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D's Please) MAil TO HARMONY HALLS RECORDS 214 Houseman Bldg., Grand Rapids Mich. f'~- ---~-=.-~ -~.- -~- - -~--- - - -~ - ~ ~.- ~ YOUR BARBERSHOP CONVENTION HEADQUARTERS -----THE PRIDE OF WISCONSIN ---- 850 Rooms with All Modern Facilities * Dancing in the I:::mpire Dining Room Spacious CoHee Shop Popular Prices Throughout * VISIT THE DAZZLING AND LUXURIOUS COCKTAIL LOUNGE An 82. foot Serpentine Bar in a Quarter-Million Dollar I:::mpire Setting * Executive Offices: 210 East Michigan St., Milwaukee .. WALTER SCHROEDER, President A4#= _ =c"""--- _ _~ -=- ~. THE SOCIETy FOR THE PRESERVA.TlON AND ENCOURA.GEMENT OF BARBER SHOP QUARTET 51 NGING IN AMERICA, INC CONVENTION NUMBER VOLUME VI NO.4 ceVOTED TO T><E INHllE$TS DF MAY, 1947 B"'ReE~ET IiAg"iONY "M-i-l-l W-a-l-k K-e-y" June 13-14 Milwaukee Extends Key CALENDAR OF EVENTS of City to Society Wednesday .Morning -Exec. Comm.,-Hotel Schroeder Are there any little folks nowadays Wednesday Afternoon -Exec. Comm.,-Hotel Schoreder who wrestle· with the riddle that used Wednesday Night -lnt'l. Ed. Meeting-Hotel Schroeder to perplex grandpa at age 8 or there Thursday Morning -lnt'l. Ed. Meeting-Hotel Schroeder about: "Upon the hill there is a mill Thursday Afternoon -lnt'I. Bd. Meeting-Hotel Schroeder under its walk you'll find a key Thursda:y Night -New Int'1. Bd. Meets-Hotel Schroeder ·What's the answer? - Quick!" The Friday Morning -15 Quartets in Int'1. Preliminaries-Auditorium. answer is obvious to Society folks Friday Afternoon -15 Quartets in Int'1. Preliminaries-Auditorium. though it brings out nothing of the Friday Evening -Inel. Semi-Finals to reduce to five (5) the 15 quartets charm of that lovely old lake city in selected from Preliminaries! The five selected will com balmy June when SPEBSQSA will pete in Int'l. Finals, Saturday night.-Auditorium. travel solo, trio, quartet-wise and Saturday Morning -(1) Chapter Presidents and Secretaries-Ball Room, Hotel Schroeder-(2) Geo. W. Campbell's Song Leader otherwise to the Ninth Annual Con Class-Pere Marquette Room, Hotel Schroeder vention and the International Con Saturday Afternoon ~School for Judges-Pere Marquette Room, Schroeder. test, June 13-14. Saturday Afternoon -Jamboree------show of past champions-introduction of new Co-chairmen Alex D. Mayer and Jack 3:00 officers and Board .Members-presentation of Achieve ment Awards.-Milwaukee Auditorium. M. DoJlenmaier extend the glad hand Saturday Evening -Tnt'1. Finals-Past Champions and more-Auditorium. for all the boys in the chapter while Saturday Evening -Coast-ta-Coast (Mutual broadcastl-9:00 to 9:30 C. S. T. stressing the necessity of advance Sunday Morning -"Rise and Shine" breakiast-lO :00 a Ill.-Schroeder. registration with the Housing Com Sunday Afternoon -Broadcast- WWWW-top five quartets (Milwaukee mittee by using those All-Event-Books listening area only). available through the Int'l. Office. Five leading hotels are cooperating THEY'LL GREET THE NEW CHAMPS with the Committee which can make reservations only when a member sends his coupon-blank from the All Event book. "We'll take care pf every thing-and good-if you'll just get your reservations in, the earlier the better," E. C. Prahl, housing chair man, assures us. With the exception of the "Rise and Shine" breakfast, the $5. book is all event, covering hotel reservations, registration, badge, two prelims, Jam boree, Semi-Finals and Finals. Thos. Needham is clearing a million details to the contests. Vic C. Wright son and his registration-information staff will tell you anything but where Kilroy is. Bill Oestreich guarantees programs "at least 90 minutes prior to start of any event." Fred Radl<e and his co-workers, including Mil Need we say that 1946 Champion Garden Staters Will be at Milwaukee to '"slng in the new" as they sallg out the previous Int'!' Champions at Cleveland' And does waukee wives, will meet and greet. anyone need to know that they are-L. to R.-Ted Rau, tenor; Bob Freeland, lead; Jack Briody, bad; and Joe Murese. bass? Milwaukee's in Tune for June. ................._--_. - TABLE OF CONTENTS- Milwaukee Convention __ . ........Page 3 With the Int'l. Champions _ ......._ ....Page 20 President's Column~Frank H. Thorne .._ 5 District Contest Winners __ . 32 Editorial Pages-Directory of Int'I. Board 6-7 Coast to Coast-District matters ............. 34 Founder's Column-O. C. Cash ._... 14 Story Behind the Song on Cover _. ............ 19 Keep Posted __ .__ .. __ .._ _ .. .. _._. 8-9 Song Arrangement in this Issue 38 The Old Songsters-Sigmund Spaeth ~. 18 Barbershop Bafflers __ .. _. __ .__ . .. _____________________ .__ . 15 Do You Remember?-J. George O'Brien .__ 42 I See By The Papers _ _.... 50 Information You Want About Songs 43 It Helps to Know About a Song .. ._ . ._ 43 Over the Editor's Shoulder 39 Swipes-from the chapters .. _. .__ ._. __ 36 Coming Events .____________ . .. 25 The Way I See It-Deac Martin ._ . 47 New Chapters Chartered .._.. _ 12 Why Is a Bari? (no name) .__ .. 30 Keep America Singing-Geo. W. Campbell _ 51 Imaginary Letter to Editor-W. Welsh Pierce . 17 Pioneer Recording Quartets __ .. .__ 22 Tnt'\. Directory of Chapters 60·61 4 !3!>e HARMONIZER ----- '-~=============:, NO COUPON-NO ROOM Beavers Aren't Really "Busy" AT MILWAUKEE "Busy as a beaver" is understatement If you've ordered your $5., all as applied to the activities of Co event convention book, be sure Chairmen Jack Dollenmaier and Alex to use the blanks and coupons in the book to l'eserve your hotel room in advance-now. Get your reservation off to Milwaukee to day so you can be sure you'll be in one of the 5 official hotels sUl'l'ounded by brothers in quest of harmony. NOTE Rooms cannot be held beyond the date you state you will ar rive, unless an advance deposit is made. If not sure of hour of your arrival, play safe and en close a day's advance rent. 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.