Fj'e'e SOCIETY for the PRESERVATION and ENCOURAGEMENT ~ L'il'! IJ Ali

MAY, 1948 VOL. VII No.4 DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF BARBER SHOP QUARTET HARMONY

ILLUSTRATION. COURTESY WURLJTZER

Published By "KI..~""H~ .Otb C::ITY fJ'E'e SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION AND ENCOURAGEMENT ~ l'Il'! IJ AlI.. JIJl'II: •••• 2 OF BARBER SHOP QUARTET SINGING IN AMERICA, INC, c:: .. l'I " I: l'I T I ..l'I DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHAPTER in the singing capital of a Jinging nation is a GUILD OF QUARTET SINGERS CAPITOLIANS MIX MASTERS CHORDINATORS PENTAGON FOUR COLUMBIANS POTOMAC CLIPPERS DIPLOMATS SINGING SQUIRES FORE 'N AFT FOUR SONGSMITHS FOUR BARS STATrON WAGON FOUR HARMONY HILL FOUR THREE BEEVES AND A BONE LIONS CLUB QUARTET TREBLE SHOOTERS METROPOLITAN POLICE QUARTET VOCAL YOKELS - and the- SINGING CAPITAL CHORUS

Program meeting on the fourth Monday of each month. Quartet school on all other Mondays at 8:00 P. M, PIERCE HALL, FIFTEENTH AND HARVARD, N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C

HARVEST OF HARMONY OF 1948 • CONSTITUTION HALL • OCTOBER 22, 1948 COPYRIGHT. ~I.-\ Y, 1948 The Society ior lhe Pr(,sl'rvation and Encouragement or Barner Shop Quartet :;in~\ng in America. Inc., Detroit, Michigan THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF BARBER SHOP QUARTET SINGING IN AMERICA, INC.

CONVENTION NUMBER ~~-~~ VOLU ME VII NO. 4 OE\OTED TO T>my way down, just before reach more than 2500 visitors will be overlooked. Here is a complete ing Tulsa where O. C. Cash lives in schedule of the 5 day program, as announced by Int'1. President a P. O. Box, accordin' to the only address he ever give anyone, I was Charles M. Merrill and Co-General Chairmen Hank Wright and startled to see a sign on the road Granville Scanland of the Oklahoma City Committee_ which says "Catoosa-3 miles." I Official Program remember back in the old days when they take bids from cities that want 'Ved. forenoon-June 9th -Executive and other Int'!. Committees meet. the Convention and e\"ery time the bids Wed. afternoon -Executive and other fnt'l. Committees meet. were opened there would be a vote (C01Itinu,d on pag~ 4) (by Ray Granger - deceased) for Catoosa. Well I guess you was like WHERE THE QUARTETS WILL BATTLE IT OUT me and thought that was just a gag and that no town ever existed by that name. But, sure enough, after I had gone three more miles, there she was. Good Old Catoosa. How Hank Stan ley would hnve thrilled to see it. He was always a loyal voter for Catoosa. And after seeing the place we could have done ourselfs all right by ac· cepting their bid. The corrals looked mighty clean and there would be enough room for everybody. Plenty of singin' space too-all air condi tioned.

'VeIl about this city deal. (Down here nobody says Oklahoma City. It's just plain "City". If they ever get two cities there's gonna be trouble.) (On the other hand if they still have one after we get through with them the;y will be lucky.) The brothers down here sure are workin' hard and I (Comit/ued on pal'; 4) Oillahomi Clty Munlclpil Auditorium

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Barbershop Arrangements (list of) __ _..Page 30, 45 Keep America Singing-George W. Campbell Page 42 Barbershop Recordings (list of) _. __ _. __ .__ 32 Keep Posted .__ . __ _ __ . 31 Barbershop Bafflers by Charles M. Merrill _ __ .. 26 Map of District Boundaries . _.._ . ~~~~~~~~~_~~~~~~~~~~~ 49 Answers to Bafflers _ _. 27 New Chapters Chartered ._ . 12 Cartoon by Beaudin .. .._._ __ ._.... 15 Over the Editor's Shoulder . 43 Coast to Coast (by Districts) _ _. __ 24-25 Pioneer Recording Quartets-HCurlY" Crosset 47 Coming Events _ 13 6 Do You Remember'l...... J. George O'Brien 38 President's Column-Charles M. Merrill _ Directory of All Chapters _ _ __ . 54, 55 Public Domain Songs . 17 Editorial Pages (Directory of Intll. Board) . ._ 14-15 Quartets Competing in '48 Contests 16-17 Founder's Column "._...... 8 Song Arrangement in this Issue . _ 28-29 Index of Advertisers , __ _._ 49 Spark Plugs-for Meetings-Frank H. Thorne 27 Information You Want (about Songs)__ _ 39 Swipes-from the Chapters.. ------.-- _34, 35, r See by the Papers ...... 22-23 37, 40, 41, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53 It Helps to Know About a Song.._ . 39 The Old Songsters-Sigmund Spaeth _ . 21 Judges-'48 Contests ._. . ._ _..... 5 The Way I See It-Deac Martin _ 36 4 The Harmonizer

NEEDHAM TO JOIN EFER IFER IN OKIE LAND INT'L. OFFICE CAPTAIN CAMPBELL'S CLASS (ComitlNtd from png' 3) The Int'l. Executive Committee an FOR SONG LEADERS can vouch for the fact that it will be nounces the appointment of Thomas F. one !>well whoop-de-doo. It's no place Needham as Associate Int'}. Secretary Can you use some high-powered, to be effective July 1, 1948. Carroll of mine to tip off the surprises and Adams, Int"!. Secretary will now have concentrated, inspiring training all that will be thrun at us, but I two associates in Bill Otto. and Need in the art of leading commun know no true barbershopper will want ham. ity singing, packed into a three to miss the 10th Anniversary Con hour session at Oklahoma City eedham was born in \VlImington, vention. 'Vould most certainly !>uggest Del., then moved to Milwaukee. He on Saturday, June 12th, under that room reservations be booked at.tended Wayland Academy, the Wis the master hand of George W. early. Late comers might find them consin College of Music and Marquette Campbell, one of the top men selves out in the Alamo Courts or the University where he specialized in in that field. If so, you will have business administration. He comes Fence Rail, which would be about the from a musical family and has been a that opportunity ag-aill-for the same walking distance as from Gary, choral director since age sixteen. He third successive year. "Ask the I nd. to Chicago. has been directing three choruses, in man" who attended this ('.b.ss cluding the Milwaukee Chapter at Milwaukee last Jflne----or at Ernie Dick, Hank Wright, Ben Van Chorus, which he organized when the Dyke, Grad~r Musgrave and all the chapter was chartered in January, Cleveland in 1946. It will help in planning a suitable room at old timers down here in The City sure I do know how to make a damyankee the Oklahoma Biltmore Hotel, feel at home, They ride herd on you if those members who intend to hard and any of you Brothers that sit in on this conference will is allergic to spurs or saddle sores drop a line (a postal will do) better get some serious training. They to Int'1. Hq" 18270 Grand River pitch 'em high and sing 'em loud and Avenue, Detroit 23 by June 8th. they don't leave nobody drop out to But you will be welcome, put a tonsil back into place. That's one reason 1 advise everyone to bring whether or not you notify in their own cough medicine. advance. Sing-cerely, Yore Ole Podner, Efer Her.

OKLA. CITY READY (COllfound from pag' 3) Wed. evening ~lnt'l. Board of Directors-Business session No. 1. Thur. fOi'enoon-June 10th -Int'1. Board of Directors-Business session No.2. Thur. afternoon -Int'1. Board of Directors-Business session No.3. 1'hur. evening -1948-1949 Int'1. Board of Direetors-Busine!-\s 1945. He is well known as an inter Session. preter of choral music, is a lyric baritone soloist and sang lead in two Fri. fOI'enoon--June 11th -Semi-Finals No. I-Civic Auditorium-Past quartets. Int'l. President Hal Ste'lab, M.C, He organized in '46 the first Land Fri. aflN'noon -Semi·Finals No.2-Civic Auditorium-Past O'Lakes District choral contest, in 1nt'1. President Phil Embury, M.C. which his chorus won the co-champion Friday evening -Finals-Civic Auditorium-Immediate Past In1'L !Ship. He became a Harmonizer Dis President Frank Thorne, M.C. trict editor a year ago. Int'1. Pres. Merrill appointed him a member of Sat. forenoon-June 12th -Capt. George Campbell's Class for Song Leaders. the Int'1. Chapter Methods Commit -Conference of Chapter Officers (Int'l. President- tee as the Society's representative on Elect will preside). chorus organization problems and -Question and Answer Session of 2\1embcrs of the teChniques. The Milwaukee Chapter Panel of Approved Judges and those interested in feels it has lost its most enthusiastic being certified as Official Judges for service at barbershopper. It is typical of him future Contests. C & J Committee Chairman that he has gone far out of his way M. E. Reagan will preside, to help find the right director to Sat. afternoon -Jamboree-Civic Auditorium-Each of the 25 carryon with his beloved chorus. eliminated quartets will sing one number or one The In1'1. office gains a member skilled medley. Int'I. Vice-President King Cole will M.C. through experience as cost accountant -Conference of District Officers-::\1aynard Graft, at Waukesha Motors Co., service work Chairman Int'1. Committee on Districts, will with Cutler-Hammer, Inc., sales work preside. with H. Woolf & Co., and with a back -School for Chorus Directors. "Faculty" will con ground of experience in the graphic sist of Tom Needham (Milwaukee) Chairman; arts, Immediate Past In1'l. President Frank H. Thorne (Chicago) and John Hanson of Corn Belt Chorus fame (Peoria). Sat. evening -Medalist Contest-Civic Auditorium. New Cham pions will be picked-lnt'1. President Charles M. ERCh Chapter President and each Merrill will M.G.-Several Int'!. Champions of Chapter Secretary should hn\'e a previous years will sing. 30 minutes of the Chaluer Ucfcrence Manual and should Program will be broadcast over the Mutual refer to H frecjuently. Network-Oklahoma City Chapter Chorus will sing-Capt. George W, Campbell will lead the Communit)· Singing.

MAY, 1948 The Harmonizer 5

PITTSBURGH CHECK TO HI-LITES OF JUDGING 1948 CONTEST CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL All quartets entered in this year's als could come out of Int'\. Mec1~ International Contests have received alist as the In1'1. Champion.) the official rules of judging in an 5. Any quartet may obtain its relative 8 page booklet. The following excerpts ratings per category by writing are highlights for members who have the Int'!. Sec,·et.ary within 30 days not had opportunity to familiarize after the Contest. themselves with the 1948 rules. Any one wanting a copy of the complete TYI)€, 'umber and Time of Songs rules can get it from Secretary Adams. :-;On~s Considered Inappropriate may Contest Procedure be penalized by the Judges in their scoring, but no number properly ren 1. Of the forty quartets. twent)1 will dered in barbershop style shall be be heard and judged at Oklahoma penalized because of the date of its City Friday morning and the re publication. Unpublished numbers also maining twenty on Friday after may be used. Patriotic and religious noon. These contests will be known songs must not be used. P. H. wnlz. left, Supt. or Children's as the Int'l. Semi-Finals. Hospital. Pittsburgh. receiving check 2. From the Semi-Final Contests, the A Quartet shall Sillg two numbers from Harry W. Smith, Pasl Chapter first fifteen will be chosen to com or medleys, the total singing time of Pres.. lor purchase of hospital equipmeTlI. which shaH be not less than four (4) A. J. Moonich, Chapter Pres., c...ntcr. pete on Friday evening and this approyes. Contest will be known as the In1'l. minutes, nor more than six (6) min Finals. In this Contest, the quartets utes. The penalty for over or under "WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST" time is severe. must sing two different songs than In February the Fox River Valley those used in the Semi-Final Con Judges Shall Act as Specialists as Chapter made a novel approach to the tests. Failure to do this will re signed by the Chairman to judge scor organization of a chapter in Lombard. sult in disqualification. ing features as follows: Ill. Since it is more than theory that 3. From the Finals, the first five will 2 to judge HARMO Y ACCU wives are interested in what hus be chosen without (announced) rel RACY AND BLEND bands do on a night out, wives and ative rating, to compete in the ...... 600 scoring points children of Lombard P. T. A. were the Int'1. Medalist Contest on Satur audience for the entertainment fur day evening, which will be a com 2 to judge VOICE EXPRESSlON ...... 600 scormg pomts nished by Fox Rivet' Valley. Evi billed Contest and entertainment. dently the entertainment was so good The five Finalists will compete for 2 to judge SONG AND VOICE and the wives were so convinced relative ratings and may sing any ARRANGEMENT _ . of the merits of the Society that two songs of their own choosing. ... 600 scoring points 50 members of the P. T. A. signed up Previous Int'1. Champions will aug 2 to judge Stage PRESENCE as charter members of the new Lom ment the program. AND ENUNCIATION __ .. bal'd Chapter. 4. The scores in each Contest will de ... 200 scoring points The entertainment, under direction termine the relative standings of of Al Strahle. included Fox River that Contest and will not affect the 2000 Valley chorus, the Fox River FOUl', performance score of any subse Quartets not in costume or not.dressed the Northwesterners, the Hi Larks, quent Contest. (Fifth in lnCI. Fin alike are disqualified automatically. Aurora, and the Tune Twisters, Oak Pa,·k. Bd. Member Walter Jay Steph ens who watched carefully the ap proach and the results reports that LIST OF JUDGES FOR '48 CONTESTS he thinks it excellent because now the Struble. Chicago: Jos. E. Elliff. Glencoe, Ul.; new chapter has the support of the Not so many years ago it was difficult Dean W. Palmer. Wichita. M.C.-Q. H_ King to get a dozen qualified Judges for Cole, Mamtowoc. Wis. Sec.-Walter E. Cham wives and youngsters in advance. the National Contest. This year, 43 bers. Rock Island. 1lI. Mlchl!aTl _ tFlintl - Judges -Don Webster, UNKNOWNS FINALLY men judged the 11 Preliminary Con Cleveland. Chairman: Walter Karl. Cleveland: tests in as manv cities from coast Nelson T. White. Columbus. 0.: J. Frank DISCOVERED RIce. Wichita. Kans. M.C.-Marvin Brower. to coast. Maurice' Reagan, doubled in Grand Rapids. Sec.-W. D. Common, Day brass at Bridgeport and Ne'\" York, ton. O. explains the odd number. Mid_Atlantic Slateli-INew York Cit),) Judges - Maurlr:t!! E. Reagan. Pittsburgh. Here is the list of Judges and also Chairman; S. D. Fendley. and L. J. Mohler. the names of the men who MC'eed the SChenectady; William R. Hotin. Holyoke. Mass. M.C.-5lgmund Spaeth. New York. Contests and the Int'1. Bd. :\1embers Sec._Arthur A. Merrill. Schenectad)'. who acted as Secretaries to the NortheasterTl-tBridgeport. Conn.I-Judges Judges. Maurir:e E. Reagan, Pittsburgh, Chairman: W. W. Holcombe. Paterson, N. J.: Edward CeTllral Statu-·tLlncoln, Nebraskaj-Judges Spinnler. Ridgewood. N. J.; Walter F. Morris. Rav W Hall. Chairman. Gordon Hall. Ed Bronx. N. Y. M.C.-Harold B. Staab. North Gaikem~. Robert Hal:enburg. all of Grand ampton, Mass. 5ee.-Jean M. Boardman. Rapids. M.C.-Edward G. Fahnestock. Wichi Washington. D. C. la. Sec. Howard C. Mellow, Peoria. Ill. Ohlo-SouthwellerTl. Pa.-fMiddletown. 0.1 Central-Weslern Ne... York (Geneva. Judges-Frank H. Thorne. Chicago. Chair Stub Ppncil Not". Aua. '47 Harmon N. Y.J - Judges - Deae Martin. Cleveland. man; Robert T. Ising, Louisville. Ky.: AI i~....r. mentioned an unknown rour waitiTlg Chairman; Lou Walley. Detroit; Lou Dusen Strahle, Geneva, III.: John M. Beaudin. Pon in line at Mader's durinl Milwaukee con burY and George Cripps. Cleveland. M.C. tiac. Mich. M.C.-Maynard L. Graft. Cleve vention and "amusing themselYcti while land. Sec.-Willis A. Dlekema, Holland. Mich. Homer L. Scott. Geneva. Sec. W. Lesler drawing Pflthusiauic applause by "iv. Davis. London. Onto Ontarlo-(Toronto)-Judges-H. H. Sinclair. ing with 'Honey'", Far-Weslern and Pacific Northwest - (San Chairman; Leo Ives, Charles Schwab. Fred From Corydon, ITld., Kean IrwiTl sends Franciscot-Judges-E. V. Perkins. Chairman. Stein, all 01 ChleaJ:o. M.C.-Phll Embury. a picture of that four which he describes Warsaw. N. Y. Sec. Bill Coddington. East Joe Murrin. Art Bielan. Pete Buckley. all of as ". quartet which sings at the least Chicaio. M.C.-Wi1Iiam Gavin. Mill Valley, Aurora, N. Y. provocation for the pure loye of singing." Cal. Sec. Ernie DIck. Oklahoma City. .4 cceptol1ces have nheady been 1"C. L. to R.: Robert Sample, bass: Earl llIITloh-tJollet)-Judges-Joe Stern. Kansa!i Miller. bari; Kean Irwin, lead; Cliff City. Mo.. Chairman: Col. M.C. Newman. ceived j1'om most of the following, (1) Hurst. tenO'". Sturgis. Mich.: J. D. Beeler, Evansville, Ind.: l)Qinted by Int'l. P'res. Men'ill to judge Carl Jones. Terre Haute, Ind. M.C.-Carroll P. Adams, Detroit. Sec. Roy S. Harvey. at the Oklahoma City contests. M\ISkea:on. Mich. Stent, Kansas City; Beeler, Evans Scm Gabriel; Me1'rill, Schenectady; Indll\na_Kentucky_(Ft. Wayne, Ind.)-Judges ville; with Perkins, Chicago, as alter with J(iwl, Cleveland, as alternate. -Arvid Anderson, Chicago; Charles Dickin son. Cleveland: Charles M. Faulhaber, She nate; Ray Hall, Gnutd Rapids; Sin Maul"ice E. Reagitn is Cha+rman of boygan. Wis.; Hobert Shreves, SI. Louis, M.C. clai'r, ChicagQ; with Rice, Bnrtlesville, .fudges and J. E'. Sf.ern ,is V'ice Chair -Fred N. Gre,;;:ory. Bt'adl. Ind. Sec.-Jame" as ultenwte; Webste1', Cleveland; Rea man. W. D. Common 1'& the Secretw'Y H. Emsley. Canton. Ohio. Land u' Lttkcs-(La Crosse. Wis,)-Judges gan, Pittsbn'rgh; with Dl'. Nelso'n. of J1.Ulgcs 1,ui!.h .Jean Bom'dman as James Doyle. ChairnHm, Chicago: Herman Co,nto1t, Ill., etS altanatc; Stunton, .4ssistetnt Scc1'eta-ry.

MAY, 1948 •

Charles M. Merrill

Such a rule, adopted at the mid of the rules and their explanations winter meeting of the Board, ...vas the is exceedingly important if a quartet l'ule against ending a number with a would have it~ uncertainties l'emoved. ninth, a seventh or a sixth chord. This The fact that contest rules are be does not mean that the Board regal'ds coming increasingly technical may such endings as not barbershop, and well have another effect: that of in it is anticipated that outside of com creasing the distinction between con The international quartet contest at petition such endings will still be test barbershop and show barbershop. Oklahoma City certainly is the most used. The rule was passed for the protection of qual·tets against those In judging any contest where the important Society event in the near judges (and there are many) who find manner and style of achievement are future. So I'll devote my column this such endings objectionable. "'ithout of importance (e.g., diving or figure issue to contest and judging in the such a rule a quartet would not know Rkating as distinguished from track hope that some disappointment and whether it could safely use such an events where time or distance is all perhaps bewilderment on the part ending unles it had advance informa that matters) it is the little details of eliminated quartets may be dis tion as to how its particular arrange of precision, unnoticeable to all but an sipated. ments judge would react. alerted expert, that name the win ner. Contest barbershop concentrates One of the most important problems Unfortunately it is not possible to remove all ambiguities or to relieve on detail and precision. Show barber of the international Contest and Judg the judges of all discretion, particu shop aims to please the audience. This ing Committee is to make its rules larly in the arrangement categor~!. in itself is a popular subject of of judging understood by competing However, the rules and the definition ('riticism. quartets. The committee is constantly of what is "barbershop" for contest purposes are being clarified and ex However, it should be obvious that we on the alert for ambiguities. Letters to pressed as carefully as precise use cannot frO too far in this direction. We the committee asking whether this of the English language will permit. cannot let ourselves follow the exam or that is permissible are given care ple of the fiddler who has to do a This means, of course, that as the Russian dance or stand on his head ful study. If the rules can be clari rules become more clear and more while playing in order to get an au fied to answer such questions, they closely fixed, and as a judge's dis·· dience reaction. Barbershop is and are reworded. If rules of thumb can cretion is limited by adoption of arbi must remain essentially a musical relieve some ambiguity or remove trary rules, the rules become increas form. A competition performance ingly technical. Again-this is done must remain essentially a demonstra some phase of judging from the wide not to baffle a quarte..t but to protect tion of ability to recognize and exe open discretion of the judges, such it by telling it what it mayor may cute the fine points of that musical rules may arbitrarily be adopted. not in all safety do. A careful study fOl·m.

SONG WRITERS PRAISE HI-LOS ENTERTAIN VETS BARBERSHOP Barbershop quartet singing got a big air-plug on April 16 when the Martha Deane Show (Mutual Eastern Net work) featured an interview with William J. McKenna and J. Rosamond Johnson, composers of old-time songs. The program was devoted almost en tirely to discussion of barbershop singing by McKenna, Johnson and Miss Deane, with Jean Parker, Holly \vood guest star contributing her ob servations as an enthusiast. McKenna, composer of over 200 pub lished and 2000 unpublished songs, came out strongly for the barbershop style which is based on a clear melodic line and sustained by good harmony. Both composers praised the work of SPEBSQSA in stimulating the cur rent revival of barbershop singing. McKenna related the story of the growth of SPEBSQSA and gave a brief description of a meeting of an average SPEBSQSA chapter. His re mark on the problem of quartets: "Many rehearse but fe\v are chosen" was quoted next day in a review by Paul Denis, Radio Editor of the New York Post. The program was ar l.'1ilwaukee's Hi-Los went over big with the Veterans at Soldiers Home and ranged by the Edward B. Mal'ks Hospital, Woods, \Visc. on Jan. 24, when they sang steadily from 1 :45 to 4: 15 P. M., Music Corporation. ward to ward. MAY, 1948 6 The Harmonizer 7

MUNICIPAL AUOITORIUM-oKLAHOMA CITY PROGRAM 10th ANNUAL CONVENTION OKLAHOMA CITY - JUNE 11, 12, 1948

June 11 - Friday forenoon - Semi Finals Contest No.1 June 11 - Friday afternoon - Semi Finals Contest No.2 June 11 - Friday night - Finals Contest June 12 - Saturday afternoon - Jamboree June 12 - Saturday night Medalist Contest

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MAY, 1946 ...... , FOUNDER'S COLUMN

By O. C. Cash

whipped up the following paragraph bel' shop harmony and choral singing about rabbits and partl'idges: yet heard by our members. There will "Our woods teem with them both, be several choruses in attendance. The and around every swamp may be Corn Belt Chorus, 150 strong, will be seen the partridge and rabbit walk, there, The Olean, New York chorus beset with twig fences and horsehair plans to be present, and I'll be disap snares, which some cowboy tends." pointed if Fritz Drybrough and Bob Ising don't have their gang there. Since getting my Doctor's degree. I So {al' as I know, I am the only The local Committee at Oklahoma City have reformed and am t.rying to Jive scholar or student of philosophy to dis has arranged for special events for up to the honor. I have changed my cover that the earliest mention of the choruses on Saturday morning, reading habits entirely. Recently I "cowboys" in all recol'ded literature when nothing else is scheduled on thc got some classical books from the refers to the old cowhands of Con regular program. Governor Turner Library, among which was Thoreau's necticut. When one thinks of cowboys has invited the choruses La sing on the "Walden". It occurred to me that a nowadays, one naturally concludes front steps of the State Capitol where Doctor ought to keen up on philosophy that the breed is native to Oklahoma, inaugurations are held. The State's Slnd other profound subjects. I don't. Texas, Colorado, Wyoming and points public address syst.em will be ribbed know whether you Brothers know West. I am glad to be able to clear up up and thousands of people will come much ahout the old masters or not. this important question, but 1 do not from the sUJTounding countryside just You probably are just as ignorant want all the credit for the research. to hear this recital. as I was until I attended the Uni I feel that some approbation should go Refening again to the cowboy angle, versity of Wyoming one night last to my alma mater for the inspiration one of the snappiest quartets that will December. But this Thoreau fellow and encouragement it has given me be seen and heard in Oklahoma City, waf; a 1>retty smart egg back in the to delve into the early literary and will be the "Canadianaires" of Wind early 1800's and did a lot of phUos cowboy history of our country. sor, .Canada. These boys tell me that onhizing here and there. He rang-crl in addition to theil· Scotch getup, kilts, (lr roall1ed all t.he way from Con<'ord. All this cowboy business is interesting in connection with our Convention in etc., they propose to wear a brace of Connp'f'tieut on the south to Northamn six-shooters, cow hoy boots and spurs, t.on. Mlls~ .. on the north. and was the June, Oklahoma City is in the heart of the prcscnt cowboy country, now so they may Iive up to their well friend 3,nd conternnOt'al'v of such writ earned reputation as the fearless, PI'S as Em<>l'son. Hawthorne (not to that Thoreau's Connecticut cowboys arc practically extinct. There will be hard-hitting Scotch cowboys of the hp confwlj:'d with 1"n1n1.,- Thorne, thp Canadian rang-c, rnl""lnist) :'Ind H~I SblJ'lh. the 11t<>rat; colol'ful cowboy quartets from all over of the neriod. "'VaIden" was written the West competing at Oklahoma City. Al! this is going to be great fun and I I'lhOllt 1845. Besides being the largest and best at am looking forward lo seeing all you Wpll. l'i,·. YOli can imul!inp. my Stlr tended Convention which the Society boys in June. IlJ'i~p when ov<>1' toward,; th", t.ailend has yet conducted, the Oklahoma affair Hoping you arc the same. of thp huo\ I fl)lmc1 l:hat Thoreall will produce the most interesting bar- O. C.

NATIONAL BROADCAST OF HISTORY STILL MAKING CHAMPIONS ALL! OKLAHOMA CITY WINNERS Hal Staab, Chairman of the Ten Year For your records and lo save Int'l. History Committee, rcports that the Hq. a' good deal of letter writing, here Mutual Network will broadcast the first section of the book carrying are lhe nine champions of SPEBSQSA. Illedali~ts from the stage of Oklahoma the Society from its birth thl'ough Citv's Municipal Auditorium. 9:00 to 1939~40-Barllesville (Phillips' 66) the first (1939) convention at Tulsa Bar Flies-Herman E. Kaiser c/o 9:30 p. In. (C.S.T.) Saturday night. is now in the hands of his committe<>, June 12. Tnt'\. Pres, Charlie Merrill Phillips Petroleum Co., Bartlesville, which includes O. C. Cash, for double Okla. will announce the winner!'; to the na checking of facts exhumed by History tion and t.he audience in this full half editor Deac Martin who has an SPEB 1940·41-The Flat Foot Four-Britt hour prog-ram. KOTE: THIS TS FROM background going back to tarty '39, Stegall, c 0 Police Department, Ok 10:00 TO 10:30 C. D. T. A capacity Staab not only promises that the StOI·Y lahoma City, Okla. audience of 6,000 enthusiastic fans will be told for the first time but that 1941·42-The Chord Buslers-Dr. I . is expected to participate in the na· it will be interesting reading, rather T. Enmeier, 2436 E 23rd St., Tulsa, tional broadcast as at Milwaukee than a collection of statistical facts Okla. in '47. about the Society. 1942-43-The Elastic Four-Frank H, Thorne, 6216 W, 66lh Place, Chi Important: Make this the most wide· As an example of "color" he cites the cago 38, III. Iy heard broadcast in history by fact that the Society's No. 1 chapter c'ontacting your local Mutual radio would not stop singing long enough 1943·44-The Four Harmonizers Charles M. Schwab. 3206 S. Pulaski station, telling them about this color in 1939 to hold an election of officers Rd., Chicago, III. ful feature and requesting that they and Fred Graves, now bass of Flying 1944-45-The Harmony Hall8-Ray W. carry the program. The stations which L Ranch, had to send ballots by mail. Comparable early episodes of an in Hall, 349 Somerset Drive N. E., carried it last year need only to be fant Society will make very funny Grand Rapids, Mich. reminded because all were highly reading to newel' members of this 194:,-46-The Misfits-E. V, (Cy) pleased with the local reaction of the big international organization. Perkins, 22 W. Maple St., Chicago, big broadcast from Milwaukee. Ill. Walter Jay Stephens, Chairman of the • 1946~47-The Garden Stilte Quarlet Society's Public Relations Committee, The Chapter Reference Manual is full Jack Briody, 110 Lincoln St., Jer· sey City 7, N. J. suggests that local chapters write a of Chapter aids and represents the letter officially to the Mutual outlet 1947-48-The Doclors of Harmony n.nd then follow it up with personal greatest forward step taken by the Max E. Cripe, 5t14 Monger Bldg" contacts. Chapter Methods Committee Elkhart, Indiana. MAY, 1948 8 Tbe Harmonizer 9

"YOU DIDN'T GO UP A HALF - WHEN I DROPPED" COLE CHAMPIONS CHORUSES STRESSES STAGING InCI. Bd. Member Dick O. H. King Cole, Int'1. V. P. Mani Common of Dayton towoc, Wis. is steeped in the tra got his signals crossed dition and love of quarteting' as and held a tenor note much as anybody in the Society. Yet "straight across" when he recently made a very strong (:ase Pres. Charlie Merrill for chonlses when he said: "I agree eJ and then pa:3s on to scenes in some ordered sequence. We worthy material is done of necessity, your family and your neighbors. must concern ourselves with costum ing, stage properties, script-writing, lighting effects and everything that will improve audience interest. It's one GIVE A SET OF thing to sing for our own entertain ment and another thing to entertain an audience. ELASTIC FOUR RECORDS "Choruses add variety. It seems the proper way to start and finish a pro gram. The more they sing, they real ize that pel'fection comes from hard Q'li'9lnal #0. I g~t work and constant practicing. I have seen a chorus of mediocre voices, who took their work seriously, outshine other choruses composed of fine]' in~ fJvalla6/~ dividual voices, but who thought con #ow stant practice wasn't essentIal. There is a place for choruses in OUI' Society. (Each With Attractive Folio) It is one avenue that every member has to participate in if he so desires". Book I -- $6.25 i> Book II - $4.85 ~ Book 111-$4.85 (5 records) (3 records) r (3 records) FOR BETTER PICTURES Lazy River - White Christmas Mood Indigo - Lord's Prayer Pass the Biscuits Pictures intended for reproduction l\1irandy We Three purposes in newspapers or magazines Mill Stream - Silent Night ..... T • Irish Lullaby '" alt for me Mary must be glossy prints, preferably Maple Lea"'es Indiana 8xlO. They should be contrasty-black Hope to Die Down South Peggy O'Neill - Now the Day blacks and white whites-which means is Over Darkness on Delta I Get the Blues that the lighting at the time picture is taken must be strong. A little orig Sweet Cider Time Sidewalks of N. Y. When it Rains inality in grouping the figures \vill not Tell Me ·You'll Forgive Me Rosie O'Grady For Me and My Gal hUlt the chances of publicat~on. The Just a Dream of you Dear '?' Coney Island Baby ~ Maybe Harmonizer receives thousands of pic tures of quartets and hardly any vary (Shipped Express Charges Collect) from the straight acroSS, shoulder to shoulder style. The same applies to choruses-long rows of standing sitting men. Rarely does anyone take Distributed by amI Mail Checks to the trouble Lo group them around a barberpole, shoot from above, or in S,P.E,B.S,a's,A., Inc" 18270 Grand River Ave, any of a variety of ways add the lit tle touch of individuality that catches DETROIT 23, MICHIGAN the eyp 3nd the attention.

MAY, 1948 10 The Harmol1izer THE SOUR NOTE By Louis Fenner Dow "TAKE ME OUT (Burlington, Vt. Chapter) TO THE ..." I ,vas reading about a musician who played "The Lost Chord" and I still The St. Louis Aris can't figure how he could play it if tocrats as they sang at 0. banquet for Bob it were lost. But I got some idea of Hannegan to celebrate the thing recently when brother Bill his entry into prafes· and three others of SPEBSQSA were Sialli1l1 baseball. Sam Breadan, former own at the house practicing. er of the Cardinali and on rID early Na There was olle song about somebody tional Advisory Board meeting somebody in a lane or an of SPEBSQSA beard alley or some place, where the tenor -L. to R.: Tom Col lins, Vic Schah:, Doe. goes up about fourteen notches, the Rathert, and Harold bari tries, and only gets up about three Bultg· tlights, and the lead drops down near the butler's pantry, while the bass just hangs around the low notes, when all of a sudden they stop singing and Bill lets out a yell. "E" FOR ENCOURAGEMENT BOARDMAN "BEWILDERED In line with the uE" (encouragement) "Cripes", he hollers, "that's awful. BAFFLED" Cee! That was sour. We certainly lost in SPEBSQSA the Elyria Chapter In Washington, D. C. "Sharp Notes," that one". And then there's a terrible sponsored the nrst Lorain County Sec. Jean M. Boardman opines: high school boy's barbershop quarte~t argument. Aunt Lavinia, who's up "1 have the misfortune to be af~ contest, Februal'y 12, in Townsend stairs darning socks, comes clumping flicted with brain weevils, or some Hall before a capacity crowd of 200. down the stairs, three at a time, to thing, which is probably why I am view the body. The cook drops a couple Members and wives of .the Lorain bewildered and baffled by the way of plates in the kitchen with a crash Chapter were guests together with so many of our chapters seem to think you could hear in North Overshoe, Vt. parents and teachers of the contest and father, down cellar at the furnace, it necessary to bolster up a show with ants, Seven of the county's twenty something other than Society quar hides the bottle on a rafter, and schools were represented by eight yells, "What the hell's the matter?" tets. Recently one of our strongest quartets. Judging was not as strict chapters exhibited in one show a I came in just in time to see Bill on as for a regular Society contest but his hands and knees looking under she-quartet, a three-woman-and-one it was fair and representative. The man-quartet, and a father-mather-and the lounge. Jerry, the high tenor, is kids were swell. They displayed not sitting in a COl'ner wiping his eyes and litt1e~son-combination! During the Philias, the lead is putting on his only good barbershop form but also past two years 1 have heard and seen hat and coat. Clarence, the bass, is good showmanship. soloists, instrumental novelties of all just standing there disconsolate, with The winners were the Vesters of Lor sorts, corny joke tellers, buck and a look which says, "I didn't do it". ain High, a close one over the Welling wing dancers and practically every "What's the trouble '!" 1 ask, put ton Dukes and the Oberlin Hal'modu~ thing except trained seals and Swiss ting on my best horseface. "Lose tatol's. The Twilighters and the Royal bell ringers. Fact is, 1 know an something, Bill .?" Foul' of Elyria placed fourth and old mossback, named Boardman or fifth, respectively. The other three something like that, who predicts that "Lose something1" he snorts out of the competing quartets were the Brown it won't be long before some chapter corner of his mouth. (And that, my helm Hi Four, The Grafton Three with a flare for the bizarre will fea friends, is a good trick if you can do Corns and a Cobb, and the La Grange ture a real, honest-to-goodness bar it). "I'll say we did. We've been prac Chord Benders. Besides the prizes bershop quartet. Now, mind you, 1 am ticing now for six or four months on awarded to the top three quartets the not opposed to the revival and en~ that one swipe and damned if we winning Vesters were invited to ap couragement of vaudeville in Amer didn't 103e it first t:me we tried it". pear in the Second Annual Parade ica, Inc., but it seems to me that the "Aw now, Bill," says I, trying to com of Quartets held by the Elyria Chap~ greatest selling point we have is the fort him. "It's not as bad as all that". tel' on March 6th. tremendous sock people get from the And then 1 told him about the feller demonstration that an audience can playing the Lost Chord. That soothed Before the contest and during inter be held spellbound for two hours by him and the tenor and Philias. The mission there were songs from The four-part male voice harmony of the three nodded to Clarence, and went on Chord Crushers of Elyria, the Steel barbershop variety, without assist practicing again. But not on that Blenders and the High Chords of ance. 1 can't help but feel that it l~n't song, until they were outside and .out Lorain, and the combined choruses of quite fair to Old Man Barbershop of Pa's hearing. Pa doesn't Like lost Elyria and Lorain with directol'S Nel to clutter him up with props and chords and sour notes any more than son Howe and Charles Meek taking crutches and make him look like he is turns. afraid to stand on his own legs." he likes sour mash. Well, not quite. -----_._------_. TUNING THE CONVENTION MACHINERY

Here are th~ com[llIttee men who plan to make the Oklahoma City Convention the Society's best: L. to R.; "BIg BIn" Morns, Chr Ticket Committee, E H "Erme" Dick, Int'1. Bd. Member lind LoeBI Chapter Pres.; Harold Bosworth, Chr. RegistratIon Coromittee: John Ferguson, Chr. Sooner Sunrise SerenAde Breakast; Spence Miller, Treas.; Gov. Roy J. Turn",r, Advisory Committeol: O. C. Cash, Advisory Committee: I. S. "Hank" Wright, General Convention Chairman; Granvillol Scanland, Co-ChaimHIn and Chr. Hou~ing Committ~e; Lester Dacus, Chr. Welcome Committee: Judg<:, Denver Davison. Advisory Committee: J. D. "Lefty" Walker, Chr. Auditorium Comminee; (Neal Barrett, Absent~Chr. Publicity Committee.) MAY, 1948 The HarmOtlizer 11

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This famous 3-I"ecord a/tJum of BartJer Shop Harmo"ies still al'ailab/e at S3.41

"TI"HE now· famous painting reproduced on the front cover ofthis BUFFALO I. N. Y.. . 674 Main Slreet month's "Harmonizer" was first used in a Wurlitzer magazine II CHICAGO 90. ILL.. . .111 S. Wabash Ave. advertisemeut. Wurlitzer commissioned the artist Stan Ekman to portray a real, honest-to· goodness, old-fashioned harher shop CINCINNATI I, OHIO...... 121 E. 41h Streel quartet because it stands for music of good fellowship-music CLEVELAND 15, OHIO.. . .. 10t5 Euclid Ave. for everybody. And, in a way, that is what Wurlitzer stands for, too. DETROIT 26, MICH.. . . • . . .1509 Broadway NEW YORK 18. N. YOo ...... 120 W. 41nd Sireel The painting also adorns the Wurlitzer exclusive album of Bar PHILADELPHIA 7. PA•...... 1031 Chestnul Street ber Shop Quartet Harmonies (3 records, 6 sides) by the interna tional finalists of S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A. This alhum has become a collectors' item. A fourth pressing has made it again available at Wurlitzer stores. Wurlitzer will also record the winning quartets after this year's finals in Oklahoma City. Watch for this new album at your Wurlitzer store. EXTENSIO~

CHARTERED SINCE FEBRUARY 1st., 1948 No. of Date Name of Chapter Members Sponsored By Name and Address of Secreta,·)' 2/3148 SudbUl y, Ontario 34 Hamilton, Ontal;o Ralph E. Wilcox, 38 Ethel St., Lockerby P.O.• Sud- hury, Ontario 2/3/48 Sioux Fall;;, So, Dak, 49 Sioux City, Iowa Arch Sen, 712 So. Minnesota Ave. 2/3148 OUnwll, lIlinois 56 La Salle and Streator, Ill. Joseph H. Heiman, 202 Prairie St. 2/5/,8 Fulton, New York 16 Genesee (Rochester), N. Y. Wm, P. Hillick, 201 Buffalo St. 2/5/48 'Whitestowll, N, y, 33 Northampton, Mnss, William Dorhamcr, 612 William St., Rome. N, Y. 2/~/48 Columuus, IndiallH 19 Indianapoli;;;, rnd, Thomas 0, Evans, 1802 Pennsylvania St. 2/9/48 Connersville, Ind, 52 Hamilton, Ohio M. S. Stephens, 2221f.l W. Twelfth St. 2/10/48 Benton H:lrbor- 30 l\1 u8kegon. 1\1 ich. Will. Comstock, 111, 307'n State St.. St. Joseph. Mich. St. Joseph, Mich, 2/12148 Dundee, Illinois 22 Elgin, Ill. Vernon Sutfin, 407 So. 1st Street. 2/17/48 Re~l(.I ing', Pa. 5~ Schenectady. N. Y. nnd John H. MilIilrd, 4 S. 20th St. Philadelphia, Pa, 2/17/48 Westfield, N. J. 28 Newark, N. J. C. F. DeVinney, II Williams St., Roselle Park, N.J. 2/18/48 Waukegan, III. 49 Racine, Wise. Arthur Tindale, 20 T. St. James St. 2/23/48 Decatur. Alabama 35 Birmingham. Alabama Q. E. Eddens, P. O. Box It96 2/23/48 Jone:5boro, Arkansas 19 Memphis, Tenn. J. Marion Meadows, 1225 So. Flint. 2/26/48 Fnnkfort, Kentucky 103 Louisville, Ky. John D. Darnell, 507 McClure Bldg. 3/2/48 Leonia. New Jersey 19 Teaneck, N. J. George H. Skirven, 114 Coovel' St. 3/8/48 Phillips, Texas 25 Pompa, Tex.lls Harry E. Chilton, Box 396, 3/8/48 SCI'anton, Penna, 20 Binghamton-J ohnson Nick Mul'1ey. 962 Wh(>cler Av~. City, N. Y. 3/8/48 Galion, Ohio 21 Mansfield, Ohio Myron Shetler, ]19 Wilson Ave. 3/11/48 Franklin, I:ldiana 43 Indianapolis, Ind. Dr. J. 0, Van Antwerp, 225 E. South St. 3/18/48 Salem, MCl:i:-;. til New Bedford. :\18s8. Kenneth A. Rowe, 89 Elliott St., Danvers, 'fass. 3/18/48 Grand Mel'e. Quebec 26 Crosse Pointe, Mich. Ted Hanna, 200-2nd Ave. 3/18/48 F'l'emont, Nebr. 43 Omaha, Nebr. C. W. Douglas, 347 E. Washington 3/22/48 80'1.1th I'laven, Mich. 28 Muskegon, Mich. Bel't M. Miller, 854 Phoenix 3/23/48 St. Paul, Minn, 40 Minneapolis, Minn. Roy Haberkot'1l, 1040 Laun~l Ave, 3nJ/48 Kiowa, Kansas 44 Wichita Kansa" James E. Miller. 3/23/48 College Station, Texas Hi Houston, 'fexlls D. M. Desmond, E. E. Dept" A. & M. College. 3/25/48 Washburn, lliinois 16 Peoria, Illinois G. O. Brummett, Washburn, Ill. 3/31/48 Frankfort, Indiana 3a Loganspol't, Ind. Oscar Smith, R. F. D. No.5. 3/31/48 Cohoes, New York 18 Schenectady, N, Y. Ted V. Stannard, 47 Oneida Street. 3/31/48 Lebanon, Penna. 51 York, Pa. S. D. Evans, 1320 Oak Street. 4/2148 Paris. Ontario 25 London, Ontario Bruce V. Cameron, 50 St. George St. 4/6/48 Napoleon. Ohio 26 Defiance, Ohio Mel Wagner, 535 Main Street. 4,6/48 Fairmont, West. Va. 23 Wheeling, W. Va, Hanison Conaway, Box 452. 4/8/48 Homewood, Illinois 23 Southtown (Chicago), .III. Adam 1\1. .Inwood, 18327 Dundee Rd. 4/8/48 Cushing, Okla. 30 Tulsa, Okla. Dr. D. P. Bondurant, 422 E. Broadway. 4/13/48 Ashland, Oregon 16 Klamath Fal1:s, Ore. Gus Wurdingcl', Route 2, .Box 380.'\. 4} J3/48 Corpus Christi. Texas 29 Houston. Texas R. Morris Studer, 1430 7th St. 4!13/48 Albany, Ntlw York 18 Schenectady, . Y. Dave CI'band. 112 Winthl·op. 4'14/48 Clinton. lIIinoig 17 Decatur, Ill. Charles A. Pluker. 4/15/48 Chesaning. Michigan 16 Saginaw & Flint, ;\Iich. Ben L. Peterson. 4116/48 Dale, Wisconsin 18 Waupaca, Wis. Elmer Schroeder, R. No.2, Neenah, Wis. 4/20/48 Longmont, Colo. 34 Denver, Colo. Raimon Newby, R. R. 4. 4/20/48 Bdsl.ow, Oklo. 22 Tulsa, Okla. H. G, .Milburn, 206 No, Main St, 4/20/48 Ridgway, Penna. 25 Corry, Penna. W. G. Cox, 263 W. Main St. d/20/48 Guelph, Ontario 19 Hamilton, Ontario Jack Small, 67 Wyndham St. 4/22/48 Ridgewood, N. J. 35 Paterson, N..J. Greg Asbee, 93 Carlton Ave., Hohokus, N. J . .- ._ .__..__..._------_. .._- ---, -- -- ._---. ------_._ WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? June 1946 242 12,772 100 Chapters out of a total of over .June 1947 36,1 19,527 400, Three of our Chapters have each By O. H. (King) Cole, Int'1. V. P. June 1948 ? ? sponsored the new ones; one spon Ten years ago-a dinner party with How do we get new Chapte,'s'! Lal'gely sored 4; ten sponsored 3; twent~'-four thi.,ty·four guests-today, an Inter through the individual efforts of a ~ponsored 2; and 62 sponsored one national Society with 459 Chapters relatively few extension-minded mem each. From this it is apparent that and 2~,348 members. What originally bel'S, Unlike most Societies we have most of our Chapters are unfamiliar was one per20n's idea of a lot of fun, no paid organizers. Our growth is wit.h Extension work VI' do not sti'ess is now lcK>ked UpOll by hundreds of entirely dependent upon our own mem its importance to Ol!r Society The thousands as having high entertain bel'S and usually in proportion to their bUI·den has been earned too long by ment value. Yes. we have come a long efforts. the International Headquarters Office way, but we still have faJ" to go in Your Chapter has an l;:xtension com and ~a ~ew. of the. Society's SparK reaching our potential. mittee. at at least is supposed to have plug:s. It s tUlle to give them 0. hand. one, the primary duty of which is to While the emphasis this ;year is on Progress was slow during the eadiel' bring new Chapters into the fold. years of the Society's existence, but quality-it does not necessudly follow How effective has this Committee that we must restrict our growth to dUI'ing the last fotu' years it has been n~w greatly accelerated, as can be noted been? Has a Chaptel' been spon attain it. On the contrary, a healthy f,.om the foJlo\Ving figures; sored this year? Is your Chapter one growth in both number of Chapters that has never brou.2'ht another Chap and membership is essential if we are No. of No. of tel' into the fold? to maintain our Javol'abJe position in Date Chapters Membel's The truth of the matter is, that only public favor. It has been suggested June 1944 96 4490 25% of Ollr Chapters have shown any that euch Chapter $l.hould sponsor at J line IH45 169 S:OG4 reproductive interest, approximately leilst one new Chapter each yeaI', MAY, 1948 12 The Harmollizer I) • R.C.A. RECORDINGS !3-U-Pampa. Texas, Quartet Parade. 30-Flint, Mich., Festival of Harmony: Cort land, N. Y., Quartet Parade. by 31-Champalgn·Urbana, Ill., Quartet Parade. November (j.'-LaSalle, 1lI.• Quartet Parade. • THE CONTINENTALS 6-Hamllton, Ohio, Quartet Parade; Detroit· Oakland County. Mich.• Quartet Parade: Buf MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN falo, N. Y .. Quartet Parade. I2-Paterson. N. J .• Quartet Parade. 13-Bloomsburg. Fa., Quartet Parade: Mil wauket", Wis.. Winter Carnival of Harmony: • 8 FINE 10" SIDES Kansas City. 1'10.. District Contest. in a beautiful album 14_Fox River Valley (Geneva, DU Quartet Parade. t6-Loulsville. Ky., Quartet Parade; Hartford, Conn., Quartet Parade. e !I-Decatur, DI., Quartet Parade. SELECTIONS t.-Baltimore No.1, Md.. Quartet Parade. Decembe.r "-Pontiac, 1\.1lch .. Quartet Parade. I Wonder What's Become of Sally 19"9 and Fl"'ivolous 5al- Medley L. AS REPORTED TO THE INT January I5-Toledo, Ohio, Quartet Parade. Meet Me In St. Louis 22-York. Pa.• Quartet Parade. OFFICE THROUGH MAY 1st Wagon Wheels- Irish Lullaby February r.-.Tersey City, N. Y .• Quartet PiI~ rade. End of A Perlect Day l\1a' I"_l\ilarquette. l\'lich.. Quartet Parade: 19-Dearborn. Mich., Quartet P.arade. Missln Mammy's Klssin Kitchener, Ont.. Ladles' Night; Springville. 2&--Cleveland, Ohio. Quartet Parade. Heart. Of My Heart N. Y.. Quartet Parade: Dundee, Ill.. Charter April 2:t-24-Kansas City, Mo., Quartet PiI Night: Sudbury, Ont., Charter Night; War rade. - Whiffenpoof Song saw, N. Y.. Quartet Concert. 23-Marinette. Wis., Quartet Parade: l\.fani I5-Sturgeon Bay, Wis.. Quartet Parade; Iron tlwoc, Wis., Quartet Parade. Mountain. Mich., Quartet Parade; Newark. Ap~ N. Y .. Quartet Par3de: Wilmington. Del.. May '''-Warsaw, N. Y., Quartet Parade; Quartet Parade: Parma. Ohio. Quartet Parade. pleton, Wis.. Quartet Parade. l6-Connerlivllle. Ind., Charter Night. !'IO_ 26-Frankforl, Ky., Charter Night. 2l-Dekalb, Ill.. Charter Night; Akron. Ohio. GRAND RAPIDS STAGES onl)' $4.50 I.ost paid Quartet Parade: Reading. Pa., Charh:r Night: Detroit, Mich" Ladies' Night. FIFTH INVITATIONAL 22-Rochester, N. Y. (Genesee) Quartet Pa April 10th marked the presentation b)' rade; WheeTing. W, Va.. Charter Night; Oak Send Orders To Park, nJ.. Quartet Parade: San Jose, Cal.. the Grand Rapids Michigan Chapter Charter Night: Penns Grove, N. J .. Quartet of its Fifth Annual Great J...akes In • Parade. vitational which provided a most de THE CONTINENTALS 22-Z3-Terre Haute. Ind.. Quartet Parade. lightful weekend for many hundreds of 310 lona Avenue 2r;--Cohoes. N. Y .. Charter Night. visiting barbershoppers and a mar • 2'fl_Kcnosha, Wls.. Quarter Parade. velous show for a highly receptive and MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN 27-Ypsllanti, Mich.• Quartet Parade. enthusiastic audience of some 5,000 29-Wallaceburg, Ont.. Quartet Parade: Holy who tilled the huge Municipal Audi oke. Mass.. Quartet Farad/': Fort Angele.~. Wash.. Quartet Parade. torium, . June $-Jersey City. N. J .. Spring Dance and Under the capable and efficient guid Quartet Roundup. Dunkirk-Fredonia, N. Yo, ance of General Chairman Dr. W. 1\1. Charter Night. Campbell and his Committees the !3-a-Peoria, nJ.. Quartet Parade. events moved swiftly and smoothly ATTENTION 11-12-Qklahonla City, Oklao, Convention. starting with the specially planned la-Ridgewood, N. J .. Charter Night. Chapter Meeting on Friday evening. EXECUTIVES 18-Hart, Mich., Ladies' Night. The traditional "high jinx" affair on idc~l 26-L.'lSolle, Ill.. Chorus Parade. Saturday afternoon proved to be as • An item (orgi(" -.nuI'c"ir July i8-0shkosh, Wis., Dist. Chorus Contest. )l!d pn:n,iu", usc; good." ill "nd 26-Detrolt-Oakland County. Moonlight Ex hilarious as ever. This was followed rcnlCmbnncc "d...er,ising .. cursion. by the main event Saturday evening AUJust H-Hi - Central States Dist.. Ext. with the Ballroom Harmony Dancing Comm. Meeting. Party later and the events closed with CHRISTY 21_Redford, Mich.• Picnic. the famous Great Lakes aspirin SjtMt September 3_4·!')--Longview, Texas, Harmony breakfast on Sunday morning where Festival. simulated me die a I at.tention 'was KNIFE '1-:i·6-Charlevoix, Mlch.. Jamboree. thoughtfully provided for all who ap "ilh n)mc. tndc·m:uit or Olher IG-Mt. Pleasant. Mich.• Quartet Parade. peared in need of such service. jnsigni~ nC2!lr and (lC'rm"nendy ll-Gowanda, N. Y .• Qunrtet Parade: Ml!'· etrned on bl~dc. ~ hawaka. Ind.. Quartet Parade. Quartets appearing in the main audi HANDIEST ~ 18-0Iean. N. Y.. Quartet Parade: Sheboygan. torium show against stage back Wis.. Qu~rtet Parade. grounds of original, cleverly designed, POCKIT KNIFE • I9-Elkhart. Ind., Quartet Parade. painted street scenes were the Cos EVER DESIGNED I 25--Binghamton-Johnson City. N. Y .. Quartet mopolitans of Grand Rapids, Song "-;dol. ~...... »d "".p'..d. H...... ~. Parade; Madison, Wis., Quartet Parade; Berea. 'M pcK." ~..,. =.l>.k~~~·~I"~~c;:::. masters of Lansing, Clef Dwellers of Ohio, Quartet Parade. s.:~:~':.::s.ll 29-Spencer. Iowa. Quartet Parade. Detroit, Canadianaires of Windsor, :::'i:" ...... " ..I: ch._· Ontario, Pitch Pipers of Grand Rap ... fU'..d Wado Oclober 1·2-5a.n Gabriel. Cal., Quartet Pa .,f h .... I",." rade. ids, Antlers of Flint, Sing-Sing Sing .,..1,1>0• .,1. !-Port Huron. Mlch.. Quartet Parade: Wal· ers of Midland, Travelers of Grand .....,.....,;00.11, .d· ton-Downsville. N. Yo, Quartet Parade: Bea Rapids, Progressive Four of Detroit, ver Dam, WIl>.. Quartet Parade: Northampton, Mass.. Quartet Parade. Midstates Four of Chicago and Inter !-3-Macomb, Ill., District Contest.. national Champions, the Four Har i-Morrison, m., Quartet Parade. monizers of Chicago and Harmony lI-Brantford, Ont., Quartet Parade. Halls of Grand Rapids and last, but !I-Chatham, Ont., Quartet Parade: Hornell. not least, the fifty voice Great Lakes N. Y .. Quartet ParAde: Omaha. Ncb.. Quartet Chorus of Grand Rapids Chapter Parade. which under the directorship of Frank 16-C. W. New York-District Conlest: Lans B. Goodwin gave a splendid perform ing, MI('h.. Quartet Parade: Middletown, Ohio, Quartet Parade; Barrington, TIl., Quartet Pa ance. Un.,.,1 ""'~'r and di,,;n<,io~. RolI.d ",Id pI" •• pol"h.d rade. ,,,.~I••, ....1 ."d h",lth! ch,o",i~",. In ~.nd>o"'. ,It;(, bo.... The duties of Master of Ceremonies )1 SO.)2 W .n~ H. Wn.. Ioc "(/o;ns d.,.il< ud !>'icu. 17-Monmouth, DI., Quartet Parade, were as usual capably handled by G. 2'e-Washington, D. C.. Harvest of Harmony, THE CHRISTY CO., Fremont, Ohio ~3-SYl'acuse, N. Y .. Quartet Parade; Lorain. Marvin Brower. M.~<" 01 r.m"", Ch"", .nd fnckc, Ral..,,, Ohio. Quartet Parade: Meriden. Conn., Min_ Congratulations to Grand Rapids for .~~ fll..l« I,,, J ".~....""" •• sU'el and Parade: Wisconsin Rapids. Wis.. Quartet PTS OF 61010'8[11 St!\Y 0\)10111101 HM1'<),.y AIM YOUR SIGHTS HIGHER PubU.h.d quarterly by the International Officen and the othel" memben of the Interna tional Board of Director. of the Society for the Pr"wvlltion and Encouragement of Barber ON S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A. PUBLICITY Shop Ou.rtet Singing in America. Inc., for dillribution to the members of the Society. By Walter Jay Stephens International Chairman Public Relations VOLUME VII No.4 Our Public Relations Committees should do more than just announce a few MAY, 1948 facts about a chapter's event ... they must seek to secure public acceptance 25c per Copy of our Society on the basis of its good conduct and our member~hip's per formance. Every effort of our Public Relations gTOUpS, should be to stress EDITORIAL AND PRODUCTION the fine principles and high standards that form the pattern of Society ideals CARROLL P. ADAMS so vital to our common interest. 18270 Grand River Ave., Detroit 23, Mich. Phone; VE 7-7300 Our Public Relations platform is not aimed to "restrict". The point to be DEAC (C. '1'.) MARTIN, remembered in connection with restrictions-good or bad-is that there is J. F. KNIPE 110 lightning rod to inSUlate the offender of good taste against the lightning BUSINESS MANAGER of an aroused public opinion. W. L. OTTO decel1c~r, CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Violations of our accepted standards of good taste, and sobriety in public will be laid at the door of UlOse whose ~elfishness and self·indulgence Roscoe Bennett J. George 0'Brien Jean Boardman W. Welsh Pierce caused them. One need not be a prophet to suggest that those who may George W. Campbell Sigmund Spaeth be g'llilty of these offense~ will eventually pay dearly for their actiol1!l: heCHllf'f.' O. C. Cash Walter Jay Stephens nublic opinion plays no favorite~ ... it is quick to react to :.lny force that Charles M. Merrill Frank H. Thome Lhreal011s it.

DISTRICT EDITORS Since our Society hmi established a definite platform of good conduct. then Northeastern - Stub Taylor, Schenectady; Mid vigorous, courageous efforts should be made by our Public Helatinns COlll Atlantic _ Jack Briody, Jen;ey City; Di.Y"ic mittees to secure full cl'edit through proper promotion ill the pllhlic intf'rest. Bob Holbrook, ,Miami; Ccntrol·Wedern N. Y. Our Society's high standards and fine principles must be repeatedly explained - Chuck Glover. Jamestown; 01lio-S.W. Pa, • JimEmsley.Canton; Indiana-Ky. • Frank Vogt. so the public wil! understand that ouI' good practices and performances are Elkhart; Ontario. Siz Hamilton, London; beyond reproach. Michigan. Roscoe Bennett, Grand Rapids; Land O' Lakes, Tom Needham, Milwaukee: You must be prepared to direct committee efforts courageou~ly and vigor lIlinols, Welsh Pierce, Chicago; Central States. Hec White, Kansas City: Far Western, Dick ously in establishing the fact that. SPEBSQSA is a high principled organi Schenck, San Gabriel; Podjic-Nort1lwcst. Ernest 7-ation, a real factor in community service, and that it enjoys popular acclaim. Cullen Mlirphy. Eugene. Oregon. You must establish that. even more important than its superb entertainment value, SPEBSQSA is upholding an American tradition and, in pursuit of this aim, is dedicated to the encouragement and preser.... ation of an old forlll of WATCH USE OF FLAG American music. . On request, Ed. Member Jean Board man reports on use of the American You must acquaint the public with the seriousness and dignity of our Society's flag based upon his investigation at efforts in placing barber shop harmony where it rightfully belong51-on a high War Department and D. A. R. head· plane of harmony perfection. Every reasonably enlightened barbershopper quarters. believes it is part of his duty to keep the general public iflformed on the There is no objection to painting a motivating good principles that guide our efforts and form the basis of our reproduction of the flag on a quartet harmonious behaviol'. shell if done in a dignified, respect ful manner in conformity with the When you tell SPEBSQSA'S story ... and you have a mag-niflcent story regulation governing the displa?, of to tell ... it should dear up any possible doubts regarding the meritorious the flag generally. It lllust be palllted efforts of men from all walks of life who gather to indulg-e in the hannony in a proper position and lllust be of song and good fellowship. Men with a SOllg in their hearts meeting in in the place of preeminence and no congenial surroundings to get a full measure of enjoyment in harmonizing lettering or other disfiguration can with their fellow men can't fail to lessen, yes eliminate, mistrust and unrest be painted upon it. Boardman adds his personal comment that the Chi in our communities. cago Chapter's shell used at the Int'l. contest, Milwaukee '47 is a good ex So guard ever so carefully the publicity releas0s that you make to the press. ample of reproducing the flag in a Aim higher in your standards so our members' good conduct and principles respectful and inspiring manner. See are set forth in lhe proper light to se('ure for our Society its full share of inside covel' Aug. '47 Harmonizer. favorable public opinion.

INTERNATIONAL OFFICERS, 1947·1948 BOARD OF DIRECTORS PTuidmt ...... CHARLES M. MERRILL, 414 First National Bank Bldg.• Reno, Nevada The Officers (eJ:cept Secretary) and (Attorney) Immtdialt Past Prtsidmt. . FRANK H. THORNE. 6216 West 66th Place, Chicago 38, Ill. (Term EXPiring in Junt, 1950) (Vice-President. National Aluminate Corporntion) JEAN M. BOARDMAN, Southern Bldg., Wash First Vict-PTtsid~nl. ....SANDFORD BROWN. 30 East 42nd St., New York 17, N. Y. ington. D. C. (Attorney at Law) 5tcrelary . . .CARROLL P. ADAMS, 18270 Grand River Ave., Detroit 23, Mich. WILLIAM B. CODDINGTON, Porterville Road. TTta~rtT . . ROBERT L. IRVINE. 914 Jackson Ave., River Forest, Ill. East Aurora, N. Y. (Asst Credit Mgt • Sears, Roebuck and Co ) (Dist. Mgr.• United Eastern Coal SaleH Corp.) ViCt-PTesidtnl...... J. D. BEELER. 1830 West Ohio St., Evansville 2, Ind. WILLISA. DIEKEMA, 130Central Ave.. Holland, (Vice-Pres. & Gen. Mgr., Mead Johnson Terminal Corp.) Mich. (Pres., The De Pree Company) Vice-PTuidenl...... 0. H. KING COLE, 901 Marshall St., Manitowoc, Wis. (Vice-Presideo.t, Kingsbury Breweries) JAMES H. EMSLEY, 804 Peoples Bank Bldg.• Canton 2. Ohin (Attorney at Law) Vic~Pruidtnl...... EDWIN S. SMITH, 34660 Michigan Ave., Wayne, Mich. (Real Estate & Iosuranee) HOWARD C. MELLOW, P. O. Box 373. Peoria, HistOTian , HAROLD B. STAAB. 40 Roe Ave., Northampton, Mass. Ill. (Real Estate Development) (Eastern Sales Mgr., Wm. & Harvey Rowland, Inc.) RUSSELL C. STANTON, 222 PaSQual Ave. Fuund'T and Pnmomml Thi,d Assislant T~mporUTY Vict-Chairman .. O. C. CASH, Box 591. Tulsa 2, Okla. San Gabriel, Cal. (Attorney & Ta:s: Commissioner, Stanolind Oil and Gas Co.) (Dist. Mgt., John Morrell & Co.) MAY, 1948 Tht Harmoniztr --_-:.-_------~-~-----~------ CONFIDENTIAL -ONLY FOR MEMBERS PLANNING A PARADE Off-the-record, a long time member sent a criticism of an SPEB affair written by a non-member friend of the Society. What it revealed in im~ pressions of a Society-sponsored show upon Mr. and Mrs. Public was so important that the writer agreed to allow its use if all names were elimi nated. It is well worth studying by all who plan any form of society sponsored entertainment. "Variety lacking in numbers. The dullness of the character in choice of songs was one thing that made the evening an ordeal for me. Why not something different? Has not barber shopping proved that it can handle certain hymn tunes-why not sing them? The program was pathetically impoverished, and the plane not high enough. "As for the M. C.• he was mOre vul gar than when I heard him last. And he missed a lot which can be said about barbershop background. technique, functions and inner spirit. THE CHORD BUSTERS, 1941 CHAMPS, as seen by Beaudin Moreover he fumbled the timing and was jittery. If a l'eal gathering is to be held in...... • for heaven's sake All BUT NINE STATES while their easterly neighbors are get YOul' top men to rally around and As of March 31 the Society had 432 coming up fast with a registration of lift the MC'ing away up and make chapters. They are in all but nine 1.539 for Ohio. ·Wisconsin comes in it a sparkling success." states, and in addition there are chap sixth with 1,189 members. ters in three provinces of Canada. in Probably Uw most hnl)(H·tant .iob tll6 In the early days of the Society Hawaii and in Alaska. The member the membership was heaviest along a Society has in Pu.bl-ic Relations ·i8 to ship as of that same date was 21,276. barbershopping "axis" which roughly send non-membM's a'way wishinU fol' divided as follows by districts: Cen ran .from Central Illinois to Central tl'al States 3103. C~W New York Oklahoma. The center has now shifted more nnd vowing to Mfend the next 1535. Dixie 424. Far Western 942, one. The Society missed ba,dly on this to a point definitely east of Central Illinois 2763. Indiana-Kentucky 1900. Illinois. Each District secretary has in the opinion of one 0lttside1' 'who ,is Land O'Lakes 1580. Michigan 2764. received a bulletin from the Int'!' very friendly to the o'l'ganizaf'ion. Mid-Atlantic States 1877. Northeast office showing the breakdown by Eels. ern 1476. Ohio-So W. Pa. 1810. On states. Only those with a thousand or tario 760. Pacific N. Vv". 261. Outside more have been mentioned here. of Districts 81. DISTRICT CHAMPION CITATION Robert H. Walker. Pres. Michigan Analysis of membership by states WANNA HOST INT'l. BOARD IN District Association, recommends that shows that Michigan (including the JANUARY 1949 OR INT'L other districts follow Michigan's lead Upper Peninsula chapters affiliated in awarding a district championship with Land O'Lakes) leads the proces CONVENTION IN JUNE 19S0 citation certificate. sion with 2,956. It has led every year Location of the J anuaTy 14th and since 1941. There was a time when 15th. 1949 Mid~ Winter Meetings (If Walker says that the a\vard is granted the Wolverines were so far out in the Int'I. Board and of the [nt·1. Con only by unanimous vote of district front of any other state that to catch vention, June 9th and 10th, 1950, will officers and executive committee. It up seemed hopeless. But Illinois, strid be discussed and decided by the In is granted only flto a quartet that ing along in seven-leagued boots. has ternational Board at its final session has completed the year with a perfect recently closed the gap until at the at Oklahoma City, June 10th. 1£ your record of behavior and unselfish de end of 1948's first quarter the Illini chapter and your city are interested votion to the high honor of being in hosting either of those important district champion" The award reads number 2,763. New York has made events, wire the Int'l. Secretary and "Tn recognition of honorable, unsel... such progress that there are now 2,102 ask for full information about the fish, and meritorious service to the members in the Empire State. Indi mechanics of submitting your invita chapters in the District of Michigan". ana comes fourth with 1,600 Hoosiers tion.

CLARE E. WrLSON, 614 Electric Bldg., Omaha, ARTHUR A. MERRILL, 1567 Kingston Ave.. W. D. COMMON. P. O. Box 1018, Dayton 1. Ohio Nebraska SChenectady 8, N. Y, (Div. Sales Agt., Pittsburgh & Midway Coal (Commercial Engineer, General Electric Co.) (General Manager. Moraine Box Co.) Mining Co.) WALTER JAY STEPHENS. 35 East Wacker A. H. FALK, 219 W. Commercial St., Appleton (T,rm expiriPlf iPl Jun" 1949) Drive. Chicago 1. Ill. Wis. (H. C. Prange Company) (Vice·Pres. and Director. Stemar Co., Inc.) W. LESTER DAVIS. 242 Huron St.. London, Ont. MAURICE E. REAGAN. 325 Castlegate Road (Treasurer, john Labatt Ltd.) Pittsburgh 21, Pa. E. H. DICK, 305 N. W. 27th. Oklahoma City 3, (EleClrical Engineer, Westinghouse Electric Okla. (President, General Construction Corp.) (Term E;cPirine ill June, 1948) Corp.) EDWARD G. FAHNESTOCK, 1600 E. Douglas. Wichita 7. Kansas JOHN j. BRIODY. 110 Lincoln St., jersey City 7, HOMER L. SCOTT, 38 Ver Planck St., Geneva. (President, Fahnestock. Inc) New Jersey New York TED E. HABERKORN, SR., Medical Arts Bldg., G. MARVIN BROWER, 107 Michigan Ave.• (£astern Factory Rep.. Renown Stove Co.) Fort Wayne 2, Ind. N. W., Grand Rapids 2, Mich, (Underwriter, The Medical Protective Co.) (Proprietor, Brower Memorials) GUY L. STOPPERT, 1326 W. Dartmouth St., Flint 4, Mich. ROY S. HARVEY, 141 E. Cleveland Ave., Mus WALTER E. CHAMBERS. P. O. Bolt 208. Rock kegon Heights, Mich. Island. III. (Exec. Sec'y" Associated Male Chorusel of (Ge.neral Purchasing Agent, Sealed Power Cocp.) (Personnel Director, Mc Cabe Dry Goods Co.) America, Inc.) 16------The Harmoniz.,er Floyd Hayhurst. 916 Cerrito St., Albany, Cal.; Minneapolis. Minn., Elton Bjorklund, 19(}0 HERE IS LIST OF f"our Ilits of Harmony, San Jose, Cal., Smoky Hennepin Ave.: tFonr Ke)·notes. Appleton. Wis.. Saling. 1278 Coolidge Ave.; *Four Staters, San Del Bradford, 511 W. College Ave.; Four Lnke$ 1948 COMPETING 4's Diego, Cal., Leonard P. Pluris. 2()56 Kalmia City t·our. .Madison, \Vis., C. A. Callaway. Box St.; Glo_Bow Four. San Jose, CIlI.. Neil Hines. 52~; G?l~en Guc:n~sc)' Quartet. Minneapolis, 1302 Lincoln Ave.; Hollywoodsmen. Hollywood, r-Imn., Wilham H. EllIOtt. 1900 Hrmnepin Ave.; Here is the complete list of quar Cal., Verne Miller, 212 N. Vignes St., Los Angele~ Harmony Limited, Green Bay, 'Wis.. Harold Lavin test which are competing in the 1948 .'i4. Cal.: Major Chords, San Gabriel, Cal., Dick 1369 Emilie St.; High Life Quartet, Milwau"-' Schenck, 853 Garibaldi Avo.; Mission Airs. Wis., John J. Sutsehek. 4161 N. Montreal St.' . International Contests. The quartets San Gabriel. Cal., C.· Stanley Moore, 4551) tHi-l.o's. Mi!wRuk('C. Wis.. Paul Alell:andr~ff, are identified by District and Chapter Yellowstone St., Los Angeles 32, Cal.; Other 719 N. 35th St.; Ke)·-Nullons. Kenosba, Wis., Quartelle, Orinda, Cal.. Lyle Pre3cott. Box :31. George S...l,ddie, R. 2, Bo,," 14; MadilKln A('ci. and in each case the name and ad Diablo. Cal.; l'ickup8. Santa ROEll.. Cal., Albert denhlls. l\'!adisoll. Wis.. K. Louis Silther, 2717 dress of a contact man for the quar A. Clapp, 825 Slater St.; Rose Cily Four. S:mta Kendall Ave.; Meliodierll. St" Paul. Minn., Rosa, Cal., Harold H. Huntsinger, 1188 Edwards Lester H. NOl've, 988 Dayton Ave., Apt. No.2; tet is given. Ave.; Houndoleers. Tri-Cily, Cal.. J. P. Moo of NOles, K9"o.hu, Wig.. Arnold .I. BO)'le, Quartets marked by* are those chosen McMillan, 1829 W. 43rd St.. Los Angeles 37, Cal.; i720-75th St.: *.\'Iilwauk«eans. Mil""lIukee Sharp Four. SaCramento, Cal., Howard E. \Vaite, Wis., Paul E. Herbst. 2850 N. Grant Blvd, . in the various preliminaries to go to 3760 San Ysidro Wa~" Twenty-Four Feel of Milwaukee U-Natumls. Milwaukee, Wis.. B~rt Oklahoma City for the Semi-Finals H'armony. Inglr.wood, Cal.. J. H. Young, 3410 R~c. 611 N. Broadway; Old 81)·le. LaCros.w. W. 80th St.; Un<:alled Four. Berkeley, Cal.. WI;;.• Fred H. Kowalke. 716 Pine St.; Packer June 11th. Quartrts marked with t John F. :\1cEtravy, 2114 l\IcKJnle~' A .... e.; <..1ly F'uur. Grcell Day. Wi.,.. Larry Selil'~eJl. 714 al'e the alternates. *Wranglers. Tuc.~on, .o\riz., Dr. Porter A. Davj!lon, So. Webster; Terrykle-in, LaCro!!3(!, Wis., Alvin 535 E. Third St.; S. Mikelson. 1711 Madison St. CENTRAL STATES DlSTnJCT Il.LINOIS DISTRICT Ale_Sur_Rll" Ke",cl~. Omaha. Nebr.• Joe Mororeo. i\HCHJGAN OJSTR1(..'· 428 Vall~y St.: *.-tOUW Keynoters. Wichita. !Abbott l\ledidoe Mon, 'Vnul:cgll.n, Ill., Roy C. Ad· Lih". FlinL, Mi,.h.. R. F. F'Prm,all. 2424 Knn8., Paul L. Kliewer, 302 S. Main St.. Newton. Truelsen, 305 Burton Ave.; *Big 'l'owlJer.s quar Thomas St.: *AetnaAires. Bay City, Micb.. Kans.- tFlying "L" Quartet. Tul.sa, Okla. and let. Chicago No.1, 111., Dr. Leonard J. Hib'll:illS, C~arles T Porter, 203 Davidson Bldg.; *Antler.... Mcl\l~ter, Okla.. Geo. M. McCaslin. 1148 N. Main 35 E. Wacker Dr.; *Chicagoans, Chicago NO.1, Fhnt, i\hch., Willard Schindler, 211 E. Court St.; St.. Tulsa. Okla.: Four Nubbins. Spencer, Iowa, IU., R. W. Corbett, 7007 North Ridge; *Chor Barons. Wayne. Mich., Edwin S. Smith. 34660 Hltrohl Krile. 108 Grand A<'e.: Fonr Quarters, r1oliers, Rock bland, Ill., Walter E. Cbamburs, Michigan Ave.; Renton Harbor Melody Mixers. LinColn, Nebr.• O. Doyle Sittler. 1)40 N. 16th St.: 1'. U. l:Sox 208; Dec&lur CommodorCIi. D~tur, Benton HArbor, :\'1ieho, Loui8 A. Holland, 215 Gateway Four. Omaha, Nehr.• ),farvin E. VOl!:c!. Ill., Floyd Mier, 911 So. Webster; ESQuires. Fi~eHty Bldg.; tClef Dwellers. Oakland COUJ1ty, 5050 Pralt; Hnrmony Mixers, ArkanSlls City, Fo:c Ri\'cr Valley, Ill., VernOI:l W. Oie, 304 State MIch.• Harold E. Bll.uer, 15499 SUSSClI:, Detroit: Kan.• Winfred E. Barker, 310 So. C.: Harvellt Ave., St. Charles, 111.; Feudin' Four, Tuscola, Collegians. Grosse Pointe, Mich.• Gordon Lim. Hands. Osborne County, Kans.. Oliver R. Nuzum. Ill., L. S. Collins, Atwood, 111.; Four Bits of burg, 12074 Ashury Park, Detroit 27, Mich.; Osborne. Kans.: *Rawkcyc FO)ur. Du Moinp,s. Harmony. Oak Park, m.. George H. Zdarsky, CosmopolitaJ1S. Grand Rapids, Mich.. Cecil F. Iowa. Ben Jordan. 2537 BeavP.r Ave.; *Iax of 1826 S. 58th Ave., Cicero 50, m.; Four F1ushers. Wat&On. 266 Prospect. S. E.; Food Cit), .·unr. Harmony. Des Moines. Iowa, Lou Cumpston. Ollk Park, Ill., Pete: Peck, 4.06 N. Elm.....ood Battle Creek, Mich., Recne W. Wolfe, eto Mich. 641 Linnwill Place. W. Des Moines; *K. C. UOOl> Ave.; to'our Minor Keys. LaSalle. m., Leonard Nl!-tionat Bank; *"'our Counts, Oakland County, Club Serenaders. Kansas City. Mo.. Bert F. Phelps. Kaszynski, 335 Gooding St.; .'our Pops. MiCh., Roh/lrt E. S ..... anson, 26656 Wyoming Itd" 6035 Park: Locker Room Four. Blackwell. Okla.. LaGrange, Ill., Robert M. Hockenbrough, 41ilO Huntington 'Woods, Mich.; *Gardenaircs. De Jerrv Donneny. 104 S. Main St.:'*l\1aI!.CC·". Ke)·· D~yo Ave., Brookfield. III.; to'o..: v ..lley Four. troit. Mich.• Howard D. Tubb.'l, 16534 Greenvie; Masters. [Jm.:oln. Nebr.• Vernon Heiliger. 1303 No. Fox River Valley, Ill.• T. Larry Favoright, Route Rd.; Improvisors, l\.Iidland. Mich., G. Warren 42nd: Question Marks. Osborne County. Kans.. No.1, N. Batavia A ....e., Batavia, Ill.; Hurnlo Abbott. 208 Harrison: *Lefl·Out .·our. Marcelhr>: Emmett Kissell, Portis, Kans.: Rhythm Knights, Joliet. m.. Edwin R. ~'litchen, 816 Mich.. We"lee Clemens. MaroohlS, Mich.; . Razors. Omaha, Nebr., Richard F. Fergugon, to.-Iason Ave.; Han'esters, .\1ollmouth, 111., L. R. l'I·letrognomes. Midland, Mieho, Earl Keitht.u 11 5110 Unrlprwood Ave.: Rlss_Rhythm· Porter, 2t4 North Second St.; Hi.Larks. AurOra, Eastman Rd.: I)uragonl;. Mu~kegon. Mich., Aires. Kansas CIty, MI).. J. D. F'ehrenbach, 912 Ill., C. D. Smith, 176 Western Avt:.; lIoudlll G. Dick H9nd,.i,'k. 1_B Ll'Irch Court; Pilch_ East 30th St.: 'SnU Flnl. Four. Lincoln. Nehr.. Four. South Town, Chicago, Ill.. Edward J. h-htas. Rlendf<. Muskegon. Mich.. James I. Mish. 1583 Robert K. Fensler. 1315 South 27th: Sunshine 1405 E. 67th I)lace, Chicago 37, m.; Knights Four, Siou~ Cit:.... Iowa, A. G. Renderson. Beres of HarrnOI;lY. Chicago No.1, 111., Howard C. (Continurd on pat' 17) ford, S. Dak.; Wichilones. Wichita, Kans" Pincus, 2649 N. Talman Ave.; Lyric Four. Clnude DoVorss. 319 S. MaiJ1: WiJ,:manaires. Peoria, Ill.. RolHe M.. Myers. 617 Main St.. Sioux City, Iowa. Ernie Vennard. Box 394: Apt. 3; *Mellow Fellows, Park ltidge, m., R. W. Winter Gnrden .'Ollr. San Antonio, Tex., Don V. Redin, 230 East Ave.; *Mid Slntes Four. Chicago seevers. 215 San PedrQ Ave.: Yello ...'jackets. No.1, m., Forrest E. Haynes 2174 Giddings; Kearney, Nebr.• Fnd W. McCready. P. O. BOll: ModulD.lin' Four, South Town. Chicago, Ill., Erwin 444: *CeSR·Naircg, Wichita. Kan., and Kiowa, F. Beyer, 9601 Prospect Ave.; Northwesterners. MISHAWAKA Ran.. Willard C. Hamilton. 1600 E. Dotlgb.s. Fo,," River Valloy, II\.. Kenneth A. Haack, 339 Wichita. Arbor A\'C., West Chicago, IlL; One·1'..... 0 Three-Four. LaSalle, Ill., Raymond T. Auler, "WELCOME" C-W N. Y. mSTRIC'f OglesbY, 111.: Organ.Aires, Danville, HI., Harold A~ddcnlal Four. Penn Van. N. Y .. DOJ1ald A. Bohland. 301 S. College St.; tPromenaders. Mills. 169 Cornwell St.; tAdd_O_Chords. Addi. Declltur, m., Everett R. Stern 1455 N. Maple; CHAPTER son, N. Y.. Harley Dingman. emtis SquarE;: Sing-Chrunh:crs. Peorilt, Ill., IT. Smith Applogllte. P. ~. 8. S. Q. A. Ar~ndian Four, Rochester (Geneee1 Angelo Orrl~o. 419 California Ave.; Smeets UrothOlrs. Joliel, s. s. 387 Sdo St.; n·Natural Four. Kochester {Grm· Ill., John Smeets, 8 DeKalb St.; Tune-draflers. eseel. Ted Tinsnlllfi, 602 ProCessional Bld\l:.; LaSalle. m., Johnny Goering. 224 Marquette will present *Buffalo ums. Buffalo. N. Y., Albert E. Shea, St.; Tune T,,·istcrs. Oak Park, 111 .. R. Geo. 121 Dunlllp Ave.: Champagnll Four. Bath. N. Y., Adams. 728 N. Grove Ave.: Westernnlres. the greatest 01 Top Quartets AI Martin, Hammondsport, N. Y.; Discards, Macomb Ill., Morris D. Payne, 124 East Buffalo, N. Y., M. C. M. Pollard. 356 Kin8e~' Adams St. in its history on its Ave.. Kenmore 17, N. Y.; F'ortlssimos. Geneva. N. Y.. R. George Chase, 50 Seneca Ave.; Four IXDIANA_KF.NTUCKY DISTRICT Thorns. Newark, N. Y .. B. C. Bush. 312 So. MaIn St.; Frequently Fl... t Four. War!law. N. V., Carpen!llr Bros., Gary. Ind., Gil Carpenter, 614 PARADE T"rllleS/Set" St.; Foremost FOur, And9rsQn. 1nd.. Robert L. Arnold. 64 Washington St.: Harm-O· Jack G(!nda, 914 E. 27th St., Anderson. Ind.; Chords. Batb, N. Y., Ernest Partridge, Avoca. N. Y.; Rarmony Kings. 1amestown. N. Y .• *(o'our Shades of Harnlony. Terre Haute, Ind.• Bob SATURDAY Syracu~e. Sisson, 2126 First Ave.; *Hrumonulres. (laQ'. Ward Belknap, Box 787: Ideal "·our. Ind., William Hess, 6760 Hobart Rd.; Hogan N. Y .• F. Byron Neff, 322 Coolidge Ave; *Melo· SEPTEMBER 11th Tones, BUffalo. N. Y., J. J. JefTriC3, 572 Auburn Creaken.. Aurora, Ind., George S. Ward; Ave.: ii\blody ;\ft.n. Buffalo, N. Y., Willia!" F. tKentucky Troubadours. Louillville, Ky., Jack .J. Del!eld. 403 Windermere Blvd.; Melody MUll. Byrne, 2538 Garland Ave.; Logan-aires. Logans This will b•• P.r.d. wh.r. lators. Rochester (Genesee), Frank J. Burke. 42 port. Ind., Glen Donley, 411 E. Market; Noble \Vinboume Rd.: Notecra<:kers. RochC!ltH (Gen aires. Kendallville. Ind., Bud Smith, 527 E. COEFFICIENCY will r.g eseoo). Earl A. Parr, 2131 Hudson Ave.; Note· DowlinR; St.; ROlddy_KllowullS, Ft. Wayne, Ind.. wal>ters, ithaca, N. Y .• Carl K. Sidle. 105 V... "!arry I.. Burd, 817 E. Berry St.; RippleAires. ulate the conduct of unique Clinton St.: Noteworthles. Geneva. N. Y.. Indianapolis, Ind., Alvin J. Minnick. 4!)45 Prim Harmony George H. Fairfax. 25 N. Brook St.: Pent-Up rose A\·e.; Senlimental Four. F'1. Wayne, Ind., City f"our. WbitC!3town, N. Y, Lw Aiello. 1534 Walter H. Vollmer, 2519 S. Lafayette St.; St. Vincent St.• Utica, N. Y.; Slh'cr City Quar. Softolles. Mishawaka, Ind.• George Corbridge, 908 Leland Ave., South Bend, Ind.; *Songfellows. • tet, \Vhit~t.own. N. Y.. EU2ene Aiken. Kenwood Sta., Oneida, N. Y.; Swipe Hunters. Corry. EvanllvlUe, Ind.• Vernon C. A!

Middletown Melody Men. Middletown, Ohio, COMPETING 4'5 Thomas F. Walburg, 1019 Jackson St.; *PiU5· burtt:hers, Pitt8burgh, Pa., John M. Ward, 312 BaUey Ave.; Sill: rooters. Dllyton, Ohio, C. Wel ARTHUR SWEENEY SAYS ••• don Holyeross, 1314 Amherst PI.; Sleepless Knights. Dayton, Ohio, Oliver C. Kemper, 2665 TltefollolL'-£ng SO'lgS are in Pltblic Park St.; tPro;:relishe .·our. Grosse Pointe. No, Main 51.; Song Vendors. Warren, Ohio, Mich., Lyle P. McKerrell. 1"121 Faust. Ave.. Mall: W. Jacobs, 408 Union savings & Trust Domain and you may flse them Detroit. 23, Mich.; Sing Sing Singers. MIdland, Bldg.; Siaircase Four. Middletown, Ohio, Mark Mich., Frank ,,1. Whaley. 1116 W. Park Dr.; Seheibert, 15 HarriJlOO St.; Slarlighters, Oa;\'ton. anywhere, an,'lime, anyway. Songmasters Quartel. Lllnsinl\:, Mich., Harold Ohio, Wilbur Puterbaugh, 4218 Blue Rock Road; McAtlee, 1822 nay St.; 1hree·tlints·And.A. Statesmen. Sharon. l)a.. Edwin M. Good, 352 Ughler. flint. Mich., Ben H. Barnh~rt. 122 E' Landon Ave., Ne..... Wilmington. Pa.; ISlcel Oakley St.; \'aricl)' "·our. Pontiac, Mich.;; Cl)'de B1cnders. Lorain, Ohio, Bill Jahn. 2209 Harbor Dalton, 1835 Oelrose Rd.; Well'" Woodsh('t1~erll. view Bh·d.; Tiger Town Four. MilS8iUon. Ohio. BflAUTIFUL DREAMER Three Rivers Mich., A. H. Turnbull, 110 Wood Shl!ldon Bunting, 1039 Willial1lll Ave.• N. E.; St., Three Ri~ers, Mich. Toledo TrOl1budours. Toledo, Ohio, Ed Haver CARRY ME BACK TO OLD stock, 740 SI>enL-er 51.; *Westinghouse Quartel. j\-1JO.ATI.ANTIC STATES OISTlUCT Pittsburgh, Pa., Hllrry W. Smith, 306 Fourth VIRGINNY 1l11l.>llh1ll Four. Jersey City, N. J., L. F. Alexander, Ave.; Yachtsmen. Lakewood, Ohio, John C. 2961 Boulevard; Bridge Cit)· Fl!ur, Teaneck. Wens, 14719 Armin 1\ve. DOWN MOBILE N J Ed Liebermann, 39 Park VIew Dr., Park Ridlle, N. 'J.; Chordl>h.. nderfl, Philadelphia, Pa., ONTAIUO DISTlllC'!' DRINK TO ME ONLY WITH Gerald R. Batt, 319 S. Broad St., Na:..areth, Pa.; ,\muilious City four. Hamilton, Ont., B. J. THINE EYES *Diplomats, Washington, D. C., Edward R. Place, Meu,ftn. 75 Huxley Ave.. S.; Dellllires. Brant_ 2118 Kearny St., N. 1::.; Oul'onl Dyem:,kerli. ford, Ont., Harry Chafer, 44 Wilke=) SI.; Camp_ IN THE GLOAMING Pelinsgrove, N. J., Earl 1::. Cr~",', 49 Frank1l1~ St... bell Bros.• Hamilton. Ont., Bert CampheU, 60 Box 266; Dulchmell, H~lldlng, Pa., Lew~ A. Cambridge Ave.; tCanlidianllires. Wiodsor, Dot., OH DEM GOLDEN SLIPPERS Beeker, Jr., 33 "tain St., Mahntoll, Pa.; t;~ii. Harold E. Podvin, 1885 Moha....k St.: Casual. Ilt:crs of Harmon)', Newark, N. J., !\Ibert Ge.l1eb laires, London, Ont., Charli~ Ellerb)', 790 Adelaide RED RIVER VALLEY ten 23 WaldO AVe., Bloomfield, N. J.; Esse" St.; tCowlill' Brothers. Toronto. Ont.; Byron fo":"', Newark N. J., ,\ndrew Verhagen, 103 Wuh· Cowlini;, 42 Balsam Ave.; Del·Tones, Hamilton. ROSE OF TRALEE ington Ave., 'Belle\'ille, N. J.; *Follr ~hord~, Ont., Jack H. Smith, 44 K('nsington Aye., N.; Newark aDd Jersey City, N. J., Harry FlOrtlltl, *FourChorder;;.London, Ont., Art Patterson, 792 SILVER THREADS AMONG 162 Lakeview Ave., Bloomfield. N .. J.; tJers:e" Elias St.; Four nats. Toronto, Ont., A. L. Rnmbltlrll Newark, N. J., Ray Sandlford. 6 \V\Il. Bra.tier, 60 \'ietoria St.; Foor Soothies. Hamil. THE GOLD :ror P1at.-e' Bloomfield, N. J.; N. "1'. C. Harmony ton, Ont., D. W. Smith, 12 Proctor Blvd.; HalCoutll: Bronx, K. Y., William i\L I)iemer, HarmoknighlS. Sarnia, Ont., Korman L. Mills, SWING LOW SWEET 3699 SE.<:or -,"·e., Bronx 66; No,'elairres. Mall 458 Devine St.; Queen at)· Four. Toronto, Ont., CHARIOT hattan. N. Y., Albert E. ,\1)ram" 15 Ha~·th~rDe H. C. Jackson, 166 Wolverieigh Blvd.: Uegenlll, St., Brooklyn 25, N. Y.; Paterson l-Iarmon3ues. Toronto, Ont., Fred W. Parrott, 839 Ossington Paterson, N. J., LYle J. Walmsley, 588 ),Iarket Ave.; Shado...· Men. Ha.milton, Ont., Bruce C. St.; Penn Four, York, Pa., Ivan 1'..Kable. Laillg, 270 Wexford Ave. S.; Tune T ...1sters. 15 E. '-Iaple St.; *I'olomac Clillp(:rs, Washlllgton, Toront.o, Ont., Peter Wood, 20 ROllClawn Ave.. 0. C., Louis E. Metcalf, 901 Jng~ll.ham 51., N.W.; Apt. 5. Son~ Qllcell'll Men, Jamaica, N. Y., Richard R. Gordon, Ten Public Domain Titles 21-10 123 St., College Point, N. Y.; Rubin PACIFIC NOltTJ·IW.;ST l)ISTlllCT wJJl be listed in each future Hood. Reading, I'll... Paul Butler, 562 Dougln&l St.; SI. Ml1r)"1I lIor8Cllhoeu. Manhattan, N. Y., tE"glc Four, Klamath FKlls, Ore.. B. J. Lo(tsgaard. issue of the HARMONIZER. l..c() J. Leeomt.<:, 461 E. 140th St., New York 54, 712 St. Frane('!l St.; tHlIrmon)' Vendors. Tacoma. Wuh.. Paul Newman, Court House; *Mountain_ N. Y.; tScralllonltln!;. Scrantoll, Fa., Edward Hll.n~en, fo'phault fl03 Mulberry St.; Sinlling SltuirCl:J, AlrH. Mt. Rainier. Wash., Tom 1810 Well" • Keep These Lists For Rolerence • \Vallhington, D. C., Dean Snyder, 7 Huntinll; Cove St., Enumclaw, \Vash. Place Ale;>[andrin, Va.; Toppers, Pi!nn~gro"e, N. l. At.well Challl:e, liS "G" St., Carney's Point, N. J.; Tunesmcn, Wilmington, Del., ~buriee M. Donovall, 122 ConCOrd Ave.; Variety "ow. Woodridge, N. J., Albert Steunenbe!i. 57S - Srd St., Carlstadt, N. J.; What ruur, Bronx. N. Y.,; Jack Hughes. 530 W. 174th St., N. Y. City 33; Withered I'our, Paterson. N. J., flejt lIn.d Votemctjt1------, JllOlC& E. Matthew" 65 Jack.~n St.; Woolen Cit)· .·our. P3Sl!aic. N. J., John I•. Alfie,i, IHI W.~hill¥,lOn Pt SPEBSQSAgacious Quartets use NORTIIt:A~"'EICN tl:llVldicrs, Bridgeport, Conn., F,allK. AnnSlrQnll:, 27& Hanover St..; Ctlppcrll, SChenectady, N. Y., Mills Barber Shop Harmony Folios Ilobecrt Coward 1032 Glenwood Blvd.; Collar City .'our. Troy', N. Y., Alfred Louis Van Burco, 13&1-4th Ave., Watervliet, N. Y.; Drifters. compiled and edited by SIGMUND SPAETH ::khenectady, N. Y.. Ciiff Mead, 55 Division St.; F1)'catchers. Sehellectady, N. Y., Ceo. H. Klauminz.er. 51 Washington Ave.; .·our Mu.s. Schenectady, N. Y., Z. "'lerton Swart, 1015 • BARBER SHOP HARMONY State St.· *Four Naturall:J. New Havell, Conn., Paul Milicr, 84 .~nthony 51.; *Four SmoolhieH. A standard favolite collee.tion includin~ "I Had A Dream, Dear"; "My, Evaline"; i New Betate St.; l\1a~piell. Berea, Ohio. Leslie W. Cline. STREET-- I 16 Crocker St.; !\1t:mor)' l.nners. Canton. Ohio, CITY... -- ZONE--STATE- !-toh..rt (;. Hafer, 213 Broad Ave.. N. W.; MAY, 1948 The Harmonizer Set of 3 Records Society To Issue Song Folio by Instead Of Loose-Leaf Sheets THE McPHEE 3 One of the first items on the agenda of the 1947-48 rnt'!. Song Arrangements Committee was the recommendation of the previous committee that we COIl t MOM sider an annual folio of songs to replace the loose-leaf method. POP Out' committee agreed that the folio would better serve the purpose for which our arrangements moe intended. Consequently, we set out to prepare a folio oC and songs containing the best from the material at our dispoRal. We learned thru a questionnaire to our membership that the demand was JERRY fo!' greater variety and particularly for songs of "program length". Vle have tried to meet these requirements.

IIAngels Never Leave Heaven" Among the songs included in this folio, tu be issued in July, ure several of tho old ones that we have sung for years, all dressed up in good barbershop har~ "Rose of Traleell many, plus five original songs written by our own members. As to the latter, '4l-1eart oj .My Hearl" we predict they will become hits. ilViolels Sweet" Following is a complete index of titles, authors, and arrangers: Nfl 1 Had My Life to Live Over" TITLE AUTHOR ARRANGER HShdllly Town" J. Anton Dailey Dreaming L. W. Heiser Lou Dusenbury William Douglas 4.50 POSTPAID Annie Laurie Lady John Scott Frank H. Thorne Old Black Joe Stephen Foster Maurice E. Reagan Vita Acoustic records made by Beautiful Dreamer Stephen Foster Hal Boehler Universal Records, Chicago Ceo. Cooper Sweet Genevieve Henry Tucker J. Cecil Rowe Order from Joseph Barnby Don Webster ARNOLD E. McPHEE Sweet And Low Alfred Lord Tennyson P. Box 217 o. Star Spangled Banner Francis Scott Key Frank H. Thorne EVANSVILLE 5, INDIANA My Bonnie Anonymous Phil Embury a Come All Ye Faithful John Reading Phil Embury Love's Old Sweet Song C. Clifton Hingham Don Webster Spring Geo. H. Zdarsky Edwin S. Smith Lovely Are Your Deep Blue Eyes Hal Staab Charles Mel'l'ill Our Cook Staff 1'a)'lor Paul E. Neal M. H. (Skeet) Bolds Dream River W. A. Diekema W. A. Diekema ill. H. (Skeet) Holds Watermelon Time in Lou'siana W. A. Diekema W. A. Diekema Certainly the author of llLovely Are Your Deep Blue Eyes" needs no intl'oduc tion. Hal Staab has written mllny songs most notable of which are "Violet!> Sweet", "When The Man In The Moon Says Hello" and "Beautiful Jsle Of Make Believe". George Zdarsky, author of "Spring" is a member of the Oak Park, Ill. Chapter and bari of the "Four Bits Of Harmony". "Our Cook", we understand was born about 25 or 30 yeaI's ago--an original creation, by four guys who loved to sing, among whom was Staff Taylor, present tenor of the BUZZ SAWS, currently Ohit! State champions. "Dream River" and "Watermelon Time In Lou'siana" were both co-authol'ed Ly W. A, (Bill) Dicl\Cma, member of' The International Board, and M. H. (Skeel) Bolds, of ou)' Lafayette, Ind. Chapter. The committee I'ecommetlds everyone of these to all quartets and choruses, We feel certain there is something here to fit into very I·epel'toil'l~. The folio replaces the former practice of issuing loose-leaf arrangements, The 15 numbers in the folio plus 4 in the Harmonizer will give members 19 arrangements during the coming fiscal year as compared with 8 by the former loose~leaf method, and 4 in the Harmonizer. Tn July, 1948 each chapter secretary will receive a copy for each paid up member, which he will pass along at the regulal' meeting or by mail. To insure maximum use of these folius, the committee shongly recommends a chaptel' librarian who will take charge of them so that there will be suffi cient copies on hand fOl' all meetings. We know from expel'ience, that lack of SOllg books at rehearsals has been a definite handicap to the progress of many chorust::s, Additional copies of the folio will be available at a price to covel' printing, handling and mailing, These can be ordered from the Ynter'nationa] office. lnt'l. Song Anangements COlllmittee Don Webster, Chairman MAY, 1948 The Harmonizer "ARRANGED BY KOBOLD" By Jean M. Boardman AMATEUR My daughter Honeybee has a tam~ tenor who does the baritone?" I ask kobold named Koby who lives in the him. SONG chimney of our fireplace and at night "Why, the bass, of course," said he ob he does tricks around the house, often viously disgusted \vith my ignorance. of an annoying nature, Lately he has been keeping us awake banging on "Well, who sings bass?" I shot Tight WRITERS the piano so last night instead of go back at him. ing to bed I hid and caught him in "Nobody any more except Pete Buck the act. ley," was the sad reply. We are NOT music publishers - "Look here, you kobold!" I said: As you may well imagine, I can't but send us your new manu HWhat do you think you arc doing stand much more of this so I tell him making this terrible rac1HARMONY HALLS RECORDS 214 Houseman Bldg. The "Milwaukee" R. R ...... ent for harmony in its downtown office window to ad· vertise Milwaukee Chapt",r ParaUe. Feb. 21. The window was installed by Bob Burr, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Millard Zigler, and Paul Alexandroff. Just imagine the confusion if the quartet inside brok", out wilh "Atchison, Topeka anu &lnte Fe," MAY, 1948 20 Thr Harmoni(tr THE FACTS ABO~U~T-----'======:' CHORUS AND CHAPTER FINANCE By Dean Palmer, SAYS HARMONIZER IS "UNINTERESTING AND OF LITTLE ebron., Chapter Methods Committee VALUE" - WHAT DO YOU THINK? - PLEASE REPORT The answers to questionnaires on chor uses and finance, sent to all chapters In April a chapter secretary wrote Secretary Adams that the in December, are still being received by the Chapter Methods Committee. Harmonizer is "uninteresting and of little value". He said that Although not intended to provide an the same applies to all magazines from other organizations. overall picture of our Society regard Ing these two subjects, but I"ather to act as background data for the writ Since Past Pres. Staab introduced the publication in 1942 it has ing of MANUAL instructions, the answers so far received contain many been the belief of all who have guided the Society's course that interesting facts and trends in the the Harmonizer is by far the most effective means of keeping make-up of chapters. the entire membership informed about news, policies, general Of the 190 answers received on chap ter choruses, 24 have no chorus at all, information - all that makes up a typical issue. Thousands of 99 combined chorus and regular meet letters to columnists and the Int'!. office, many more comments ing gang singing, whereas 67 seem to work chorus groups more or less sepa by word of mouth and questionnail'es have indicated that the rate...altho most of the latter rehearse magazine does the job. on the regular meeting night. (See Spark Plugs this issue). Of the 166 who say they have choruses, ninety It will be most informative if all chapters will poll a meeting one noted their tl'oubles and prob lems, the most common being: How to soon as to how many derive value from the Harmonizer, and increase interest, how to maintain at report the results to the Int'!. office. tendance, how to get the members to read notes, and how to keep members who have not attended l'ehearsals fl.·om singing with the group at a pub lic appearance. Opinions on quartet arrangements as issued by the Song SAN GABRIEL HONORS GILDERSLEEVE AND JOLLY BOYS Arrangements Committee ran all the way from "they're too easy" to "theY'I'e too hard"; a good number were of the opinion that 'we were short of novelty numbers similar to "Coney Island Baby", Practically all of the 91 requests for help and ad vice have been personally answered by Tom Needham and Dean Palmer of the Chapter Methods Committee. Of the hundred and forty·one chap ters which have answered the financial Questionnaire-52 have no initiation fee. Of the 89 who have them, 54 are for one dollar and the rest in varying amounts, the highest of which is $10.00. Annual dues run from nothing in seven chapters which have no dues to four out of the 141 which charge $12.00 pel' year. The average seems to be $5, $6; and $6.50. Hal Peary. The Great Gildersll!'eve joined the Long Beach, Cal. Chapter originally. He and the Jolly Boys are now bona fide members of San Gabriel. In the front row. We find that 109 chapters have 'sepa Harold (Gildersleeve) Peary, Earle (Judge Hooker) Ross, Walter (Leroy) Tetley, rate secretaries and treasurers, of Richard (Mr. Peavy) LeGrand, K(!n (Chief Gates) Christy, and Arthur (Floyd Mun son) Bryan. In back row, San Gabriel member.., Dick Schenck, Silc.; Dwight Weld, whom four secretaries and ten treas Pres.; and Ruu Stanton, Int'l. Ed. Member, urer~ are bonded. Of the above group, seventeen secretaries have assistants, whereas only one chapter indicated that it had an assistant treasurer. In WHEN DIXIE DISTRICT ORGANIZED thirty-two chapters, the secretary and treasurer are combined into one office, Seventeen out of the 141 reporting chaptel's operate on a budget, sixty eight l'equil'ed Executive Committee approval for payment of all bills, 78 have their books audited regularly each year, and 39 require two signa tures on all checks, The largest admitted income for the last fiscal year was $5,974.39 as com pared with $80.00 for the lowest, altho the latter may not have been for a whole year. Foul' out of the 1<11 showed a yearly deficit. The extremes in year ly cash balance ran from 57 cents to $3,470.32. Of sixteen chapters Jonesboro, Arkansas was the only chapter not represented when representatives which indicated special funds, two from 10 cities met at Bioningham to organize the Dixie District. The men seated provide musical scholarships, thirteen represent L. to R.: New Orlltans, Atlanta, St. Petersburg, University, Birmingham, donate to miscellaneous charities, and Decatur, Jackson, Miami, Tampa, Memphis. The sport shined gentleman in foreground is Bob Holbrook, sec, of Miami Chapter and member of the 1941 Nat'l. champion one has a building fund. Chord Busters. MAY, 1948 by Sigmund Spaeth

as an intel'pl'eter of early jazz. Mc have been written by a Harvard Pro Pherson wrote lyrics under the name fessor, and it actually developed into of Cecil Mack, as well as his own, a burlesque opera, in which James and was responsible for the words of Russell Lowell had a hand. Teasing, He's a Cousin of Mine, Down Amony the Sugar Cane, You're in The great Marines' Hymn has the Right Chu?'ch but the Wrong music by Offenbach (a duet, The Pew and the original Charleston. Two Gendarrnes, from his opera, Gene After Please (Go Way and) Let Me vieve of Brabant). Don't Sit Unde?' I N the process of completing a His the Apple Tree is merely a jazzing Sleep became a success (largely of the classic tory of Popular Music in America through Barry von Tilzer's clever pro Long, Long Ago. (to be published by Random House, motion), the publisher did not hesi next Fall), your correspondent has Some people even claim that the cur tate to substiute his own name for the rent Now is the Hour goes all the come upon some rather startling two others, and that is how it ap facts, indicating that things are not way back to an old hymn called pears in the folios. Incidentally, the Clea.nse Me! Can anyone check this? always what they seem, particularly modern Sorttebody Else Is Taking My in Tin Pan Alley. Place clearly echoes the Brymn tune. Take one of the most famous tanes Von Tilzer may have had his rea HERE is only one obituary this ever written - that maudlin tear· sons for not bringing a fairly obvi T time, and it has been saved for jerker. Hearts and Flowers, which ous suit. In any case, the two writers the end. J. Keirn Brennan died at used to accompany practically every have been dead for some time. his home in Los Angeles, February death, reunion, love scene or nostal 4th, 1948. He was 74 years old. gic reminder of the stage and screen. EVERYBODY has probably at some To many who sang his words the It is universally credited to a certain time joined in the chorus of name of Brennan may mean very lit Theodol'c Moses Tobani, who died in Round Her Neck She Wore a Yellow tle, for his best songs were set to Long Island City not so many yean Ribbon (with its repetitions of "fur music by the great Ernest Ball, and, ago. He was a routine arranger and away", plus hal'mony echoes). A boo'k as usual, it is the composer who is theatre conductor and he turned out of old songs contributed by Dr. Spang generally remembered. Let the Rest a mass of music under various pseu ler, former President of the POl'tland, of the World Go By is certainly a donyms as well as his own name, none Oregon, Chapter, contains what is familiar title to harmonizers of all of which ever made a real hit with the unquestionably the eal'liest form of kinds. Another of Brennan's lyrics public. His entire reputation rested this well known song. that will never die is A Little Bit of on Hearts and Flowe?'s, which came It was evidently of English origin, Heaven, again with Ball's music, made out in 1893 as an instrumental num famous by Chauncey Olcott, ber and later had words added by with words by John Hansell and Mary D. Brine. music by John Valentine (dated in A more recent text by J. Keirn Bren the late 1830's) and the title was llan was that of Empty Saddles, and Unfortunately, Mr. Tobani did not All Round My HiLt. Here is the he also wrote the words of Turn Back write a note of the melody. He (or chorus: the Universe, Goodbye, Good Luck, his publisher) picked it up from AI All round my hat I veal'S a green God Bless You, Dem' Little Boy of phons Czibulka, a Hungarian com villow, Mine and other hits. poser who really knew how to reach All round my hat, for a twelve a big audience. Czibulka called it month and a day; Brennan was a singer and vaude Wintenna?'chen (literally Win t e ,. If hanyone should hax the reason ville actor as well as a playwright Fain/ Tale), and his piece was dated vy I veal'S it, and lyricist. He was responsible for two years earlier than Tobani's, with Tell them that my true love is the books of such productions as A an identical tune. In an interview far, far away. Night in Pwris and Artist8 and M.od quoted in Tobani'~ obituaries, he That's a pretty clear relationship, even els. He and Ernest Ball wrote more c1iamed a total sale of more than 23 though the music is entirely different than 300 songs together. J. Keirn million copies, which is also hard to from that of the later version. Brennan's name should be l'emembered accept as true. He also told in great There is also the classic about the gratefully by the barber shop quartets detail how he happened to write it. Old G?'uy MaTe, which has been imi that have sung his words through Eut one look at Czibulka's little piano tated many times, including that war· the years. number removes all doubt as to the time favorite, Praise the Lord and real creator of the melody. PCLSS the A?nmunition. In its original form, going back to the 1850's or HERE is another strange situation. earlier, it told of an Hold hoss" that Please Go TVay and Let Me Sleep "came out of the wilderness". is always considered one of Harry WESTINGHOUSE von Tilzer's biggest hits. He wrote F course there are plenty of mod plenty of others during his long life, Oern popular songs whose tunes or so he hardly had to claim that one. words can easily be traced back to QUARTET The first edition shows Mr. von Til remote ancestors. The background of zer merely as the publisher, with the comparatively recent hit, Dance words credited to R. C. McPherson with a Dolly, was a minstrel song and music to J. Tim Brymn. The orig • called Lubly Fan, written by Cool Address 0;rr'espondena to inal title, incidentaly, was Please Let White in 1844 and later known as Me Sleep. Bu_.Ualo Gals, Louisville Gals, etc., (de HARRY W. SMITH Both Brymn and McPherson were pending on where the company was colored men, collaborating on such playing at the moment). hits as Good MQl"?ting, Car1'ie, Shout, One Mea.t Ball, popularized by • Sister, Shout (the Bas well theme) Josh White, Jimmy Savo and others, 306 FOURTH AVE. and Josephine, My Jo. Brymn was an takes its words almost literally from Army bandmaster in the first World The Lone Fish Ball, a college favorite PITTSBURGH 30. PA. \Var and made a great reputation of the '50's and '60's. It is said to MAY, 1948 22 The Harmoniz.er

pel'S; moved into our community. The ment than to get Molotov, Attlee, extent to which America may be sing Truman and one of the big boys from ing in another ten years is pleasing France into one of our quartets'." to con t em p 1ate.. We hope the SPEBSQSA will not stop with its 000 triumphs on this continent. Let the whole world s;ing. March on, Barher "BLESSED INDIVIDUALS" Shoppers." In the Tribune, Tulsa, Okla.: "Some 000 of the most blessed individuals are going to put on a show in Tulsa, Sat. night for some of the most out "SHAVE·AND-A-HAIRCUT of-luck fellows in the world ... The 18 BITS" ... lucky gentlemen are members of nine From the Morning Herald. Yakima. quartets which will sing at Conven Wash.: "San Francisco barbers have tion Hall with an the box office re ceipts going to the support of Broom "THREE PRESSINGS announced that the price of a haircut will go to $1.25 and the price of a town, the grand and successful ven THREE SOLD OUT" .. shave will be boosted to $1 in that city ture of the Lions Club of Tulsa, that From the December 1 issue of Sales on March L This boost should not has the aim of making the blind self Ma.nagement: "The Barber Shop be permitted for it will sabotage the supporting. The singers are blessed. Quartets' album which is being sold Society fOl' the Preservation and En because they have health, jobs and over the Wurlitzer counters, and 15 couragement of Barber Shop Quartet that treasure which is the envy of the first album the company ever Singing in America, Inc. Some of every other person-the ability to waxed, has gone through three press· America's gl'eatest singing was of the sing well in or out of the bathtub iogs and each of the three has been barber shop variety, and it was great . . . A few people say they do not sold out ... The story behind the partly because of the line. given with like barbershop harmony singing. 'Barber Shop Quartet' album sounds pl'oper harmony, which went 'shave They are either unable to carry a tune interesting ... Wurlitzer has a gent and a haircut, six bits'. It will be in a tub or they have gone ultra named Bob McCloud. He's in charge ridiculous to conclude songs in the highbrow because they got a bonu:'> of record operations for the company's future and for the sake of accuracy book of grand opera from a literary retail stores. He's a firm believer that with the line "shave and a haircut, society that was stuck with a pile of if a record department is worth its eighteen bits". them .. , Not like barbershop har shelf room it needs unusual items that mony! It's inconceivable. Barbershop competitors can't duplicate - records 000 singing is music's fourth staunch pil that bl'ing prestige to the dealer ... lar. It does for man's relaxation what the other standards do for his SOlll, About t.his time McCloud discovered "NOTHING LIKE HOMEMADE that the Society for the Preservation his honor and his continuance." and Encouragement of Barber Shop HARMONY" ... Quartet Singing in America was hold Seen in the York Dispa,tch, York. 000 ing its annual convention ... Bob Penna.: HWhat this country needs is felt that the Society was contributing more music by amateurs who play "HOW'S YOUR FRENCH?" something of permanent value to Am (or sing, presumably) solely for the Ted Hanna, Grand :Mere Quebec, who erican music. Need we tell the rest?" base and sordid end of having a was instrumental in ol'ganizing the grand time". That's one of the things first Quebec Chapter sends a clip. 000 Gerald Johnson wrote in his enter ping from an Ottawa (unidentified) taining book "A Little Night-Music" paper showing a quartet in action "MUSIC IN THE AIR" .. After hearing Sat. night's Parade with the following cutline: "Ce "The Cracker Box by Margery Shel of Quartets put on by the York chap groupe de chanteurs, genre" "Barber ley, CouTiel'-TintC8, Newcastle, Ind. ter of the Society for the Preservation Shol} Quartet". a fait rire aux larmes "There is going to be a lot of music and Encouragement of Barber Shop les 800 invites qui assitalent recem in the air at Muncie. It won't be or Quartet Singing in America, we are ment au diner-bal du May Court dinary music either-the hot boogie of inclined to believe Mr. Johnson has Club, au Chateau Laurier, a Ot the juke box, swoon tunes, or sym something . . . Canned music, like tawa. Cette organisation a celebre is phonies. In keeping with the revival canned soup, is a boon, no doubt. and cinquantenaire de sa fondation, et les of "the New Look", the SPEBSQSA we couldn't do without it, but to add chanteurs et acteurs avaient revetu will warble close harmonies ... The zest to the musical menu, there's les costumes de I'epoque de 18 fonda trick is to blend the different voices nothing like an occasional dash of tion du blue, soit 1898." In other words in chords on each melody note, giv home-made harmony. All the modern not a genuine SPEB quartet, but ing a sort of hopped-up organ ef modifications of the lute and the any quartet is bette1' than none.-Eds. fect with melliferous crescendo and pipes have failed to bring forth one off-beat timing. A quartet of well sound hali as sweet as the sound matched, virile voices pouring out of the human voice raised in song ..." cacaphonic melody really "sends you", as the hep-cats say. One feels sorry 000 for today's teen-agel's with no more glamorous specimen than Sinatra to swoon over, when their grandmothers "KEEP AMERICA SINGING" had four time!) the attraction in each "A Chat with the Editor" from the quartet ..." Lincoln, Neb. Star: HThe motto of thE' Society is "Keep America Singing". 000 ... And it isn't a bad motto at that ... If there were political overtones sur "MARCH ON, rounding the Society's founding by BARBERSHOPPERS" . Mr. Cash, these have been lost among In the News Gazette, Champaign, Ill. the minor chords. IIf we can keep "Hurrah for the SPEBSQSA! In just America singing', says one pillar of the one year the Society for the Preserva Society, 'We can keep it from fight tion and Encouragement of Barbel' ing.' That of course wouldn't be Shop Quartet Singing in America enough, in case America were at has taken a firm and wholesome hold tacked. So the Society's ambitions on Champaign-Urbana ... The group are not only to Keep America Sing singing at Lions, Exchange, ABA, Ki ing, bnt to Get the World Singing. wanis and Rotary clubs has improved 'In fact', said my friend 'I can think immeasurably siJ1ce the barhershop- of no more worthwhile accomplish (Clmfimml (JJt P"I.' 23) MAY, 1948 The Hllrmoniz.er 23 ------~~~ ~~-

I SEE BY THE PAPERS TheyU Do It Every Time _~I_- (Continued frqm page 22) T"AT QUAl/TET WAS "MORE BATHROOMS AND DOING ALL tlIG~T WOODSHEDS NEEDED" ... UNTIL T"AT ST~.W- Earl N. Pomeroy in the Denver Post. gE~~Y PEDDLEI<' says that there is a lot of good SPEB talent going to waste in bathroom singing. "Top tenors are darned hard to find, take it from O. C. Samuel. Pres. and T. G. Hefnel', Sec. of the local Society, yet bathrooms may be resounding from right good tenor stuff . . . If the Society's local chapter builds membership over 100 it will have more woodsheds immediately ad· jaccnt . , . the woodshed is a small room where a quartet practices sweet swipes before edifying fellow harmon· izers in the big hall".

000 "OPEN-MOUTHED SINGING SATISFIES A HUNGER" ... Ben Hayes in the Columbus Citizen said that the Columbus Chapter weld ed t2'f.z barbershop quartets together and produced the chorus. "The open mouthed singing satisfied a hunger of mine. It was a vague craving I've had. We all seem to be trying to re capture something these days. Maybe it's neglected romance. It was the good old days in 1948. It was "THE FIFTH WHEEL IN A QUARTET" members of the Chajon Singing Society America singing-rich, imaginative, ro in Buffalo, a Polish male chorus which mantic, wholesome ... It's good, clean Joe Bagienski, Buffalo, New York, holds second place in national compe fun, and no wife objects to it. She became the hero of practically all or tition. He also sings with the Guido has her choice-stay home or come ganized quartets when he sent an idea chorus of business and professional along". to Jimmy Hatlo who draws "They'll people who sing just for fun. The 000 Do It Everytime". King Features unique distinction about the Owls is which handles Hatlo's cartoons put two-fold; they sing traditional Polish "HEADLINERS IN SPEBSQSA" the Bagienski-Hatlo idea into circula songs barbe1'shop style, and every mem tion nationally and the response from ber in the quartet can sing anyone 0/ Under the caption "Headliners in our members who saw the fifth man the four parts. They sing mostly by SPEBSQSA" the Delta of Sigma Nu horning into a quartet that was sing ear. The idea of the fifth wheel in a fraternity showed a picture of foul' ing "Jeannie With the Light Brown quartet didn't come to Bagienski all at loyal Sigmu Nus serving SPEB in a Hair" was terrific. once. He says, "Frequently someone big way: Dr. Mark S. Nelson, Can who has imbibed a little too much ton, Ill.; Hatch Graham, Hollywood; At the time he sent in the idea Bagien tries to pitch in with off-key tenor Maurice E. Reagan, Pittsburgh; and ski was not a member of the Buffalo or gravel-toned baritone. It is too Frank H. Thorne, Chicago. To old Chapter. All members of his Owls bad that a lot of people who like to grads the Delta says "When your op quartet are in their twenties and are sing can't harmonize". portunity to visit a Sigma Nu chap· tel' is curtailed but your urge to sing ~till lingers on, you can satisfy that urge to the fullest in the Society whose motto is "Keep America Singing'." again I get such a tremendous kick "GOOD, THAT IS" ... out of things that happen that I just 000 have to tell the world about it ... The Times Herald, Washington, D. C., What happened Sunday evening was in an interview with Int'L Ed. Member "GET THE HOOK" . that I attended the SPEBSQSA Par Jean Boardman comments: "Barber Timed nicely with the advent of bar ade. It seems that right here under shop harmony is the most difficult our noses so to speak, in Des Moines, bershopping into Boston the Boston type of male, fourpart singing. It reo Adve1'f1'~eT a delightful diversion is flourishing showed a picture of an old quires absolute fidelity of tone and time quartet getting the hook. This that a good many of us, if we knew pitch. There is no accompaniment. In practice originated at Amateur nights about it at all, had only a vague idea. at Minors Theatre, N. Y. Amateurs The members of the Des Moines Chap deed, such harmonies can't be played who were very bad were not permitted ter were hosts to seven other quartets on the piano because the piano isn't to complete their performance but and how they all sang-ending in a an accurate enough instrument. Its were dl'agged from the stage to the finale of the chorus plus all of the notes are frozen, whereas there should wings with a huge hook. Eagle-eyed quartets while the listeners sat in be a tiny variation in notes from Ed Contois saw the picture, sent it their seats spellbound, almost refus chord to chord. Furthermore (and this to Hal Staab, who passed it along ing to leave even after the curtains is what makes barbershop harmony with the comment UNot needed in our were drawn-so great had their en unique) the melody is sung by the Society". thusiasm been". 'lead' who has a middle-range voice, 000 Tncidentally a 20 inch snow started instead of by the highest voice. And du.1·ing the p(l,1'ade and the last re the finished product of barbershop "THOROUGHLY DELIGHTFUL 1)Q1·t from Bd. Me1nber Clare E. Wil harmony, says. the SPEBSQSA, is EVENING" .•. son, Omaha, indicates the possibility music to make your backbone go all Priscilla ·Wayne in the Des Moine~ that two cars and one airplane are up and down cold chills. Good, that is. (1a..) TTibune: "Every now and ~till st1'ltnded in Des Moines.-Eds. Thrilling".

MAY, 1948 The Harmoniz.er IIMEM-O-RIES 11 Coast to Coast, - by Districts News about District Contests and District Meetings Like an old song- MID ATLANTIC STATES CONTEST MICHIGAN DISTRICT CONTEST KINGSBURY Some 5,126 barbel'shoppers and "'Vatermelon Time" and "I ·Wasn't brings bacb old memories. fans jammed the Arena in Philadel Lying When I Said I Love You" car phia, Feb. 20 to hear eighteen qual'. ried the Antlers of Flint to District Born in the gas-light era tets compete in the Mid-Atlantic championship in the contest held at States District Contest. The Phila Kalamazoo, February 21. The four there is 100 years of brewing delphia Chapter Chorus, under the l'unners~t1p were the Clef Dwellers, experience behind its direction of ':Valter H. Groff, opened Oakland County; The Songmasters, the show. Judge Harvey Straub of Lansing; the Left Out Four, Marcel- present-day smooth, mellow Toledo did an excellent job of bringing Ius, and the Barons, ·Wayne. There the competing quartets on stage. were 22 quartets competing. Judges, flavor. who had sel'ved at Michigan's second The judges called them as they heard state contest in '41, were Maurice E. Try it, next time. 'em: First, the Four Chords, Newark; Reagan, Pittsburgh; Phil Embury, Second, The Singing Squires, Wash Warsa\y, N. Y.; Frank H. Thorne, ington, D. C.; Third, The Toppers, Chicago; and Cy Perkins, Chicago. Penns Grove, N. J.; Fourth, The Dip. In addition the Improvisors, Midland lomats, 'Vashington, D. C.; and Fifth, were adjudged winner of the juniol' The Potomac Clippers, WMhington, classification and the Foul' Counts, D. C. Judging was by Int'J. Bd. Mem Oakland County, won in the novice bel' Arthur A. Merrill and S. D. class. Fendley, Schenectady; William Hotin, District Prcs. Robert Walker, Grand Holyoke, Mass.; and Carroll T. Pal· Rapids, brought on the quartets at the lerin, Cleveland. forenoon preliminaries. Dr. M. J. Ken. nebeck, District Sec., Muskegon, in the District Pres. Jim Matthews pre afternoon. G. Marvin Brower, Int'!. sented leather wallets, with appropri Bd. Member, Grand Rapids, Mc'd the ate gold imprinting, to the members Finals. A capacity audience at Cen of all the above mentioned quartets tral High School Auditorium also and gave District Champion Lapel heard the Harmony Halls, past State Pins to members of the Foul' Chords. and International champions; the Saw Dust Four, twice Mich. State Cham. The Garden State Quartet, 1946 pions; the Unheard of Foul' of Mus Int'l. Champions, were guest artists, kegon, The Gardenaires, 1946 District and made their usual big hit. The Champions; and the retiring cham show was such a huge success that, pions, Barons of Harlllony. The oc· when the Philadelphia Chapter under casion was ushered in on Friday eve takes another public affair, the pub· ning by a Ladies' Night entertainment lic should beat a path to the ticket which presented nine quartets and windows. special features. A delightful folIow up was the Coronation Breakfast Sun day morning pl'csided over by Roscoe "WAY DOWN SOUTH" Bennett, District Contest Chairman. Birmingham Chapter spared no pains to make it pleasant for 41 delegates INDIANA-KENTUCKY CONTEST from chapters in the nine southeastern HELD AT MUNCIE states gathered to form the Dixie Dis The Foul' Shades of Harmony, Terre trict Association. The District consists Haute, Ind. were adjudged 1948 cham of chapters in Alabama, Arkansas, pions of Indiana-Kentucky District Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississip. by Judges Fred Stein, Huck Sinclair, pi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Chas. Schwab and Leo Ives of Chi· and Tennessee. Ten chapters were eago. The Varsity Four, Lafayette, represented. The officers of the new Ind., all students at Purdue Univer~ Ass'n. are Warren Zinsmaster, Pres., sity, came out second. Third place Miami; George Evans, Vice Pres., went to the Kentucky Troubadours, Louisville, fourth place to the Fore· Memphis; Tom Briskey, Secretary, most Four, Anderson; and fifth to Birmingham; Fred Thrasher, Treas the Canoe Tippers, Lafayette. Eleven urer, Jackson, Miss. Zinsmaster's ad of the twenty quartets competing in dress is: 1510 Madrid, Coral Gables, the Preliminaries competed in the Fla.; Briskey's is 2306-3rd Ave. N., evening Finals. Birmingham, Ala. Guest quartets were the Songfellows Birmingham will hold the District's of Evansville, District champions in first contest in late '48. Int'I. Sec. '47; the Gary Harmonaires, 1946 Carroll P. Adams, who attended the champs, and the Muncie Chapter chorus with their mascots The Harris organization meeting, reports that the Triplets. Int'1. Bd. Member Dick Com caliber of men in attendance was un mon of Dayton was secretary of the KINGSBURY BREWERIES CO. usually high and he believes that the Judges and Int'1. Sec. Carroll P. Manitowoc & Sheboygln • Wisconsin Society can look for big things from Adams head time·l{eepel'. Joe Westen Dixie District. dorf and Carl Jones Mceed. MAY, 1948 Tbe Harmonizer ---_._.__ ._-- DISTRICT CONTEST WINNERS AND RUNNERS -UP

lst-Ind.-Ky.-Four Shades of Harmony, Terre Haute. L. to R.-Mel Jenkins, tenor; Bob Sisson, lead; Kenny Roman, bari; COllway Harrold, bass.

2nd-Michigon-Clef Dwellers, Oakland County, get the word from Frank H. Thorne, Past Int'1. Pres., one of the judges. L. to R. -seated-Dick Wiseheart, tenor; DUllesn Hannah, lead; standing-Bill Johnston, bari; Harold Bauer, bass; Thorne.

2nd-Mid-Atlantie--Thc Singing Squires, District 01 Columbia. L. to R.-fore--Lew Sims, tenor; Dean Snyder, bar;; rear-Bill Shanahan, lead; Elton Wool pert, bass.

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lst-Mid-Atlantic---The Four Chords, Newark, N. J. L. to R.-Harry Fioretti, bass; Chas. Grewcott, hari; Joe Gortz, lead; George Dondan, tenor. \

2nd-Ind.-Ky.-Varsity Four, Lilfayette. L. to R. "Doc" Ruggles. tenor; Ed. Easley, lead; Bob Sanford, bari; Bill Wainwright, bass. 26 The Harmonizer

FOUR'S A QUARTET HOLLAND HOSPITAlITY BARBERSHOP Chord Buster's Dilemma Now in its third year, Holland (Mich.) Chapter staged its second BAFFLERS No. 17 The 1941 Chord Busters are today a Annual Parade of Quartets on March By Charles M. Merrill, lnt'\. Pres. trio in Tulsa. Bob Holbrook is living 26th. Under the inspiring leadership in Miami, Florida. As always in such Poets and song writers are forever of President George Herr, Secre trying to describe their dream girls, cases, the three remaining often hear: tary Matt Wilson, Int'l. Board mem Here are ten attempts you should all "Why don't you get a new lead and ber Bill Diekema, and a host of will recognize, Name or characterize the !{eep on singing?" ing and capable helpers, the seventy girl as she is named or characterized two chapter members and their wives in the song. Tom Masengale reasons this way: not only sold out the Holland Theatre 1. The blue of her eyes and the "Regardless of \\'ho is singing in the gold of her hair are a blend of for duplicate progl'ams (one' at 7 the western sky. Chord Busters, only fOUf are recog P. M. and the other at 9), but saw nized as the past National Champions, 2. On her cheek the rose was born; to it that evel'Y guest from out of 'twas music when she spake. Enmeier, Holbrook, Greer and Mas town was escorted, fed, entel·tained engale. Remove and replace one man 3. Sweet personality, full of rascal and sung to, from the moment (,of ity. and you do not have a National Cham arrival until curfew announced "shut pionship quartet. Many shows insist 4, Her brow like the sna'drift; hel' eye" hour at 2 A. M. At 5 P. M. the throat was like the swan. on having the fOUf original members. Chapter wives served a buffet supper So consider the standing of a new 5, She's knock-out; she's regal; hel' in n pl'ivate dining room of the Warm beauty's illegal. member in the Chord Busters. Friend Tavern, to all participating quartets and wives plus out-oi-town 6. A good old-fashioned girl with "Let us call our new lead 'X', who guests. The payoff in food, came at heart so true; one who loves no~ can sing with us anytime Holbrook the After Glow in the dining room body else but you. isn't present. 'X' can never compete, of the same hotel-cooked by the 7. Sweeter than the honey to the as a quartet with three members of wives and served by the Chapter mem honey bee. the original champions is not eligible bers. 8. Such a face as drifts through dreams. for competition. 'X' is not, nor can lnt'!. Board member Marv Brower he be, a past champion even tho sing emceed both programs at the 'fheatre, 9. Your eyes shine like diamonds, ing with a Past· Champion Quartet. as well as the After Glow, as only love, to me. We have a high standard to live up to Marv can do it. And speaking of After 10. A wild sort of devil, but dead and we have to be better with 'X' than Glows, there never was a mOl'e orderly on the level. with Holbrook-as the original four one or a more attentive audience. (See answe1"8 on page 27) are not expected to be so good, not having worked much together for five REAGAN CLOCK SYSTEM DEMONSTRATED years.,

"So-we are asking a lot of 'X' wh~n we ask him to become a member of the Chord Busters.

"Three members of a quartet hate to quit singing because one member is not available-so we have a choice -no sing or ask 'X' to spend a lot of time and hard work to gain nothing except personal pleasure. Yet, 'X' must be willing to work hard, learn old songs and new ones, and be Teady and willing to step in when the orig inal quartet isn't intact. Would )'ou care to be an 'X'? Also, consider Bob Holbrook's position-he expects to take his regular place in the Chord Busters whenever possible." it's complex but far from an "impos "r::, T, sible situation. We sWl have a lot of M' ,~ A5 ~,' ex~ } men who "exlJcct to gain nothing ~'L . / cept the personal pleasw'e of sing 7 ' 'ing in (L qttartet", as Tom said above, ~~/"~ und who couldn't a!t'o?'d to take the '.07 J" { 6 t1'?tte f01' fulfilling a cha1np's duties ",~3l?j3 ... Ed•.

At a musicale at the Edison Golf Club, members of the Schenectady Chapter • compared glee club harmony with barbershop, demonstrated the Reagan Clock System and showed how barbershoppers have found the lost chord, In the front row are Doc Fendley and Art Merrill, who did the talking. flanked by members of the Drifters The Chapter Reference Manual should Quartet, In the back row is the Clippcn Quartl"t, L. to R., front row: Jack Gibson. Floyd Barnes, Fendley. Merrill, Jim Stewart, Cliff Mead; Back row; Joe Compositor. be the Bible of all Chapter olTicers. Bob Coward. Stan Williamson, Nels Pettingill. MAY, 1948 by Frank H. Thorne, Imm. Past In!'1. Pres.

glad of the chance to gain some fame They love and respect us and they en as a male chorus director. If he is joy our fine, decent, manly hobby, but smart enough and good enough, he if we trifle with their sensitiveness, will quickly learn our favorite style. if we display baseness under a crude Always remember, however, that mantle of humor, we will lose the either the director directs the chorus, finest friends any organization ever had. This we must not do. No one Or the chorus directs the director. If should want to. Let's be sure we the latter condition prevails, how maintain the respect of all the decent How about a Chapter Chorus? Do you ever, failure is assured. Get the right people among our legion of friends have one? Is it functioning? Do you director and then back him 100% and enthusiastic fans. Let's each of have a good director? Are you singing all the tim.e. us see to it that we stay proud of barbershop? our society. Let's be tough-plenty Another important factor is to pro tough-with those who would degrade A lot of questions, but it is my hum vide dates for your chorus. Rehearsals it, perhaps destroy it, for a laugh. ble opinion that there is no more im maintain mOI'e pep-more interest--- -F. H. T. portant factor in maintaining inter enthusiasm-and better attendance est in meetings than a good chorus. when a choru8 date is in the offing, If, as some successful chapters do, The annual show, if any, of your TEXANS HARMONIZE the chorus meets every week-say at. chapter is not enough. Many churches eight o'clock-rehearses hard for one and clubs are willing to run benefits hour before chapter meetings, and to raise money for various functions two hours on non-meeting nights, then and will sell the tickets and even pay a good chorus can be developed that a part of the pI'olit if you can put on will be a credit to OU1' society. It is a chorus show with a couple of good important, too, as the chorus can quartets. Thus the chorus can finance thus become t.he nudeus of the chap~ itself through its own effort. tel'. At least the chorus members will be present to help inwrc good at In any event, sing for fun for your tendance at chapter meetings. community, at band concerts, Ilt Christmas time, for the Red Cross, Best results are obtained if the chorus and especiall~' for the Hospital vets. is organized as a separate unit of the Always try and have some such date chapter. Members of the chorus must ahead and then do your part to KE EP of course be chapter mem,bers, but AMERICA SINGING. You will be general gang singing is realty not a glad you did, you will have bettel' good substitute for a more formally chapter meetings, you will develop organized chorus. Your director should more good quartets, and boy! YOU enthu~iastic be sympathetic; in fad, WILL HAVE FUN. about barbershop style of harmony arrangement. If he is not, if he tde::; And now' for a less happy thought. to work instrumental accompaniment, How proud are '\Ie of our Society'? if he trie8 to do the Hbetter things"; Vo we want to see it dragged in the that is, if he VI-'ants you to practically mud and slime of filth and indecent give up our favorite style, he really :suggestion? I do not think we do, so ought to find another chorus, for our r :sound a wanling to those who suf barbershoppers will not stay with fel' under the pitiful illusion that it is him. necessary to resort to dirty stories to properly Emcee a show or an After I do think we should be versatile, how Glow. There is a time and place for ever, because if we will work hard almost anything, but we have such Members of B quartet from Dallas Chap· enough, we can sing almost anything. ter. as they sang at the Texas State Fair. fine talent, we have such marvelous Top to bottom: Dyke Turner, C. D. Some instrumental accompaniment fOl' Johnston, George Walters. Hal Jones. more impressive effect is good and appeal to the many thousands-yes, we can use it occasionally. We should millions of people-with our beauti try some of the "better things" and ful and romantic musical harmonies, we can completely depart from pure that we do not need, nor do we desire, ANSWER TO BARBERSHOP barbershop for a few numbers to low humor in our shows A qual'tet BAFFLERS add variety to our presentation and that resorts to suggestive songs or in to gain valuable training for our decent comments between numbers 1S (See page 26) chorus personnel. But the major por admitting weakness We should stop 1. The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi. tion of our numbers should be our such practice by first requesting its own kind of music. 2. Aura Lee. discontinuance. If that does not have 3. Peggy O'Neil. If one of your members has the abil effect we should drop such Emcees ity and will give the time to it, or and quartets from our shows, and if 4. Annie Laurie. if you can hire some good barber that does not work, expulsion would 5. The Girl Friend. shopper already succes!:lfully directing be none to good. For the few guf G. The Girl That Married Dear Old another chorus, so much the better. faws that such indecent comm~nts Dad. However, if none such is available, try obtain, we will lose the respect of the 7. Eveline. your local high school. fine, decent people that compose the 8. Sylvia. Sometimes a very capable director most wonderful audiences in the 9. Mandy Lee. can be obtained there who will be world, a Barber Shopper audience. LO. My Gal Sal. MI'IY, 1948 27 It Looks Like Rain In Cherry Blossom Lane As sung by THE MISFITS, CHICAGO Words by EDGAR LESLIE Music by JOE BUNKE Arr. by PHIL EMBURY, SPEBSQS' 1 , 4

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I I that you care_ It Looks Like - 2 10 The Harmoni'{er EVOLUTION OF SONG PLUGGING n), Leo Edwards Pres. "Charter Members of A. S. C. A. P." Leo Edwards, brother 0/ Gus Ed. Zieg!eld Follies, and olh6t"S. He held lI.'urds, has been associated ,vith 1Jt1tsic impOl"tant positions with famoM publishing for over forty years. He music publishers. In the following al' wrote such num.bers as That's What .. . . the Rose Said to Me,/sle D'A'm.our, the t1cle he pwks up the begum.mgs .oj majo'rity 0/ songs used by Fanny the SQng plugger and carnes h1?1t Brice during her ten seasons with down to tke present. In 1895 while attending public school writers in 1907 won a two cent roy Irving Berlin were great natUl'al song in Williamsburg, B roo k 1y n. my alty, which was written into the copy pluggers and could start their own brother Gus started his career sing. right law by Judge Oliver \Vendell song through musical shows on Broad ing in the gallery for Lottie Gilson, Holmes. Today more than ever the then a famous vaudeville star. Gal way or burlesque and make stage ap publisher depends on records, on ac pearances in vaudeville, cabarets, at lery singing was a favorite form of count of the Juke Box. No wonder plug in the horse and buggy era. It Petrillo stepped into the picture. And public band eoncerts and wind up be was the vogue among publishers to now we have the "Disc Jockey" whose hind the music counters in depart have someone planted in the audience talents consist of a few records and ment stores and the 5-10 stores, where to sing a chorus which invariably got some Joe Miller jokes. He draws they sold millions of copies. Georgie a hand. I followed my brother's foot $1,000 a week, a new type of song Cohan was in a class by himself. steps and Sllng with Emma Carus an plugger. other headliner when I was but twelve The Movies and Radio years old, also at Tony Pastor's fam The song plugger of yesterday who ous 14th Street Theatre. The theme song of the movies came packed sheet music in the publisher's along and soon sent the publisher stock room when he wasn't playing Harry Von Tilzer, Paul Dresser, scurrying to Hollywood for his hit piano and covering restaurants, Charles K. Harris and Gus Edwards songs. The Aickers produced some big vaudeville and burlesque houses, Con became rival song writers bidding fol' hits. But over-pl'oduction plus over popularity of their new songs. They ey island, etc., has given way to plugging of those songs soon killed the the modem "Contact Man", who plays laid the COrnerstone of efficient song goose that laid the golden egg, and plug-ging. Willie Howard, Joe Santly, publishers had to turn to that oc golf, knows which horse to pick in the Bobbie North (motion picture mag topus of all entertainment, radio. second race tomorrow, can lose at nate) and myself were among the boy Radio has 'many disadvantages and 1 "Gin" at a penny a point and knows singers engaged to sing with the var believe the majority of publishers how to take abuse, if his N. B. C. plug ious headliners. The late Julius P, would be glad to tUI'n back to the old didn't come through the night be Witmark wal) really the pioneer to days when hits were built gradually fore. But in the words of Kipling: travel throughout the country sing and lasted a long time. Though they belted you and flayed ing and popularizing his firm's pub. lications. Tin Pan Alley you, by the Tin Pan Alley that made Song Writers like Gus Edward:., Har~ you, you'll always remain a song Illustrated Slides l'y Von Tilzer, Joe Howard and later plugger. The next important method of popu larizing a song was the introduction ...... , , , . of illustrated songs by Maxwell & Simpson; Joe Maxwell known as the A FEW OF THE AVAILABLE FOLIOS OF "Singing Fireman" and Al Simpson who conceived the idea. BARBERSHOP ARRANGEMENTS A nd now song plugging became a Order frolll the Publisher or YOllr Local Music Dealer business. Songpluggers were engaged to infest the stage doors of vaude ville and burlesque theatres and in terview the artists there. The game 'Barber Shop Harmony. published by Mills Music. Inc.. 1619 Broadway, got so hot that some of the publish New York City 19 _. __ . .._._ __ ,_.._...... '" S .60 ers would conceive all sorts of means 'More Barber Shop Harmony. published by MUIs Mu&ic. Inc.. 1619 Broad· to win the good graces of vaudeville way. New York Gity 19 ... _._..... ~...... 60 headliners or burlesque stars. For years many of the well known artists . Barher Shop Parade of Quartet Hils No.1. published by Edwin H. Morris were on the payroll of certain pub· & Co•• Inc.. 1619 Broadway. New York City 19 .. .60 lishers. This, the worst evil which 'Barber Shop Classics. published by Remick Music Corp.. 619 West S4th tVer existed in the music industry, Street. New York City 19 ._...... 7S was dealt a blow with the advent of 'For Barber Shop Hannony. 18 individual anangements in octavo form. A. S. C. A P.-S. P. A. published by Forster Music Publisher. 218 So. Wabash Avenue. Chicago. Orchestrations and Discs Ill. _ _ _ _._. ..__.. _ __ . __ . each .15 Another expensive item introduced Album of favorite Barber Shop Ballads. ananged by Ozzle Westley. pub· by the publishers in the late 90's was Ilshed by M. M. Cole Publishing Company. 823 S. Wabash Avenue. the giving away of dance orchestra Chicago. 5. III ....._... ._ .._._...... __..__..._._ ... 1.00 tions. Most publishers today hand Barber Shop Songs and "Swipes". compiled and arranged by Goeffrey out a limited number of orchestrations O·Hara. published by Bregman. Vocco & Conn. Inc.. 1619 Broadway. New of a new number, to recognized lead York City 19 ...._..... _. .60 ers and important radio spots. "Name Hands" of course have their own ar Time 10 Harmonize No. 1. arranged by Claude Garreau. published by rangers. Edward B. Marks Music: Corp.. RCA Bldg.. Radio City. New York 1.00 Phonograph records at the turn of the Time 10 Harmonize No.2. arranged by Claude Ganeau. published by century began to playa most impor Edward B, Marks Music Corp.• RCA Bldg,. Radio City. New York 1.00 tant part in the making of a "Hit • Arrangements In collaboration with SPEBSQSA. Song" and in the income of the pub lisher and writer. A handful of song- ...... ,., , , , .. MAY. 1946 Th, Harmonizer J}

J. P. McKinsey, Dallas Chapter is the Yes sir, even before the '48 conven TAKE A TRIP THROUGH son of Mrs Grace McKinsey, Colum tion at Oklahoma City rolls 'round, HARMONYLAND bus, Ohio, who sang with the Ariel Int'l. Sec_ Adams has personally Ladies Sextet in 1902. All members of scouted Buffalo, N. Y. to get ad Tom W. Page, Sec., Minneapolis, re the sextet are sisters, all are living, vance information as to services and ports regarding a mixed dinner party and their average age is well above 70. plans when the '49rs start rolling of 300: "The man in charge of put Recently they made a big hit on HWe into them thaI' hills. ting on the dinner called a local linen The People". Born the Smith sisters He reports that the Buffalo Conven service company for napkins to be in 'Washington Courthouse, Ohio, the used at the BARBERSHOP SO tion Bureau is one of the best in girls were the harmony sensation of the country. He verifies what is al CIETY BANQUET and 10 and be the early century, comparable to to hold when the napkins arrived it ready widely accepted in the So~ day's Andrews sisters. They sang at ciety, that Kleinhans Music Hall is turned out that they were actually a recent Columbus parade. Barber Towels covered with short an ideal spot for the '49 Semi-Finals hairs-of course it was a mistake but 000 and the Municipal Auditorium, seating it was in a way in keeping with the Lou Metcalf, tenor of W'ashington, 10,000, is very satisfactory for the occasion". D. C. Potomac Clippers, challenges Medalist Contest. His scouting includ 000 other chapters to top Washington's ed visits with the manager of the record. With a membership of 107, Auditorium and the sound engineer Jnt'1. office reports that the Society Washington has 18 organized quar there. The '49 affair will have the has "no more problem children", this tets \vithin the chapter. support not only of the Buffalo Chap in reference to the chapters which had Metcalf attributes this large number ter but all the Central-Western New never reached the minimum member of active quarteters in large measure York District. ship of 16. However, recently the last to the quartet school. "problem chapter" in the matter of 000 membership, Elmira, New York went 000 uver the hump. We now have no chap 'The 106 members of Schenectady The idea of making Int'l. Headqu£l.l-· t.ers with less than 16 membel's. Chapter have chalked up another ac tel'S also a national reference Iibral'y complishment, Each member of the 000 on old popular music met with im Chapter's seven organized quartets mediate response, Every old song that At the Toronto parade in March, is a member of the Chapter Chorus comes in is cataloged, stamped to Owen Cash and Carleton Scott, Tenor, and attends weekly chorus l'ehearsals show the name of the donor and kept or the Canadianail'es, got Frank Rice diligently. Six of those seven quartets securely in a fireproof metal cabinet on the Wichita, Kansas, end of a entered the Regional Preliminary at against the time when somebody will telephone connection and had the Sta Bridgeport, Conn., a mark for other ask "Do you know anything about tion Wagon Four serenade him. In ex chapters to shoot at when the Region 'My Tiger Lily'''1 pressing his appreciation Frank said al Preliminaries come around in 1949. that it probably cost as much as a To collectors of old music few events fIfth of bourbon (Okie prices) but OFF FOR "TRUTH OR are as disheartening as when some that he got mOJ'e kick out of it. CONSEQUENCES" one says "I gave a stack of old music 000 to the ashman last week" or "We threw it out in the rubbish", or worst b:ag'le-eyed Jack Wells, bass of the of all "I burned a lot of old music, Yachtsmen, Lakewood, 0, chaptel', didn't know anybody was interested", says that all "Dry Bones" fans (and Anyone of those can turn n sunny then~ are many) should read £zekiel day into gloom and tragedy for those in the Old Testament, Chapter 37, who really care. ver~es 1 to 10. 000 Yes, the sentimental values are there At home with a broken foot bone, Jim in the old songs, but beyon,l that is Robinson, President of Lakewood (0.) their pI'actical use by quartets I~OW, Chapter had a surprise when an un~ 50, 15, or 100 years from now. known doctor dropped in because "the 000 <..:hapter had sent him" to care for its ailing chief. Robinson balked when Up to April 25th, generous quan the M.D. stal'led to go over him \'lith tities of sheet music had been COll a stethoscope. The doctor nonchalantly tributed to our fast growing Library pulled a sandwich out of his little of Old Songs by: black bag, munched, chatted and po litely vanished. ViTeeks later Robinson CalToll P. Adams (Detroit); Balti found that members Harry Hanson more, Md. (No.1) Chapter; O. C. and Norm Fletcher had arranged it. Cash (Tulsa); Russell Cole (Chou Robinson says: "That's one call the teau, Okla.); M.rs. D. D. Davenport patient didn't have to pay for." (Cleveland) ; James H. Emsley ( Can ton, Ohio); Frank Essex (Pryor, 000 Tom Rawlings of the Santa Monica Okla.); Miss Ruth Gahan (Cleve Chapter got the surprise of his life in To support the first annual Harmony February when he appeared on "Truth land); James Judice (Detroit); James Festival put on by Pasadena Chapter, or Consequences" and told Ralph Ed F. Knipe (Cleveland); Marvin Lee wards that he used to sina with a quar. (Chicago); J, George O'Brien (Sag Southern Cal. chapters combined to tet. Edwards very promptly produced form a big chorus under the direc from the audience bari Joe Jones, v, P. inaw); Wm. P. Osmer (Jamestown, tion of Les Broad. Far Western Dis Manhattan Chapter (left); tenor Carle N. Y.); Ralph C. Rodgers (Milwau ton Scott, chorus director Oakland Coun kee); Ralph Stoltz (Ralph, mislaid trict Ass'n_ will receive a percentage ty, Mich. Chapter; Herman E. Smith, from ticket sale. This chorus method Pres. Oakland County Chapter (right). youI' address-please send it) ; George is a neat way for the chapters to All had sung together many times in and Strickler (Jackson, Mich.); Edwin "round Detroit, To the listtming millions help the District and the District to the result ot this unrehearsed get-to· O. Stuckey (New York City); Arthur help the chapters. gether was "darned ~ood," F, Sweeney (Baltimore). MAY, 1948 The Harmonizer

BIRTH OF "SWEET MARIE" More MlIsical History Harry P. Taber who with Cy War LAMPLIGHTERS man published the Daily Chronicle in Creede, Colo. (alt. 11,000 ft.) 60 years LIGHTING ago, writes these colorful reminis cences of a famous oldie "Sweet Ma Cleveland's Lamp rie" by Warman. Warman, called the lighters tuning up with "Engineer Poet of the Rockies" by props (rom Nela PArk Chas A. Dana of the old N. Y. Sun, where they help Iigh. had been ill in Denver. Tabor tells: the world. L. to R. Tom BroWn, tonor; When he was well enough to travel he Murray Honeycutt, came back to Creede, weak from the lead; Cecil Rowe, barij journey, and went immediately to bed and Waher Karl, bass. in a room off the front office where he had three cots. About midnight of the day on which Cy had returned fron1 Denver, Clay Comstock, foreman of the composing room, came into my office and brought the alarming CANTON, O. LINKS 2 PARADES Int'I. Sec. Carroll P. Adams who was Master of Ceremonies on the Tim~ news that I had forgotten to supply WITH 2-WAY RADIO through~ the daily quota of (Warman's) poesy. ken end, it was a good show I looked in my desk and found it Two members of a featured quartel out. empty. There was no poem there. I missed their train, snow drifts were Bd. Membe)' J. H. Emsley, says that went into the bedroom where Cy was high in Canton, January 24, when the the two-way radio comm\mication snoring peacefully, waked him up and chapter put on two parades simultan proved highly valuable in maintaining told him the sad news. He got up, eously in Lincoln and Timken high instantaneous communication between put on slippers, a robe over his long schools. The featured Doctors of Har the two auditoriums, as chorus and nightshirt. He came out to my desk, mony were delayed by snow, and quartets shuttled back and forth. In sat down and said, "I was thinking others had not arrived by intermission spite of late trains and arrivals the of some verses coming down on the time but eventually all reported. But switched-around program went with train today. They fairly sang them according to the Canton papers and out a hitch. selves to the rhythm of the clicking wheels. I hope I can remember them". Then he wrote rapidly, handed the copy to me and went back to bed. BARBERSHOP RECORDINGS Without reading what Cy had writ ten, I took the sheet to the composing room and hung it on the hoole Three record set, lop five quartets, 1947 Finals $3.60 Make check to Wurlitzer Co. and send to Int'I. Secre· Postpaid Then something happened. Printer Joe tary's office, 18270 Grand River Avenue, Detroit 23, Mich. Walker was the most perfect speci men of the old·time itinerant printer Three record set, top five quartets, 1946 Finals I have ever encountered. A huge man Check should be made out to the Neff Recording Com $6.00 with an enormous mustache and wear pany, and mailed to International Secretary's Office, De1ivered ing a ten gallon hat pulled well down 18270 Grand River Avenue, Detroit 23, Mich. over his eyes, he might have stepped out of the role of one of the pirates Five record set, Elastic Four (Album No.1) who sailed with Henry Morgan. All Check should be made out to S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A. Inc. and $6.25 he needed to make the picture com mailed to International Secretary's Office, 18270 Grand F.O.B. Detroit plete was a dagger between his teeth. River Avenue, Detroit 23, Mich. I was alone in the office. Warman was snoring rhythmically in the ad Three record set, Elastic Four (Album No.2) joining bedroom. Old Joe approached Check should be made out to S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A., Inc. and $4.85 my desk stealthily. In his hand was mailed to International Secretary's Office, 18270 Grand F.O.B. Detroit a sheet of paper, held well away as River Avenue, Detroit 23, Mich. though it were something poisonous. He stood glaring at me for a moment. Three record set, Elastic Four (Album No.3) "Looka here", he said. "I've been a Check should be made out to S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A. and mailed $4.85 printer for more'n forty years an' 1 to International Secretary's Office, 18270 Grand River F.O.R Detroit never yet picked such a mess of gaw Avenue, Detroit 23, Mich. dam drool off'n the hook. Just listen: Three record set, Chord Busters 'There's a secret in my heart, Sweet $6.75 Marie'. Why the hell didn't he keep Check should be made out and mailed to Dr. N. T. En Delivered it there? Then he goes on to say that meier, 2436 E. 23rd Street, Tulsa, Okla. every daisy in the dell knows it. Oh, my God!" Joe hesitated for a moment; Four record set, The Continentals Check or money order to Continentals, $6.50 then came his final outbursts: "By the Postpaid oil that wasn't in the lamps of the 310 lona Avenue, Muskegon, Mich. five foolish virgins, I'll be partic' larIy damned if I'll set any such drivel Three record set, Doctors of Harmony in type". He laid the sheet on my Check or money order to Wolverine Recording Corp., $3.95 desk and backed away from ii, wiped 307 Otsego Avenue, Jackson, Michigan. F. O. B. Jackson his hands on his aprons and stalked out of the room. Three record set, Four Harmonizers After giving him a chance to cool off Check should be made o1\t to S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A. Inc., and Delivered I went to the composing room and set mailed to International Secretary's Office, 18270 Grand $5.68 the words of Cy's poem in type my River Avenue, Detroit 23, Mich. self. It appeared in The Chronicle the next morning." Raymond Moore of Three record set, Harmony Halls Delivered Thatcher Primrose & West's Minstrel!' Check should be made out and mailed to Harmony Halls, $6.75 set it to music later. 214 Houseman Bldg., Grand Rapids 2, Mich.

MAY, 19~B The Harmonizer IT'S "TIME TO HARMONIZE" TRAIL BLAZING IN ARIZONA After six years the Phoenix, Ari Review-Comment on Published Arrangements zona Chapter put on its first par ade Feb. 1st, attended by many from Your reviewer has not had the privi future argument as to the proper California Chapters and Reno. Dick lege of knowing Mr. Claude Ganeau harmony at a couple of spots in "Pa Schenck, Sec. (If the San Gabriel who arranged the 29 songs in the first Chapter, reports in part: "Some forty per Doll", "The Maiden with the hardy souls boarded the train Feb. album of "Time To Harmonize", pub· Dreamy Eyes". "The Girl I Loved lished in February at $1.00 by Ed 20 and after a night of music, some ward B. Marks Music Corp. with the in Sunny Tennessee", "The Baggage good, some bad, we arrived in Phoenix, Foreword blessing of Sigmund Spaeth. Coach Ahead" and some others. "We where we were royally received and know what we like" in the Society, and conducted to a breakfast and then on The writer admits prejudice toward we're always willing to discuss it, even a sightseeing trip. Seventy-five more unknown· (to him) musicians who at up to the mouths of pistols at two drove the 400 miles. tempt to arrange revered popular paces at sunrise. songs into unaccompanied barbershop The auditorium was sold out for the harmony. This is because experience The main and praiseworthy conclusion show. And what a sho'v it was! A has proven too often that such a is that Marks Music has presented t~tally green audience to barbershop musician frequently turns out some 29 excellent harmony patterns for the plllg made the place ring with their thing that may be impeccable by all quartet that sings right alIt of the applause. Int'!. Pres. Chas. Merrill did rules of formal music, something that book; while challenging other quar his usual swell job of Mcing and nine a Schubert club or perhaps the five tets which "like to be different" to quartets gave the audience plenty to DiMarco sisters could do well by ... put something of themselves into llthe applaud. The Phoenix Chorus bol but it ain't barbershop, to coin a wide variety of material, most of stered with San Gabriel members real phrase. which has never appeared in this ly had them yelling for more, and the distinctive style, while some of it finale of the quartets with Merrill However, the first glance at the first would be hard to secure nowadays in conducting had them on the edge of title in the index "Church Across the any form whatever", as Spaeth points their seats. So Phoenix should roll Way", put the writer into an old out. It is a pleasant thought that even faster now. friendly mood, this being the first Marks now has a second folio. "After the show, afterglow was swell for those leaving on the train at 4:00 a. m. We had only one casualty and that was the tenor who sings with my quartet. He lost his voice entirely so Jack Hare, Pres. Far Western Dis trict, of San Francisco filled in for him".

A'oat R~! Volume TWO "TIME TO HARMONIZE" Says "DEAC" MARTIN (Columnist "THE HARMONIZER") sight or mention of the "Church" since Any publisher who presents the worid of Volume ONE he sang it in Lord Fauntleroy togs, with oldies, all laid out for singing. "PardO,l my yoMh"" enthus circa 1896·7 when the very satisfac is doing good work in Preservation iasm...J agree with Sig Spaeth tory local applause seemed to turn and Encouragement. It is to be hoped that this is differentfrom any· into the kiss of death for the song, thing previomly plIhlished" nationally. that. with upward of 20,000 members, the SPEB music market alone will What matter?-that space did not al react so favorably that all publishers PARTIAL CONTENTS: low Gal'reau to use the second theme who have gambled on barbershop ar which popped up conventionally in the rangement folios will find they've • There'll Be a Hot Time in the verse those days, instead of in the thrown naturals. The Harmonizer, for Old frOWn Tonight chorus these days. In that missing sec the 'steenth time, lists again in this tion the words told a sad tale of • Ida, Sweet as Apple Cider issue the folios available, some even strange coincidence. The man whose • Dear Little Girls in Blue "life was ending in a home just o'er arranged by Society arrangers, and the way" was the profligate brother many numbers exactly as sung bv • Mother Was a Lady (Ned) of the preacher whose words SPEBSQSA quartets. When the So> • Under the Bamboo Tree carried across the street from the ciety was born, there was just one Church's pulpit. In the song, neither thin little book (If barbershop ar • The Bird on Nellie's Hat brother never knew t'other was there range-ments in the world, Spaeth's and 23 others because they hadn't met Hin years, not original Barbershop Ballads, long out since to hide his crime he'd fled", Ned, of print. There are enough arrange .....£11: "'1.00 that is. Ganeau did a sound arrange ments available today to give the am ment for such a typical period num bitious quartet a different number EDWARD B. MARKS ber. for every day of the year with ex tras for holidays. The publishers have MUSIC CORPORATION What matter?-beyond that, that he done nobly in preserving and encour RCA Building Radio Cily New York unknowingly stirred up at least one aging.-(M.)

MAY, 1948 lhere would be activity. My only re· aires", one of the St. Pete quartets, as gret is that all of the chapters in the an extra curricular activity, opened by Bob Holbrook new district did not send their reports the baseball season last week in Sun in time to make the deadline, 'Tis shine City. I guess they had a ball This marks the first appearance of the probably just as well as your inex game too. What did they sing? You newly organized Dixie District in perienced temporary editor could guessed it! "Take Me Out To The Harmonizer print. I had the honor of ncver have correlated all the dope. Ball Game". Miami, Florida is an being asked to edit this first edition Conspicuous by its absence was a re other baby chapter coming into official and accepted because it was an honor. port from Memphis. However, I know status April 2nd. The charter was pre However, from now on the writer in that their Prexy and Secretary are full sented by none other than Sigmund tends to stick strictly to lcad singing, of the old stuff and if there is no ac· Spaeth. Not only did he make them even if the foursome includes the tivity in Memphis the deal is doing legal but gave unstintingly of his world's worst baritone "Ole Pitch Em an "e} foldo". The Memphis Blues, charm, personality, and talent toward High and Sing Em Loud Cash", One an up and coming quartet with plenty making the evening an enjoyable and would think that a newly organized of competition promise, suffered a se· memorable one. Tf Sig comes your district comprised of 10 states and vere blow by the loss of two mem way get in touch! A grand fellow and having only a total membership of bers by job transfers. Atlanta prob a most enthusiastic barbershopper. approximately 500 members would ably is doing more per membership The first public appearance of the have very little to report in the way than any other chapter in the D. D. in Miami Chapter Chorus was given in of activities. Brother, r have come to furthering B. S. H. Four of their the Pratts General Hospital for only the conclusion that if there were just twent~'·one membel's calling them one fellow. Ross Critchfield, a former one barbershoppcr on a desert island selves the"Aircutters" apparently are member of the Wilmington, Del. Chap busier than the proverbial cat. Their ter, was the one sixty men turned out last appearance, by popular req.uest, to sing for. If they never turned a~ opened the Red Cross Campaign in At other tap that was worth the organi lanta. The ilFour Governors" are also zation of the chapter. Ross left the contributing their share toward mak hospital a couple of days ago to fill ing Atlanta a better place to live-. an engagement in Barber Shop Wonder if that name entitled them to Heaven. His many friends will miss kiss the babies in the audience? him and his inspirational memory will Tampa, Florida took February in their ahvays live in the hearts of the en stride and presented a successful Har tire membership of the Miami Chapter. vest of Harmony. If their quartets To Mrs. Critchfield I extend, on behalf sing as well as their names indicate, of the entire Society, our deepest on the program received, it must sympathy. Miami got her singing have been a swell show. Jackson, Mis legs fast and is being kept busy with sisljippi is now a regular, legally and the general run of the mill engage happily organized chapter. Charter ments, An octet called the "Octo· + presentation night was April 3rd and pusses" is in great demand as well for a new chapter they did things up as the newly organized foursome trav~ Plan your vacation to take in the royally! A glance down their program cling under the name of "The Choral brought me face to face with myoid Keys". Begins to look like the Dixie SAN GABRIEL friends, "The Boresome Foursome" of District Regional Contest will be 3rd Annual Oklahoma, City, \vho were featured rugged; That's the "dope" for this on the show. The charter presentation issue. By the time the next publica was made by the President of the tion dead line arrives the Dixie District PARADE d QUARTETS Oklahoma City Chapter, Ernie Dick, should be well organized and all the OCT. 1 & 2 - MISSION PLA YHOUSE and the formal program was conclud chapters \vill be included under the San Gabriel, Cal. ed by a Low Note Contest. '1'hat has heading used above or another one. all the earmarks of a really interesting jealuring feature with a lot of possibilities. The D. D. welcomes officially the Jack PRIDE OF BIRMINGHAM "Ghe San Gabriel son Chapter. St. Petersburg wants us 'Barber Shop Chorus and YOU to know that theY up and dood ·it. H's an old story to' the older and Quarlets You'll wanl to hear chapters but the first successful Quar tet Parade is like a first baby to a proud Pappy and Mammy. ~t. P~te apparently did a marvelous Job With their first. one as evidenced by the many clippings and pies received. The Tampa Chapter aided and abetted the Sunshine City Chapter in making it a Alabama's up and coming Birminl:ham huge success. Newspaper publicity was Chapter likes to hear L. to R.: Dr. Travis excellent and following the sho\\' paid M. O'Gahey. lead; Tom Briskey, tenor; Wallie Schulstad, bass; and Wayne Young. many compliments to all co~nected bari. They /ling under the title of Rebel with the performance. The "Revel Rou!rel'S.

MAY, 1948 34 The Harmonizer 35 'lM- Wed-tum Setnd-Mne by Dick Schenck As the spot light swings you never know where it will stop. In the lime light this quarter are several Far West ern chapters ·which have sponsored outstanding events in the last few service to months. Parades and other shows may be routine business in Barbershop Heaven (as Illinois Inklings call it) sing about but out where men are men and women are? ?? God bless them, a first suc cessful parade or show is a major accomplishment and something to brag about. Phoenix, Ariz. started things out in Feb. with the cooperation of seven So. Calif. quartets by staging for your convention trip a parade ,vhich still has the people in the valley of the Sun clamoring for more. The So. Calif. quartets traveled an average of 750 miles round trip each with no expense guarantee to and from Oklahoma City which I call real Barber Shop spirit Pasadena, Calif. with its Harmony Festival really went to town and net ted the District a tidy bank balance, the Crown City Four is so busy sing ing at civic affairs they have to learn ~ ~ nev" numbers in their sleep. San Fran cisco keeping its chorus busy in the Bay Area-entire chapter cooperated SantaFe with local newspaper staging Free Quartet Concert which had an attend ance of 8000 at Civic Auditorium. grand publicity for SPEBSQSA and ~ ~ Regional Contest. San Diego gave min strel sho\v for Army and Navy Y.M,C.A. New Year's night. Quartets sang at several conventions and civic events. San Jose commencing to roll keeping Theother Four (Clever name) and Crossroaders hopping here and Swift daytime streamliner there Planning Parade in May. New hall comes up with a good idea. They Lv. Chicago ------9:30 a. m. - June 10 are singing for inmates of county pris on honor farm. Also making visits to Lv. Kansas City - .. 5:15 p. m. - June 10 civic organizations to build up inter est in local chapter. Santa Monica an Ar. Oklahoma City - 12:35 a. m. - June 11 nual Parade and Afterglow well at tended and swell time had by all. returning The Wranglers of Tucson, Ariz. carry ing the torch for the Society in south ern Ariz. Orinda, Calif, keeping their Lv. Oklahoma City - 6:45 a. m. - June 13 quartets jumping around to keep all of their engagements for civic hap Ar. Kansas City ---- 2:00 p. m. - June 13 penings. San Gabriel, Calif. staged Ar. Chicago .. - .. - 9:45 p. m. - June 13 Ladies night which featured the Corn Swingers, an orchestra made up of members, loud but lots of fun. Held auditions for High School boys com Also fast overnight service via the Texas Chief peting for Vocal Scholarship awards to be presented Nat'l Music Week. Lv. Chicago 6:00 p.m. arrive Okla. City 9:00 a.m. Van Nuys getting- patients at Birming Lv. Okla. City 6:00 p.m. arrive Chicago 9:00 a.m. ham Veterans Hospital interested in Rarbershop. Every..vhere ye ed shmvs his face he hears the same old re frain "Why don't you write something Round-trip coach fare Chicago to Okla. City $36.15 about Blank Chapter in Swipes". If from Kansas City to Okla. City $15.45 (Tax extra) your chapter is not mentioned here, then get your secretary on the ball with his reports. Report the civic and community functions you have taken Ask YOllr local railroad ticket part in and believe me brother Bar bershopper I will try to do the rest. agent for details, or write:

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MAY, 1948 ~ THE WAY I SEE IT

by Deac Martin

"I dleaa:re-e with whOot you say. but I man defend to the deatb music". And the singers like it. be your rl,ht to say It." cause they uknow the tune". AUribwttd 10 Vcltaite. 1694-1778 Collins adds that the widespread use of 'Whiffenpoof causes shudders among pest" before it embarrasses you, your Yale men since, according to one, it family or friends, and makes the name "should be sung only by Yale men of SPEBSQSA smell bad. And that's in fraternal assemblY ..." With that the way I see that. as a criterion "Sweetheart of Sigma 1 shall crib Frank Thorne's statement Chi". liOn \Vis:;consin", S. A. E!s "Vi (President's Column-Nov. '46 Bar· • a-lets" and many other collegiates monizer) to introduce an SPEB should be confined within the college The Chicago Tribune's "Line O'Type or fraternity whence they emanated. fundamental, "Keep-'Em-Clean." He Or Two" columnist commented upon w'Tote; "Gosh, I hate to sound like a "Gen~ bluenosed preacher, but ... I have a a reader's observation that the chorus My own comment upon both responsibility which demands that ] of the widely sung (Yale) Whiffen tlemen Rankers" and "Whiffenpoof" try to steer our beloveo institution poof Song resembles Kipling's "Gen is that the verses arc cryptic. tlemen Rankers" refrain. Charles Col away from menacing trouble". And The first two lines of the original "1'0 then he opened up on those fe\v \vho lins, the "Line" master, observed that it was more than resemblance; it was the legion oC the lost ones, to the co "get well oiled" and then try to sing horts of the damned-To my brethren in public places all night. "close plagiarism". That is true, but without the implied blame that ap and their sorrows overseas ..." are An even worse menace in my opinion plies to most plagiarists. easily understood as compared with is the pest to which "Swat That "it makes you cock a hoop to be Pest" (Aug. '47 Harmonizer) referred Most colleges have at least one song rider to the troop" and many other when the Ethics Committee wrote: written around a widely recognized Kiplingesque allusions farther along. uQuartets in mistaken attempts to ap melody such as "How Can I Leave And in Whiffenpoof' what do yOll get peal ... are resorting to suggestive Thee". The writer of such has no out of /lTo the tables down at Mory's, numbers ..." feeling of incurring blame in lifting to the place where Louie dwells .. !' a tune and substituting his own col~ Both demonstrate the ability of a sim~ Since 1939 I've been getting around Jegiate words. "After all" he miglli pIe haunting refrain to keep alive a bit in SPEB circles. One of the say scornfully, "J'm a writer of death dull Ot' often no-sense verses, the way phenomena that pleased me early, and less verse, not a mere composer of I ~ee it. T commented upon it in the Harmon izer, way back, was that we were just too darned busy singing to have time to listen to stories, even clean ones, and that I ncver heard an ofT color song by one of our quartets even in private, "SCOOP" for But at several public affairs recentl)· I have heard "humor" from an MC that needed "the wind of (true) humor RADIO to blow the soot up the chimney". And that same has applied to sevcral "mistaken attempts" of quartets or participants in a revue or minstrel. ADVERTISERS They're "mistaken" because people will laugh just as quickly, just as hard and just as long at a humorous crack that doesn't need Old Dutch and a wire brush. The minstrel show that puts out doubtful lines commits two offenses (1) Shows bad taste, em ...; 156 Authentic Barber Shop Recorded Programs barrasses many and therefore cre ates poor public relations. (2) Proves its ignorance because the better class ...; U Hour Programs Available at Low Cost minstrels were particularly careful to keep 'ern clean. ...; Already Sponsored in More than 50 Cities The question of what is good and what is bad taste in songs and jokes for • EVERYBODY but EVERYBODY loves "baTber-shop" public consumption can never be weighed ~nd calipered. As good a harmonies! They'n: outstanding lIaudience.pullers'l in the radio measure as I know-Is it the sort of world! Do YOUR firm a real favor and advise them to sponsor story or song that you'd want to pre sent to your Junior High daughter? these programs ...they're a sUTe-fiTe hit! It's the only complete Like Frank, I hate to seem a blue and authentic IIbarber-shopli series available! Write on yOUT nose preacher, since I admire, in their firm letter head for full information. place, well conceived barrack room ballads. If your Me, a quartet or whoever hasn't good enough judgment to know ROBERT P. MENDELSON Productions what is suitable for our meetings and 277 Delaware Ave. Buffalo 2, NY. public consumption, then tell them in no uncertain terms and "swat that MAY, 1948 The Harmonizer 37 It has been a pleasure to take paC! in so many Chapter affairs during tainment for an hour show. Reports ee.,6Iat-'Ulute-u< indicate they did it-but good . . . the past few years and an occasion ~ ~,,~ e~4t4 Lockport's projects include program in for sincere regret chat I've had to g""ff at least one local institution per turn down so many. by C. F.. Glover month. Fine habit for more chapters to get into ... Interesting program I sinceIely hope that in the coming It's for sure up in these parts that our by Olean Chapter called uMusical Bat year. and years, I'll be in a position Society's name should include the en tle of the Century"-chapter vs, St. to accept many more of your couragement and preservation of chor Bonaventure College Glee Club. Ac gracious invitations. uses, as well as just foursomes. Out of cording to Karl Reitz, we won, but he our now thirty four chapters, thirty might be prejudiced. Chorus has right of them have truly fine choral groups fully earned name of UPlaster-Bust "Keep America Singing" and the cities and towns throughout ers", since the night the)' bounced this area are being treated to more dose chord off the ceiling of their re GEORGE w. CAMPBELL and more musical entert.animent a la hearsal hall, and plaster bounced back ---3528 Pape Avenue-- barbershop. The activities throughout at them. This oddity has not only made CINCINNATI 8, OHIO the district are so numerous and in most of the newspapers throughout EA.13504 teresting that it would take a maga the country, but was also written up zine to enumerate them all ... Con in Coronet magazine. What some gratulations to Bath for fine front chapters won't do for publicity! ... page newspaper publicity they re Penn Yan working hard for a suc SPEBSQSA IN V. A. HOSPITALS ceived on their parade of quartets cessful parade very soon, Have feur The Society sponsored quartet contests held in late January ... Binghamton (IUartets active . . . Rochester No, 1 in V, A. hospitals throughout the getting the chorus fever, acquired .3 assisting in concert sponsored by country got underway April 5 and will director and look forward to thIS Rochester Inter-High Choir. Chapter end May 30. All Directors of Special interesting addition to meeting pro meetings really brief and to the point. Services received detailed information grams .. Wonder just how muc~ time Believe me, I was aL their last meet (10 pages) from Ray Green, Chief of Buffalo's members spend a.t home. ing ... Just wonder what part Phil Music, who is in charge of this con Their activities are so ~lumerous that Embury of Warsaw cannot sing. He test of recordings by veterans, Record pages wouldn't do them justice. 'I'hey was caught singing tenor with the ings will be judged b)· a committee Jmve over 100 at their semi-monthly Frequentlv Flat Four the other night of SPEB judges. 'rhe rules are based meetings, which reflects fine lead.er at East 'Aurora. Their chorus and upon those in the Society's own com ship ... In addition to sponsormg quartet along with Batavia's Model T's petitions. new chapter at Ridgeway, Fa" Corry, and Ruffalo Bills entertained at Ba Most chapters are already in close Pa. sang at March of Dimes .Dance· tavia Vet's Hospital in grand style touch with Vetel'nn5t' Hospitals in their HS well as mnny other commumty af .. , Special l'ecognition to our infant areas. It would be well, however, to fairs .. , Cortland chapter promoted chapter at Whitestown, The front lJage check immediately with the Director colossal ladies night ill March, which of the feature section in the Utica of Special Services, offering any as brought out many members from near paper one Sunday devoted entirely ~o sistance the local chapter can give. by t:hapte1'S. Commul1lty Singing as pictures and write-up of one of thelr well as quartets made a perfect €.ve recent meetings, .. Addison recently OLD TIMERS' NIGHT IN fling of harmony ... East Aurora's had most successful parade in the Variety Show was a great success, and Corning high school. All profits were SCHENECTADY raised over $700 to present to the contributed to Boy Scout Camp Pro Schenectady tws made a very satis Community Swimming Pool Fund. They ject , , . The week after Jamestown's factory start in reclaiming some of have been most active in visiting with {X'lrade, chapter received most cordial the excellent membership which 11a8 nearby chapters ... Veteran's Hos letter from local Chamber of Com dropped b)' the wayside as happens ill pital project in our district got off to merce complimenting them on the 1inf' every chapter. Turnover is inevitable great start whell Ceneva visited Can pr'ogram and !llen.tioning tha~,. ~usi~ but Schenectady has shown that some andaigua Hospital in February. With ally, it was hlghhght of actiVIties 1I1 thing can be done to hold it down. the genuine enthusiasm the vets many a year. The~' are mighty proud The night of March 30 was identified showed they have promised to go back and deservedly so . , . Our chapter as Old Timers' Night and special in each Monday night from now on to contributions to civic and charitable vitations went to all former members teach those boys more Barbershop enterprises are becoming recognized who had fallen by the wayside, They ping . . . The fellows at Gowanda more and more. We are not just bar were told that the chapter would like won't ever wonder again as to how bershopping for our own amazement, to have them as guests, give them a they sound-quartets or chorus. Yep, but well under wayan program of report of acti\;tie::;, sing some songs that's right-They just acqull"ed a community service that will make us with them, and partake of refresh wire recorder ... Hamburg Chapter healthier and happier as we go along. ments together. ..:ame through with fine contribution Before another quarter is past, we are The invitation pointed out that it was of over $300 to the High School Schol eel'tain of six more chapters. arship Fund, which was made po::; not part of a membership drive be sible by their most successful Ham cause the chapter already has well burg Sings program, held late in Feb over one hundred members. The ob ruary , . . Kenmore going in for jective was to "throw a party for all chorus strong. Have scheduled extra old timers in recognition of the part meeting every month, no business, no The Chapter Reference Manual should you played in making Schenectady one discussions , .. just chorus rehearsal. of the strongest chapters" Fumblin' Four quartet arrived at be the Bible of all Chapter officers. Results? Yes! Almost 50 old timers Meyer Memorial Hospital one eve turned out to renew old COI1~acts and ning to learn the)' were only enter meet new members. ADD-O-CHORDS These chordsters are L. to R.: Harley Dingman, lead and Sec, and O'lorus Di r~tor; ShermAn Slocum, tenor and Pres.; Robert Hurt, bass and Chmn. Parade Comm.; Claire Seely, bari., Addison (N. Y.). ADD. SCOUTS This Seout quartet, Troup 27. is sponsored by Addison Chapter lind coached by Harley Dingman. L. to R. Robert Hurt, tenor. son of Bob Hurt; Warne Sherwood, lead; Stuart Beall, bar.; and Robert Mose, bass. Dykills Studios

MAY, 1948 by J. George O'Brien, 400 S. Franklin St., Saginaw, Mich.

So Low we got dozens of copies and Fussy Rag that we're beginning to scads of letters and cards about that wonder why the committee doesn't one, but nary a word about the Val publish a society arrangement of that ley Where Flowers Are Blooming. one, complete with the Honkey Tonkey Town introduction just the way so In desperation we wne It-bout to go many of our quartets sing it. At down in the vallev and commit hal'i least make a copy and send it to me If Yon Should Hea1' Someone Outside kari when a very· welcome letter in for F. Stirling 'Vilson and the Hal' mony Hill Four. They'd love it. Yom' Bedroom Wimlow yodeling like the nick of time from AI Rice stayed a nightingale some of .these mornings our hand. AI, who sings a lot of think nothing of it, it's probably Ye Thanks to FJ'unt Tho1'lte we had a Olde Editor so full of the joys of bari with the Maple City Foul' on chance recently to really go back a spring that he's literally 'bustin' out the Memory Time progl'am from WLS long way, back in fact to 1878 and all over" What's got him cuttin' out every Saturday night, happened to 79. Someone loaned Henry Behrendt, paper flowers and ypamin' to take recall that the Hoosier Hot Shots a member of Frank's Chicago chorus, off his bl'ogans and trip the light wrote it and introduced it on the WLS two books containing arrangements of songs that were popular then for fantastic o'er the greensward bare Barn Dance back about 1935. He got footed? Well, several things besides male quartets and choruses, and Frank in touch with the Hot Shots then sent them on for our perusal. How the fact that he always gets a bit playing in Chicago and they gave him dizzier than usual as the opening different they were from the arrange the complete data which appears in ments used today. Why even such of the trout season approaches, and the song list this month, along with one of them has to do with barber numbers as Swing Low Sweet Chariot shopping still another Dowl1 I n the Valley and In the Cross of Christ 1 Glory which was dug up by friend Harding would never be recognized by either You see, the old Song Libru,'y 1S and is just tossed in for good meas the wOI'ds or the tunes, And to top it 1'eully blazing anti boys it's hottel' ure, all off there's n pictul'e of the AI than a fire eater's tonsils. We had dine Quartet in the front of one of no idea the l'e!>ponse would be so WIlft"t tiokles us most is that the search the books and believe it OL' not telTific. Songs have been pouring in for this tO~lghie was instigated hy 'l'H ERE ARE EIGHT MEN IN THE to hcadqu31'te,"s so fast that the cata the song alTangement committee who PICTURE. Yes, indeed, things were loging and filing clerks can't keep up want to make an o'ficial arrangement different in the 1870's and there prob with them. Grand old gems from the of it if they can get permission. After ably isn't t\nyone around today who Gay Nineties as well as classics from all this sweat and strain they'd bet even remembers Dr. J. B. Herbert's the prolific early 1900's are coming ter come through a" there 111av be a 01' W. T. CifTe's Male Quartet and almost daily and it won't be many whole row of whitf' erosses down in Chorus Books to say nothing of such moons until SPEBSQSA will have the valley bearing such names as songs as In Silent Mead, A Little the gTeatest collection of old songs Don Wehstel', Phil Embury, Mollie Farm Well Tilled. How Goes the in the wol'1d, Then all vou'j) have to Rene-an. Bill Diekema, Dean Palmel· Money, My Old Ox Team, Rocking do to locate your favorite is to drop et a!. On the Billows Of the Deep, or the a line to headqual"tcrs and Lack will Ladies Tobacco Song. The one that gum~boot come u photostatic copy. Then the 8('iny mOJ'C' OJ' less of (I and really tickled us was the Singers gallus guy who has always sort of re You ame 'Em We Dig 'Em Up De Mal'Ch. Four solid pages of la la la, sented the intrusion of the fair sex partment can fold up and go tishin·. boom chin boom, and rappelte l'oush, into the field of smoking and drink· with not a single word of under ing we're going to break down and Meantime We'1JC been (loing busill('sf; standahle English in the entire opus. uS usual and listen. Just as we had ('on less that we recently IleaI'd the Chordettes, those four· iovely young given up on Hooray Hooray H's Rain We 1velcQl1!l' uS fhe ncwest member Indi~s from Sheboygan, Wisconsin do Rain Raining, R. HUITY Brown found of the Old Songs committee Arthur just about the finest anangement of Sweeney, one of the most sincere and that it was Eddie Cantor's hit song Sweet Sixten we ever hope to heal'. in the 1927 Follies. Two days later A nd the way they sang it maj"es enthusiastic barbershoppel'S we have our star operativt! W.N.H. Harding us wonder if we'll ever be satisfied ever knO\\'ll. Heart and soul in this also found it. to hear it done again by anyone else, great movement to Keep America Like it or not, brothers, the "new Singing, nothing is too much trouble Deoc J.\1(utin who /.:1101('8 mo'oc oldieg look" has come to barbershopping for "Ots". He'll sit up nights dig than yours truly (and should be writ .. and how. Personally ' ....e like it. ging up old song data or writing a ing this Nlumn) told us about In the piano copy of an oldje for one of Catskill Mountains There Did Dwell f'lash!!! SPECSQSA now has it eopl/ ou,' qual·tets and when other sources etc. Seems that this is an old foli-; dght on the original Goodbye .My song that may go back beyond 1800. Coney Island Baby. Although there fail he'll even make trips to the It has various versions in different have been copYl'ighted arrangements Library of Congress in Washington parts of the countr).' and more verses of this number it seems that the orig in search of information. He's bee~ than l"l'ankie and Johnnie. It's prob inal song was never I'egistel·ed. Be the chief source of old song l'esearch ably bettee known as Speingfield lieving that this old favorite, which for the quartets in his sedion of the Mountain. has kicked around for 10 these many country ever since he became a mem years withollt benefit of copyright, ber of the Society and many of the But our c,·owning achievement was should belong to those who love it so, running down and hog-tying Down in outstanding foursomes have Art to Secretary Carroll filed an application thank for uncovering some of their the Valley. This you may recall is and it copyright was granted in tlte one that's run the members of the name of the Society. Now go ahead favorites. Welcome to the OSC "Ots" YNEWDU Dept, bow-legged fOl' over and sing it boys, anywhere, any time. and congratulations SPEBSQSA. a year. In spite of the fact that we But be sure yOIl sing it pretty, it's Edwa1·d B. "Mal'1..:s new book Time b"led to make everyone understand YOUR song. that we were uot looking for Frank To Harmonize contains thirty old Luther's Down In the Valley, Valley We 'lIe hlul so mlt1ly nqHesfs for That (Co1/fim,ed 011 Nt.'!:1 P~gi)

MAY, 1948 The Hortmmi'{tr BELIEVE IN Do You Remember? IT HELPS TO KNOW ABOUT I A SONG ( COlllitlUed) THE OLD SONGS, too The Song Arrangements Committee favorites which include My Castle On comments upon 3 songs most recently the River Nile, She Was Bred In Old released. Kentucky, White Wings, The Baggage Coach Ahead, Heart Of My Heart, "l Want You To Know That! and many others. They are alTanged Love Yon" for barbershop singing by Claude (March release) GalTeau, and mighty well done too. This is a brand new song by Harry Armstrong, composer of the world WHITE FOR Russell Cole, our pal from Chouteau, famous "Sweet Adeline" and "Nellie Oklahoma who's always doing some Dean". Bart Doyle wrote the lyrics, My FREE Complete Catalogue thing for the eause now offers to send Several who have tried it out have of "MEMORY LANE MELOOIES" his lists of more than one thousand commented that the composer "has song titles to anyone who'll send him still got a lot on the ball", a postal card and say "gimme" and lUW.44Street:: New York 18, N.Y. Russ will even pay the postage. Per We will not go out on a limb and sonally we think he's letting himself predict the same success for this song as for "Sweet Adeline" but we in for something as these lists are do predict that it will be sung often place. The arrangement is by Hal well worth the thirty cents that it Boehler, Lorain (O.), freshman menl costs him to print and mail them. But by many quartets and choruses. The arrangement is by Phil Embury and bet' of the Song AlTungements Com Russ says "Naw. Just tell 'em to send mittee. me a post card with their name and a very singable one it is, address and I'll pay the freight." Okay "It Looks Like R(tin I'll. Che1'}']J Russell, but don't say we didn't warn "D1·emning of the One In Love Blos.''lom Lane" you. They're free boys as long as they With You" (In this issue) last and they're wonderful. Write (April release) Bdgal· Leslie who wrote the lyrics is Hussell Cole, Chouteau, Oklahoma. When George Zdarsky, Oak Park a New Englander born in 1885. Chapter, was asked what inspired him Other Leslie songs which oldtimers Your grmuladd:IJ yodeled ...at least to write this song he said, "All of will recognize are "Sadic Salome, Go our Grandpappy did, and we can still my songs are accidents. I never sit Home", "Get Out and Get Under", see him in the rocker on the back down with serious intentions of writ· and "For Me And My Gal". Joseph porch of the old farmhouse near ing a song, When I'm relaxing I usu A. Burke who composed the music is Jackson, Michigan as he smoked his . ally hum or whistle a tune and presto, a Philadelphian born in 1884. Among clay pipe and sang to a freckled faced here's something a little different than the well known Burke numbers aTe kid who Sat at his feet "De chimney's I've ever heard and thinking it might "Oh How r Miss You Tonight", "Caro falling down, and de roof is caving have possibilities, I concentrate on it. lina Moon", "Tiptoe Through the in, I ain't got long round here to Then, of COUl·se, is the question of a Tulips" and "Moon Over Miami", remain. But de angels watches over theme, proper lyrics, and there you "It Looks Like Rain" ., is repro me when r lays down to sleep. In de have it." "Dreaming of the One In duced in this issue of the Hurmonizer little old log cabin in de lane." It Love With You" is one of those sweet as arranged by Phil Embm'y and as was written in 1871 by Will S. Hays. ones you like to test your tonsils on in sung by Int'1. Champion Misfits. Nuff Do you remember'? the comer or some other such titting said.

INFORMATION YOU WANT Each issue carries information on 25 songs. To lighten the load of the Old Sones Committee, members are urged to refer to back numbers of the Harmonizer before aaldnl the Committee for aid.

TITLE YEAR COMPOSER PUBLISHER Ain't You Comin' OUI Mdind3 1921 Sterling, l\']oran & Von Tiber Harry Von Tilzer Beautiful Dreamer 1864 Stephen Foster Robbins IVlusic Corp. Broadway Rose t920 Fried & Spencer Fred Fischel' Down In the Valle)' \'Vhel'e Daisies Grow 1869 Unknown \Vm. A. Pond DOWll III the Valley \Vhere Flowers J-\re Growing 1935 Hoosier Hot Shots Stasny Music Co. Every Night I Cry M,nell To SiteI' O\'er YOll 1923 Johnson, \Vooel & Bibo Leo Feist, Inc, Faded Love Letlers 1922 Pasco. t-.'foore & Dalmage Chas. E. Roat Music Co, Feather Your Nest 1920 Kendis, Brockman & JohnsDn Leo Feist, Inc. Foren>r Is A LOllg Time 1916 Mnc Boyle &. Von Tilzer j\ rtlllLlsic, Inc. {;eorgia Rose [921 Sullivan, flynn &. Rosenlhnl Leo Feist, Inc. (;irl Of the Golden \Vest 1923 Gillespie. Cooke &. Van Abtyne Jerome 1-1. Remick Hooray, Hooray, It's Ray R:lY Raining 1927 Johnson, Sherman & Tobias Sh:!piro, Bernstein &. Co. How'!l Every Linle Thing (n Dixie 1916 ):. ellen & Gamble Jerome H. Remick Music- Co. [f YOll Look In Her Eyes 1917 Harbach & Hirsch M. \Vitm:!rk & Sons I'll Always Be \Vaiting For You 1919 Bergman, Curtis &, Alexander Irving Berlin In A Corner Of the "Vorld All OUI' Own 1922 Kahn &. Cr~l\yford Leo Feist, Inc, I Wonder If SlnJ :>; Waiting 1899 Sterling &. Von Tilzer T. B. Harms &: Co. Mid night Rose 1923 Mitchell &. Pollack 1\-1. 'Vitmark 3< Sons My Home Down On the Farm IS91 Frank Conway S. Turney Painting the Clouds \Vith SUIl:>;hinc 1929 Duhin .& Burke f\..'1. Witma rk & Sons She Gives Them :\11 the Ha Ha Ha 1920 Brown &. Von Tib:cr Broadw:!)' Music Corp. Sweethearts 1891 S. Turney S. Turney You Didn't \Vatu Me \Vhen You Had [vie 1919 Russell, Grossman &. RenneH los. W. Slern Co. You Remind Me Of the Girl That Used To Go To 1910 Drislane &. Miller Jerry Vogel Music Co. School \'Vith Me Wyoming Lullaby 1920 (London) Gene Williams M. "'itm:Jrk &: Sons MAY, 1948 "1t

Schenectady, N. Y. Chorus (on stage) drove to Pittsfield, Mass. to h~lp organize the new chapter ,",own in foreground. MAY, 1948 The Harmonizer 41 ------_._-----_._------_._.._-- ()~, S, ?I/, 'Pa. THE HOMETOWNERS, Memory Lanel's, who with the \\lash WASHINGTON COUNTY, PA. ing-Tones and Hometowners of Wash by James H. Emsley ington, Pa., and a delegation from Akron's first parade is awaited eag AT SHENANGO VALLEY Wheeling, W. Va., joined up with erly by the Rubber City 4 and Atomic CHARTER NIGHT its Subway 4 and Scrap Iron 4 to 4 and a 30 voice chorus. Alliance, al provide incomparable entertainment ways eager for harmony, has kept the for the 100 odd guests. Civic organi chapter busy night and day. Berea's zations already have been treated to bustling barbershoppers bettered their song, A representative delegation former record for community service. traveled to Canton, Apr, 21 to join in Canton continued its policy of 2 out t.he fellowship afforded to the memberl; of-town appearances a month for of the Society. Toledo toiled man shows, sparked the Steubenville chap fully as its Troubadores, Toledo ter's charter night, and contributed its Aires, and Four Naturals made over talents to the I'e-opening of the Scio 30 appearances, staged a parade and Pottery Co., devastated by fire last performed innumerable chores for Xmas. Cleveland Heights was wel the civic good, and aided in the forma comed into the Society and already tion of a chapter at Napoleon, Ohio. has aired its Hilltoppers. Columbus Warren, justly proud of its co-opera is justly proud of its Kampus Kats tion with Pittsburgh in forming the and its newly uniformed chorus. Day Sharon Chapter, on its own spon ton, with innumerable quartets has sored Youngstown, Ohio, soon expects literally littered the city with song credit ,vhen E. Liverpool is chartered. Charter presentation and the first and Dayton loved it. Defiance do Parade of Shenango Valley Chapter. With a better-than-a'·erage chorus, nated funds for a memorial to a chap Sharon, Pa. were highly successful under a February parade and an April show ter member, killed in action in 'Vorld the joint sponsorship of Pittsburgh and in Kinsman, Ohio proved the wide ap Warren, O. Chapters. The Hometowners War II, entered a float in Halloween arc L. to R.: Morrie Uppsuom, bass: peal of its type of singing. High Parade, caroled for the Old and the Paul Johnston. bari; Nick Johnston, lead, School quartets are being sponsored Young in institutions, staged a Gay Jack McVehil, tenor. and Humdingers are promoting civic OO's party for its ladies and aired its interest in Society. Washington, Pa., chorus and quartets from Ft. Wayne. recently chartered, before their formal Elyria's Four Night·ln-Gaols, Rusty a total of 35 appearances including receipt of the charter in April had Pipers and Chord Crushers, with its a minstrel show. Pittsburgh, divid staged a parade to 2400 in their home chorus entertained their county's ing the honors with Warren, spon town, had staged 3 parades in J"le'ar teachers, promoted a high school qual'· sored Sharon, Penn., (the Shenango by towns, and had (believe it or not) tet contest and were joined by the Valley Chapter), donated $460 to the 9 organized quartets in a membership Mis-4-Tunes when the American Children's Hospital for specified equip~ of 60, which sets some kind of rec Legion called for song. Galion was ll1cnt, and kept its Four-Maldehyes, ord. Wellington's choral director, Clay gathered in the fold by Mansfield and Keystone Serenaders, and its many Folsom, has able men of song in his already its chorus is performing com· other quartets on the go~and its chorus in the person of the Four l11unity services and its Alpagora 4 president Andy Monnich has deserved Colonels of Corn, and already has in gives promise of being as warmly re ly added llHar-Monnich-ly yours" to vited the ladies to an evening of song ceived as its trade-marked progenitor the nomenclature of the Society, by to note their progress in harmony. advertises. Lakewood's labors are in so signing all his letters. Sharon, Pa., Wheeling, 'Vest Va., even befol'e it nUl1lerable~a minstrel show-D. S, publicit)'·wise, took the Shenango Val· has had a charter formally presented, Marine Hospital-Masonic lodges ley by storm. Banks and stores co sponsored Fairmount, West Va., and high school booster clubs, are among operated with clever window displays, expects a petition on behalf of Wells the many who have encored its chorus, the radio station with a script plug burg, West, Va. Members attended the Home City 4, the 4 Steps of Har ging the show, the Sharon Herald with the Steubenville charter party, and many, the Chordial 4, the Half-past more than adequate publicity topped were visited in turn by Washington, 4 and those yeomen of Lakewood, The off with an editorial entitled "We Pa., and Steubenville. Its Southsiders Yachtsmen, whose Jack Wells is re Like It," which said, "The Society quartet aided the Elk's Annual Min sponsible for many a squib on barber well may be 'preserving' and 'encour strel show, and chapter is planning shopping in the public print in Cleve· aging' more than merely this kind of out-of-doors song fest in Oglebay land, Lakewood and vicinity. Lorain's harmony. It may be preserving our Park Amphitheater. ladies lassoed their respective spouses sense of values,' encouraging our re on Jan, 13 and high-lighted the eve· turn to the simple virtues and teach ning by singing for them on their ing us harmony and co-operation in Annual Ladies Night, and the chap local and world affairs. With music HERE'S A NATURAL ter mindful of the Veterans at Brecks at the level all can appreciate, enjoy "Down in the Old Cherry Orchard" ville, bundled the boys in busses there and take part in the 'barbershoppers' will no doubt be theme song on July for an evening of song. Mansfield's lift our spirits and ennoble our 8 when the Society takes over an hour first annual minstrel show took 5 of thoughts." Springfield's Shawnee Ho of evening entertainment during Na its old-timers back to the days they tel was the scene of its first ladies tional Cherry Festival at Traverse trouped with Al G. Fields and Bar night where the room rang with songs City, Mich. L. J. Scratch, Sec. of low Minstrels. On successive nights a of the gay nineties and on April 21st Traverse City chapter, is also chair packed house enjoyed a fine chorus, the chorus appeared on the Piqua man of the Chel'l')' Festival Board. The Shelby 4, the Humdingers and the parade. Steubenville's charter night He invites all good men and true to Westinghouse Quartet of Mansfield. will long be remembered by the pres rally 'round Traver~e City chapter on Medina held its first parade jointly ence of the Canton chorus and its that evening. with Massillon, its sponsoring chap tel', on May 8. Deac Martin's exhibit of Society documents at a Berea chap CINCINNATI CHAPTER CHORUS ter meeting, which Medina attended, attracted attention. Middletown cele brated its first birthda)' with its ladies, the Jolly Fellows and a female foursome from Hamilton with Geo. Campbell assisting in "Keeping Am erica Singing," and is starting off its second year playing host to the Reg ional Preliminaries and heading an other Miami Valley Chautauqua Parade. Piqua's Clod Hoppers, Fav orite City 4, and The Piquads made Thesl;' arc thc hoys who are carrying on the mll~ical traditions of a city famous for itll interest in music, MAY, 1948 The Ha,monj~tr

of this experience. When a group or people put their feet under the same table, Iisten to each other eat and talk, it is psychologically unsound, gastronomically devastating to the in dividuals when they are made to stop, look and listen when they have just been invited to meat and drink? It tastes good after a two or three hour parade. H's nice to sit and talk over the show-visit with the guest qual" tets. and to hike a song on your own with the group about you. That is good. Ther(' should be time for it. It is a part of the pl'eparation for the after-glow. But only a part. If this part is well planned, well timed, so that the conversational fellowship will not interfere with the "glow of reful By George W. Campbell gence remaining where a light has dis appeared, as in the sky at "sunset" you can have an after-glow. The invi tation to "eats" should be timed as Text to Can'oll Adams, our all-round These Canadians know what it takes to make a breakfast, and they made far as possible for all to eat at the genial Int'1. Secy., and Joe Westen same time, and to finish at the same dorf and Joe Juday of the Ft. Waj'1le, it. There was time to eat. time to i time. Oh surely, it can be done and Jndiana Chapter, I am the luckiest sing, time to listen. The 4 tets were wonderful. The Cowling Brothers has been done! But it takes plan member of the Society. The afore mcee'd the breakfast. President ning. If a continuous bread-line is mentioned gentlemen nose me out by "Chappy" Chapman and his commit required it should be set up separate a hair (my own hair) in attending tees are to be congratulated; By the and apaTt from the glow-room. Have more chapter parades than I; so that way, they had to provide at the last a plan and work the plan! Otherwise, makes me the fourth luckiest member minute an afternoon performance--by look up another word found in Mr. of the Society. J am not including command, not by the King, but by the Webster's book: "Frustration." Hope the Champs, current and otherwise people who could not get tickets for I'll see you at Oklahoma City. J~ the because T am not a quartet. And J the evening show. We left, some of meantime, "Keep America Singing", am not suggesting a contest to see LIS, with the Breakfast-Glow ringing lO'derly yours, George. \\'ho attends more parades than whom, in our cal'S: "God Save the King", "My Country 'ti~ of Thee", "Til We I'm just saying I'm a lucky guy to Meet Agnin", "Auld Lang Sync" and be so fortunate, to hear so many fine "The Hallelu Chorus"-we left, re OFFICIAL S. P. E. B. S. Q. S. A. flual'lets, meet so many wonderful peo luctantly, to be sure, but we knew we ple and listen to the good bclly~laughs had been some place. LAPEL from the audiences who jam the halls, auditoriums, temples and What is the purpose of an after-glow? arenas. The good fellowship permeat What is an after-glow? According to EMBLEMS ing these events is mighty good for .Mr. ·Webster an after-glow is: for America and it is keeping Amel;ca band's Harmonizer and €njoyed Four is singing at the Atlantic Gar so frequently creep into an introduc every word of it. In reading Jean den'. So the boys went over on a tion. Here is a sample introduction Boardman's article on 'she quartettes' Sunday and heard them in 'The New which is just about hole-proof. singing- 'Susie don't you keep me School Te~lcher' which was comprised "Thanks to the (local) Chapter of waiting' and 'Sweet Sixteen My Vil of Top as Sissy Boy, Lead as Dutch lage Queen', . I wonder how he The Society for the Pl'cservatJOI1 and school teacher, Bal'i as Hebrew and Encouragement of Barbershop Quar feels about the Gary, Ind. Harmon Bass as Tough Guy. That was in 1~02. eel'S when they sing 'My Lovin' Honey tet Singing in America, Incorporated ''In my days I saw such famous 4s ... we have "The Four Baritones" Man' or the Kansas City Serenaders as Avon, Worth Waiting 4, Bison when they sing 'Daddy Get Your with us today. The tenor is Mr, __ City, American, Wangdoodle 4, Prim an attorney. The lead singer is Baby Out of Jail'? ... 1n my opinion rose 4, Newsboys 4, Empire City 4, it is the way a song is rendered in who is with the. Co. The E:mpire Comedy 4, etc. Barbershop haritone is ...... who is _ tria? bQrbersho]J ha-rmony that counts has been in my blood for 45 years, and not the theme of the song. " shipping clerk for the XYZ Co. And and 1 still love it". the gentleman who fills in those low '

1~ 1"~"'96 MACOMB CHILDREN'S PARTY by W. Welsh Pierce [n area "E'I there's lots of glee and happy times for such as we. Take a look and see if I'm no1 right. 1 mean "correct". 1 know I'm not 'Iright". (Reading time: all summer). Springfield loaned it~ popular Chorus to the St. Jo~e.ph's Minstrels, the Eagle's Lodge and the American Legion for outstanding charity shows. The Eagle event was a 50th Anniver sary which shows that eagles get smarter in their old age .. Canton had its quota of shows and parades and does a good job of assisting other near by chapters in whatever they are doing. Canton also sponsored a team (5-man -they say) in the local Y.M.C.A. financial drive. What we want to know is did that 5th man try to sing, or did he just pass the hat after every number . . . Elgin either does more Received too late for Feb. issue. this picture shows Macomb, III. Chapter enjoying than the average small chapter 01' itself while contributing to the joy of a Salvation Army Christmfls Party. their secretary Phil Pomp does a betteI' job at remembering when he writes up his Activities report. For Down State Chapters represented. lion". It needs to be said that Sir example, all they did last quarter was That title might be said to be "rela Hugo refers to "finances" and that a run a successful show of their own, tively speaking". With 350 avid fans literal translation of his remark can sponsored a new chapter in Dundee, jamming the hall it was a success from not be printed in a family magazine raised a flock of money for the Car the word "go". Another good deed such as this ... Tuscola may sound pentersville Women's Club, made nine for Champaign was a full afternoon like a soft drink, but they work hard. public appearances at civic and patri program for hospitalized Vets at Dan A regular schedule of church appear: otic functions and visited the nearby ville . . . Oak Park, besides their ances; assisting American Legion Aurora Chapter on their "Fun Nite". usual quota of quartet appearances to Minstrel in Oakland; P.T.A. datesj A well-rounded program for any chap places and events innumerable, gave Chamber of Commerce show and feedj ter to emulate. (Translation on re time and thought to worthy activities plans for an annual basket dinner, to quest) ... Ottawa put on some capers sufficient to come up with a very com that were not "Canadian" but were a mendable accomplishment. This was irifle terrific for a new chapter. They the creation of a $500 scholarship held a highly successful "Charter Pro aW3l'd to the winner in male vocal gram"; took part in an even larger contest among seniol' classes in nearby Legion Variety Show; held a sumptu High Schools. They plan to make this ,fJlte,t in clticugo ous feast for members and wives and an annual award and certainly de~ • in addition sent forth a couple of quar serve praise for a fine example of visit tets into the highways and byways to good Public Relations. Oak Park is • usell" barbershop to a LaSalle Teach also proud of having a quartet from tlte ers Tea, a Catholic High School Foot the local High School as members ... • ball Banquet, a St. Patrick's Day South Town (Chicago) ran a very suc dance, a stage show at the local cessful show that thrilled even old • S/"ore Roxy Theatre, a District Meeting of time Barbershoppers who are prone Volunteer Firemen, a County Farm to be blase about "parades". In addi L,llte Bureau meeting, and lastly the Veter tion they kept up their successful reg • ans at Dwight Hospital ... Aurora ular meetings and had quartets out cocktail does what every chapter should do. Se and around the usual galaxy of civic • lects a series of "objectives" and then and patriotic affairs. The Pitchblend follows through in true barbershop ers are appearing weekly on a local • IODnge style. Their recent objectives included television program. Real photogenic a regular "Fun Nite" each month (one they are too ... To Rock Island goes recently had talent from six chap the felt-lined finger bowl, for hon ters and an audience of over 300); esty in all matters. Their Secretar)' the decision to join a Chorus Contest \vrites: "Our activities during the last to be held in LaSallej acceptance of an quarter are not worth mentioning". So invitation to join The Aurora Dramatic we won't ... Fox River Valley turned Club in a show, and the staging of a a visit to PTA Fathers Club in Lom complete b.s. show for the inmates at bard into a Chapter Extension effort Edwards Sanitorium, Naperville. All and as a result there is a new chapter extremely exemplary expectations. in process. Must be a lot of salesmen . Pioneer (Chicago) recently joined out F.R.V.-way. A pat on the back the growing band of Chapters that also for the night of happiness given have incorporated, and as a further to the TB patients at Napervillf! move to "do right by our Nell" they Sanitorium ... Chicago No.1 helped have created a committee to police all St. Phillip's Lutheran Church make agio/yip< ]] chapter quartets to see that they $1000 and had a lot of fun besides. live up to the International Code of 'T"..·as the first time many of the q)1O{Jc/t,t~ Ethics. A case of locking the barn chorus-boys had ever been in such door beforehand rather than after, as religious surroundings. For one rea _proprietor_ has happened in some chapters. Nice son or another Chicago has for the planning, Boys. The Pioneer initiated past few years, omitted a Ladies 7048 South Shore Driv. railroad special to Oklahoma City in Night from their list of activities. BUTIERFIELD 9340 June is a huge success ... The big When they finally held such an event event in Champaign '\Tas a "Family they (to quote Sec. Stanger-para Opposite South Shore CO/mtry C!T,b Night", but with visitors from 10 phrased) "proceeded into t.he excava MAY, 1948 The [[armonizrr 45

CHICAGO CHORUS AT BENEFIT WES GUNTZ 'Society's Greatest listener" Ship', Cafe-Chicaso

EXTRA COPIES OF LOOSELEAF SONG ARRANGEMENTS AVAILABLE Answering the many requests for

This shows about 50% of Chicago Chorus singing for th~ bfltolfit of St. Philip's looseleaf arrangements the Int'1. Com Lutheran Church under guidan~ of DirectOT Frank H. Thorne. mittee on Song AlTangements makes available extra copies of the following gether with tie-in with the local radio aden on June 26th and has received numbers at 5c per copy, in lots of station all go to making an interesting entries [rom 18 choruses up to publi 10 or mOI'e of one song. Less than time for a fine chapter ... Ahon had cation time. Boy, will

"Stopper"· by Stopper-t The St. Pt>tersburc, The Society's first request for tickets Fla. American Legion via short-wave radio came to Int'1. Rd. Member Guy Stoppert when a De (our singing at the troit woman became anxious about Crippli'd Children', tickets to the Regional Prelims at Flint. She followed her written re Home. quest by a short-wave message, picked up by a Flint "ham" who phoned Stoppert. He short-waved her that he!" information was already in the mail.

MAY. 1948 The Harmoniz.er ------e-t-ts~ MEET DES MOINES CHORUS by Hee White EDITOR'S NOTE. With the fond hope 0/ encouraging new chapters in small com'lnunities and oldlw ones that are having "rough going" I have singled out S01n.e examples of that. type to head this column. In the heart of the baby chick raising country Windsor, 1\10•• a chapter four months old Mal'eh 14th, packed 1400 Jocalites into an auditorium built for 1200; it was their Charter Program, a paid for affair with part of the pro· ceeds going to a Children's hospital and part for the chapter operation. The two hour program opened with the chapter's own new but good eho,rus, then their own quartet, five from Kan sas City Mo.} one from Mexico Mo. and closed with fifty voice chorus from Raymond Jonel, director, .....eariJ the painted tie, about the middle of lhe center row. K.C. Audience was largest of record in the town's auditorium. Entire cast \Vay, Sec. Centralia, Mo. is going St. Louis Four made 23 public ap and wives were after-show guests of to hate me for mentioning his chap pearances during the quarter but they local chapter where 200 were served. ter at this point, he claims population are slipping, last quarter they made Sounds like Windsor is a city of 25,000, of 2,200, actually it is 1,996 according 24. Claytonaires also busy; headlined actually it has a population of 2,373. to my newest map, chapter has two t.he Kiwanis Club officers installation . . . The 32 members of Kearney, quartets, fine chorus and 41 members. and had five other singing bouts. Nebr., (less than year old) gave first Thev are as active as any large city Helping with varied program at Bowl Parade, March 12 calling on talent chapter; as we go to pres~ their chorus ing Green, Union and Rolla, Mo. en from Sioux City and Spencer, lao and and quartets are appearmg on near tire chapter, chorus and all have been Scottsbluff and Omaha, Nebr.; packed by Mexico, 1\'10. chapter's Parade; a busy bunch; says the Chamber of their auditorium and radio broadcast Mexico has pop. of 9,053 and has also Commerce president of Clayton, "there the program for the hundreds of turn attracted quartets from Kansas City, can be no harm in harmony"; says aways. Kearney Youth Fund received Clayton and St, Louis, Mo. and will th~ee Charlie Baber, Sec. of the Chapter, proceeds; this young chapter has present their own quartet and chorus Hthat's lWt bad", and I agree Charlie quartets and good chorus, populatIon on the bill ... Sorry that Blackwell, and thank you for the best quarterly 9,643 ... Who could help having a Okla. had to reorganize their only I'eport T have ever read. , . The neigh wholesome respect for Springer, quartet and are having other troubles; boring chapter at St. Louis, Mo. be N. M., population 2,500, less than hope that some of the abov~ ~hatter gan quarter by presenting entire two six months vintage, has 31 mem will cleal' the way for activity for hour show (no outside help) for Op bers, two quartets anft hand-picked them same applies for Denver and timist Club; helped with installation chorus of 14. Charter presented March Colo;ado Springs, Colo.... Laramie, program of Bowling Green, Mo. and 20th before paid-for audience of over W)'o. took its chorus over the hill sent delegation to Union, Mo. Chap 300; their sponsor, Las Vegas, N. M., (Laramie Mountain Range to you ter affair. At the SL. Patrick's Day sent chorus and two quartets, much Yankees) to Cheyenne, Wyo. for Val concert chorus and Four Old Grads further away Santa Fe, N. M., sent entine Day party and made second shared honors with St. Louis Sym Fiesta Four t.o help. Springer's own appearance at statewide HRanch & phony Orchestra; editor's pun, "there's two quartets and chorus rounded out Home Meeting", March 5. Bill Ranies, harmony in symphony", tain't good good program given fine mention by Sec. doesn't say but it sounds like a Charlie . . . Promoting quartets in press population 2,500 . . . Clear boots and saddle affair ... As we go to high schools certainly worthwhile Lake,' la.. has population of 7,000 but press Bartlesville, Okla., organized chapter project, Omaha, Nebr. is do chorus of 16 that is good enough to six monUls ago, is in the heat of first ing great work in this dir.ection and be called on for a religious service Parade which will include the Bar· assigned member to each high school; during Holy Week( and their only flies national champs of '39 and we already one quartet ha~ been orga~ quartet is also in demand. They are can 'all look forward to hearing that ized; the school superVIsor of .MUSIC encouraging nearby Garner, ~a. to fine quartet anew at Okla. City ... is backing the project and looks for have chapter in their commumty of 'fhe state where the tall corn grows ward to an all high school quartet 1,549; Editor'S note, hope some of was treated to its first Parade when contest. Harmony on the air each these activities help Garner rally to on Feb. 29th, Des Moines, lao pre week in Omaha and territory as \VOW our fun and overall cause .. _ Ken sented their first show that included Announcers quartet has new sponsor; the current Tnt'!. Champs, the Mis orfolk Nebr. is on the list of pros HUTCHINSON, KANS. fitS': seven other fine quartets and their pective chapters now t~at Io'remont is DIRECTOR ow~ chorus that pleased crowd of in the bag . . . Practice makes per 3,000. Other public appearan~es of fect and we can look forward to hear their chorus and two quartets mclude ing the results of t.he .once a week ~e Rotary, Lions, Insurance Agents hearsals of the Wichita Falls, Texas Meet. Country Club stag party and chorus at Okla. City; (somewhere they Women's Club Musical Appreciation are bound to be heard). Have recently Night .. _ With ~heir bi~ Par:ade given two shows assisted by Band now history chapter IS extenSlOn mmd Parent Ass'n. at nearby Electra and ed ... lt is said, anything can hap Henrietta, Texas ... Not missing bet pen in a baseball game and the same to spread harmony one quartet of to a quartet ... and it did at Clayton, Enid Okln. Chapter sang for Secre MO.j it's a far cry from tops and tary'of the Air Corps S).'mington and tails to baRehali uniforms but when Chorus of this young chapter has al the Aristocrats made the switch hon ready made eight appearances for oring the retired owner of the St. worthy causes ... The stout heart,ed Louis Cardinals, before a crowd of men of Wichita, Rans. braved bhz men of sports world fame, they helped make a half page feature story in the zards to organize a chapter at Kiowa, Frank Waterhouse, directed the Hutch Globe. Maintaining their record as the Kans.; during quarter they installed inson, Kanslu choru~ which gave an old time minstrel show Jail. 27-28. "most singinest quartet" the Greater (Collti1l1w[ 01/ Next Page) MAY, 1948 47

eene-.at Statu THE JUDSON ROAD FOUR CHICAGO CHORUS CAROLS (ConritlUd from page 46) Having taken part in many shows as Anthony, Kans., helped at Great Bend, an openjng and closing act and been and Pratt, Kans. and did the spade treated as an incidental costume piece work for a chapter at Attica, Kans. In to embellish quartet parades, Chicago commenting on their Parade, Marlin ~o. l's Chapter Chorus decided the Cox, Sec. says, "lacked 15,000 of hav time had come to find out if it was ing 17,000 at show; Carroll missed it good enough to put on a show of its by 28% hours, so if time to spare, go o\vn, So, with a show broken only by by air" ... Proudly awaiting the big convention Oldahoma City, Olda. is one quartet and a novelty act, the priming their 75 voice chorus to top Longview. Texas Chapter is headquar. Chorus, directed by Past Int'I. Pres. ters for-L. to R.: Carl I. Addison, le9d; Frank H. Thorne, held a rapt capacity flight pp.rfection and have been prom Jack Courtney, bass: Tom Crowder, ised many later engagements . . . ban; Hugh Weaver. tenor, audience of 3000 for almost three One year old chapter at Longview, hours at Orchestra Hall on April 231'd. Texas furnished entire male cast for get report from Houslon, Texas but Besides singing the conventional bar two day Minstrel as joint V.F.W. af have information that Minstrel Show bershop type of number Chicago's of January 29-30 was a success; no fair; 32 chapter members have made Chorus goes in for some novel ef plans for a Fall Harmony Festival in doubt will be calendered as annual event ... Don't have a report but fects-sustaining apparently endless early September wisely setting the tones while Director Thorne leisurely date far ahead to provide time for letter from Geo. McCaslin, tenor of sound planning . . . Always ,vith the Flying "L" Ranch Quartet telling explains the theme---€ach voice group warm spot in their hearts for the less of fine Parade held at McAlester, singing a different song but managing fortunate, I(ansas City, Mo. took 50 Okla., one of the newest chapters of to hit a lot of harmony chord~ voice chorus and quartets to Vets. Otl r district. throughout and miraculously ending Hospital at Excelsior Springs, Mo. and up even at the end. week later to Wadsworth, Kans. to the THE PEERLESS QUARTET Vets. Hospital there working as usual Part 3 The quartet appeal'ante was by the first concert style and then ward by Big Towners, Illinois '47-48 champs shut-in~; by Curly Crossett ward for the during the quar . (Flint Chapter) who were originally just members o( ter cash gifts made to Hed Cro~s, In The name of Arthur Collins of the the chorus and were thrown together' fantile Paralysis Fund and County Peerless Quartet was at one time a Society for Crippled Children; these as a quartet to fill a Red Cross date. hOllsehold word. Whenever hig name The novelty act was put on by the deeds we owe, ex 1Ioto. Sixty of chap was mentioned, someone was sure to ter's membership happily took leading say, "Oh yeah, J know, he's the guy Muskegon (Mich.) Chapter Pretend· role in providing entertainment for that sings 'The Preacher and the ers. the Windsor, Mo. charter show and Bear' on the phonograph. Sure do like Illade news when ch~ll·tered bus de that Collins, great comedian!" veloped trouble mlly to be fixed by Now that this song is again being member of the chapter. As this is writ sung and recorded, (it's one of the big ten groups at Leavemvorth and Kan hits after all these years) I can't help $if: sas City, Kans. are completing their but compare the work of our mod charter application and can be assured ern crop of singers along side of such BARBERSHOPPERS the same support given Windsor, grand old entertainers as the said Col March 30 Sunday Star carried half lins, In my opinion, Collins could make page feature story of the Society as them look like two cen t~! Old man a prelude to Parade of Quartets, en Arthur brought the preacher, the bear, joyed by over 5,000 on their double and the persimmon tree right into your header, April 3, 4th; full column of home-you could almost see the limb publicity that followed with headlines, that broke which led to the preach "Their High Notes a Hit-Barber CI"S downfall. But what about the shop Singers Well Received in Song present day singers?" you say, don't fest-Melody and Comedy provide en you think they're pretty good--evel' tertainment for capacity audiellces at hear· Phil Harris sing it?" "Nuts," Music Hall Quartet Parade", tells this says I, "give me old man Collins!" story ... Organized only three months Arthur had a beautiful rich bari ago Bowling Green, rHo. staged success tone voice, he was a grand performer, ful show having guest quartets from but his delightful duets with his old Centralia, Clayton, Mexico and St. partner' Byron G. Harlan, were also Welcome each lOul every devotee of the Louis, Mo., theh,one quartethas already something to talk about. The two com made a public appearance and chorus edians were great favorites in vaude art of harmonizing ala SPEBSQSA to is practicing with the Show-Me (all ville, and their records were a panic. their re,ulezvoNS every d~')' except Missouri) group ... The No.1 chapter Harlan was a sweet voiced tenor and Tuesdll)'sjor of the Society staged a Parade, Feb. a terrific comedian, who could sing a DINNERS 7th in cooperation with Lions Club ehild ballad, or a sentimental song in and turned about $2,000 over to fund a charming manner that would move' COCKTAILS for the blind. Tulsa, Okla, the birth an audience to tears, then instantly SONGS place af Barbershopping seems des tlll'n the tears to roars of laughter tined to be directly heard from anew ",,\lith one of his screamingly funny SHOW with a successful show behind them "rube songs," or a duet with Collins plus the fact that they now have the in which he acted the part of a dusky 2 miles south of Palo Alto on entire personnel of the Flying "L" maiden to perfection. They were a EI Camino Real Quartet as residents; additional quar grand team! tets are in the making and chapter I'm sure m~' friend Bill lVh:Kenna 33 miles south of San Francisco has sponsored ne",,- neighbor at Bris of Jersey City will agree. He should tow, Okla.... There is good listen know, for he was a close friend of HARRY C. KOCH, JOHN WASSON, ing every Sunday morning in the both performers, in fact, Bill and GEORGE DeWOLF, JACK WURM vicinitv of ArkansM City, !{ansas BYl'Qn Hal'1an did an act together when ~the Co-Ops are on the air by many years ago in the Hgood old days" New Yorkers and Delroiters, remember us? way of station KLOK; the Harmony of vaudeville. • Mixers aTe about as busy, having had Wherever Collins and Harlan are Watch for the sign nineteen engagements recently .. now, let's hope that they are to Union, Mo., too has been active with gether, gone from our sight, but they ...... ~BIJi.~ :R:!.·~!t~1t.!ElI:\t81E10PP:!l!~RM eight public appearances .. Didn't live on in our hearts. MA Y, 1948 THE VIRGINIANS S~cond Annual by Tom eedham PARADE OF QUARTETS Appleton Chapter is now incor SATURDAY, MAY 29th porated. Congratulations. S tag ed "Fox Valley Booster Night", to which • all qual'lets and barbershoppers in ELKS NAVAL LODGE CHAPTER Fox Vallev were invited January SPEBSQSA, INC. 15. He 1 d~ cabaret - style 1a die s' night February 19. Waukesha reully • came through with bang up show Roosevelt High SchOOl Saturday Aprii 17. Belated charter Auditorium duly pres"ented by Beaver Dam, sp~n· SOl' whose charu!; shared honors with • Wa'ukesha chorus. Quartets included PORT ANGELES Hi-Los (Milw.), Mid-States( Chgo.), Cardinals (Mad.), Monarch Range WASHINGTON Four (Beav. Dam), Milwaukeans and Spring City 4, Zim-Phonic 4 and Glow Bows, last three from Waukesha. Ray Not from the "Old Dominion" but Kessnich Wauwatosa was and Tom from Virginia. Minn. comes this quar!et . elson directing Waukegan chorus un· Me which won the First Award at the !vIm· til local director is secured. Forget Needham of Milwaukee led com. sing neapolis Aquatennial in '4~. They ~re Me-Nots quartet busy and chorus has and grand finale with. b?th . choru~es in great delnand as entertamers on Mm nesota's Iron Range. L. to R .. : Lee 1::. made more Racine dates than it can and all quartets partlclpatmg with Billina:s, bass: lAo R. Retn'er, ban; fill. Sturgeon Bay chorus and quar the audience. Waukesha has really Roderick Q. Johnson. lead; Thomas R. Harper. tenor. tets participat.ed in benefit style show "come of age". Rea\'er Dam chorus for the Door County Memorial Hos· appeared at Waupun for ladies' night pital, April 12 Rust.y Hinges and and on Waukesha parade. Monarch ~hop. La Crosse quartets, including Cherriaires do well carrying harmony Range Four, B Flat Beavers and F~ur ~he Old Style Quartet., Casey's torch. Joe Knaapen choral director. Three O'Clock Four have kept Wheelers, Cavaliers and Terry-Klem Chapter planning parade with help town bummin' with harmony. Entire ers, have filled total twenty·fi"e en of surrounding chapters. Marinette's chapter will participate in this sum gagements. Entire chapter all keyed April 24th parade feather in their cap. mer's band concerts. Parade planned up (at t.his writing) for regional pre Queen City Lions popular. Mariners for Oct. 2. Marquette has had all qu.ar liminary contest. Milwaukee Chapter worklll.~ sang their close chords at many fun<; tets, committees and chorus beehive of activity. 'February 21st tions, including visit to .Powers Sam· furiously to perfect plans for their pal'ade (Winter Carnival of Hann?ny) tarium. Chorus and quartets presented parade May 14. Virginiu Chapter kept given in two shows on same lllght: Coleman Night of Harmony for High right on ball in spite of extreme s'!b 7:00 and 9:45 P. M, due to limited School Athleti(: Fund. Manitowoc has :t.ero weather. Held ladies' night, which capacity at the famous Pabst Theatre. double quartet that 'is in full demand. \\'ishi~g sent the girls home thtly Unusual advertising cooperation with Wanted ... tenor f01" the Dandee could join. Outfitted chorus III dress large window display~ ~n down town Lions. Songsters love to sing and are coats. The Virginians and Rangels area, radio and teleVISion announce· requested to do plenty of it. Entire quartets have kept bu~y spreadin' the ments and the press Teall)' aroused chapter gathered at Hotel Hamilton harmony gospel. Madison chorus ap at Two Hivers and put 011 impromptu peared at Marquette High School show, Wisconsin Rapids now meets P.T.A. and Veterans Hospital, Men THE MILWAUKEEANS every Frida)' night; first and third for dota. Waupaca can be proud of spon regular business and chorus rehearsals soring new chapter in Dale. Chorm. With the second and fourth for social appeared before local club there and and "woodshedding" purposes. Plans also for Veterans Home at King. being formulated for fall parade. Four This time entire chorus was garbed Beavers and Cream City 4 are top in "Gay Nineties" costumes. Chapter not c h representatives of Baraboo. at Fond du Lac being sponsored by Chorus has concert appearances sched~ Sheboygan. Enterprising Sheb?ygan uled for Baraboo, Reedsburg, Badgel' men have arranged weekly radiO 15 and Hillsboro. Oshkosh again busy minute show ALL FOR SPEBSQSA O'~akt:s As they sing to help make Milwaukee with plans for aOllOa! Land 'swonderfu!. Any money earned, or more "famous" L. to R.: Ralph C. District choral contest July 18. rhelr donations received, by chapter are Rogeu, tenor: Paul E. Herbst. lead: fine chorus is planning to compete ... turned over to charity. This, together Richard F. HoffmllTl, buri; and M. J. Stromoorg. Bas!!. Green Bay did outstanding Job with with appearances of chorus and quar t.hird annual Harmony Jubilee. pre tets have so endeared the chapter to sent.ed in pageant form. Program por the 'community that they have o~ly to town's interest. Entert.ained Racine tl'ayed JOOth anniversary of Wiscon announce a barbershop show, \vlthout and Kenosha Chapters. Eighty-four sin;s entry into Union. Elaborate cos advertising ami a capacity sell·out is members took special train to Chicago tumes and scenery (some were lent by assured. Brother ... that's barber for Milwaukee night there. Chicago the public museum) used to advantage. -chapter grand host. One quartet a "GUARDIANS" month spends entire Saturday after noon at Veterans' Hospital entertain CASEY'S FOUR WHEELERS ing in wards. Hi-Los on the go .I.ocally and at out of state parades. l\ll1wau keans, Cream City 4 and Police Qual'· tet busy. Racine's Third Annual Hal'· mony jubilee April 3 complete suc cess. Julius Krenske doing fine work with chorus. Odette, Eight Spots of Discord, have more engagements than they can fill. Badger Bards, new (Iuar~ tet: doing well. Belle City 4 cro\yned "Champs" as Racine's Moose quartet. Racine sponsored Waukegan Chap Guardians of the law-and the rillfht t~r Calley's Four Wheelers. La Crosse. to harmonize, the MilwllUktle Pohce and presented the charter at big show at Masonic Temple, April 11. Wise.. took 5th at Land 0' Lakes Dis Quartet cOll5ists of L. to R.: Ralph C. aiet conlest. L. to R.· Earl Gontenbein, Rogers, tenor: Henry W'. Kresnicka, Shinv gavel, made by a Racine mem~ bass; Ray Revor. b(lri; Wnlt Gudie, lead: lead; William Bronder, bun; and AI... m Dick Pe:lrs",. tenor. Pfeiffer, bass. bel', presented as a gift. Racine's Tom MAY, 1948 49 The Harmonizer ---~-~------~------1~_'J::ent«d¥ THE HARRIS TRIPLETS ADVERTISERS IN THIS ISSUE by Frank D, Vogt The Barbershoppers _____ 47 Corydon Chapter, with a quartets in George W. Campbell 37 terested men from Salem in forming Christy Company 13 new chapter. Also appeared in Louis Continentals Quartet 13 ville alld Edwardsville. Ft. Wayne had overflow crowd at every meeting. Held Convention Commitlee 7 Ladies' night in February, together with Elkhart. Sponsored Goshen Chap Elastic Four 9 ter. Sentimental 4 made 23 appear Elkhart Ind. Chapter 51 ances; Hobby Harmonizers in spite of Frankenmuth .. ". Back Cover sickness 3; Reddy Kilowatts 9' Col· Grit Printing Co. 19 onial 49; and Tone Twisters 1'1 i;l past ;) months. Goshen charter night was Wes Guntz .. 45 tremendous success, selling standing Six·year·old sons of Joseph Harris. Charter member Muncie. Ind. (their Harmony Holls Quartet 19 room. Legionnaires ana Penn Tones coach). The boys are L. to R.: Anthony are 2 new quartets, with plans for Bernard and Charles doing "Ooddy, Gc; Kingsbury 24 chorus (lnd membership drive. Vin Your Baby Out of Jail." Kling Bros. Engineering Works 52 cennes has already organized a chorus McPhee Three 18 and has 3 new quartets. Indianapolis made several appearances beside be Chorus and 3 quartets appeared at ing on Goshen's Charter Night and E. B. Marks Music Corp. 33 Benton Harbor, Mich. Charter night the Veterans Hospital and at sev The Marlin Printing Co. . 53 eral other institutions. New Inland whel'e they appeared in costume and City 4 made several appea.rances, the were introduced as the past masters Robert P. Mendelson Productions 36 Rippleaires 54 and The Agonizers, of close harmony. Logansport ladies' Mills Music. Inc. 17 composed of High School bovs were night, April 12, was swell entertain Mishawaka, Ind. Chapler 16 spotlighted to packed houses. East ment with Dick Buck a natul'al M.G. Chicago's second annual parade before The Loganaires expected to be serious Robert E. Morris & Son 40 contenders in next contest. Dictionary a large audience was immense, with Port Angeles. Wash. Chapter 48 local High School quartet as a Ger needed to describe the magnificen't man Band, entire proceeds going to presentation of the Shrine Minstrels. San Gabriel. Col. Chapter 34 Under Privileged Children's Fund. Their Inter-Chapter relations surety Sonto Fe R. R. 35 Connersville going thru pains of or help keep America singing. Misha Shore Lone Cocktail Lounge 44 ganization, with Charter Night coming waka Chapter no'''' has its own bul up, is making its influence felt in letin known as "Coefficient". Donated Tobin Tobacco J8 communit)'. Happy Hoosiers and $50.00 to March of Dimes. Construct Terry Vogel 39 inJ! new shell designed by own mem· J(orny Kernals are 2 new quartets. 45 Washington. D. C. Chapter 2 voice chorus sang during intermis~ bel'. Doing good job of Inter-Chapter sion at dedication of new Radio Sta relations. Soft·Tones filled 22 engage Westinghouse Quartet 21 tion, proceeds going toward a new ments in last 3 months. Anniversarv Weyhing Bros. 42 Y.M.G.A. Soulh Bend Chapter growing Party, April 23, was a friendly and -12 new members. Tone Poets and enjoyable pm'ty, celebrating granting Wolverine Recording Corp. 50 Oak Ridge Dairy 4 going places. Par of Charter a years ago and founding Wurli\zer I) of Society. Edwardsport 'Charter night, ade March 20th packed in 2,000 'with Zippo Manufacturing Co. 52 a swell show. Presented Clem DeRose March 19 witnessed by enthusias with past Presidents' Pin. Gary going tic crowd. Chorus did verv well and 2 strong with quartets appearing in local quartets weli receh'ed. After many Parades in and out of state. glow very enjoyable. Crowd found out Elkhart also prospering; changed qUl1rtets can eat pie and sing at the ABOUT YOUR PRINTED PROGRAM same time. Hammond doing grand All sorts of printed IJl"Ograms filter meetings to every other Tuesday to job of Inter-Chapter relations. Ham conform \vith Mishawaka's alternate monrlaires being well received. LafilY in to the Harmonizer. They range Tuesdays. Sponsored the Kendallville eUe keeping up Inter-Chapter rela· from cheaply printed folders evidently and Goshen Chapters in collaboration tions work with 7 visits to neighbor designed primarily fol' advertising with Ft. Wayne. Chromatic Chronics ing chapters. revenue, to the opposite extreme of 'which Cleveland's is probably the best example, the conservative pro gram without advertising but with much information about the Society. The program of Holland, Michigan's second annual parade, March 19, is a happy combination of a program fol' l'evenue, \',,·hich also does a splen LAN.O did job of informing the audience about the Society. The cover is in three colors, red, blue CENTRAL STATE,S and gold on white. The inside is in black, Many of the ads arc as well done as if they had been planned for a top-grade magazine. The in.ronna~ tion about the SocIety covers: wh'lt the Society is, facts about the Int'l. organization, how quartet contests are judged, how quartet programs are organized, facts about the Holland SPEBSQSA Chapter, its charter membership, a OISlRICl 60UIlOARIES bio about the MC, and a well done description of 8 quartets that ap peared on the program. MAY, 1948 50 The Harmonizer

~_'d- 7'ad 7't,Ite THE FAMILY FOUR in Quebec ... It is the first French DEARBORN, MICH. Canadian chapter ... A bronze em by Roscoe D. Bennett blem of the society with bell has been ;\I~ Michigan is just one big chapter p~esented the Canadian neighbors ... Sl1l~ing It IS revealed by the activities reports .for veterans, state contests, on nle ... This business of visiting ladles mghts, and staging a parade one another and counseling with each were some of the highlights of the nthel' reached its peak in the Wolver Grosse Pointe activities this last qual' i.ne state during the long winter period t~r : . '. The~e are six quartets func Just ended ... Cooperation seems to tlOlllllg III thlS outfit ... The 16 mem be watchword ... This fraternizing bers of the Vicksburg Chapter are extended beyond joint meetings par planning a parade ... Two quartets ades and the like _ .. It went into the have been going about to school organization and chartering of several church, hospital and benefit doing~ new chapters ... For instance that and doing well, .. Belding is going affair at Grand Hayen on Feb. 12 when along as usual with meetings well at that chapter came into being . . . lende,d , .. The lone quartet there is Muskegon sponsored it but Holland workmg and singing e\'ery chance it and Grand Rapids joined in handing get~ ....A.II.egan is planning some out the charter and so did Canoll SOCial activIties to renew interest Adams and Bill Otto ... There are there ... :Manistee Chapter is so busy 67 members on the Grand Haven Three members are brothers the with plans for its May parade, Secre fourth a brother-in·law, and they' have tary Chester E. Ayres confined his roster ... Charlevoix reports it spent bt'en singing together for more than 25 most of the winter hobnobbing \vith years lIiinee they started in Brockton quarterly report to 14 words . . . Boyne City, Gaylord, Petoskev and Mass.. Now they live in and around pearbo.n~ ~truck upon. a new parade De~olt. L. to R.: Harry Mann, bari; Idea, dlvldmg the program into three Traverse City .. , Plans for the 'Labor Ph,I Mann, tenor: Roger Mann, lead; day week-end jamboree are in the and John Barker. bass. acts. , , First scene, an 1890 barber making ... Then there's Jackson with shop; second, a ranch in Oklahoma and its home and home league, exchanging Eaton Rapids and quartet calls on the third a modern quartet parade ... meetings, visits, tunes and ideas with several others _ .. Lansing even went O. C. Cash was the central figure Lansing, Ann Arbor, Eaton Rapids so far as to invite the Lansing Apollo around which the whole thing was and Detroit ... Some underprivileged club over one night showing this mem~ built .. , Eaton Rapids was a parade children are going to summer camp bel'. of the Michigan Male Chorus As host March 5 with the Antlers of through the fine results of the Jackson sociation how it is being done nowa }<~lint. making their first appearance as "Spring Variety Show" ... Gaylord days .. , Ann Arbor is three years old district champs ... Marcellus going is flirting with the idea of getting and proud of it . . . rt staged a along as usual got a shot in the aml some of the boys in Roscommon to birthday party ... This college town when the "Left Out Four", 4 college take up the SPERSQSA movement also sold out its first parade. , . The lads, won fourth place in t.he district .. , Lansing carried out. this fratern Antlers, Persecutin' Four and Clef contest in Kalamazoo ... The annual ization idea also with visits to Jackson, Dwellers headlined the affair Minstrel 6how went o\·er in a big Carleton Scott was the ':UC and sho~,'~ ~vay ... Redford has some money in promise ... Ypsilanti's new chapler Its treasury as thc result of its first These R£CORD D£AL£RS is organized and growing .. , Aftcr parade, Jan. 17 ... There'll be annual receiving its charter Feb. 16 it set parades from now on ... Redford is Now Handle The about to build a membership and do offering its shell for sale ... Lack things properly .. , One of the first of storage facilities is the reason ... DOCTORS of HARMONY acts was to form a chorus ... The Just what the boys do On chapter "Hoarsemen", is ypsj's lone quartet nights was explained fully to the la ALBUMS ... It is made up of four Michigan dies of the Hamtramck Chapter at the (PARTIAL LIST) Normal college students. , . When it April meeting, . , The boys invited the The Music Center Elkhart, Ind. comes to activities and fraterniza wives and sweethearts in and let them Spencer Mus. Sply. SpenCt"r, Ia. tion Holland bows to no one , .. The sit through the entire regular meet Thearle Music CQ. San Diego, Cal. Holland chorus, nattily attired in ing, business session, reports, pro MacAbce Pinno Co. Wilmington, Del. maroon. coats, visited South Haven, gram and all . , . It was jlluminating Gould Music Co. Alton, III. Benton Harbor and Grand Haven ... and quieted many a fearful heart ... Mac's Record Shop Canton, III. Bill Diekema, the barbershoppingest Retiring President Dr. Stephen S. Morrison Jew'lrs Morrison, Ill. Whitehouse Music. Princeton, 111. barbershopper anrwhere is director Skrzycki was re-elected for a fourth The Record Shop Streator, Ill. , . Bill is promulgator of such things consecutive term as mayor of Ham Damm's Brazil. Ind. as the "Holland Windmill", a chapter tramck , , . Three members of the Westermeier Hdwe. Columbus, Ind. bulletin, the annual Holland parade, common council are barbershoppers Stroman Elect Kendallville, Ind. and many good song arrangements also , , , Like true champions as Duesler Music Ft. Wayne. Ind. ~\'hich Music Shop Michigan City. Ind. the lads are singing everywhere they are, the new Michigan Junior Olsen Studio . Michigan City, Ind. III the land ... Grosse Pointe besides tWists The Improvisors of Midland Kiniman Appliance Kin&man, Kans. being active ill itself and entertaining braved icy winds, snow and sleet for ~ Allegan Mus. & Api. Allegen, Mich. and visiting other chapters, extended long drive to Grand Rapids to enter Melody Milnor. Muskegon Hts., Mich. the international scope of SPEBSQSA tain the disabled vets and war mothers Dow Redio &. ApI. Jackson, Mich. by planting the seed in Grand Mere up at the Michigan Veterans Facility on The Music Center Niles, Mich. SaIlors Mus. Appl. Sturgis, Mich. Ea.ster eve ... The home chapter Bassett Music Store Dayton, O. THE LEFT OUT FOUR paId due honor to the new division M. E. Strouse Piqua, O. champs ... The annual Midland par Ashley-McCormick Bridgeton, N. J. ade, becoming one of the state's tops, Popular Dry Goods E1 Peso, Tex. was held April 2 ... The Hal'monv B. E. Adair Mus. Lubbock, Tex. McLarty Music Co. Lubbock. Tex. Belles, a new women's quartet" and Korinzek Music Manitowac, Wisc. Double-Trouble, a foursome of two Niue's Sheboygan, Wise. twins, graced the program ... Tra H. C. Prange Co. Sheboygan, Wise. verse City is planning to sponsor a chapter in Manton ... Quartets and Get Yours TODA Y ! chorus have made numerous appear ~nces in this region, including Manton $3.95 K,ingsley and Williamsburg ... Th~ Here from Marcellus, Mich. is Mich SIgma Nu quartet from A Ibion college igan's young~st competing quartet. They has. featured two meetings of the WOLVERINE RECORDING CORP. took fourth in the '48 District Contest. i07 Otsego Ave. .. Jachon, Mich. L. to R.: Charles Noneman, tt'flor' AlbIon Cha))ler . , . Oakland County MO!"'t), Manoing. boss: Arnold Sehten: bart; And Weslee Cll'!mens, lead. Conlin ued 011 page 5/ MAY, 1948 The Harmoni~er 51

~, (Continued) HOPE SINGS Chapter mourns the passing of Mark WITH FORE McKelvey, the lead for the Harmony MEN Shavers ... This chapter is the home Fore Men of Day· ton sanl wilh Bob Hope of the new Michigan Novice cham on the Peramount lot. pions, the Four Counts, who took that L. to R. - Ralph Pence. unknown. Dot.. honor at the district contest in Kala Poner. Hope. Harold mazoo ... The Clef Dwellers, another Green. Chesler Boren. Oakland County foursome, won sec ond place in the open division of this contest ... Now if the Clef Dwellers can knock off the regional preliminary ?Ifd-"((a~tte of York guest stars. [neluded ''''as the international title everything will be S&4U4 Director of Recreation, U. S. Veterans huoky-dory in the Royal Oak area. by J. J. (Jack) Briody Administration and his assistant who · .. Muskegon besides being extra Sec. Bob Mac Enery, Baltimore No.1, is in charge of barbershop con lest in active in sponsoring new chapters, reports average activities for the past veterans hospitals in cooperation with look time out to put. on a "Tenth An quarter. Quartets made visits to local the Society. Highlights of the quarter charitable institutions and hospital~. included the Potomac Clippers singing niversary Quartet Jubilee" in March Newest quartet, the Four Hits, are to President Truman; The Station featuring the international champs, currently appearing on W.B.A.L. Tele Wagon Four lo the Chief Justice of the Doctors of Harmony from Elk vision, every Tuesday evening ... On lhe U. S. and the Singing Squires and hart, Jnd., and t.he Mid-States Four Jan. 24, despite a blinding snow storm, Diplomats at Congressional songfest, of Chicago ... Johnny Buitendorp a bus and two private cars fined with Statler Hotel. Chapter still conducting was general chainnan ... Cooperating Bloomsburg Chapter members made a Sundar afternoon programs over Sta with a local theater, the Muskegon 100 mile trip to enjoy the York parade. tion W.G.A. Y ... Members of the Chapter shared in the gross gate of a Although the Parlor City Four did not Jerse)T City Chapter spent most of the presentation of the picture "Carnegie place in the Mid-Atlantic District Con past three months making visits to test they did a grand job ... Bridge. nearby chapter meetings to foster in Hall" . , . They sold the tickets, pro ton's Harmony Four doing yeoman ter-chapter relations. Led by the vided quartets for inlennission and work for the chapter. The quartet ap Doctors of Harmony, the Misfits and took in the gold ... Dr. M. J. Kenne peared at a dozen affairs throughout the Garden State Quartet the chap beck headed that working committee the quarter. Chapter members played ter staged a very successful parade on · .. Mt. Plensant is planning its big host to the ladies, Feb. 11. The chorus Feb. 7. The Garden State Quartet still show for Sept. 10 ... In the meantime gave an Easter Sunrise Service at making the rounds of parades through the boys are meeting regularly, in High School Auditorium on Easter out the country ... Penns-Grove pre viting the ladies to special shindigs Sunday MOl1ling ... Illness of Dick (Comi'/Ntd M p4ge 52) and keeping things going in this cen Carroll, lead of the Bronx Chapter's tral Michigan conllnunity ... And by Flatfoots, kept that quartet pretty much on the sidelines recently. Dick is attending every function available Mt. well again and the cops are now hit r~~~*~~~J Pleasant has shared in the fraterniza ting them on all fours ... On Jan. 26, tion movement so prevalent in Michi the District of Columbia Chapter cele gan ... Amid the snow and ice of brated Sharp Notes Night in honor of ~ ~ the north, Boyne Cit)' held its sec the inauguration of chapter bulletin. INDIANA'S ond annual Bush League contest and The chapter organ now displays a it was a wow! The Barons of Har mast-head drawn by Brian Brown, Art ~ ~ mony from Saginaw were the judges Editor of Kiplinger Magazine. On Feb. BEST · . . Boyneaires won first place and 6 chorus and quartets staged show for the Boyne Knights second, being bet benefit of the Church of the Ascension, ~ PAR ADE r.rl leI' acclimated as it were than the Silver Spring, Md. Chapter sent five quartets to Philadelphia for the Mid ~ ~ brethren from more southelll points Atlantic District Contest and three fin · .. The Snow Belt chorus, Loton Will ished in the money. Quarterly ladies ~ son, director, is going nicely ... Will night held Feb. 23 with Penn Four r.rl son has been traveling about regard J Dist,..ict ~ less of weather that each unit of this all-northern Michigan chorus might POTOMAC CLIPPERS IN Cbampiol1s r ~ C~ sing . . . For three months Grand HIGH SOCIETY RalJids worked night and day on the ~J CJ:l Great Lakes Invitational ... How UJ(i Intematiol1fJl 2lC ever, the boys found time to perfect the Great Lakes chorus "...ith Frank ~ B. Goodwin directing; singing at the Cbarnpiolls r.rl Michigan Veterans facility and other local spots; packaging up a complete ~ ~ show and putting it in Coopersville and Cedar Springs; assisting in a couple ~ r.rl of charter nights and singing, preach ~ ing and living SPEBSQSA wherever 5a SU DAY and whenever a chance presented it ~ self ... The Great Lakes chorus meets SEPTEMBER 19 r.rl weekly, the chapter twice a month ... The Three Rivers Harmonyland Fes ~ ~ tival on April 9th was expertly . Washington. D. C. Potomac Clippers planned, staged and programmed. A alternated with senator (that is) Clag: capacity crowd listened to the St. Joe ~:';~n;heAu·~~e e~~r~~ii~~d ~rce~~P.jP~~ ~ELKHART~ Valley Chorus, 3 local foursomes, one from Kalamazoo, plus Continentals, man and high society. Invited to sing with them. the President looked at his ~ ~ Canadianaires. Antlers, and Doctors deughter Margaret and said "Someone INDIANA, No. 1 of Harmony singing from a shell de else calTiel the family's musical nbliga tions!' L. to R.: Louis Metcalf, tenor; signed by Ed Fish and built by Chap Norman MacLenn, lead: Busey Howard. ler members. bari: Gene Wet"on, hilS'" ~~r.rl~. r.rl~r.rlel MAY, 1948 52 Tht Harmonizer

Mid·Atlantic States, (Continued) sented its first Cavalcade of Harmony ZIP P 0 on Jan. 17 to an enthusiastic audience of 900. Garden State Quartet featured. A vest·pocket minstrel provided a mid-program diversion but the hard working chorus stole the show. The Toppers did the chapter proud by fin ishing third in the Mid-Atlantic Dis trict Contest. Quarterly ladies night held March 9 featured local quartets and the Tunesmen of Wilmington. Snapper Salad (de-luxe) headed a fine menu . . . One of the new babies, Reading, Pa.. born on Jan. 28 got off to a fine start with the help of York members. Meeting at the Temple Club brought 24 signatures for membership. Two quartets: The Robin Hood Four and the Four Dutchmen are hard at work rehearsing. J. Carl Borelli, Chorus leader, has already whipped together a fine group and chorus should be one of the best of the Dis trict . , . The second baby, Westfield, ~. J" saw the light of evening, Jan. LIGHTEH.8 29. Under the leadership of Hank Merenes, whose Alma Mater is the \Xtith your organizational Crest as illustrated, Oak Park, 111. Chapter, 50 men took makes a swell GIfT or PRIZE part in the organization meeting. En thusiasm running high and through ZIP P 0 is a lifetime GIFT good publicity the chapter has been besieged with requests from local --UEJNG BACKED BY AN UNCONornONAL L1to'I-.:TIME GUAR/\NTEE- charities for their talent. On April MiltHijocrued by ZIPPO MANUFACTURING CO., BRADFORD, PA. 30 the quartet.s and chorus performed for the First Congregational Church · .. The WildeJa Four of Diamond FOR FULL DETAILS SUite, Wilmington No.2, carried the Ha"e ,,"our 8e~re.ftry £ ....t ..c. ball for the quarter just ended. The S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A. Inc., 18270 Grand River Ave., Detroit 23, Mich. quartet was busy at Valley Forge Hospital, Penns·Gl'ove Parade, and many other functions. March 30 the nillin_ln_mm••n,_ ... n.m.....'.·__...... ' w.-lIlIftUllIllIlIIlllIII.II••Whld members presented a minstrel at the Masonic Square and Compass Club's Ladies Night, which was well received · .. Woodridge Chapter chorus and WESTWARD - HO! Variety Four have pp.rformed recently at Hasbrouck Heights, N. J., father For the second time within nine months, it has been my privilege and son night at local High School; to enjoy Barbershop, far-western style. As I sal in a capacity Corpus Christi Holy Name Society audience of 3500 fans at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, I couldn't dinner at Hasbrouck Heights; P.T.A. help but feel that in the not too distant future that sector and its meeting at Rutherford, N. J., and talent would become a serious threat to the chorus and quartet made a visit to the Grand Lodge of the Masonic Club in New York City domination so long enjoyed by the established middlewest, the · .. The third annual parade of York uprising east, and our fine Canadian group. Chapter, Jan. 24 was a huge success. Afternoon and evening shows sold Frank Thorne would have risen to his feet to acclaim a chorus out. First half of show given over to recital accomplished with the perfection of a musical machine. the 100 man chorus, second half to Their quartets are growing awfully "International Finals" wise. visiting quartets. Chorus snappy in The audience-"God bless them!" seemed as enthusiastic as any new blue shirts, maroon ties and ma I have encountered east of the Rockies. Fellows like Jack Hare, roon cummerbunds. Eighty members Russ Stanton, Art Rheinlander, and many, many others dish out of chorus plus the Four Hoover Bodies hospitality unsurpassed. and the Grantley Flamethrowers sang and entertained before a crowd of While I shall remain a true, loyal son of the Illinois district, only 4000 at the ~Jarch of Dimes Annual my indomitable will prevents my falling for that western en Ball and Card Party. chantment. Misfits. please be careful when you land at San Fran cisco Bay. I may have to go back there in a hurry to save you. THE MUMBLES QUARTET H. M. "Hank" Stanley

KLING BROS • ,/fo .... ENGINEERING WORKS tWI~"-. ..~. >. • ....1 Ii,' 1320 N KOSTNER AVE. .. .. CHICAGO 51, ILL., u. S. A. , ~ ~. HENRY M. STANLEY, Adv. Mgr. r . .. MANtJFACTtJRERS OF . . Combination Shear. Punch and Capers: Rotary. Bar and Angle Shears; Single and Double End Punches; From Magnolia Chapter, Jackson. Miss. corne. this portrait of four southern Plate. Angle. Bar Benders. Hlgh Speed Friction Sows gentlemen, who sinK L. to R. as Richard and Grinders King, tenor; Jack Starkey, lead; Craig UIIlDIIM.IIIlIIIUIUllllll-.rIMUIrn&mllollillllllDlllllllllllmll3!ll!nIllllll1lIlfJlW;;h"'iiu::w:au...... _...w"m...~m:ncIlllllll.J1~_.lllll1llgIUllM Reynold, bari; and Nick Turnbow. bass. MAY, 1948 The Hamumi.z.er 53

FOR CHARITY Scouts on Feb. 23 and gave the boys the incentive to add harmonizing by Hughbert J. Hamilton to their knot-tying, fire-making and The roster of chapters in the Ontario other accomplishments. The big parade District now contains fifteen names of the year was held at Toronto on three more being added in the first March 6, with Massey Hall filled to quarter of 1948. Negotiations for or capacity for both matinee and evening ganization are underway with inter performances. The Sunday morning ested groups and individuals in at least glow breakfast was a successful in ten other communities and, if the novation in Canada, being ·well con prevailing rate of charter applica ducted, well attended and well en tions holds, the year will see the num joyed, proving that it CAN be done. ber of chapters exactly doubled. Per haps, if that is achieved, SOme Can adian city may be favorably consid 'PadIie-~t ered as the locale of the International by E. C. Murphy Convention and the Contest soon after Inter-Chapter activity and participa Buffalo! The New chapters are Sud Norman Lanyon, chapter pres., pre bury, Paris and Guelph. Soon they sents $318 check to Melville W. Leon. tion in Society functions are surely be engaged in many activities Shrine potentate, for charity use, donated increasing. But District 12 Bush ,,,,ill by Binghamton·Johnson City chapter leaguers need seasoning before being the highlights of which find mention from receipts of concert. On right Ed. in this record of events for barber ward L. Vmcent, chapter secretary. able to gain or hold a place in SPEB shoppers everywhere to see. Windsor big time. is basking in the glory of their dis getting top billing in the quarterly l{lamath Falls Parade April 23 was trict championship quartet, The Can affairs of nearly all the chapters. Is complete success from every stand adianaires, whose popular point-win it because we're afraid of them or point. Great improvement in quality ning style is in demand on both sides because we love 'em? Get set for some of District quartets was manifest. of the international border. (Or would more accounts of this distaff defer Johnny Houston's achievement with it be their dazzling new Highland ence.) London's night for the gals on this one year old chapter chorus is costumes 'f) Amherstburg has caught April 9 took the usual form of a outstanding. the spirit of public service, Their chapter birthday party and Founder's Port Angeles and Klamath are cor excellent chorus of 30 (total member observance, with dinner, barbershop nering District geography and activ ship 42!) has participated in two im concert and dancing, The chapter's ity. Their example is encouraging portant local concerts and The Elec eight quartets and chorus have been chapters in between to do likewise. trolaires have also been busy, Wal in great demand for functions of vari Extension of chapwl' membership laceburg's first Ladies' Night on Jan. ous kinds. Stratford now holds its continues to be the primary District 28 fully achieved its purpose of prov meetings in quarters provided gratis problem. The new administration Ull ing to the womenfolk that there really by the local radio station and the ar der leadership of District President is something to this barbershop stuff. rangement is calculated to be mutually Sam Saari of Tacoma is expected to Von Ayres, the popular chorus direc beneficial. Upcome the ladies again! accomplish solution of this and other lor, staged a surprise on the chapter At Brantford, on Valentine's Night, District difficulties. at their meeting on March 12 by bring their first affair for the fair was hon ing with him his High School Girls' ored by the presence of Mr. and Mrs. Glee Club, singing barbershop num· Carroll Adams who returned to De bers which he had been teaching them troit with happy memories of a bar secretly. The night of March 25 bershop udo" as only President Jack marked a big inter-cllapter meet at LeMaitre and his boys can provide THE Chatham, some 46 visitors from neigh· and with appropriate mementos of boring chapters making the journey. their visit-Carroll a miniature tele MARTIN The annual parade has been set for phone and Mrs. A. bookends which Oct. 9. One hundred persons attended are replicas of the Bell Memorial PRINTING CO. Sarnia's Ladies' Night at the Golf and Bell Homestead. (Despite Don Club on March 3 and the discovery Ameche's claims, everyone knows that of much feminine vocal talent has Alexander Graham Bell invented the brought the decision to organize a telephone at Brantford). Kitchenec ladies' quartet for the next parade. maintains its record of being a live ON ITS This year's was held on March 20, barbershop town in spite of the ab~ with another capacity audience. (Per sence from affairs of President Art haps this whole report should be Underhill and Secretary Fred Dau headed "Ontario Goes All Out For The berger through accident and illness. 50th Ladies" because Ladies' Nights are The Quarter-Tones entertained 225 Boy ANNIVERSARY 0 IS HAPPY TO CONGRATULA TE S.P.E.B.S.Q,S,A., Inc. O'BRIEN LOOKS ON ITS OVER OLD SONGS J, George O'Brien, 10th Old Songs Oep9rtml;'nt chief of staff, looks over some of the con tributions in HQ's file~ with Mrs, AletQ Suther· land of the HQ office, THE MARTIN PRINTING CO, &40 Caxton Bldg. Cleveland 15, Ohio JAMES F'. KNIPE, President PRINTERS OF THE HARMONIZER

MAY, 1948 INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OF CHAPTERS AND DISTRICTS (Unless otherwise specified. Chapter Secretary is pre$lmt Sec. Newly elected Sees. will be listed in AUfust.) This directory is for convenience at tfovoUnq Q1embers cnd tho.e needinq it in conductiolJ SPEBSQSA contacts. Any other use ...lolat•• our Code of Ethics-"We shall not us. our membership in the Society fot pe1'8oncd gain" CANADA MysUc-Lt. Comdr. Wm. J, Ruhe Peoria-Earl M. Merrifield Arkansas City-M. S. Lundquist New BfUllSwick 6 Pearl St.. Noank, Conn, 841 W. Virginia-2·1548 c/o Chamber of Commerce New Britain-William Marsh Pioneer (Chica;oj Great Bend-E. R. Marchand Fr;~9~~~~~~so~r.~5s~per 32 Norden St. Henry M. Stanley 3307 17th St. Harvey ·Station-W, A. Revell New Haven-Charlell E. Bristol 1300 N. Kostner Ave.-GapitoI4200 Hutchinson-Ray Stepp Harvey Station 20 Violet St., Hamden. Conn. Princeton-Samuel T. Traynor 221 E. 16th St. Ontario N. H. 2-4553 417 Lincoln St.. Junction Cily-W. R. Muenzenmayer Amherstburg-Jules P. PQUCU New LondoD-William W. McDonald Quincy-John Bergst rasser c(o Elks Club P. O. Box 315-238-M (Unlv. of Conn., Ft. Trumbull Br.) 1020 S. 22nd SI.--6423-J King-man-Lawrence L. Hobson BranUord-Hauy Wood Tradewind 120 Roanoke-Raymond W. Pettigrew 260 Ave. "A"-S84 33 Fair Ave.-5043-W Rockville-Roqer J. Tansey Rock Island-Waller E. Chambers Kiowa-James E. Miller Chatham-Ernest Van Homo RFD No. 1-1677·13 P. O. Box 208-4425 Manhattan-Ronald T. Peterson 61V2 Kinq West Roodhoule--David Brown Elliot Courts, Api. 61D Guelph-Jack Small Te9r~~rst~~~i~~on9~s6h Rushville-Dr. L. E. Johnson Osborne County-J. E. Kissell 67 Wyndham St. Waterbury-Carlton G. Provost 471 W. Washington Portis, Kan. Hamilton-Bruce Laing 39 Pritchard Rd.-S-fi282 Soulh Town (Chicago) Parsons-R. A. Woods 270 Wellford Ave., S. DELAWARE Gordon J. Gallagher Box 546 Kilchener-Fred R. Dauberger Wilmington-Harry T. FatTow 7723 Burnham Ave.-Sag. 0849 Pit1l1burq-W. Howard Millington 403 Louisa 51.-5-5744 1336 Lancaster Ave. Springfield-Earl McK. Guy Box 226-1013 London-H. J. Hamilton 1728 So. Spring St.-2-9348 Pratt-F. E. Link 23 Renwick Ave. Di3403n~:J~~~:~ffi"Brown Streator-Ralph Baker 114 No. Mound Paris-Bruce V. Cameron DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 102 No. Third 51. Salina-Glenn H. Miller 50 St. George St. Washington-Jean M. Boardman Tuscola-Jay R. North 618 West Prescott Sarnia-George Ahem Southern Bldg. Washburn-G. O. Brummell Topeka-Frank J. Kambach City Hall-464-J nORIDA Waukegan-Arthur Tindale 1404 Harrison-2-3567 Stratford-Lloyd M. Bettger Miami-Robert Holbrook 20 No. St. James 51. Wichita-Marlin E. Cox 649 Ontario St. P. O. Box 242 Wheaton-Carl A. Larson 117-119 No. Mosley-S·9674 Sudbury-Ralph E. Wilcox St. Petersburg-R. Carey Jacobus 602 Lenox Rd., Glen Ellyn-2198 KENTUCKY 50 Ethel St., Lockerby P. O. 446 61h Ave.• N. Winnelka (North Shorej Frankfort-John D. Darnell Toronto--Stan. Meecham Tampa-Roberl S. Blake Frederic W. Ryder 507 McClure Bldg. 182 Willow Ave.-Howard 6711 950 Michiqan Ave. Wallaceburq-James E. Lawson 3715 E. Broodway-Y·1329 LouilvUl&--George R. Ewald GEORGIA INDIANA 2191 Barringer Ave.-JA 6640 42 Johnson St.-204-J LOUISIANA Windsor-Norman Van Nest Atlanta-E. W. Andrew Anderson-Nelson F. Brandon P. O. Box 1228-Hem. ·2500-8 New Orleanl-Milton Van Mannen 1057 Parent Ave. 2128 Broodway-2·7898 317 Barrone St. Windsor-John Rooney HAWAII Auburn-Ray G. Turner (Assumption Collegej Honolulu-Gordon F. Kennedy 343 Wost 7th SI. MARYLAND Quebec P. O. Box 3198 Brazil-Ansi! M. Harpold Baltimore No. I-Robert MacEnery Grand'Mere-Ted Hanna 1009 W. Knight 1729 N. Payson St.-Lalayetle 5001 200 2nd Ave. ILLINOIS Columbus-Thomas O. Evans Baltimore No. 2--Charles DeWitt. Jr. Alton-Loo T. Jun 1802 Pennsylvania St. 3005 Cresmont-Tuxedo 8938 ALABAMA 837 Spruce 5t.-2-2969 MASSACHUSETTS Birmingham-Robert M. Brown Connersville-M. S. Stephens Aurora-C. D. 5mith 222~ W. Twelfth 51. Boslon-Walter J. 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Davison Cambridge--J. Herbert Schamp Fort Wayne--Joe L. Juday 3 Cbaney Ave.. Fairhaven, Mass. 535 E. 3rd St. Canton-W. B. Dawson P. O. Box 844 Northampton-James F. Fitzgerald ARKANSAS 1140 E. Chestnut 51. Franklort-Oscar Smith 9 Prospect St., Florence Station Jonesboro--J. Marion Meadows Champaign-Urbcrna R.F.D.No.5 Quincy-Denis F. Shea 1225 So. Flint Glenn E. Musqrave Franklin-Dr. J. O. Van Antwerp 35 Greenview St. CALIFORNIA 210 E. John St" Champaign 255 E. South St. Reading-Arthur Aldrich Bakersfield-Harold W. Greene Charleston-Wm. Gillin Gary-Harry A. Kirche 250 Summer Ave.-0932 Box 603, Shafter, Cal. RFD 549 Garfield 51. Salem-Kenneth A. Rowe Berkeley-Jobn F. McElvary Chicago-Hugo L. Stanger Goshen-Kenneth Worthman 89 Elliott St., Danvers 2114 McKinley Avo. 5622 N. Wayne Ave. Millersburg, Ind. Springfield-H. A. Buzzell EI Monte-Dave Ragains Ardmore 3458 Hammond-Walter Matz lIS State 51.-2-9442 705 Esmeralda-S-2714 Ctinton-ChaTlos A. Parker 595 Wentworth, Calumet City, 111. MICHIGAN Glendale-Sam Butler Danville-John D. Mitchell Hobart-Glennon J. Lewis Adrian-Cbas. Matthews 315 E. Randolph 615 Robinson 916 Home Ave. 1275 University-947-J Hollywood-Hatch Graham Decatur-George H. Wright Indiatlapolla-Alvin Minnick Albion-Norman L. Munay 10300 Vitella Lane, 1204 E. Lawrence St.-2-2789 4945 Primrose 5t.-BR 8953 c/o Gale Mig. Co. Los Angeles 24, Cal.-AR 35347 De Xalb-Giles L. Findley Jasper-Jerry Enlow Allegan-A. H. Wheeler Inglewood-Walter Adama R. R. 1. 2101h W. 5th St. Dixon-G. Rudolph Kendallville-Willia.m Parker 180 So. Main St.-376 6501 W. 90th 51. Ann Arbor-Wayne A. Teach.... orth Los Angeles 45 122 E. Fellows SI.-B-1547 204 No. Park Ave. 18 Warner St.. Ypsilanti LOI4'fc~~bs~~~iA~e~~!I.Sll Dundee-Vernon SuUin Kokomo-Vern Fousl Battle Creek-To M. Horn 407 So. 1st 51. 415 W. Foster St. 28 No. 32nd St.-2·1081 Maywood (Tri-City)-John Pollock Efflnqham-M. !-. Norris Lafayette-Norva1 L. Martin Bay City-Harold Gibbs 4SSO Nevada, Bell. 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