided by McKay. Prell. Corn Belt Chorus ..." in Dixon, IlL paper practically covers the Sunday afternoon program, Jan. 26, held in the high school auditorium. Just in case anyone doesn't know, the Corn Belt Chorus is made up from chap ters in Bloomington, Decatur, Mat toon, .Jacksonville, Canton, Monmouth, Rock Island, and Cambridge, Ill., all directed by John Hanson who sings bass with' the Gipps Amberlin Four. Quart·ets on the program were Bloom ington's Twin City Four; the Har monaires, Gar)'; Keystone Barber '. \ ettes, Peoria; Kansas City Serenad ! , ers; St. Louis Police and the '42 Int'I. i ~ i ! Champion Elastic Four, Chicago. At i ~ } I the conclusion of the afternoon con I f cert about 150 mem bel'S and ladies South Town Chorus-Williard K. Lasher. M. C. (left) ,"d Andy L. Anderson. joined in a dinner meeting Afterglow. Director. MAY, 1947 Don Vall Scone, bari Marv Adams, lead Hank Lewis, bass Jim Jeffries, i,mor MELO-TONES ====OF BUFFALO CHAPTER==== CENTRAL.WESTERN NEW YORK DISTRICT Actively participating in the extension of SPEBSQSA in western New York State the Melo-Tones have made many friends for themselves and the Society. As a certain well known quartet member puts it, "These boys bellow mellow". THIS SPACE PROVIDE:D FOR BY AN ADMIRER OF THE QUARTET by J. George O'Brien, 400 S. Franklin St., Saginaw, Mich. Music Co," Jerry explains that his days. Among those ,ve've helped re reccnt copyright covers only his par cently are the Clef Dwellers of De ticular arrangement but that IlKaty" troit, the Coca Colas of Hutchinson, herself being over fifty-six years of Kansas, the Kitchen Blenders of Mid age is definitely public property. land, the Pittsburghers of Pittsburgh. the Mellotones of Racine, Wisconsin, Let'8 not get too technical about this the Antlers of Flint, a new and yet publie domain business. The COP)'- un-named foursome from Beaver Dam. IVa¥ it Be,'t IVilliam~ who used to right laws are altogether too compli 'Visconsin, and still another from sing thai one about u yOU don't know cated for the ordinary layman to try Sioux City, Iowa, as well as the how much you got to know, in order to interpret, Suffice to say that our Barons of Harmony, the new Michi to know how little vou know"? Like lists are checked and double checked gan State Champions Irom (believe it Rus Cole sain in dne of his recent by men who know so you can b{' or not) Saginaw, letters, "the more I get into this old reasonably certain that they are cor song research the more I am con rect when you see them in the vinced that I'm the fellow who knows Leo Osmon 0/ HWl'tford is having a less about old songs than anyone Harmonizer, tough time trying to locate a num in the organization," And that goes ber from about forty years back which "Love's Old Sweet Song" which Rus he thinks i!!l titled, aOne By One the for Ye Olde Editor who at the moment Cole listed in the last publication Is truly amazed at his ignorance. Rose Leaves Fall, Dear". Jerry Vogel is public domain ONLY IN THE got uLeaf By Leof the Roses Fall" UNITED STATES and Rus has asked (1885) for him but. , . 'twarnt it. i~ us to explain, It seems that Canada AII this proJn]>ted by some t'ery Can anyone help? interesting correspondence between has a different copyright law which Bill Remquist of Beloit, Wisconsin, makes protection possible for "50 ann Harvey In.cobs of Royal Oak, years after the author's deat.h" while Ye olde edit01' flot a big boot out of a fifty-six years from the date of the recent request for several songs from Michigan alld their thoughtfulness in original copyright is the limit in Peter W. Kehlenbach the Chairman of sending us copies of thei r letters. It this country. So mark your record the ActivitiE's Committee of our Joliet, started ov{'r 'lSweet Adeline" (as so of this number OlU.S. only" and be Illinois Chapter. With his letter many nice things do) and before long careful how you kick it around when he included a 1920 letterhead with a the reminiscing drifted quite natur you're visiting our Canadian cousins l>icture of Peter himself in white tie nIl)' to "In the Evening By the Moon or touring the- continent. and tails and billing him as "The light", Does anyone know of any Ma Behind the Voice", According to "four guys named "Joe who e\'er got The~'(J" a surprise in the old song list the copy Peter was a baritone and together in four part hannony 'who this month for someone. A long was available to furnish umusic and didn't give that particular number a time ago someone asked us to try singing for all occasions . . , band and find "1\lona" or "Lana" or what work a specialty," Especially inter going over sometime during the ever her name was Hfrom Arizona" esting was his notation, "this was course of the evening? We sang it one of the songs that was mentioned way back when. , , I was singing with ourselves way back in our high school (though not by the correct title) in John Hanson, who was and still is, days and no doubt you did too. the Barbershop Quartette story that a real basso, and James Jordan (Fib ran in the Saturday Evening Post. At ber McGee) and Charles Correll (Andy of Amos and Andy)." This But did it ever occur to vou that this, the time we couldn't locate the num old universal favorite has a ycrsc? It ber and now we can't locate the name should stir up fond meroories for some of the member who wanted it . . ' of you old timers. didn't to us eithE'r, until Bill and Har but if he's still interested he'll find it vey brought the matter up ... and in the list this month under the cor We're glad to note too that our Can boom went our ego. Now we're won rect title of UMana From Arizona". adian ohapteTs are getting in on the c1ering how many of our fellow experts Yes, sir, the You Name 'Em We Dig "where can I get a cop~' of ..." know the verse of llIn the Evening B}' 'Em Up Department doesn't always activities. We handled an inquiry Te the Moonlight". Don't feel too badly jf come through .. , but we never quit cently from H, Hodgson of Hamilton, you can't answer this one, Bill Rem trying. and RUB Cole took core of some oldies quist who started the whole thing for Stan Meecham of the Toronto doesn't remember either. He recalls The -recently popular 'nlunber uSome Chapter. bits like uUncle Gabe would take the Sunda.y Morn.ing" recalls the fact that Elizabeth Brice and Charlie King did fiddle down t.hat hung upon the wall" a song with the same title in vaude RequfJlJtl} faT RWIlJel/ Cole's lAsts of nnd he claims the harmony is eVer)' ville back around 1915. The chorus old song titles are still coming in bit as good as in the chorus but fur started, "Some Sunday morning when and why not? When you can spend ther than that he is very hazy, and the weather's flne, the song birds n few moments with one of these your olde Ed is a complete blank. singing the worln's in rhyme. , ." And lists and run across such nuggets as Let'15 hear from those who remember incidentally what a grand singing HMolIy and I and the Baby", "I've the verse and Sig Spaeth .. ' you team they were ... Brice and King A Longing In M}' Heart For You, . . . do ~... ou remember? Louise", uCordalia Malone", 4'When keep oull of this. t.he Midnight Choo Chao Leaves For Alabam". "Down In Born Born Bay", And 1vhile 1/ou're in the mood do yOU OllY new list 0/ public domain ttum· Temember the inimitable Eddie Foy U_ eath the Pale Venetian Moon" and be1's seem to have created quite a bit singing, "Everything depends on hundreds of others that recall so manv of interest ... and some confusion. money, good money, sweet money etc., fond memories you'll agree that here Don Grenfell wants to know how etc. 1" is one of the most complete lists of "I'll Take You Home Again, Kath song titles that has ever been printed. leen" can be P.D. when he bought n. 't'8 It l'eal ptl;a8U1"e to note fhat we Send thirty cents in coin or stamps copy recently which bears the nota lire receiving more and more reque!'>ts to Russell Cole, Chouteau, Oklahoma t.ion "Copyrighted 1938 by Jerry Vogel for old songs from quartets these (See Next Page) lll.. HARMONIZER 43 IT HELPS TO KNOW ABOUT "SING, BROTHER, SING" pellcil and piano-and "Don't Send Around TomolTow" was born. A SONG Last November, Tiny Ferris, Past President of the York, Pa. Chapter, If it is natural barbershop music, it's Here are the Song Arrangement Com now on the Int'l. Ed., commissioned a because Fred has sung harmony most mittee's comments upon the two York member to wI'ite a song for of his life. Starting out with a gang songs that have been most recently chorus use in the Second Annual Pa· of Duluth school kids he had the usual barbershop background of "singing on issued, and the song in this issue. rade. Joe Mosser has written quite a nnmbel' of songs during more than a the square," followed with long serv quarter century, including "Open ice in church choirs, and for two years "WON'T YOU PLEASE COME Wide Your Eyes" which Fred and he was member of a headline quartet Tom Waring used with their now on the old RKO-Family Time. More BACK TO ME" famous "Sleep" signature. The song recently Fred was lead singer with The Society's International Historian, "Sing Brother Sing" has a stirrinO' the "Dutch Treaters" when that Kala Dick Sturges, is an ardent barbel' melod'y and a n'vely rhythm that mak~ mazoo foursome entered the 1944 In shopper, who has served faithfully as a group of barbershoppers want to ternational Contest in Detroit. International Director. Dick designed do just what the title suggests. When you start singing "Don't Send the Society's emblem which more and One night when Joe was playing Around Tomorrow" you'll really mean more bal'bershoppers are wearing in around with the tune at his piano, his "let's always keep today." It's a their lapels these days. He also dis two older boys came in and asked sweet number. tinguished himself and the Harmon "What's the name of that song." FOI' izer by contributing some of its out no reason at all, according to Joe, he standing covers in days gone by. More replied "Sing, Brother,Sing." The filial recently he has applied his artistic rejoinder was "Boy, isn't that corny." See your new International talent to the thing he loves most Joe says that was just enough to barbershop harmony. settle the title for him, and by mid Directory of Chapters-back pages. A couple of years ago in Kansas City, night the entire lyric was in its pres the SERENADERS discovered Dick ent form. at a piano pounding out some beauti The Committee, in selecting this song (CO!lf;,mea from OPPO!;te page) ful chords. A melody had taken form for March, hopes your chorus will and lyrics were ready to be set down share the Qnthusiasm with which it and it will get you the whole works. on paper. Kansas City's favorite was immediately received by the men You'll thank us for recommending it. foursome proceded to harmonize the of York. "So, join in brother, let's Remember though that these are just tune and the verdict was unanimously sing!" lists of SONG TITLES .. don't ex favorable. pect songs. There are lots of good solid barber "DON'T SEND AROUND By tho way .. YOU?' U1'andpappy shop chords in WON'T YOU PLEASE yodeled "Oh Sam" whIch was written COME BACK TO ME because Dick TOMORROW" in 1872 by Will S. Hays and the hears his harmony in the good old One night during the war, Fred chorus went something like this: "Oh, fashioned way. Most any quartet can Randall, recently discharged for dis Sammy just put dat banjo down, de handle this alTangement without dif ability, heard a girl bewailing the fact hog's in de garden rootin' up de ficulty, and it ought to be just as that her G.£. sweetheart had to go groun', de mule am dead, de horse adaptable for chapter chorus use, back to duty the next day. Thinking am sick, come here Sam, r want you Try it out, and if you like it, tell Dick. of the millions of boys and girls feel quick . . . you hear me, Oh Sam." Richard H. Sturges' address is P. O. ing the same way gave life to the Yessir, your Granpaw sang it ... Box 1228, Atlanta 1, Ga. title; then a little wOI'k with paper, 'j'ever hear 'im? INFORMATION YOU WANT Each issue carries information on 25 songs. To lighten the load of the Old SonK:s Committee, members are urged to refer to bac\,; numbers of the HlI.rmoniz;er before asking the Committee for aid. TITLE YEAR COMPOSER PUBLISHER Anything Is Nice If It Comes From Dixie 1919 Clark-Meyer-Ager Leo Feist Dreamy Moon 1917 Sidney Carter·\\'alter Smith Vogel Music Co. Fancy Little Nancy 1904 \Vm. Baines George M, Krey Hannah 1903 Jos. C. Farrlo"ll-Henry Frantzen Vogel Music Co, I'm Tying the Leaves So They \Von't Come Down 1907 E. S. Huntington·]. Fred Helf E. B. Marks Music Co. In the Evening By the Moonlight 1886 James A. Bland Public Domain In the Shadow of the Pines 1898 Hattie Lmnmis·G. O. Lang Shapiro Bernstein & Co. Is There Still Room Fol' Me 'r-:eath the Old Apple Tree 1915 Leslie·Brown-Abrahams Mills Music, Inc. I Want A Girl 1911 Dillon-Von Tilzer Harry Von Tilzer Jingle Bells 1911 Tracy-Walker J. Fred Helf Little Nightie Hanging On the Line 1926 Leslie·Reitz-Stonc Edgar Leslie Music Pub. Maiden With the Dreamy Eyes, The 1901 Cole·Johnson Jos. W. Sterns & Co. Man That Broke the Bank At Monte Carlo, The 1892 Fred Gilbert National Music Co. My Mona From Arizona 1902 James O'Dea-\V. C. Powell Vogel Music Co. Nobody 1905 Alex: Rogers-Bert Williams Vogel Music Co, Oh Sam 1872 Will S. Hays Oliver Ditson & Co. Pucker Up and vVhistle 1921 Blanche Fr·anklin·Nat Vincelll Mills Music, Inc. Ridin' Down the Canyon 1936 Manaloff.Aurry-Burnett r...1. M. Cole Publishing Co, Some Little Bug Is Going To Find You 191$ Burt·Atwell-Hein Harms, Inc. Sunshine Of Paradise Alley, The 1895 \Valter 1-1. Ford-John \V. Bratton M. \Vitmark & Sons That Fussy Rag (Oh Joe) 1910 VictOr H. Smalley Vogel Music Co. Trail Of The Lonesome Pine 1913 f"facDonald-Carroll Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. Twilight 1908 C. P. McDonald-Evans Lloyd Will Rossiter \Vhen Francis Dances With Me 1921 Ryan-Violinski Leo Feist, Inc. When the Whip Poor Will Sings Marguerite 1906 C. ~. Dennison-J. Fred Helf Larry Spier MAY, 1947 44 g,6" HARMONIZER ?/(~aH It was part of a plot to encourage lawyers, three factory workers ... costuming for members and quartets Then he adds professions represented COIIJirl1lrd From P"[,f 40 when the occasion demands . , . The as physician, office manager, mer is making plans for the centennial chapter celebrated its fourth birth chant, social worker, pharmacist, en celebration there ... Floyd Heyden· day, March 28.... gineer, banker, salesman and insur berg's chorus, one of the best in ance broker . . . Still breezing on, Michigan, is expecting to appear Interest is high in the Oakland Coun Harrington says; "In ages we vary wearing full grown and natural beal"ds try Chapter ... During the last quar from 23 to 75. We have members · .. Four quartets are working in this ter 150 to 200 members have attended worth nothing financially and we have 117-member chapter ... Gale Manu meetings ... The Clef Dwellers fea facturing Co. and Service Caster and some comfortably fixeG. We have ture all Oakland County meetings ... men born in the old country and we Truck Co., were sponsors of the last Harry Eason, inter-chapter relations two meetings of the Albi.on Chapter have them who can trace their ances · . . The Continentals have moved chairman, is always drilling up guests try in America back at least 100 their membership from Muskegon to for these meetings ... years." All of which means Ham the White Lake Chapter ... Escanaba The Barons, of Wayne Chapter, have tramck has a good normal, everyday chapter now has a full fledged quar been keeping this outfit on the map barbershop chapter ... Holland staged tet, the Four Pipes ... Lowell Sund during the past three months its first Parade of Quartets, March 21, strom is tenor, Nick Brink, lead, Ru jampacking the high school auditori pert Prinski, bad and E. E. Petersen, Port Huron's big moment was its bass ... A minstrel show is the main Annual Parade, April 26 ... Phil um to the doors ... Harmony Halls objective of the Marcellus Chapter Kane, the demon secretary of the Mt. and Continentals were featured quar these days ... The highlight of three Pleasant Chapter filed 500 words to tets ... A chorus singing Holland's active months in the Muskegon Chap tell of chapter activities for the quar Willis Diekema's own song, "Keep ter was the Old Time Jubilee featur ter ... Mt. Pleasant will hold its America Singing," was one of the ing the Elastics, the 1942 national second annual Festival of Harmony highlights ... The piece de resistance champions ... Al Vredeveld did the on Oct. 18 .. In addition to a re at the Afterglow was old fashioned master of ceremonies and it all re Dutch pea soup.... flected credit upon Dr. M. J. Kenne cOI'der the chapter has bought all bar beck and Johnny Buitendorp and the bershop albums of records available Saginaw Chapter received with de chapter ... Detroit is making plans ... International Champions of 1942, light the new Michigan champions the for a Parade to be held Nov. 1. and '43, '44 and '45, graced the Kalamazoo Barons of Harmony by throwing a all of the 200 members are plotting annual Serenade, as its show is known "Champion's Night" party ... The already ... The Barons of Harmony ... Besides babying the Vicksburg Barons were the center of things and of Saginaw, the new state champs, Chapter, Kalamazoo is now helping it received beautiful traveling bags from gave the February meeting a thrill stage its first Parade After that · .. Membership in the Detroit Chap· the chapter ... President Luke Camp tel' is wide open, writes Secretary Fred Vicksburg is on its own Kalama bell made the presentation and J. J. Fox ... Pontiac featured a costume zoo's Town Cders quartet is being George O'Brien acted as toastmaster. party for its annual Ladies Night ... touted hereabouts in celery country as Grand Rapids Chapter is looking coming champs. , . A demon for facts ahead to the 1948 Great Lakes Invi· and figures, Louis R. Harrington, an tational ... It will be held April 10 in attorney, figures the Hamtramck the Civic auditorium ... Frank B. Chapter has grown 216 per cent in Goodwin called the chorus back to re PARADE this fiscal year ... He lists-in his hearsal immediately . . . Letters of fury for detail-eight public officials, commendation are keeping chapter of. Sept. 21)tl•• 1947 seven policemen, five teachers, four ficials beaming and busy replying. ELKHART, IND. "RAZZING THE RAPIDS" Home of the "Doctors of Harmony" and ,?~rk of F.."".. ,u "~.~J': "Doctors Harmony" pu.S"""O~'''w.,.~), IIAItMON'I HALL~ G,,"~~'!r '9« ~l /" '6"-,,,.r,,~""' ~, .. ~ .. ,...... '0"". ""To -- £J<~/ ..".lJStI/.., wo...... ,..... ,. "U .. H" Fu."'Tu/>.I< C,ty Pot' "l... ~.~~"._. 7 OTHER GOOD QUARTETS .. -- Tickets $1.00 and $1.50 When asked by the Grand Rapids Herald to lend his name and interests to the weekly feature "Razzing the Rapids", G. Marvin Brower. Int'!' Board member, saw opportunity to do a good turn for the Society ... and did. MAY, 1941 94e HARMONIZER 45 GREAT LAKES INVITATIONAL soliloquy by narrator off stage an nounced them. As spotlight focused By Bill 0110 on quartets the four figures in the Order by Mail ! The Great Lakes Invitational at Grand center setting imperceptibly changed Rapids, Mich. has become a tradi~ postures on the darkened stage and B...rber Shop B ...lI...ds tional event eagerly looked forward to when again lighted up appeared by the city, which packs the Civic Oil Auditorium to its 5000 capacity, and each time in a progression or sequence by Barbershoppers of Michigan and denoting service to barbershop cus elsewhere. Grand Rapids has always tomers. The general impression as RECORDS staged a marvelous show, but on show progressed was a number of set April 12-13, General Chairman Ros tings of a show window with the hu ...... in coe D. Bennett, serving fOT the fourth man figures in different postures serv consecutive year, and his committees ing as the manikins. At its conclusion put on an event which will live long the four "figures" ';came to life" and FOLIOS in the memories as "tops" in enter revealed themselves as the Travebrs tainment. quartet of Grand Rapids Chapter. from Grinnell's Until the last chord faded away in the Pantlind Hotel, Sunday afternoon, the Quartets appearing on the program Folios: entire event was marked by master with the Pride of Grand Rapids, 1944 ful timing, clever staging, the high Int. Champs, Harmony Halls, 1945 o Barber Shop Harmony, cd ired est type of harmony singing, hilarity Int. Champs, Misfits of Chicago were by Sigmund Spaerh. .60e and hospitality deluxe. G. Marvin Americanaires, Flint, Barons of Har (Mills) Brower was stage designer and gen mony, Saginaw, Ferris Wheelers, Big eral impresario. Rapids, Town Criers, Kalamazoo, o More Barber Shop Harmony, Continentals, Muskegon, Hi-Los, Mil The traditional "Hellzapoppin' " event waukee, Sing Sing Singers, Midland, edired by Sigmund Spaeth. 60e on Saturday afternoon, staged by D. (Mills) Mid States Four, Chicago, Ramblers, A. Konkle and his committee, was en· Cleveland, Cosmopolitans, Travellers [] Barber Shop Parade of Quartet titled, "Great Lakes Gridiron . . . a and Pitch Pipers of Grand Rapids and Hits No.!. 60e travesty of tonsorial tenets tempered that delightful and harmonious four (Morris) to titillate the truly tl'oubadouric some of femininity known as the tympanum." In spite of the eccentric Chordettes of Sheboygan, Wise. As o Barber Shop Classics, edited behavior of the cast, the gun play, added attraction the McPhee Family by Sigmund Spaeth 75e threatening display of defunct eggs, of Joliet, Ill. with 9-year-old Jerry (Remick) venerable vegetables and tripping McPhee countering his ienOr against over patrons who were rolling in the the Bass of HBarnacle" Bill Hess of o Two Barber Shop Ballads, by aisles with laughter. there were on Gary, Ind. The Grand Rapids chorus Sigmund Spaerh. . .. SOc casualities. under the directorship of Frank B. First half of the evening's perform Goodwin presented a splendid and in o Barber Shop Ballads and How ance presented a phantasy of old time spiring- group of numbers. to Sing Them-Spaerh...1.96 barbershop setting in center of the huge stage with four immobile figure~ The well known Sunday morning Barber Shop Ballads, arranged representing barber, porter and cus "Aspirin" breakfast concluded the list o tomers. Surrounding this setting were of events. It wns as usual a delight by Ozzie Westley 25e inLel'~p:ZI'~('n (Cole) foul' individual shells in which the ful breakfast with Har various quartets appeared as the mony singing. o Album of Favorite Barber Shop Ballads 1.00 (Cole) Records: o Harmony Halls Barber Shop Quartet Recordings. . ..7.50 ~~Sheet Music, Street Floor Records, Fourth Floor BUSMAN'S HOL1DAY Dr. Norman H. Rathert. Grinnell's past national president, 1515 Woodward, Detroif, Micb. chorus director Cla,yton. and perennial lead sang MARK YOUR CHOICES AND with the Andrews Sisters MAIL THIS AD TO while on winter vacation, GRINNELL'S Mrs. Rathert, L. front. WITH YOUR CHECK. (Add 3% Sales Tax if i" Michigan) Name . Address . City & State MAY, 1947 46 gil. HARMONIZER DIIIECTS CHATHAM CHORUS ALBION, MICH. SECOND ANNUAL from Battle Creek, the Songmasters PARADE HUGE SUCCESS fl'om Lansing and the 1944 Tnt'1. Champion Harmony Halls "carried Geo. W. Stark, writer of the Old the audience back to the good old Timers column in the Detroit News, days" according to the local paper. introduced "some of the best quartets The repertoire included such interest in the business" to an audience of 800 ing numbers as: Eileen, Sheik of Al'aby, Sailing on the Henry Clay, in the Albion, Mich. high school audi Uncle Remus, 31isha Wa Bum Bum torium on the occasion of Albion's not heard frequently, therefore indi second annual parade. The Ninety cative of the fact that quartets are Four and Acoustical Persecutin' Four beginning to do more than "scratch from Jackson, The Food City Four the surface" for tour part numbers. Tbe G-R-O-"'-I-l'T-G OHIO ASSOCIATION OF CHAPTERS OF S. P. E. B. S. Q. S. A. will welcome everyone in Milwaukee .. t " __ ~"'K."'TO'" "O-.J~j)E Drop In And Get .4cquainted ! ! ! AK RON - Meets at Radio Station FRE:\'IONT-Meets-Women's Club-- WHKK, ht and 3rd Wednesdays, Every Thursday. D. La Mar Christy, Pres. Floyd J. Davis, Sec. Harry Jr., Pres., Chas. A. Johnston, 515 Matthews, 125 S. Main St. Christy Blvd., Sec. Donald McGregor, director of the Chath'lln. Ont. Choru!!.. HAI\HLTON -Murray S. Stephens, Members bring old nlaguines to meet ALLIANCE - Meets YWCA Hall ings for distribution to shut-ins and Every Wednesday 8:00 P.M. President Pres., James R. Fisher, 304 Marcia Old Folks' Home. I Phil K. Sin2"er, Sec. Wilbur Martin, Ave., Sec. 736 Hartshorne Street. KENT-Meets-Elks Club, 1st and 3rd Mondays, Pres. J. K. Bramsby, (J-ada (j4attu< BEH.EA - Meets - City Hall, Every Sec. B. J. Amick, 526 Wine St. Hamilton received its charter Jan. 11 Wednesday, Pres. Wallace Force, . . . There was disappointment among Floyd A. Ball, Sec., 35 Crocker St. LAKEWOOD-Meets-American Le gion Hall, 2nd and 4th Wednesdays, the members in that the projected Dis CANTON-Meets Sachsenheim Club, trict Contest for Canadian chapters Pres. H. W. "Hy" Green, Sec. Ted Every Wednesday, Pres. Ralph Nor Spieth, 1385 Wsnen Rd. did not come to pass ... Hamilton wood, Sec. Jim Emsley, 300 Citizens wanted to stage it ... The Canadian Bldg. LORAIN-Meets-Eagles Bldg., 2nd Hamiltons have adopted the Ohio and 4th Tuesdays, Pres. Sid Lynn, Hamilton C hap t eras sister, or CINCINNATI-Meets-Hotel Metro Sec. Bill Jahn. 2200 Harhorview. brother, and intend to carryon cor. pole, 2nd and 4th Mondays, Pres. Ray responding programs .. The cause Greenfield, Sec. Lou Fischer, 6728 i\'IASSILLON - Meets - American of pure hal'bershop singing is being Doon Ave. Legion, Every Wednesday, Pres. Fred advanced in the Windsor Chapter Juslus, Sec. Paul Rutherford, 3178 through a "businessless meeting" once CLEVELAND-Meets-Hotel Carter, Wildwood Dr., S. E. each month ... The Canadianaires Alternate Fridays, Pres. Tom Brown, MEOINA-Pres. David H. Root. Sec., are heing kept busy these days ... Sec. Rudolph Verderbel', 1407 Termi Leslie Ziegler, R. D. No.6. Wallaceburg Chorus is meeting regu nal Tower. larly and doing great work ... Grand MIDDLETOWN-l\'teets-Colony Es COLUMR S-l\Ieets-Varicty C 1 u b, quire Room-Every Monday. Milton S. River Chapter, Kitehener, Ont., has 31 Alternate Mondays, Pres. Geo. H. members and 17 applications . . . It Johnson, Jr., Pres., L. A. Pomeroy, Chamblin, Sec. Harry A. Johns, 101 1220 Lind St., Sec. has two active quartets and a third N. High. drilling ... A whole bus load hom :-lEW PHILADELPHI.~-p,.es. Guy Grand River went to the TOI'onto Pa DA YTON - Meets - K. of P. Hall, Kimmel, Sec. Terry )loore, c/o Van rade. every Tuesday, Pre~. Howard Mar Lchn Hardwilre Co. shall, Sec. Charles W. Krick, 920 PARi\1A-Meets-Parma Community HARMONY HUNTERS oroale Ave., Dayton 10, Ohio. Hall 1st and 3rd Wed., Paul A. Bru Fredericton, N. B. D~l"IANCE -Meets - Lincoln Club, beck: Pres., Ed. A. Perrotti, 6906 1st and 3rd Mon., George Briggs, Hampstead, Sec. Pres., R. C. Albertus, 110 Clinton St., TOLEUO-Meets-Commodore Perry Sec. Hotel, 1st and 3rd Fridays, Pres. Carl ELYRJ A-Meets-Music Shop. every J. Murphy, Sec. John T. Ford, 2539 Thursday, Chas. DeBracey, 146 'Vood Wildwood Blvd. ford St., Sec. \\'ARREN-Meets-Elks Club. Every FINDLA Y -Pres. Die Davis, Sec. Joe Tuesday, Pres. L. L. Hall, Sec. George Roether, McComb, Ohio. E. Seymour, 1771 Norwood Ave. OFFICERS OF THE STATE ASSOCIATION OF SPEBSQSA NELSON T. WHITE. Presiden!' Columbol. Ohio ThiS, the I1rst SPES quartet in the RUDY VERDERBER, Viee.President, Cleveland, Ohio Maritime Provinces. reads L. to R. E. B. SCHULTZ, Treasurer, Defiance, Ohio Ro!;er Cooper, bass: Ralph Campbell, bart: Oorc1on Foster, lead; and Jack JAMES H. EMSLEY, Secretary, 300 Citizens Bldg" Canton 2, Ohio Scott, tellor. MAY, 1947 by Deac Martin vocal pilfali. As sung, BROTHER, "I dlaaaree with what you saY. but I .hall defend to the deatb when sustained in both syllables, your ria:ht to laY It." starts with a quick BR, carried on Attributed 10 Voltaire. /694-/778 with an DR sound sustained through a very quick TH and without distor tion carried right along on the DR Love-Tough and AH as in Watch· character to the end, with just a touch Not. of the final R to identify the word. The way I see it, thousands of new Any attempt to prolong the final R members have joined since the Har· "Say each vowel sound listed, then results in a painful growl. (R-r-r-r!) monizer was started, and one of the immediately follow by singing the biggest favors to them would be to same vowel sound, carrying the desig UHere are a few basic exercises: reprint occasionally some of the in· nated vowel through to the conclusion Sing Moan, as in Load-Foam- valuable, meaty material of earlier of a sustained tone without changing Flowed. issues. If this column is longer than the vowel's character. Note then how Moon, as in Food-Boot-Soon. usual it's because I'm repeating in an attempt of the tenor, lead, bari part a splendid article from the May and bass to sing any designated vowel Mahn, as in Watch-Not-God. '44 issue by Ralph Seaman, then of sound may result in vowels of four Mawn, as in Naught-Fawn- Massillon, Ohio. The subject-How different "characters." (We are not Law. Words Are Pronounced When Sung. discussing resonance, pitch or power). Man, as in Man-Had-Fat It's very important to the quartet that Catch. really wants to sharpen itself to keen "The tenor may, when singing AH, edge, and will work to do it. Here color it with a leaning toward AW, Men, as in Men-Fed--Lend is what can happen when the Catch whereas the lead may color the same Met. as-Can Four may be right on the AH by leaning toward DR. A cl'itical Min, as in Hit-Live-Fit ear may find the bass leaning toward beam, musically speaking, but isn't Sift. OR, while the bad may sing with a paying attention to pronunciation. tendency toward EH. Consider the ~fun, as in Love-Shut--Tough Lead-"I'm dreaming of a white quartet's immediate improvement once -Fun-Hut. Chrismus ..." all four voices come somewhere near Meen, as in Mean--Lean AH as in Watch-Not-God. Tenor-"l'm a-dreaming of a white Clean--Seen-Fleet. Christmass ..." HAfter the four singers can at will Mane, as in Mane-Play produce a sameness of character on Flame-Claim-Day. Bari-"I'm drea mingofa white Chris any specified vowel sound, the quar mos ..." USing them in a single sustained tet's blend will improve tremendously. tone without a break or a breath. Bass-"I'm dreaming of ay white The amazing thing about this checkup Sounds silly? But try it. It will give Christmiss . " is that it can often be accomplished you a better idea of vowel sounds and in one session. Improvement takes better blend ... if you'll work at it." On this sort of thing Seaman com· practice. mented most constructively: Andthat'sthewaylseeittooinasinglesus "Since consonants have no singing tainedtone. "The soloist need not have so' great value (excepting M and N), they are a concern over the exact character of used solely for the purpose of creat his vowel sounds as the quartet sing ing words from vowel sounds. Word SPEBSQSA DIRECTORY er. As long as the soloist produces a creation is a matter of a light sprinkl· pleasing tone and the listeners can ing in of the consonants amongst the For the first time the February issue halfway understand his words, few vowel sounds, at just the right spots, carried a listing of chapters. This will people will quarrel with him. Sing without distorting too greatly the be a regular Harmonizer feature. To ing in a quartet is something else. character of the vowel sounds. make this complete, each chapter "Character of tone depends largely "Easier said than sung! Most singers should have its own local roster, upon the nature of the vowel itself. strive throughout a lifetime to do this whether in simple 01' elaborate form. Aside from the limited singing value little trick deftly. But those con One of the earliest directories that of the consonants M and N, the con sonants are really tough babies to came to our attention was a little sonants have no tone value, being used hurdle. They shove themselves in and only to create words out of the vowel booklet presented to members of often clog up the vowels into a beau sounds. The vowels, A-E-I-O-U, are Lakewood, Ohio, giving names, tele tiful mess. Straight. Here is a word our real singing vehicle. phone numbers, and business connec of eight letters, yet only the vowel A tions. Cleveland and Berea had one "E and 0 are simple vowels. A is means anything from a tonal stand shortly after. The Evansville Chap complex, being, when sung, A-EE. I point. It alone cauies the word is complex, being, when sung. Ah-EE. through a very quick STRAY to a ter printed a splendid job in four U i~ complex, being when sung, EE~ quick finish on EET. pages, letter-head size, including all 00. officers and committees. Chicago "But the real stumbling blocks are Chapter does this annually. Even "Other sounds can be designated as those words with more than one vowels: 00 as in Moon-Boot-O as in syllable, "brother" for example. Two though it is only a mimeographed Should-Would-EH as in Lend-Met syllables. Two vowel sounds. Five sheet, a directory is highly recom AW as in Naught·Law-A as in Fat consonants of no tonal value. And mended for convenience of local chap Catch-IH as in Fish-sift-UH as in ending with a consonant which is a ters everywhere. MAY, 1947 E7~ ~:.-'8 ...:..::.-,,-,-.:..::.c-=_ HARMOl'fZER BUCKEYE MOUNTAIN BOYS in the District Contest. .. Hamilton Cleveland had their Charter Night Mar. 24 by Jim Emsley and Ray Greenfield of Cincinnati presented their charter and believe Akron: The Rubber City 4 and the it or 110t 700 braved a thunder Akronaires are going strong and storm, which later in the evening selling the public on barbershopping turned into a blizzard, to attend. Day -a Parade set for May 31'd has been ton and Middletown Quartets attended held over until full. . . . Alliance en masse to effect the conversion of boasts of a new quartet, The Lost the town to Barbershopping-Hamil Chords spol,ting real old fashioned tall, Ontario sent a swell gesture in a striped silk shirts, black mustaches, 'hands acrosS the border' letter ... peg top pants and button shoes alld where do you meet nicer people than pearl grey derbies-they sure look in SPEBSQSA? ... and incidentally, like and sing like the old timers.... the director of the chorus is a barber Berea reports 3 quartets, t.he Lost (shopper) by the name of Ralph 'Cot Chorders, the Clippers and the Mag ton' Bonar.... Lakewood is still on pies going strong and keeping inte.r the ball about 70 strong-the Chordial est alive by making themselves avaIl 1, the 4 Steps of Harmony, the Yachts able at every civic, church and fra men and chol"uS all joined in starting ternal meeting to which they are in their neighbor, Parma, on the road vited. The Fine Arts Club, St. Thomas Lo harmony success-and then loaned Episcopalian Church and Kiwanis The Buckeye Four, Cleveland as them Paul Crane of the Yachtsmen were among those visited.... Canton's they did Mountain Music at Cleveland as a chorus director. . . . Lorain's Nonchalants are entel'ing their fn'st Pacacl.., Feb. 15, L. to R,-"Pete" Peterson; Joe Zolna; Otto Reichelt; Steel Blenders showed in Columbus, contest in Toledo. May 10-so far they John Weiseman. Canton, Massillon and Warren and have traveled to Elyria. Massillon, with the Hi-Chords at Elyria's Pa Wanen and Alliance on Parades-the rade. Massillon now has intra chapter choTUS and quartets ha\'e been stagillg competition from the 'Melo-dears,' 4 shows in and around town and find the City Four, the Mellow 4 and the Pitch wives of chapter members, and with response wonderful-a Parade held Pipers, and of 4 other qual'tets in the the Tom Cats, Fun Makers, Tiger Jan. 18Lh attracted a full house... making-20 appearances a month Town 4 and Harmonaires showed in Cincinmlti participated with other since Jan. 1 and 50 different items of several of the shows the club present southwestern Ohio chapters in aiding publicity in the daily press-also aid ed in some of the nearby townS-a Pa ed in chartering Middletown, and rade held on Feb. 1 featuring the Hamilton and Middletnwn to get off Harmony Halls and The Westinghouse to fine starts-and together with other Hamilton-and are lending aid to Quartet was a big success-Middle southwestern Ohio chapters are stag Piqua, Troy, Springfield, Lebanon lown chartered in January had a ing a big open air event on June 28th, and Sydney. . . . Defiance held a bang-up Charter Night affair Feb. 25 Jack Moore, extension chairman is on Parade on Apr. 26 after making and are planning in co-operation with the job roaming Ohio and looking for a barnstorming tour of northwestern (Conlimutl 011 Page 49) prospects.... Cleveland's quartets Ohio and has a couple of pl'ospective are in great demand-the Lamplight chapters lined up .. radio spots and ers traveling to Kenmore, N, Y., community sings were civic service Jamestown, N. Y., and Toronto, features-and a minstrel shuw recent Canada, and the other 4 were repre ly held was a huge success.... Elyria Your Voices sented on every Parade in northern enthused the tOW11 \.... ith an all Ohio Ohio.... Columbus staged one of the show where the Ramblers brought WILL BLEND IN SONG 'best ever' Parades on Mar. 29-5 down the house with their nstounding quartets of International fame, the props of costuming, made with sen when you Dine Tom Cats and Jolly Fellows, first and sitized fabrics ... they work under secolld Ohio contest winners made 7 black light, and effect is eel'ie. Elyria's AT of the 10 on stage-Columbus, (as Chord Crusher's made their first Pa well as Cleveland) are planning train rade appearance-Fremont chartered trips to Milwaukee, and their chapter April 10 with 50 members already has MADER'S secretaries \vill let any other inter 2 quartets in the making-21 men met ested barbershopper in on the deal. ... Mar. 30 at the home of D. L. Christy, Famous Restaurant Dayton could use a whole column to Sr., and then interested 29 more to report the activities of their chorus make a club of 50 by AI)!'. 10. Charter and the Jolly Fellows, 4 Sleepless Night is planned and 60 are going * Knights, Four Men of Dayton, Gem to Toledo to hear the quartet entered "A BIT OF OLD MILWAUKEE" German Cooking a SpecirtllY BELVIDERE, ILL. CHORUS * Only 2 blocks East and I Yz blocks North of the Milwaukee Auditorium. rree Parking* Next Door 1041 N. 3rd* Street In its first, Charter Night appearance. this chorus and the Oak Park chorus had the audience "on tha edge of thcic s~ats" thcoughout. MAY, 1947 • Stu HARMONIZER 49 FOUR MEN OF DAYTON CLEVElAND AREA HARMONY On Feb. 6-7, Lakewood Chapter pre Waupaca Chorus showing splendid sented its Minstrel Mimics, sponsored improvement and plans being made for a larger group in coming year ... by Harding Jr. High P. T. A. in the Presented program at Grand Army school's auditorium to two full houses. Home for Veterans at King, Wiscon Directed by Arthur D, Johnson, the sin to packed auditorium . . . Also show was an authentic re-creation of at Gerold Opera House, Weyauwega, in benefit program ... Held costume old time minstrelsy augmented by party in form of old-time box social more-than-typical millstrel qU81·tet · .. Chapter receiving very favorable ing. Show was repeated for Parma, Ohio publicity in community ... All quar Chapter. tets busy filling many engagements · .. Kenosha showing joel'easing activ L. to R.-Che~ter Boren. tenor: Feb. 15. Ohio No. 1. chapt.er, Cleveland, Harold Green. lead; Donald Porter, ity and qual'tet performances in Vet~ bad; Ralph Pence. bus. gave its Third Annual Parade in erans Hospital and churches ... Held Music Hall, featuring vaudeville tech successful Ladies' Night meeting on THREE RIVERS CHARTERED nique with different sets in the cos March 17 Chorus making steady Three Rivers (Mich.) High School tume themes of each quartet which progress has 3 organized quartets Auditorium was packed to capacity · . , Wauwatosa reports steady prog Friday, March 7th when George included the Garden State, Lakewood ress in promoting principles of bar Strickler, president of sponsoring Yachtsmen, Westinghouse and the bershop harmony in community with Jackson Chapter, pre sen ted the Misfits as guest visitors. numerous appearances of "Village SPEBSQSA charter to the members March 7 the Berea Chapter held a Four" quartet and "Medley Aires" ... of the new Three Rivers Chapter. , Chorus made two appearances at Vet The Jackson Chorus, led by Francis concert, guests on invitation, at. Fine erans Hospital and patients at other Hodgeboom, and four quartets from Arts Club, described by Pres. uWal1y" hospitals have been entertained by Jackson, plus two from Kalamazoo U combined chorus and quartet groups Force as a "trial run or test flight did the indoctrinating muscially, while to determine talent and furnish prac · .. Chapter making plans for Ladies' lnt'l. Sec. Adams installed the Chap Night in May and taking steps to be ~er's officers. tice for a public concert to held ward Parade in fall ... On March 15 later in the year. Hacine staged its 2nd Annual Har JAMESTOWN "HEALTHY" mony Jubilee ... Entire show pro duced by Frank A. Carey and Chapter A healthy indication, (at least in the tenders vote of thanks for a splendid eyes of this l·eportel'), was the at job ... Seating capacity of 2000 sold tempt by Jamestown Chapter to get (Continued from page -18) out weeks befol'e show . . . Show away from the "straight" Parade of staged in unique setting befOl·e en Quartets in their first show staged in Dayton, Cincinnati and Hamilton a thusiastic audience who, after Grand the high school auditOl'ium, April Miami Valley Parade at a Chautauqua 12th. Several stunts which we can't camp on June 28-and a Parade on describe for lack of space livened the Oct. IS-and to keep the boys on edge, evening and improved the show con issue a bulletin called 'The Razor's "THE CHORDETTES" siderably. The singing was taken Edge'-and 6 quartets (and get these care of most capably by the Doctors names) the Closeaires, The ~1iddle Congratulations of Harmony, Westinghouse, Lamp tones, The :F'ootwarmers, The Burning for an excellent performance on lighters, Schenectady Harmoneel"S, Shingles 4, The Sour-dos and The (when are these duplications of names Eagle-aires are being beseiged by re FRED WARING'S program. going to stop?) Tri-Ci Synchronizers, quests so that the club has set up a WES GUNTZ Velvatones, Melo-Tones, Silver Dol quartet promotion and community lars, For Fun Four, Four Notes and service committee and all requests for the Songsters. Jamestown's 40-voice a quartet appearance are cleared Finale, left in highly typical "barber chorus, under Pres. Hoskin, performed through that committee.. , . Parma's shopping" frame of mind ... Besides nicely. Staging was handled by charter party Jan. 29 helped boost the Chapter Chorus and the McPhees of George Warren. Chuck Glover, Milt membership to 40, and the chorus is Eckstrom and Ralph Carlson, of the enthusiastically rehearsing under the JoUet, quartets participating were Committee, with the able assistance baton of Paul Crane and are planning "Mellotones," Racine; I MUSIC BUSINESS for January couple of SPEBSQSA'ers for inter devoted almost a page to SPEB, in mission." cluding a big picture taken during a Manhattan Chapter meeting. Excerpts Colin Sabiston, Music Critic of the follow: "Music Business can no longer Globe and Mail wrote: ignore the threat of the SPEBSQSA. Reporters, office boys, other research "Nothing could mar the simple plea ers sent to local meetings of this in sure of such an evening, not even the ternational society have come back one or two ensembles which were off not with facts, but with membership pitch, nor those whose trial-and-errol' cards, glazed eyes, a'nd the detennina efforts at special anangements l'an tion to form their own quartets ... to thin harmony, WAvering tonal qual Stated doctrine of the SPEBSQSA is ity and unorthodox tempo. A number HTo keep barbershop quartet singing of quartets were built up from a mez in its rightful place as a highly tra zo-barit.one bottom, leading to re ditional form of American folk newal of the question as to whether The Nevada State Journal, Reno, The music," masks its clever sub-rosa or not deep bassos really are disap· San Francisco Call-Bulletin, and the purpose which is to get enough fourth pearing from this continent." San Francisco News are among the part singers into the organization to papers which devoted space to de support the 1'oal formenters of this scribing a record cut by members of movement, those baritone and lead the Santa Rosa Chapter. San Fran singers who have yearned for years to Tn the January '47 house magazine of cisco was about to abandon its pic have three other singers to back up Kearney & Trecker Corp., Milwaukee, turesque and historical cable caTS but their dulcet tones." Jack YOWlg WTote an excellent story this Santa Rosa quartet defended the about SPEB and what it stands for. old cable cars in song addressed to one of the best we've seen. One thing Mayor Roger Lapham of San Fran. The Hagerstown, Md. Mail, announc bothered us, a point that is touched cisco. A line packed with appeal was ing the Mid-Atlantic States contest up on our editorial page, this issue. "We love cable cars. \Vhy in the heck at Baltimore, headlined it "And the and that was the publishing of obso don't you? We don't want twin-en Beer Will Flow." It is natural to lete membership figures. We realize gine buses, they're not for guys like assume that it did to reasonable ex that Young probably double checked uses." tent, but not sufficiently to warrant before he wrote "245" as the total of Society chapters. By the time his 'S announcing the contest as if it weTe a guzzlefest. Walt Stephens, always story went to print, we had topped alert to items which do not present the 300 listed in our February issue. The BaLill:! Creek, Mich., ENQUIRER the Society in its true light, wrote NEWS devotes an editorial to Nelson the editor: Now, if some chapter lifts that 246 Eddy's one man quartet as follows: figure and prints it in a program or ll\Vhile we are not considered "Blue gives the figure to a local newspaper, "Making use of the new science of w~ recording, it is said, Nelson Eddy, the Nosers" in any scnse of the word, an error can be repeated over and singer, has made four recordings of vigorously protest such erroneous over. The whole point. apart from our one song and had them blended to statements as covered" in this caption appreciation of Young's stor)', is gether on one disc. According to the in connection with our Society's of check \vith the Int'1. Office before report, admirers ot Mr. Eddy's vocal ficial contest. These contests are II quoting data about the Society. For efforts can now get a quadruple ef serious affair for our entire member example, the 300 chapters quoted in fect with only one record, or four ship and for the many quartets that February is obsolete already. times as much for the same money. come from surrounding cities to com We doubt. if this \\;11 worry the Socie pete for the high honor! in Barber ty for the Presen'ation and Encour shop Quartet singing. It is an estab agement of Barbershop Quartet Sing lished fact that drinking and good The Kansas City Realtor, Marc.h '47, singing do not mix and our Soc.iety ing in America. Science has yet to C8nies a column H 10 Years Ago in make a tenor sound like a bass." frowns upon drinking in aU forms the Realtor" in which it refers to a while performing in the art of close quartet composed of Sewall Mudge, harmony. Drinking is more apt to ·Walt Franey, Dick Jenkins and Joe confuse noise with art. Stern. This was the origin of the We are sure that had you known the K. C. Barber Polecats, now K. C. Nixson Dent.on, Sports Editor of the real facts about OUI' Society you would Serenaders. Cincinnati TIMES-STAR, protested never have permitted the use of such bitterly against barbershop quartets a caption as covered your December that go highbrow. Said he in part. news item." "This column, a connoisseur for 40 10 On March 12, United Press writer, yean of barbershop bellowings, sug· Robert Richards, quoted Geoffre)' gests, nay, demands, that Saturday (The Old Songs) O'Hara as stating night's menu be made to conform to Said the Toronto Evening Telegram, that what American opera needs is tradition that Queen Cityans of this reporting that city's first Parade, fewer Italian tenors. He says that an generation may be brought face to March 1: uThe whole fine perform import can't Ukiss a girl without keep face, or ear to larynx, with the great ance might be an answer to the llong_ ing his eyes on the conductor's baton works of Von Ti1:~er. Van Alstyne, hair' cry that America has no :folk. . " . and that is extremely bad box Dresser and that Schubert of the music, for Saturday night the music office." tonsorial parlors, Charles K. Harris. was truly the people's. What songs Let the public, sated with arias, full could belong more to everyone than O'Hara says that an American tenor up with a tonality and chords that 'Apple Blossom Time,' the tragedy of needn't watch. He closes his e)'es. never quite meet, be made aware of the thirsty cowboy in lCool Water,' grabs the babe, and lets the music the sweetness, the ringing beauty of and the pathos of the 'Honest Work flow. Geoff also maintains that no the songs of a generation that wasn't ing Girl' when the wicked bartender European quartet can compare with too busy avoiding being smacked by filled her beer can with foam-spelt our SPEBSQSA variety. "In Europe automobiles and worrying over coal If·o_m_e t by the bass. they put the baritone three tones over strikes to gulp at hea-ring about the bass ... over here we place the mother's old red shawl and sniffle uIt is a suggestion that if symphonies tOp tenor an octave and three tones when the mocking birds were singing wanted to lift their annual deficits above the bass ... that's what makes in the wildwood." painlessly ~ they might import a our quartets sound so supel·." MAY, 1947 £71(. HARMONIZER THREE THOUSAND MILES OF Keep./J~g~ COINCIDENCE Henry S. Cooke, Reno Chapter, is the By George W. Campbell son of S. S. Cooke, Middleburgh, N. Y., who sang tenor in the old I maintain that everybody loves to The theory most universally accepted !\.laple City Four. Cooke, Sr. original sing! 1 am not saying that everybody as to the origin of music is, that ly joined the Schenectady Chaptp can sing, and I am not saying that music finds its origin in rhythm. when Board Member Art Merrill, brother of Int'l Vice Pres. Charlie everybody will sing even in a group Rhythm is inherent in the human where singing is being jjsinged." Merrill of Reno, organized that chap mind. Hence we are all musical ter. Some people love to sing silently-and not all musicians. 'We possess a should, but they love to sing! People capacity. an endowment, which ac Cooke. Jr. is now President of Reno love to sing alone when they are sure counts for our response to sound and Chapter while Cooke, Sr. is President at Middleburgh, N. Y. Charlie Mer· they are not being heard, that is, lone when expressed in rhythmic pat certain people. I have often won rill got Cooke, Jr. into the Reno Chap terns. That endowment is rhythm. ter. Brother Art Merrill presented dered why so many people sing in No one is ever completely lacking in the Middleburgh Charter to Cooke, the bath. I have wondered how long this capacity. If you Question whether Sr. three thousand miles away. people have been singing in the bath. or not you possess this gift, check Petronius, a Roman satirist, was these experiences: given to singing in the bath. Says THE DRIFTWOOD FOUR 'Vhile walking down the street do Petronius: "Presently, feeling tired, I sat down, and being tempted by you ever hum or whistle a tune? the resonance of the bathroom, began "Surely" you say; "most everyone to murder some of Menecrates songs." has had that experience." How do you account for it? It's simple. Your Yep, people love to sing, and they rhythmic sense comes to your rescue enjoy being led into singing together. "Keep American Singing" is not only amid the mOJlotonOU5 tramp of one an official slogan of our Society, but foot after the other in a one two, it spells out one of our opportunities one two, one two; and so you find At Middleburgh. N. Y. Charter and responsibilities, We are a Society yourself hummin~ in self defense Night this quartet cooked up good harmony. L. to R.-Alfred H. Cooke, dedicated to the purpose of preserv against monotony. Check this one: Shubel S. Cooke, Raymond R. Cooke, ing and encouraging barbershop quar Have you ever been bothered by the and Gordon Smith. tet singing in America. tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, tick \\'e will do more preserving and en tock sound of the clock? \Vhat hap cOUl'aging of barbershop quartet sing pens? Again your rhythmic sense ing in America if we "Let the People comes to your rescue, and very likely Sing" who attend our great parades you will begin to fill in between the or quartets; also encourage our chap tick and the tock a little rhythmic "'Be4t ter members, who have the talent, to pattern all your own. like: tickie tickie make themselves available for com OF '46 RECORDINGS" tock tock, tickie tickie tack tock, munity activities in the leadership of Here are the best of '46 just as they tickie tickie tock tock. song. 'Thus we extend the usefulness aanq them in the Cleveland Finals. professionally recorded. and pressed of the Society as a whole to "Keep Oft times this results in arranging a in pennanent Vinylite for standard America Singing." America wants melody to fit your rhythmic pattern, home record players -,-__-,-_ to sing. America needs must sing presto: you are composing on the set of 3 double faced records fea now more than anytime in our his tures ..._. __ ._._ Gorden State. spot. Without this musical (rhythmic) Kansas CUy Serenadera. Hi-Los, tory. To slight this opportunity, sense there would be no accounting Cbordoliers, and Doctors of Hor· which is peculiarly ours, would be to mony _. . __ __ ._.Numbera in lor our response to music as a listen shirk our responsibility. clude "'Way Down in Georgia:' er or participant. "Where the 0 rea m y Wabash Every chapter of this Society has nows:' "Garland of Old Fashioned Yes, all this and more too, is God men with the talent needed for this Roses:' "Dear Old Girl:' ·'Some· Given. 'Ve are musical beings whether day" and "My Dreams are Getting service. Just as surely as we need Beller" we like it or not. This is basic; fun directors for our chapter choruses Complete set sent postpaid $6.00 just as surely do we need song lead damental. It is the answer to why Immediate shipment - Supply def ers to lead the people. The skills and we sing, why we respond the way we initely limited. - order now! Make techniques Lor the song leader are not do to music as a listener, as a par checks payable to Neff Recording Company-and mail to Carroll P. the same 813 those needed by the di ticipant; why we love to dance (or A dam s. International Secretary, rector., You may have what it takes. do you), and why we do some of the 18270 Grand River Avenue, Detroit (23) Michigan. Let's get together and do something crazy things we do under the influence about it next month at Milwaukee. of music. The physical and the SEND IN YOUR ORDER TODAY Capt. Campbell's class for community psychological effects of music on the song leaders will meet at Hotel human being are terrific. HWhy do Schroeder, MilwaUkee at 9:00 a. m., Saturday, June 14. Enroll now at we love to sing TOGETHER 1" That's Int.'1. Office if interested. another story. MAY, 1947 52 - OJ{,, HARMONIZER Touring the Chapters broadcasts over local radio station~ PASADENA CHARTERED · .. fine reports received from listen IN BIG WAY with Bill Otto ing public. . Thirty-five members, with ladies, attended Parade at Santa Fourteen quartets furnish a big show in themselves. Add combined choruses 7«< 'Uleau" gtafe4 Monica ... Three quartets represent of Pasadena and San Gabriel, Calif., ed on program ... Local music critic the sponsoring chapter, and the re~ Twenty-two qua r t e t s from FAR special guest on trip-very favorably sult was a chartering night, Feb. 15, WESTERN DISTRICT participated impressed and made fine report . . . that set a West Coast record. Russ in Inter-Chapter Parade at Santa Minstrel Show at Long Beach, Cali Stanton, San Gabriel, President of the Monica on March 22nd ... 1nt'1. First fornia reported elsewhere this issue Far Western District, presented the Vice-President Charles M. Merrill · .. Major activity pointed toward charter to Reedie Wright, Pasadena acted as M. C.... Quartets from 12 first Int'I. Sect'l. Preliminary Contest president. The new chapter alread)' Califol'llia and Arizona chapters gave to be held in Far West ... Quartets has its printed publication liThe Bar· public of Bay district southern Cali performed on weekly broadcasts over bershopper," loaded with news and fornia a fine demonstration of barber Station KFOX ... All 6 organized with comment as a guide to new shop harmony ... Parade voted huge quartets extremely active . . . San members who haven't yet had time to success and public clamoring for more Francisco, California reports long list learn quite what it's all about. · . Quartets from San Gabriel, Cali of hospital and civic organization ap fornia actively engaged in entertain pearances of HClaim Jumpers and ing civic clubs, hospitals and other "The Golden Statesmen"; and Chorus groups during quarter ... Two quar · .. These include Veterans, Naval and tets had part in Inter-Chapter Parade Civil Hospitals ... Chapter active in at S.mta Monica ... Next major ob organizing new chapters in area with Th~ jective Minstrel Show planned May high degree of success.... E In Printing ... 16 and 17 ... Busily engaged in ex tension work in southern California First major public presentation by · .. Several members plan to attend Glendale Chapter was the Charter International Convention in Milwau Night Banquet, held Friday, February kee ... Distance no deterrent to this 21st, at Masonic Temple. Choruses Excellent active group . . . Hollywood, Cali· and quartets from many nearby ISTRE WORD fornia, having signed up member Bing chapters participated along with Mas Crosby all set to fit him into quartet ter of Ceremonies Russell Stanton, · .. Chapter recently sponsored chap President of Far Western District. ters at Pasadena and Glendale and Audience heard a fine program of participated actively in both charter harmony. Quartets on the program Excellent Printing night presentations ... Two quartets from sponsoring Hollywood Chapter is produced in our plant be were UMelodymen," llHigh Sierranad took part in Santa Monica Parade ... cause itreceives careful planned ers." From Pasadena, "Crown City Chapter will stage first Parade, Sun production. Each department day, May 11, day following Int'I. Four" and llFour Roses." San Ga~ briel "Keynoters" and "Gabrielairos." has predetermined standards Sect'l. Preliminary at Long Beach, of quality and the work is May 10 ... purpose ... to raise funds From Long Beach, "Elks Quartet." to send winning quartet to Conven From Santa Monica, "West Coasters" handled by expert craftsmen. tion in Milwaukee That's typical and from Glendale, "Orange Blos Constant care and precision of western spirit Activities at soms," "Barbel' Chords" "Cornel' always assures a uniform pro Heno, Nevada highlighted by numer Four," "Jewel City Four." Specialty duct of the finest workmanship. ous appearances of "Bonanza Four" "The Four Barons of Harmony," well known Hollywood professional quar and active participation of Int'I. First Printers for Vice-Pres. Chas. Merrill in all F31' tet, sang. Glendale Chapter Chorus Western District affairs ... The man sang under directorship of D. Plumb. S. P. E. B. S. Q. S. A. gets around ... Tri-Cit)' (Maywood), Presentation of Charter was made by California reports new quartet "Roun William Cargo, President, Hollywood deliers" ... Chapter has total 3 active Chapter. organized quartets, all engaged in Phoenix, Arizona, has many visitors public and radio performances ... due to publicity of widely circulated TheGRIT Three quartets from San Diego, Cali "Phoenix Spot-Lite" a d v e l' tis i n g fornia, "Southern Cals," "San Diego pamphlet ... "Phoenix Four" making Printing Company Four" and "Foul' Staters" in wide many public appearances ... "West 745 So. Emporil .. Telephone 2-8441 variety of appearances ... Chorus ernaires" a quartet that gets around, WICHITA 11, KANSAS fast gaining name for self in southern appeared at Santa Monica, California, California making appearances and Pa,·ade.... ------_.- KANSAS CITY PARADE - GRAND FINALE "Harmony Hits High 'C'" reported a Kansas City paper. also presented a Sunday Matinee. to full houses in both cases. April 13. when "the old songs lived anew in all their glory at Sunday morning. a police-escorted motor caravan took all the Music Hall and a capacity audience enjoyed completely Visiting quartets on a 2·hour "rubber neck" tour. Part of the the second Annual Parade of Quartets." The visiting quartets: effective promotion of the concerts was a guest appearance of The Decaturettes. Flying L Ranch, Four Harmonizers, the K. C. Chorus and quartets at the big annual Insurance Ass'n. Keynotes. Newton, Kans. and The ChordoHers. The chapter dinner in advance of the show dates. MAY. 1947 Diu HARMONIZER 53 ~Statu "Nostalgic. Four" continue to have QUEEN CITY FOUR more requests for appearances than Toronto Kansas City, Mo. Chapter celebrated they can possibly handle .. , Abilene, first Guest Night with capacity crowd I(ansas reports continued enthusiasm of over 300 •.. Plans on similar event and public appearances of quartets several times a year ... Large group and Chorus ... Hermann, Missouri members, quartets and entertainers chapter sponsors Union, assisted by assist in Pittsburg, Kansas charter St. Louis and Clayton Chapters' quar presentation ... Oklahoma City, tets and Chorus ... Chorus directed Okla. experiencing fine steady, healthy by Doc Schmidt livened the evening's growth ... One of city's leading mu festivity ... llAl'mchair Four" and sicians, Tracy Silvester, rehearsing "The 4th Street 4" busy filling en Chapter for April 19 show with ex gagements in community, .. Secre cellent results . . . Hutchinson, tary Harrison, of Scottsbluff, Ne Kansas, with assistance of Wichita braska reports long list public appear and Pratt Chapters, presented King ances before wide variety of com man their charter on March 28, pre munity and civic organizations by senting fine program before audience I • MY PRETTY EILEEN • TELL ME YOU'LL fORG I VE ME • HEART Of MY HEART • I HAD A DREAM • TUMBLIN' TUMBLEWEED. MY PRETTY MANDY Thousands of barbershoppers bave heard these sweet singing gals on parades and shows. Hear them again in traditional barbershop style - yOU'll love them! 'PINKY' 'FRAN' AN A'nRACTIVE ALBUM OF 3 RECORDS 'GINNY' 'VERA' $450 Postpaid Send Check or WOL VERINE RECORDllVG CORP 207 Otsego Ave, Money Order to Jackson, Mich. SPECIALIZING IN BARBERSHOP QUARTET RECORDS MAY, 1947 Stu. HARMONIZER CAUTION Red Light Ahead The use of the Society's name or emblem for commercial advertising is specifically forbidden. The name be longs to your Society through a legal transfer made several years ago from O. C. Cash, founder, to your organ ization. As the Society became more widespread and better kno,",'ll this move was necessary in order to pro· teet O. Co's "baby" from unauthorized use by commercial advertisers at tempting to profit by associating their names with us. Let us examine the evidence "State_ ment of Policy on Article 7 of the Code of Ethics." To leave no doubt about the meaning of Article 7, the Ethics Committee printed the follow ing in '46: "OUT code of ethics contains the following statement: 'We shall not use our membership in the Society for personal gain.' This is a clear cut statement and can be interpret ed in but. one way: No quartet should use the name, initials, or emblem of the Society in the solici tation of paid engagements. Cer· tainly if the qual·tet used the name, initials, or emblem of the Society to obtain paid engagements, it would be using the Society for per~ sonal gain, and that is contrary to OUT code." If a quartet gets out an advertising piece including the Society name or emblem, it looks to the uninitiated as if the Quartet were furnished official~ Iy by the Society. The Society owns no quartets. They are free agents at all times. But, neither does any quar tet own the Society, therefore it -may not use the Society's name or emblem commercially. BOYNE CITY'S BUSH LEAGUE CONTEST A SUCCESS On January 25, the Boyne City, Mich. Chapter held a Bush League Contest limited to chapters with 50 members or less or chapters organized since Labor Day '46. No quartet with more than one member who had ever placed in competition could enter. State Contest rules were followed. Seven quartets toed the mark before Judges Howard Heath, Vernon Hale, Peter Pell and Cecil Watson. The Saturday Nighters, Charlevoix, won Programs . .. Broadsides . . . General Advertising the first prize, oyster can top, medal. Second place HChampeen-also ran" Commercial Printing medal went to the Friendly Four, Mt. Pleasant. Other competitors were Publications .... House Organs . Catalogs Ferris Wheelers, Big Rapids; North men, Traverse City; Pleasantaires, Mt. [Printin~ trac~g pape~s cl~ths Pleasant; Yachtsmen, Manistee and SPECIALISTS of and ) the Boyne-Aires. L. V. Wilson, Boyne Processmg of pnnted. c1iecut deVlces City secretary, reports that three of the competing quartets later entered Your Inquiry Is Invited the state contest, thus carrying out the Bush League purpose to en THE MARTIN PRINTING COMPANY courage the smaller chapter. 640 CAXTON BUILDING •• CLEVELAND 15, OHIO Boyne City plans to repeat next year JAMES F. KNIPE, President including reappearance of the Snow Belt Chorus. MAY, 1947 !?lit. HARMONIZER 55 (Ctmrimltd frqm PtI&' 53) COCA·COLA 4 on a major scale on the occasion of Charter Night program, February Chor~s Dire.ctor ... Secretary reports Hutchinson, Kansas fine lIlcreasmg attendance ... First 11th, at Corydon School Auditorium. public appearance as Chorus made re Sponsoring chapter, Louisville, Ky.. cently and other engagements sched there in force, assisted by quartets uled . . . Reports organization new from Evansville, Indiana. Fritz Dry· quartet and expectations are that brough, President of Louisville, and Chapter will have 3 or 4 top-notchers Bob Sample, President of Corydon soon ... During quarter two quartets acted jointly as Masters of Cerernony: were organized in Denver, Colorado and the audience which packed the and progress is being made in blend auditorium was reluctant to leave. ing voices ... many rehearsals held Many expressed opinion that it was by quartets indicating intense interest the best night of entertainment city L. to R, as they participated in the had ever.ha,d. Featured on program · .. One quartet making public ap Ka~sa& City Parade j Paul Cochran, barI ; Harry Schall. lead; Zeph Fisher, were LOUISVille and Corydon choruses, pearances ... Secretary Lay reports tenor j Harold Beyer, bass. chapter is proceeding in right direc and quartets the "Millionaires" from tion. New Albany, Indiana; HChordinals" . A really busy gang who have of Louisville; "Elks Club Quartet" ~f never learned to say Hno" to a worthy Evansville, "Troubadors" of L~uis cause, .. Ft. 'Vayne, Indiana, with 5 ville, "Songfellows," E~ansville and organized quartets and 35-man Chorus quartets .from the home chapter. Report of Elkhart. Indiana shows PresentatIon of chapter made by Jer long list of appearances by 1946 third made appearances during the quarter l'Y Beeler, of Evansville, Int'1. V.-P. place Int'I. winners "Doctors of Har before wide variety of organizations; mony" and numerous appearances by Secretary Juday presents impressive "4 Mugs of Harmony" ... Old time list of public appearances too numer Box Social planned for Mav 17 with ous to mention ... Quartets are j'Four members of nearby chapte~'s invited l\!ajors," "Hobby-H31'monizers," "Sen_ · .. )farch 9, Logansport, Indiana pre~ timental Four," HSummit City Four" G sented a splendid "Harmony" program Chapter proud of part as host to E before an audience of over 1500 ... Indiana-Kentucky Annual Dist. Con FAMOUS Tentative plans already made for an test ... Chapter held very successful o other show in fall ... Chorus making Ladies' Night in March . , . "Senti ::splendid progress under the leader mental !i'our" placed second in con R ship of Bill Terry ... Tell City, In test . , . Actively promoting intel' MILWAUKEE diana making rapid strides in ac chapter relations throughout district G quainting public with "barbershop ... Indianapolis, Indiana laying plans harmony" . . . Double quartet of to sponsor Sectional Preliminary E regular chorus has made several pub Contest . . ' Active participation , STEAKS lic appearances ... Chapter receiv of chapter members and enthusiasm S~ ing excellent favorable publicity ... opening eyes of many men in In~ ~ianapolis Secretary G e 0 r g e Corbridge, of '.' '. Actively engaged Mishawaka, Indiana reports many ap m membershIp drIve and in promot l)earances of "The Vocalizers" and ing inter-chapter relations by visits "Close Shavers" at variety of func to neighboring chapters and Parades tions, .and delegations from chapter .. , Auburn. Indiana held splendid attendmg other chapter meetings and charter presentation pl'ogram during Parades ... Mid-Winter Mixer held quarter. and actively engaged in March 4 with number of visiting quar promotmg "barbershop harmony" in tets and large attendance ... Two community ... We can expect to hear quartets competed in District Contest great things from this group... , · .. Quartets donate services to many Principal event last quarter in Hobart church, Parent-Teachers and Veterans was Open House, February 25th .. _ -IN THE gatherings ... Gary, Indiana takes Sponsoring Gary Chapter presented justifiable pride in its Chorus and enjoyable prog'l'am before 600 . . . MARYLAND HOTEL Octette directed by Dewey Kistler. , . Chapter proved right to Charter by Milwaukee, Wisconsin C~orus, Octette and quartets made presenting 3 quartets, "Four Clefs" tnp to Oak Park, Illinois, entertained "Foul' Dads" and "Hobartaires" ..'. chapter there, in return for visit made by Oak Park to Gary year ago , .. A "come and get it" luncheon served Nucleus of chorus started .. , Enth'e group joul'I1eyed to Joliet to "what you've never had pl'esent program for Joliet Chapter Ladies Night program in May sched members and ladies, , , Quartets are uled... , you'll never know" extremely busy entertaining various Citizens of Cor~'don, were given their local and nearby city organizations first taste of "barbershop harlllony" KITCHENER TO HAMILTON Part of the Grand River ChaPI~r Kitehen~r Ont., about to board the bUll to attend Hamilton, 0"', Ch.,··, p,·o···.·,'O" Program, Photo by Kitehener Rcco~d, ' ". ", " ~... • " MAY, 1947 56 .<17/u, HARMONIZER ---.--- ~b-e-fo-,-·'-~v-.-r-io-u-s-Iocal or-~g=.~n~i~z:a:ti~o:n:s-.-. ~-'UJe4teMe - -.---;======:, Chorus in rehearsal for Barbershop and Gay Nineties Revue April 17th 'it- ~'"' ... Buffalo, N. Y.• with eight organ The "Silver Dollars" quartet of In appreciation ized quartets, setting pace for quartet Rochester. has continual demands for activity in District ... Reports many services from hospitals, schools, social for past favors from functions, etc.... On March 16th, visitors at meetings from other Chap· quartet sang before audience of 3,000 lers . . . Most quartets busy tilling at Eastman Theatre ... Ladies Night engagements in and out of Buffalo ... THE and local Parade held at Binghamton~ "Gas Light Quartet" sponsored. week· Johnson City on February 7th . Iy radio program and appeared in MILWAUKEE Turkey dinner served ... Half-hoUl" Area Parades ... Buffalo pins hopes program broadcast over local station for representation Milwaukee Contest HI-LOS ... IISharp Flats," "Tri-Cy-Synchron on "The Melo Tones!> ... Severe win izers" and "Velvetones" fulfilled many ter weather did not deter quartets engagements for civic, charity and from Niagara Falls from making other functions ... Kenmore Charter many appearances at other chapters • Night celebrated April 22nd with full ... "Experimental Foul''' and "Lost scale program at Memorial Hall ... Chords" braved blizzard to appear at Charter Presentation made by Peter East Aurora Minstrel and Kenmore Golden, President of sponsoring Buf Charter Night ... Secretary Stub falo Chapter ... In spite of terrific Whilmire reports "Melo Tones" of blizzard, attendance was excellent and Buffalo followed snow plow to visit group was surprised by visit from Chapter ... Only thing hot around Lamplighters of Cleveland ... Re Niagara Falls past quarter apparently ports are that "Light" of "Afterglow" "barbershop" harmony ... interesting experience by participation in tele was seen all over Kenmore and Buf vision display broadcast reported . _ . falo ... Quartets are "Three M. Foul''' "Four Crows" of Gowanda made num· and uKenkords" who made appear bel' of public appearances ... second • ances at civic organization meetings, quartet organized, and two more in television show and Crippled Chil process ... Elmira, N. Y. quartets The MILWAUKEE BREWERS dren's Hospital ... Chorus of Hornell, participated in Penn Yan Parade ... BASEBALL CLUB journeyed to Bath Veterans Facility, More snow storms around 'Varsaw. (American Association) for program in hospital and theatre However, "Western New Yorkerg" MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN .. Both organized quartets appeared (Turn 10 N,xt Fag') * MILWAUKEE --LODGE No. 46- Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Extends its greetings to the International Convention of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America. TIII~S"TUIWAY SVll:NINC POST Incorporated (fEdward Jones! Robert Stone! You gel hack with the first tenors w'hCl:e you belong!" * Courtesy-Curti. Publishing Co" 5.1turdll.y EvenlnQ PoBI MAY, 1947 Jh. HARMONIZER 57 (CA,uimad from Qppf1Sile page) Champions HGarden State Quartet" and "Garfield Four" from Garfield, battle dl'ifts to East Aw'ora for Min· N. J .. , . This followed by dinner strel both nights ... Host at meeting "Jersey Ramblers" of Newark, N. J., dance, given in honor quartets who designated as Buffalo Night ... Bus entertained Ladies Night meeting made quartet round-up success . . , load delegation from Buffalo present Manhattan Chapter ... Chapter plans . . . Quartets of Genesee-Rochester Ladies Night their own May 3rd ... Penns Grove-Carnel's Point, N. J. re took active part in Red Cross Drive II Four Chords" present organiza ports numerous public appearances of . . . "Melody Mutilators" sang at tion meeting new Philadelphia Chap "Toppers" . . . Outstanding success Sampson Naval Hospital and Bath ter ... "Essex Four" sang for joint was Garfield, N. J. second annual Soldiers Home . . . Chapter proud meeting of bible classes Sunday morn Parade February 25th. "Garden State of Rochester's "Silver Dollars" ap ing recently . . . urged to continue Quartet" headlined show 12 quartets pearance with Civic Orchestra, where every Sunday . . . Chapter has use . . . "Garfield Four" busily engaged they were enthusiastically received ribbon recorder furnished by Ray at various chapter Pal'ades and chari· . . Immediate objective, prepara Sandiford . . . All Chapter quartets ty and civic affairs ... Bronx, N. Y. tion for Parade May 17th . sang at Passaic Parade ... Baltimore, Police Quartet and Club Harmony East Aurora present epoch-mak Md. Chapter No. 1 active in improv Quartet participated in "Garden ing Minstrel Show February 7-8 ... ing upkeep new chapter hall ... Loan State" Parade ... Four Sharps enter Much credit to Director Paul Zeller, use of hall to Optimist Club, charita tained disabled veterans Kingsbridge who arranged all music barbershop ble institution for benefit boys ... Base Hospital ... Chapter featured style and trained Chorus and princi "It's a sin to tell a lie" should be beefsteak party for members. Quar pals in show ... Orchids also to Win popular in chapter-Composer Billy tets participating were Police Quar Jackson for splendid planning ... Mayhew now member .. , Delegation tet, Club Harmony Quartet, Hook and given lor benefit of East Aurora High including four quartets from Dela Ladder Four, Four Sharps, Silver School Memorial Athletic Fund.... ware Chapter No. I (Wilmington) Tops and Excelsior Four ... Jersey Schenectady maintaining high degree made pilgrimage to Bridgeton, N. J. City, N. J. report highlighted by the of activity ... Besides meeting every to help celebrate Bridgeton's first numerous appearances of Interna Tuesday night, chorus sang at 3 birthday party ., A splendid tional Champions Garden State Quar events and 8 organized quartets took evening harmony enjoyed . . , Good tet ... The champs appeared during part in 38 events. Entertained audi example inter-chapter relations . . . the quarter in very nearly every type ences of 12,200 , .. Sponsored Middle· of affair imaginable ... List of en burg, N. Y. Chapter, and chorus and Much activity reported by District of Columbia Chapter. "Potomac Clip gagements far too numerous to men quartets aided in Charter Night pro tion ... Chapter instrumental in or gram ... Proceeds for benefit of high pers/' "Diplomats" and 'I Fed 0 r a Four" competed in the Mid-Atlantic ganization Lyndhurst , .. Held sue· school band, .. Chorus and 5 quartets cessful Ladies Night January 18th .. _ entertained patients of Saratoga Vet Contest . . . "Potomac Clippers" erans Hospital ... 4 quartets provided won 3rd place ... with the assistance First Annual Parade held on Febru 15-minute pl'ogram, Station WBCA of "Withered Foul''' of Paterson, put ary 1st . , , Garden State Glee Club , .. Chorus to participate in Masonic on two-hour show for benefit George entertained at Dinner Dance, March Minstrel Show in May.... Washington University Hospital Fund 15th.... -half·hour of show broadcast ... Very favorable publicity .. , One-hour, GOTHAM LADIES NIGHT show March 20th Forest Glen Annex On St. Patrick's Day, a big day in -Walter Reed Army Hospital ... New York City, Manhattan Chaptel' Secretary Howard Cranford reports held its first Ladies Night in the ban· quartets constantly engaged in per forming in hospitals, civic meetings CENTRAL STATES room of the Hotel Pennsylvania be· ASSOCIATION OF CHAPTERS fore a capacity audience. Sig Spaeth and other affairs ... Planning Parade MC'd. Quartets on the program were October 24 at Constitution Hall, SPEBSQSA, 1I1C. Garden State, Manhattanites, Uni Washington's finest auditorium ... "Barber-shopping" definitely arrives at versity Glee Club, Illustrators' Club, Announcell Its First Withered Four, Paterson and the Jer the capital of our Nation ... Passaic, sey Ramblers, Newark. The Chap N. J, staged successful Parade April Annual Summer ter's 65 man chorus, led by Dick 12th at High School Auditorium ... Grant, pleased the crowd, as did mem featured "The Garfield Four," "'With Round-Up ber Ed Doty, manager of the hotel ered Four," "Hill Toppers," "Essex who sang an Irish solo and led com Four," "Legion-aires," "Jersey Ram ELDON, MO., .. JULY, 12-13 munity singing, blers," l 11lchufes all Chapters ill TEXAS . . OKLAHOMA KANSAS . . MISSOURI IOWA . . NEBRASKA EASTERN COLORADO See Bulletins For Details BERNIE SIMNER, Ch'm. "Ladies Night was a terrific: suc who reports "Dick Grant's work as 811 Ry. Exch. Bldg. cess" says Ted Livingston, Sec. "Vests Director makes me realize all the finC' ST. LOUIS. MO. burstin" with pride all over the audio thini'S I've heard about him are true." torium.· Verified by Int'!' Sec. Adams MAY, 1947 58 9"_ HARMONIZER SAGINAW PRESENTS eM tJ 9 this offic~. + 759 N. Water St, MILWAUKEE, WIS. MA.7703 Outside to center: Jim Matthews. lead; George Small, bad; Ray Klee, tellor; Hector Corbo, bass. The name and costumes of this quartet were mainly a "gag" in 1943 when they + appeared as a last minute fill-in at the Paterson Contest, and won first prize. It is one of the most popular quartets in the east, having appeared at every Parade and Contest in the Mid-Atlantic States District. Their e.ntrance with a wheel-chair. creates quite a stir. Jim Matthews is Pres. of Paterson, N. J. Chapter and Mid-Atlantic States District. (World Wide Photo.) MAY, 1947 glt~ HARMONIZER 59 1tUi' Elt .~p.EnsqSA.f1aciOlls PENN YAN CHARTERED qlU,rlels USI! "Penn Yan likes barbershop singing" said the Rochester, N. Y. Democrat Mills Barber Shop Harmony folios Chronicle about charter night festivi ties in the Finger Lakes community. Compiled and Edited by SIGMUND SPAETH At 11:30 the capacity audience at Junior H. S. auditorium clung stub BARBER SHOP HARMONY bornly to the seats, stamping, whist ling and applauding "lVe want more." It. su.ndard favorire collection with male qllarrets-indudin,s:: such favorites as Homer Scott, Geneva, N. Y. sponsor GIRL OF MY DREAMS-BY THE WATERMELON VINE-I HAD ing chapter president, presented the A DREAM, DEAR - DINAH - SWEET ROSES OF MORN .nd charter to Pres. Leon Taylor of Penn man)' others. Pril:e 60c Yan. The quartets which held the audience to such late hours were the More BARBER SHOP HARMONY Snyder quartet which featured an 84 Every :trranp:ement is by an SPEBSQSA member, including CONEY ISLAND year-old father and his 3 sons, the BABY - NOBODY'S SWEETHEART-MOONGLOW - TELL ME Weade Willies, Looney Tuners, Melo \\'1HY and many others. Price 60l: dy Melodeers, What Are We Here 4, Gay Nineties 4, Melody Mutilators "TWO BARBER SHOP BALLADS" and Vclvatones. A Beard-TiCkling Harmony Song THE OLD BARBER SHOP DEFIANCE, OHIO STAGES Published in a Special Edition together with TWO-CITY MINSTEL SHOW I WANT TO HARMONIZE Defiance, Ohio's Barbershop Minstrels opened to a full house in the local Price SOC high school auditorium, Feb. 7, re peated the performance the next MILLS MUSIC, Inc. 1619 Broadway, New York 19, N. Y. night, then took to the road and played Napoleon, 0., Feb. 10, under Enclosed please find for sponsorship of Napoleon's Kiwanis ., Barber Shop Harmony More Barber Shop Harmony Club. Attendance at the second De ...... Two Barber Shop Ballads fiance show almost equalled the open ing. Top notch costuming, excellent Name . . .. __ . . lighting, good (clean) jokes enhanced the singing of the Hot House Four, Street . __ . __ . ______. __ .. __ . __ __ . the Chord Cutters, the City Clippers City .. .. State...... __ . and Four Guys Named Joe, and the 5-47 Har. Defiance chorus undel' direction of I * _ gg ;;;; Loren S. MncDonald. MAY, 1947 Note-ManY Chapt,n will hav, new \ INT~RNATIONAL DIR~CTORY OF C~APT~RS ( S,cr,t.rilu after July 1 j CANADA Canton-D. G. Armsuong, Sec. TeU City-Gene H. Scbnock, Sec. New Brunswick 65 E. Spruce St.-943 906 131h St.-511 Frederleton-G. Herbert IGtcben, Sec. Cbcnnpai5fD.Urbana-A. W. McLintock. Sec. Terr. Haut_Roy W. McCray. Sec. 301 Woodstock Rd.-1248 601 N. McKfnler. Champaiqn-9696 1638 N. Center St.-C-7566 Ontario Cbarlelton-BemJe Cobble. Sec. Wabalb-Donald S. Brown, Sec. Brantlord-Harry Wood. Sec. 1442 S. Uth St.-1644 443 W. Main St.-669 33 Fair Ave. Chlcaqo-Hugo L. Stanger. Sec. IOWA Chatham-Thos. J. Gray, Sec. 6522 N. Wayne Ave.-Ardmore 3458 Clear Lake-B. D. Meniman. Sec. 120 CornhiU 51.-1214 Cilsna Park-Lester W. Koqler. Sec. 208 W. Main St. Hamilton-Herbert A. Hodgson, Sec. ClaytonTil1e. m.-ei.5!ina Pk. 72RG7 Council Bluffs-Roy Harding. Sec. 2 Connauqht Ave., 5.-4-8236 DanrilI_John Mitchell. Sec. Be. 189-8105 Kltch.neT-Walter C. Snider. Sec. 15 W. Madison-6029 Del Molne..-Don Davidson. Sec. Mill St.. Bridqeport-2-2304 Deeatur-George H. Wright. Sec. 4424 Carpenter Ave.-S-6093 London-H. W. Hell. Sec. 1204. E. Lawrence St.-4121 Rarlcm-EdqQT E. Lorson. Sec. 428 Richmond St.-Metcalf 1183 1212 6th SI.-469 Sarnla-Georqe Ahern, Sec. Dl~rON~Dit;0~X~~:!i3ci9 Sioux Clt,.-Wm. E_ Haqen. Sec. City Hall-4.64-J Elqin-Fred WllIiaml, Sec. 1321 26th St.-57537 Toronto--FHlnk Cartan, Sec. J5 N. Porter St. Walerl00-c.0rq. H. Deitz. Sec. 52 Edgewood Ave.-Howard 9360 Elmhurat-Lewis P. Volpe. Pres. 1419 E. 41h SI. WaUaceburq-James E. Lcrwson, Sec. 289 Pick Ave. KANSAS 42 JObJaOD St.-204-j Farmer City-5lanley J. Hamman. Sec. AbUen...... c. A. Adelson, s.c. Wi2~8fu:::rO~:e~~7S-4~e<;· 823 E. Richardson St.-117 905 N. W. 2nd SL Galelburq-John Cavanaugh. Sec. Arkan.as City-Harry McCuUough. Sec. Wlndao Dean Stevens, Sec. 46 Public 50.-3460·6 Fire Dept.-2377 {Auumplion Colleqe)-3-6355 CeaeTa (Fox RiTer Valle,.)-Les Petersen. Sec. Huleh1Dson-Paul Goodman. Sec. ALABAMA 67 E. Wilson 51.. Batavia 624 E. 6th 51.-4674 Birmln9bam-Vance Busby, Sec. JunctIon City-Jack Montqomery. Sec_ 2306 3rd Ave.• No. la~7N~~~f~t7~:wel,Sec_ R. R. No.2. Chlclr:en House AJUZONA 10Uet--e. ). Xenem. Sec. Kinqman-5lanley A. Reynolds. Sec. Phoenix-W. C. HaUett. Sec. 511 Joliet Bldq.-5219 229 No. Main St. Route 1. Box 98. Laveen. Ariz. Laqranqe-Robert Haeger. Sec. Manhattcm-A. Howard Melander. Sec. CALIFORNIA 421 So. Oak Park Ave.• Oak Park Box 612. Kansal Stale College-2-8476 Bakeulield-Boles S. Dewey. Sec. LaSalle-G. P. Arboit. Sec. PittabuI WARING WOWS WISCONSIN IS YOUR QUARTET NAME Joins Society REGISTERED? ****** by Bill Olto :** Injustice is being done to many quar * VANSVILLE'S tets through the failure of some ***** Chapter Secretaries to register Quar 31°d== tet names in accordance with ArtiCle XVIII of the Society's Constitution. PARADE of CHAMPIONS The Registration List in the Interna tional Office reveals that the names • of many well known quartets which MEMORIAL COLISEUM have won honors in Contests, have not been registered by Chapter Sec Saturday, December 13, 1947 retaries. In several instances, other 8,15 P. M. less well knoym quartets of the same name have had their names reported and are officially registered. Article • XVIII of the Society's Constitution. EVANSVILLE CHORUS says: KENTUCKY TROUBADORS "Each Chapter Secretary shall re port to the International Secretary SONGFELLOWS the names of all organized quartets MID-STATES FO UR in his Chapter, and no quartets shall CHORDETTES be recognized by the Society un less their names have been so reg McPHEE THREE istered at the International Office. nOCTORS OF HARMONY MJ~M8En FRED WARING The quartet first having its name Following Fred Waring's broadcast registered shall be the only qual' ELASTIC FOUR from Sheboygan, Wis., March 15, the tet by that name that shall be HARMONY HALLS entire Waring troupe were guests of recognized by the Society, untll Sheboygan and Manitowoc chapters such time as the quartet has dis MISFITS and the Chordettes. Waring received banded. Each Chapter Secretary Cbampio1ls oj 1947 ? ? a traditional key to the city from shall report to the International Mayor Willard Sonnenberg, Sheboy Secretary the names of quartets in --*- gan. Before inducting Waring into his Chapter that have been prop EVANSVILLE WELCOMES the Society (he had expressed his de erly registered and have since dis sire to join when the girls were on banded. The names of such dis ALL BARBERSHOPPERS his N. Y. program earlier) he had to banded quartets shall be withdrawn qualify as a barbershopper with three from the Society Quartet Regis members of his band. As a full fledged try. International Quartet Contest member, he directed the chorus in medallion winners shall have the The Old Songs. :right to retain the names of their 8AR8£RSHOPP£RS In the post-broadcast program both quartets after disbandment". ('hapter choruses, the Manitowoc Rev All quartets who are not certain that Orderyour own copy of the following elers and the Chordettes sang. Mil their Chapter Secretary has complied alb"ms IQ'IJightjor your nextpmctice! ton Deten, Director of Manitowoc with this Clause of the Constitution, chorus, "covered himself with hon are urged to send a request for regis Barber Shop Harmony .60 ors" at the piano. Ed Walthers exe tration of their quartet name directly More Barber Shop Hnrmony - .60 cuted a cartoon of Waring and his to the office of the International Sec Barber Shop Classics .75 Scrap Iron Quartet emblematic of n'tary-it will then be registered, Parade or Quartet HJts No.1 - .60 the maestro's old days in Tyrone, (if no other quartet has already beerl Favorite Barber Shop Ballads 1.00 listed under that name) and confirmed Barber Shop Ballads and to the Chapter Secretary. How to Sloll Them ~ $1.96 Barber Shop BnUads .35 This is an important matter of which Two Barber Shop Ballads • - .50 all Quartets and Chaptel' Secretaries Close Harmony - - • - - .75 should be fully aware. Official reg~ Feist Folio for Male Quartets .75 istry of the name of your quartet can Revetlers Modern Quartets do much to avoid confusion and em Vol. I, 2 or 3, each -- .75 barrassment. Mills Handy Tunes .75 Mills Favorites .75 Southernalres' Hymns FoUo - .75 MAILING 7HE HARMONIZER Golden Gate Quartette Folio - .75 With over 18,000 members the So Forster Melody and ciety's problem in distributing the Harmony Sonlls .75 Harmonizer has become a serious one. MHls Modern Airs - • - - .75 Ultimately, it is hoped to have a O'Hara's 3 Min. Harmonies - 1.00 Barber Shop SoOg.8 and Swipes - .60 complete mailing list of members aJ:1d College Songs for mail individually as do the national Male Quartet - - - - • 1.00 magazines. At the moment this is not feasible. Sendfor list oj barbershop folios and sheet 1Jlusic with your order for /be With this issue an experiment is be above or send your want list oj SotlgS ing tried. Those secretaries who afJd we wilt try /0 locate tbem. wished to do so addressed and stamped their Harmonizer envelopes Waupaca Choral Supply SCRAP-IRON QUARTET and shipped them to the printer where Specialisf$ in Barber Shop Mudc Penna. In his first appearance after the mag-3zines were inserted and returning to New York, Waring men mailed. That explains why some mem Box 2S Waupaca, Wisconsin tioned that he is now a Society bers are receiving envelopes with a member. Cleveland postmark. MAY, 1947 ... * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * A Conventional Song* To be sung while enjoying BLENDED-SPLENDID PABST BLUE RIBBON . Respectfully dedicated to the Society for ) the Preservation and Encouragement of [ Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America "Dear quartet sl11gers,'!·W len you convene, H ere is a piece of advice mighty keen: Sample Bille Ribhon's flavor so rare, Blended and splendid heyond all compare! C01J.1Je1ZtiOl1 City, Milwaukee Fail' You 'I I sing the pJ'aise of its virtu es so rare But what you'll like hest, while you are here, Are tall foaming glasses of Blue Rihbon BeerF' * * * * * * * * * ********* Copr. 19-17, Pabst Brewing COlllpol'l)', Milwaukee, \Vi$COllSill 33 FINE BREWS BLENDED INTO ONE GREAT BEER * To the TUlle of "l3cllllliful Dreamer" -f . • • • they're BOTH Dog-gone Good When ifIs time to celebrate there's nothing like a g'ood old tune for harmony and a good glass of beer for conviviality. We might even go so far as to say the better the beer, the better the harmony. So for best results when the old gang gets together to pipe a few tunes be sure there's plenty of that good old Frankenmuth Beer or Ale on hand. We're sure you too will say it's Dog-gone Good. FRANKENMUTH BREWING COMPANY • FRANKENMUTH, MICHIGAN PRINTED IN U. S. A.