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VOLUME IX NO.3 MARCH. 1950

Many Decisions Made As Int'l B'd O-M-A-~-A Meets InWashington The annual Mid-Winter gathering of Arrangements for the Society's 12th ity of the PA s;-stems in the Omaha the members of the Int'l Board has Annual Convention and Contest in and Ak-Sar-Ben Auditoriums. The become virtually a four day affair, Omaha, June 7th to 11th, are well Omaha Civic Auditorium where the and for some with special assign­ along. Under the leadership of Gen­ Semi-Finals, Finals and Jamboree will ments, the 1950 series of meetings eral Chairman Tnt'! V. P. Clare E. be held has been the scene of three and conferences stretched from a1'· Wilson and Associate Chairman R H. successive Pal'ades staged by the rival vVednesday evening to a Mon~ Mallory, all Committees are function­ Omaha Chapter. The larger Ak-Sar­ day afternoon departure for home. ing smoothly. Excellent cooperation Ben Coliseum has been used for manv Twenty-two Board members, plus on the part of the local Convention shows and \"'as checked for our pur­ Exec. Committee and C. & J. Com­ Bureau, city officials, merchants, poses by Int'} Sec'y Carroll P. Adams mittee member Frank Thorne, Com­ civic and social organizations assures last Fall during the Eddie Cantor mittee Chairmen Maury Reagan, Stub a perfect weekend for the several show. For that purpose, the Kernels Taylor, Dean Snyder and Ed. Place, thousand members expected. were guests on the program. Int'] Sec'y Adams, Associate Sec'y Hafer, Historian (also part time As­ In late January, just under 1800 all­ As usual, reservations for hotel space sociate Jnt'l Sec'y) Otto, and C. & J. events ticket books had b~en pur­ will be at a premium. (No hotel rooms Committee member Ed Smith, faced chased, quite a bit more than at the can be had without a reservation a staggering agenda of matters to same period last year. ticket from the all-events ticket book). be covered, but, by working with a This year marks a depm·ture in that minimum of sleep, came up with these Acoustics Tested there will be two headquarters hotels_ major decisions. Those who were at Buffalo may value lnt'l B'd Members, Judges and Int'! reassurance regarding the qual- Champions, will be housed in the Fon­ The Harmonizer Committee is to pub­ tenelle; competing quartets, in the lish in the September issue each year Paxton. In all, twelve hotels, all good, a condensed financial report of the FRONT COVER EXPLANATION all concentrated in an area of a few Society. In the past it has been sent blocks, will furnish accommodations. Unfortunately there are no oversized hotels in Omaha and ,\ve are limited 2 to 200 rooms in each headquarters TOKYO CALLING! 1 3 hotel. Major General Herren caused a considerable stir when he ap­ Exec. Committee Kicks Off The Tnt'l Executive Comniittee will peared before the lnt'l B'd on r--­ ~ --=--­ hold its first meeting Tuesday eve­ Saturday morning to talk about lung, followed by Wednesday fore­ the progress of the barbershop 5 noon and afternoon sessions. First 4 6 quartet movement in the Army. gathering of the full Int'l Board will (Major Generals don't grow on be on Wednesday evening with a full morning - afternoon - evening set - to trees, even in Washington.) scheduled for Thursday. Among major Things came to a boil, however, questions to be resolved will be the when he formally requested the location of the June 1952 Convention 8 Society to send one of its top 7 9 and Contest. 1951 has already been awarded to Toledo. ranking quartets on an air tour of Army posts in the Far East Forty Quartets to Compete . . . Tokyo, Okinawa, Guam, All quartets pictured have won the Michigan Forty quartets, chosen in the fourteen etc., etc., purpose being educa.­ District Championship. For identification, che..-k Int'l Regional Preliminary Contests tional and inspirational, every­ the numbers against the picture'S. Date indicates will be judged Friday morning and years they held title. thing to be taken care of by the (1) Barons of Hannony, Saginsw, 1946-47, afternoon in the Semi Finals in Omaha Around the clock starting at midnight-Albro. Civic Auditorium. Best fifteen of these Al'my. (Line forms directly be­ lend: Oursler. bari: Heath. bass; Ssrle, tenor. (2) Acoustical Pensilver and bronze medals District Officers. tenor; Gordon Hall, bass. Saturday 11ight in the Ak-Sar-Ben (4) Saw Dust Four. Muskegon. 193940, 1940· 4l. L. to" R,-George Hansen, Bill Griffith, Coliseum. l'he twenty-five quartets The rule covering expense allowance R8ymond Johnsoo. Len Horton. eliminated on Friday will sing in the to judges in District and Regional (5) Clef Dwellers, Qoklooct County, 1948-49. Around the clock from midnight-Bsuer, bass: Saturday afternoon Jamboree. This Preliminary Contests was clarified, Johnston. bad; Hsnnah. lead: Wisehesrt, tenor. event is the high spot of the weekend Traveling expense will be computed (6) Interludes. Midland, 1949-50. L. to R.­ for many. Tension over, the fours let at first-class round-trip rail rate, plus Bliss, tenor; Payne, bass; Mdntire, lead; Hand, btlri. their hair down. Pullman, with .. 15.00 per day_ (away (7) Antlers. Flint, 1947-48. L. to R.-Schiod· from home·base) for hotel, meals and ler, bad; Morton, tenor; Augsbu!')', bass; Saturday should be twice as long as extras. Brooks, lead. the usual twenty-four hours. School (8) Gardenaires, Rosedsle Gardens, 1944.45. L. to R.-Danic. bad; Hamilton. tenor; Rubert, for Judging Candidates, Forum for The Plan for Uniform District Organ­ lead:-top----Tubbs, bsss. Song Leaders and M-Cees, Seminar ization, after two years 'of study and (9) Unhesrd of Four, Muskegon, 1942-43. L. for Chorus Directors, Round Table a series of revisions, \vas adopted, to 10 R.-Horlon, tenor, Klooster, lead; Griffilh, bari; Buiteodorp. bass. (CO!lt;mJi1J all page 51 (Col1ti1JJIi>d ()1J png' 4) SEE VERY IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ON PAGE 4 4 The HnnmJJlizer

BOARD STUDIES INTERNATIONAL ARMY WANTS 3 QUARTETS AND DISTRICT NEEDS TO GO TO EUROPE and ASIA Finds Both Must Have More Income Please wire immediately to SPEBSQSA, Members of the Int'I Bd. forsook 20619 Fenkell Ave., Detroit 23, Michigan home and business for the second (1) IF your quartet is of Int"! Semi­ consecutive month to assemble at Chi­ Finalist rank, or the equivalent. cago (at their own expense) to de­ or higher. termine how to lneet illcl'easing finan­ (2) IF your quartet is willing to go to cial needs of the International and European Theatre or Asiatic District organizations. At a special Theatre to visit and sing at Army meeting, Feb. 18, the Society's con­ Posts in those areas. stitution was amended. Effective July 1, 1950, start of the new fiscal year, (3) IF' willing. your men will be able to the per capita tax will be increased get to New York or San Francisco, by $1.00 a year, making a total of on or about March 15th, and be $4.00, including the usual Harmonizer away approximately four weeks. fee of $1.00. Fifty cents of the 1.00 All expenses will be taken care of by the increase will be rebated to the Dis­ Army after you leave the country. Ex­ HAL STAAB tricts to assist District financing. pense of getting from your home to the Past lnt'l Pres. Hal Staab, North­ These members, representing chapters points of embarkation, New York or San ampton, Mass., died at the age of throughout the country, have had far Francisco, will be the concern of the 58 in the Genesee Hospital, Roches. more to consider than their local Quartets. No provision can be made for tel', N. Y. 011 November 19th, 1949. problems. They have been faced by the loss of income or other expenses that From 1940 until his death Hal cease­ ever hlcreasing demands for use of the may be incurred. lessly worked for SPEBSQSA. all-important Int'l office, coupled with The Army would also like one instructor Just how great a P81·t he played in the increased cost of operating that to accompany each of the two quartets the growth of SPEBSQSA can best hq. The Society's expansion has that will go to the Asiatic Theatre. his be realized by I'eading Deac Mar­ brought more income but not in pro­ function to be that of instructing and tin's column "The Way 1 See It". on portion to increasing costs of opera­ inspiring Army quartets at the various page 13 this issue. Deac worked with tion and needs by the Districts. points visited, not as coach for the Hal for many years as a member of traveling quartets. the Board of Directors and as an offi­ The International cer, and writes of Hal not only as an associate, but as a friend. A comparison with costs of admin­ istration of other organizations com­ Washington Meeting About 100 members of the Society parable to ours shows that, even with (Continued) attended Hal's funel'al at Northamp· ton. Dr. Charles A. Gleason and Har­ the $1.00 increase we are operating become effective, and binding on all in most economical fashion. Rotary's vey Taylor, of the Northampton Districts, as of May 1. 1950. Under Chapter, were pall bearers. During International per capita is $7.50 per it. incorporation of Districts is man­ member, Lions $5.50, others are even the service, ew Bedford's 1"our datory, and the Plan itself becomes Smoothies sang several hymns. higher. Unlike many organizations, the Constitution and By-Laws of the our International Tece,ives no initia­ District, superseding all present docu­ Detroit headquarters has received a tion fees. ments and procedures. Printed copies large number of communications f}'om will shortly be distributed. chapters, districts, and individuals, In the last fiscal year, July 1, 1948 including many l'esolutions adopted by to June 3D, 1949, operating demands Name of Int'I Committee on Quartet groups as a tribute to Hal. Each outstripped the budget. So far this Ethics and Procedure was officially one echoes the d('ep affection and the ~'ear, as a result or stringent economy changed to lnt'l Committee on Quar­ profonnd 1"CRpect for Hal felt by any and increased revenue from Harmon­ tets, and its booklet dealing with scores SPEBSQSA member who was privi­ izer advertising, the outlook is a little of quartet problems, registration. leged to know him or of his contribu­ more promising, but many things have recognition of rank, etc., etc., was tions to the Society. not been done that the needs of a adopted and will be printed and dis­ growing SPEBSQSA demand should tributed immediately. Becomes opera­ be done, and quickly. It is impossible tive July 1st. Registration fee of $1.00 to administer an organization \\;ith­ per quartet was established. ~llrolh ~. ,$lllllb out assured income. Budgeting e..'(­ Proxy voting at meetings of the Int'I pected income from events that may Board was abolished and a quorum of At the Washington, D. C. meeting not materialize is more than bad finan­ sixteen (of 29 members) was estab~ the lnt'l Board unanimously adopted cial policy, it's financia.I suicide. lished. the following Resolution: The Districts Nominations in Advance "Whereas, our Society recently A new procedure was established stip­ lost one of its most loyal, Jn effect, in many Districts, the in­ ulating that Int'] Nominating Com­ hard working and well known crease will amount to only $0.50 per members in Hal Staab, and capita, where Districts now collect a mitteemail its list of candidates per capita tax, since many of them to all Board Members 30 days in ad· Whereas the contributions of will now cease partly or wholly to col­ vance of election day. Previously no Hal Staab ove!' the years to the lect the tax themselves. Collecting written llotice ,vas given. growth, development, and suc­ the entire tax at one time and rebating Cop)'right (or permanent permission cess of our Society, and partic­ the $0.50 to the Districts will sim­ to reproduce) of all original songs ularly to its Music Library, are plify the Districts' financing. appearing in the annual folio, distrib­ beyond measure, and uted without charge to members, will Whereas, innumerable chapters Some Districts have been attempting hereafter be vested in the Society. and individual members have to operate on the proverbial shoe­ Society's arrangers will, in addition expressed both verbally and in string. Yet the importance of the Dis­ to annual folio, produce minimum of writing their feelings of deep trict set-up cannot be exaggerated twenty arrangements each year of regret over his passing, and adequate financing of their oper­ "public domain" songs, in loose leaf Now, therefore, be it }'esolved ations is absolutely necessary. form, Ior sale to members, chapters, that the Board go on record \Ve must continue to move forward choruses and quartets. as expressing on behalf of the or we can soon start sliding backward. "Swipes" to be Omitted entire Society the deep and We have built a great organization, Chapter Swipes, in present form, will heartfelt regret in the loss of one that is becoming ever more im­ be omitted from June issue of Bar. Hal Staab, an able, outstand­ portant in U. S. and Canadian com­ monizer, as an experiment. They will ing, sincere, enthusiastic, and ardent barbershopper". munity life. This enormous potential (CtJt1IiJluld tJlJ Pd!.' 6) for good must not grow less. --MARCH,1950 The Hartno1Jiz~r 5 O-M·A-H-A (Continued) for District Officers, Conference for Facts About Travel to Omaha in June '50 Chapter Officers, are all unavoidably R. F. Verderber, Cleveland Chapter, has again explored the main means of packed into relatively few hours. Many travel to the International at Omaha, next June, and the following tabulations will wi:h they were at least dual are his findings. Verderber calls attention to the possibility of changos in rates before June '50. But is unlikely that they would seriously affect personalities. For some, not other­ either cost or time. . wise engaged, Saturday will offer an The opportunity for Westerners to make up a sectional party or parties. opportunity to visit the renowned converging into bigger parties at Ogden, Green River, or Cheyenne makes "Boystnvo", just outside Omaha. it a pleasant project to contemplate. and plan upon, as the date draws nearer. Many Easterners will be thrown together, almost automatically. as theY Again a \Voodshed converge toward the Big Show. . Proved in Buffalo last June and again Via Railroad Via Plane Via Bus Auto in Wasllington in January, the Wood­ In Pullmans Coach One- shed will be a feature of the Omaha Time Rail Lower Rail Tim~ Time way Convent.ion. Past In'l V. P. Ed Smith, From: (hrs.) Fare Berth Fare (hI'S.) Fare (hrs.) Fare Miles· of Wayne, Michigan, President of Boston, Mass 37 $104.39 $24.00 $72.11 8\> $151.00 48 $46.76 1476 the "D(!crepits", (former members of Chicago, m. 9 29.06 ·4.40 22.45 the Int"l Board), will head the group 10 29.06 8.20 22.45 2 50.65 17 18.10 485 Cleveland, Ohio 22 65.40 t12.60 6 who will handle the operation of the 39.65 86.75 26 26.20 836 Dallas, Texas 23 40.60 14.40 31.25 5\> 80.75 26 22.60 690 Woodshed. For those not informed, Detroit, Mich. 16 51.26 t11.10 37.26 4 79.60 24 24.40 755 the Woodshed is a large room in the Kansas City, Mo. 4 11.65 ·2.90 9.00 Hq. hotel, more or less decorated to 7 11.66 7.00 9.00 1 20.35 7 7.15 210 simulate a woodshed, wherein only Los Angeles.Cal. 41 95.70 31.60 68.05 6 171.30 48 53.50 1720 Miami, Fla. 47 103.70 33.40 77.15 8\\, 182.50 65 50.35 1775 unorga nized quartets are permitted to Minn'polis, Minn. 11 20.55 *2.20 16.90 sing. It can be, and is, a great deal of 11 20.55 7.00 15.90 2 37.60 11 13.15 365 fun when four complete strangers. Oklahoma City 14 31.25 11.40 24.16 4 59.65 21 17.20 486 from widely separated parts of the St. Louis, Mo. 13 24.50 8.20 18.90 3 46.46 16 16.16 466 Washington,D.C. 34 84.26 21.30 67.46 6\> 120.65 41 38.80 1196 country, come together in the 'Vood­ shed and match up ideas of harmony. *Pullman seat (daytime service). By all means, plan on spending some tPullman seat to Chicago, Lower beyond. time there. The fares shown are round trip in each case, and do NOT include Federal tax which at this time is 15% on all rail, Pullman and bus lines. Write for Combination Book The travel time represents number of ela.psed hours for travel in one direc­ At $7.50, including taxes, there isn't tion via direct routes, based on schedules which afford convenient departure a better bal'gain in the world than and arrival times at origin and destination. the all-events combination book of From most eastern cities the route to Omaha is through Chicago and tickets_ Make your check payable to, visitors have an opportunity to travel together from Chicago to Omaha. and mail to, SPEBSQSA, 20619 Fen­ ken Ave., Detroit 23. Mich. Immedi­ ately on receiving your book, or bOOKS, OMAHA, NEBRASKA tear out the hotel accommodation GENERAL CONVENTION COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN ticket(s) and send by Air Mail to 1950 Omaha. Elsewhere in this issue ap­ pears a table with complete informa­ tion on distances, travel time, and costs from Jnost areas. t f you have never attended a Con­ vention and Contest, by all means do so. It's a lifetime experience. If you have been to one or more. Omaha looks like the finest to date-nuff sed.

FRED STEIN Fred Stein, bass of the Four Har­ monizers, Chicago, 1943 champions of SPEBSQSA, died in Chicago in November. Fred wa~ a natural-born Froot row. left to right: Dwight E. Slater, Advisory aod Executive: Clare E. Wibon. Ioternational Vioo Pres. and Gen" Coovention Chairman; Mrs. R. H. MalJory. Ladies: harmonizer, starting to sing in quar· Mrs. Clare E. Wilson. Ladies: R. H_ Mallory, Pres. Ak-Sar-Beo Chapter and Associate tets at seventeen_ FaT eight years he Gen'l Chairman; J. R. O·Neal. Public Relatioos: J. F_ Berner, Executive and Greetiog was with the Troy Comedy 4. Em· and H06pitality. press Comedy 4, Variety 4, followed Second row. left to right: W. R_ Munson. Advisory and Executive; Sam Cohen. Printiog and Programs; J. T. Stewart, II. Publicity; Victor L. Toft, General Ticketli; Robert by a year in musical comedy. Thou· Gate5, Special Tickets; Hugh E. Wallace. Omaha Luocheon. sands of people in many cities had Third row, left to right: L, E. Fitch, Auditorium; Vance E. Harmon, Transportatioo: the pleasure of hearing Fred with the Hartwell Davis. Sec'y Ak-Sar-Ben Chapter and Geoeral Ioformation: ehas. F. Mabbeu. Housiog; Lloyd Prioce, Meeting Room Arrangemeots: Norman Haried, Registration. Harmonizers in the last nine years. George Eklund. Special Tickets. He will be missed. Absent: W. R. Snyder, Coliseum and Breakfast: Harry Koch. Special Tickets; C. O. Darner. Convention Treasurer; Carroll Adams. Geoeral; Ed. S. Smith. Woodshed. MARCH,1950 - ...... PRESIDENT'S COLUMN

by O. H. King Cole

from 51 to 60 members and one had prising talent within the Washington from 71 to 80 members. It was also Chapter was a revelation, and our significant that 23 of the 55 sus· admiration for the singing Capito] pended chapters died in their first Chorus and its Directors i~ bound~ year of existence; 11 in their sec· less. ond; 10 in th4 3rd; 5 in the 4th and 6 in the 5th year or over bracket. • From this we gain two outstanding A very glowing report \vas made on The Price facts. (1) The mortality rate of chap· the Society's Community Service. This year a very heavy toll is being ters is greatest in their first year of When the activities of our various exacted from the Society in the way existence, consequently they need sur­ Chapters are accumulated we can well of suspended chart€rs. The mortality veillance. (2) The mortality rate of be proud of the result. One of the rate in Chapters is practically four Chapters is greatest where there is outstanding examples and deserving times as high as it has ever been in only a minimum membership, Le., less special mention is the Hartford, Con· the past, and we can charge a great than 20. Hence every effort should necticut Chapter which in the space deal of this to the fact that we have be made to increase the size of small of four years time, has turned over been unwilling to lend assistance nec~ chapters to insure their continuance. $19,000.00 to charity. This is the kind essary to keep these chapters going. It was also determined that 17% of of servke that will give our the chapters receiving their charter in So· The growth of our Society is fre­ ciety fine recognition. quently referred to as phenomenal and the 1948·1949 year, failed to enjoy we have been lulled into a sense of even a second year of existence. To false security as a result. The mem­ survive, a chapter must grow. A large bership to a large extent is giving chapter is usually a healthy one. no active support to our committees Washington (Continued) on Extension and Membership. The Washington Meeting general feeling seems to be "Let The Board of Directors is to be com· be replaced by' indjvidual chapter George do it". plimented for the volume of work news items prepared by Harmonizer Having just returned from the Wash­ performed at the Mid-Winter meet· District Editors and Harmonizer Col· ington Mid-Winter Board Meeting, ] ing in Washington. The agenda in­ cluded a wide variety of subjects, umnists from chapter quarterly ac­ have again been reminded of the tivities reports, and, it is hoped, by heroic efforts put forth by some of many of which will have far-reach. ing effects on our Society. perlodical District news bulletins to the Society's members. What a won· be distributed through chapter secre­ derful Society we would have if The reports of the various Commit· everyone shared the burdens in equal taries to all members in the District tees indicate that all had given a lot . (not just chapter officers). measure. of time and effort to their subjects and 'I'he individual members should be the have their 'Particular problems well in President Cole delegated to pl'esent greatest force in furthering the So· hand. Committee on Collaboration with the ciety's growth and unless we are will· A.rmy (Snyder, Enman and Fahne­ I believe the average member of our ing to assume this responsibility we stock), additional duties of collabor· are likely to hear of further defec­ Society would be greatly surprised tions. to hear of the many items discussed ating with the .-tir Forces in "spread ing the gospel" of Barbershop Hal'· Remember there are only two ways in and passed on. The intelligent man· which our Society can continue to ner in which the Board tackles its mony to men in service. various problems is most encouraging. grow, i.e., President Cole announced special (lj Increase membership in al. The Executive Committee made a meeting of entire Board in Chicago, ready existing Chapters. number of recommendations that were February 18th, to further discuss So· (2) Acquire additional chapters promptly passed on by the Board and ciety's finances. through well organized exten· one that I was particularly happy sion effort. about was the establishing of a fund Board voted "vigorous" recommenda· for an International Headquarters. tion that Society's many choruses con· Both of these should command the The Sheboygan Chapter started the attention of every member. fine their repertoire to numbers ar­ ball rolling by making an initial dona­ ranged in authentic barbershop style. Doesn't it alarm you to hear that the tion and I hope that other Chapters Society had to suspend the Charters will follow suit, until we have an Fund for a permanent Int'l Head­ recently of 55 Chapters. That means adequate sum to house our headquar­ quarters was authorized. Sheboygan. that 56 communities where barber­ ters in our own building. Already Wis. made initial gift of $100.00. shopping was introduced, are now there is talk of some chapters put· forced to go along without it. The ting on shows and turning the en· 1308 members of these 55 Chapters After April 1, 1950, new chapters tire proceeds over to this fund. With will pay $10.00 for temporary charter, are temporarily at least, lost to the co·operation of this kind, we could Society, and this is a sad state of soon acquire a home that would serve and twelve months later, $15.00 for affaiTs. the Society well and of which we permanent charter. An analysis shows that 32 of these could be justly proud. May I add, that Chapters were in towns of less than all donations will be cheerfully re· San Francisco was chosen as location 10,000 inhabitants; 12 in towns from eeived. of January, 1951 Mid-Winter Int'J Board meeting (First time ever weRt 10,000 to 26,000; 8 in towns from Much credit is due the Washington 25,000 to 50,000 and 3 in towns of Chapter for the fine job it did in of Omaha). more than 60,000. A total of 23 Chap· playing host to the International ters defaulted in towns with a popu­ Board at its Mid-winter session. OUf lation in excess of 10,000. We also every wish was gratified and we have note that 34 of the 55 Chapters had a wholesome respect for the officers a membership of less than 20; ten had The Chapter Reference Manual should and members of the Chapter who made be the Bible of all Chapter officers. a membership of from 21 to 30; our visit most pleasant. 6 had a membership of 31 to 40; 3 had from 41 to 60 members; one had The Saturday night performance com· MARCH,1950 6 -- The Harmonizer 7

ectady), the Society's Army Collabor­ Westinghouse Quartet couldn't stay ation Committee and the Army brass away from a l\1id- Winter Meeting .. _ got together to exchange bon mots. filled two engagements in Pittsburgh L. to R. in the picture are Captain Saturday night, hopped a rattler and Copeland, Infl B'd Members Ed were on hand for the "Continental Fahnestock, Wichita and Wes Enman, Breakfast" Sunday morning. La Don· Boston, Major General Herren, Colonel na e Mobile, as rendered by Chada, Bishop and Committee Chairman McDowell, Elder and Hanson had the Dean Snyder of D.C. Chapter. customers rolling on the floor, the rolls jumping into the coffee, and the 000 coffee spilling onto the customers ... From this time without any assistance from Ready to sing anywhere, anytime ... waiters. D.C. Pres. John Cullen's lit· Never a finer hotel for a meeting of the Antlers, J erseymen of Penns tie girl stole one song from the quar­ SPEBSQSA - all air condit.ioned­ Grove, N. J'J Illinois District Champ tet when she eluded maternal hands, bigger and better waiters and wait­ Barber-Q Four, Q-Suburban Chapter, dashed on stage and pirouetted resses spilling more and better food plus a variety of D.C. Chapter's quar­ throughout the Westinghouse rendi­ and liquids on more clothing . . . tets. tion of the rhythmic Got No Time. in short more of everything except the 000 most vital thing of all ... time .•. 000 to see old friends and cultivate new Washington's "Harmony Gala", in ones. beautiful Constitution Hall, Saturday Past Int'l V.P. Edwin S. Smith, night, had many high spots, but the \Va)'ne, Mich., arranged "'Valking in 000 low spot came in the singing of a the Winter Wonderland" and gave the Int'l Sec'y Carroll P. Adams, as usual, 20·man chorus dressed as sailors. Ac­ arrangement to the Singing Capital celebrated a birthday in conjunction cording to several pitchpipe wielders Chorus so it was only fair for them with the Mid-Winter Meeting----does it in the audience, the 5 "profundos" in to call him up to join the chorus sing· every year on the same day. the group reached and SANG a low ing that song Sunday morning. The note not on any pitchpipe and just irreverent Michigander who hollered, 000 about off the piano. '~You'll be sorry", gave too little credit to Ed's robust, if slightly redundant. The Int'l .Executive Committee, lnt'l Pres. Cole, Past Pres. Thorne, First basso. V.P. Beeler, Treas. Knipe, and 000 Sec'y Adams, (Past Pres. Mer. D.C. pulled off two good stunts worth rill absent), convened at two Thurs· passing on. Half the chorus, 50 men, day ... met solidly Thl1rsda}' P.M. dressed in red coats, sang at the be· and evening, Friday A.. l\1 and af· ginning of the "Gala". Then to every· ternoon. Constantly interrupted by one's surprise, Red Coats filed off the press conferences, Y.I.P.'s etc., the stage down the aisle and were re· Committee finally went into seclusion placed by equally as many, and equ· at twelve Friday ... followed D.C. ally as good, dressed in green coats. Chapter Pres. John Cullen out a back It was a good stunt. At the Break­ door to lunch at world-famous Bo­ Not the least of the attractions was fast, eight quartets formed a wheel gate's .•. remained incommunicado on stage and, as the wheel turned. each the rest of the day to get through the the Station Wagon Four in their out of this world costumes-L. to R.­ spoke (a quartet) picked up the song agenda t.hat had piled up since the where those in front dropped it and Committee's last meeting in Chicago Clarence Gedrose. tenOTj Hugh Buck· ingham, lead; Int'l V.P. Jean Board­ sang a bar or two as they slowly in October. man, bari; Fritz Miller. bass. moved by. Not contest singing by 000 any means, but a lot of fun and a 000 good demonstration of harmony sing­ Pres. Cole's suite was jammed from ing by many. rather than a select 11 to 12 Friday morning with Major Contest and Judging Committee wa~ General Herren, sundry barbershop­ on hand in force for the Judging few. pel'S, reporters, photogaphers, sound School. Chairman Reagan, Pittsburgh; men with apparatus to record a half Frank Thorne, Chicago; Ed. Smith, hour of talk and song for the Voice Wayne. Mich.; and Art Merrill. Schen. of America. The General and Pres. ectady, quizzed the candidates. l\"lany Cole did the talking. The Antlers, of Int'I B'd member judging candidates, Flint, Mich., did the singing. Voice tied up in meetings, couldn't attend. of America broadcasts are beamed to Antlers, Free Staters (Baltimore). all parts of the globe. Can't wait to Barber-Q Four, and Jerseymen were report to the membership in the next the quartets used as test cases. issue what Jugoslavs, Bessarabians, Polynesians, Tibetans, Iraquians, Es­ 000 quimaux, etc., send in the way of fan Three of the Chordettes were present mail discussing the Antlers' arrange­ ... Jinny (Cole) Osborn, Carol Hage­ ments of such well known interna­ dorn, and Janet Ertle. Jinny should tional classics as "Walking in the teach her four year old son, Keith, Winter Wonderland", flTie Me to Your (who was very much present), to sing Apron Strings Again" and Ontario District FOLLOW. Bob Haeger, of Barber-Q President, center, Int'l B'd member rapher Int'} V.P. Art Merrill, of Schen­ Four, filled in once or twice on a Tony Martin, Wallaceburg, Ont., right, strictly experimental and falsetto presented a beautiful Canadian flag to basis. D.C. Chapter Pres. John Cullen at the 000 breakfast. This gesture of internation­ al friendliness was received with a D.C. Chapler Past Pres. Dean Snyder thunderous ovation. and his wife had a had smashup en­ route horne Saturday after the show. 000 By great good fortune, neither was hurt though their car was just about Lieut. Commander F. Sterling Wil­ a total wreck. The drh'er who hit son's work as an MCee in the "char· them made his getaway, the BUM. {Coll/j'l1Md O~ pagt sl MARCH 1950 The Harmonizer

STUB PENCIL ,Continuod) The ladies were not neglected. D.C, JUDGING IN A GLASS CAGE was host to the wives and families Dean Snyder of Washington Chapter ade" part of the Saturday night pro­ of members of the Int'l Board at luncheon on Saturday. Then the group came up with a rather unique judging gam was of the order "zany". Many clinic idea. During the Mid-Winter a "pro" could take a lesson from the bused to Mt. Vernon, Alexandria, Board Meeting the Washington Chap­ Commander. etc., followed by a dinner with the male contingent. ter gathered together Friday night to 000 put Maurice Reagan and Frank The c1ose-ta-capacity (3800) audience 000 Thorne of the Contest and Judging was a dilly. They sang, they laughed, Committee on the spot as "experts". they applauded and always at the right No one had a better time than Colonel time. Chorus Director Dr. Robert "Bob" M. C. Newman, Hspark plug" Three quartets offered themselves a~ Howe Harmon(y), led the crowd in of our Sturgis Chapter, Area Gov­ guinea pigs and each recorded a num­ song that filled the hall with noble ernor of the Michigan District Asso­ ber. Reagan then criticized in some chords. ciation of Chapters and Member of detail the arrangement and comment­ 000 the Judges Panel. "Bob" had just fin­ ed on harmony accuracy and blend. The Antlers guessed they sang about ished arranging for four solid pages Thorne then commented on the variow; 150 songs a day for nearly five days, of HARMONIZER ndvet'tising from phases of Voice Expression, some at the White House, two net­ his Chapter and the business men in his area, and upon his arrival in Both made suggestions for improve­ \Vork broadcasts, television, and the ment and pointed out \vhel'e errors recording for Vojce of America. Washington turned over the c·opy for Ihe ads 10 the HARMONIZER Com­ occurred, The tape was then replayed 000 so that the audience of over 100 and mittee. the quartet could check the judges. Some people came quite a distance 000 ... a few Stub caught ... "Bud" Perini, Abilene, Tex.; The Zinsmasters Bill Otto lost his pants. The Statler's The next step in the clinic was the and DeBlois Milledge, Miami; Emil Valet Shop returned him a size 48 question and answer period with the Moore, Brookings, Oregon; Chris which covered Bill's spare frame with quartet getting first crack at the Lample. Anchorage, Alaska. something to spare in all the wrong judges. When their various questiom;; 000 places. had been answered, anyone in the audi­ [t didn't hurt Past rnt'l Pres. Frank ence was given opportunity to ask Thorne's feelings a bit when the Sing­ qnestions. ing Capitol Chorus· sang his "Keep WASHINGTON JUDGING SCHOOL The idea seemed to be of considerable America Singing". especially when Di­ At the Saturday morning session of the rector Harmon asked Frank to stand interest for, after an hour, Dean Sny­ Judges School at Washington, con­ der asked the audience if they wanted and take a bow. siderable and valuable discussion was to continue and they did. The time to 000 had in .regard to the various cate­ handle three quartets, each singing Pres. Cole, See'y Adams, the Antlers, gories so as to help train the 13 on~ number ran one and a half hours and Ed Place, Associate Chairman of Judge candidates present. In the after­ and while each detail of judging could the Society's Public Relations Commit· noon session through the courtesy of not be expounded upon, the quartets tee and his D. C. Keys, put on a com· the Antlers, the Barber-Q-Four, the and audience seemed to feel the clin.ic plete program for t.he Monday meet­ Free Staters, and the Jerseymen, the very worth while. ing of the Washington Chapter of the enthe number of judges present actu­ American Public Relatiolls Societ.y. ally scored the quartets at the time Nothing like mending your fences be­ they were recording their presenta­ fore they get broken. tion, . 000 By replaJ'~ing the recordings it was ALWAYS D.C. Chapter's Ed Place did a fine possible to comment on certain points job of arranging for and staging the of interest and it is planned to use look in the Chapter Reference Manual Woodshed with appropriate trim­ these recordings in testing all judge mings, including an ancient Model T candidates after careful analysis of FIRST and an equally ancient barber chair, the data obtained at the afternoon clinic. SOCIETY'S GOVERNING BODY

Here are the members of the Society's Int'l Board who appointed Associate Sec'y Bob Hafer, formerly of Canton. ~ere present at Washin~ton Mid~Winter Meetins-5tand­ 0,; C. A. Ward, Chicago_ Seated, George H. Chamblin, lng, L. to R.-Ed Spmnler. Ridgewood, N. j.; L. V. Columbus, 0.; Int') Treas, James F. Knipe, Cleveland; (Tony) Martin, Wallaceburg, Ont.; Charles E. Glover, Int'! First Vice Pres. j. D. Beeler, Evansville; Int'l Pres. jamestown, N. Y.; E, Wesley Enman, Boston, B. F. O. H. King Cole, Manitowoc, Wis.; Int'! V. Ps jean (Monty) Marsden, Detroit; Warren Zinsmaster, Miami; Boardman, Washington, D. C., and Arthur MerriU, james H. Emsley, Canton, Ohio; Int'] See'y Carron P. Schenectaq,y, N. Y.; Willis A. Diekema, Holland, Mich. Adams, Detroit; Wm. B. Coddington, East Aurora, N. Y.; Absent at time picture was taken-John Z. Means. Leonard Field, Jackson, Mich.; Mathew Hannon, Chicago; Manitowoc and Ed Fahnestock, Wichita. Howard Mellow. Peoria; Ken Way. Centralia, Mo.: newly .. ­MARCH, 1950 The Harmont~tr 9

EXTENSION

CHARTERED SINCE OCT. 31st, 1949 Number of Date Name of ChapteJ' Members Sponsored by Name and Address of Secretary 11/3/49 Versailles, "Ky. 38 Frankfort, Ky. Ben T. Rabe, RFD, Versailles, Kentucky. 11/3/49 Kenora, Ontario 31 Winnipeg, Man. F. Greg Hachey, 225 Main Street, N., Kenora, Ontario, Canada. 11/3/49 Rochester, Minn. 35 Minneapolis, Minn. Charles Badger, Colonial Hospital, Rochester, Minn. 11/4/49 Brandon, Man. 28 Winnipeg, Man. Fred Telson,1256 Eighth St., Brandon, Manitoba. 11/7/49 Buedingen O/H, 18 Capt. Harold E. Young, 0-1167704, 7700 T.I. & E. Group, Germany APO 807, cIa Postmaster, New York, New York. 11/11/49 Monroe, La. 24 Miami, Fla. and Dr. B. J. LaCour, Jr., 607 Glenmar, Monroe, Louisiana. Jackson, Miss. 11118/49 Roanoke, Va. 22 Winston-Salem, N. C. Robert L. Whitby, 1224 Summitt Ave., S. W., Roanoke, Virginia. 1l/25/4!) East Liverpool, O. 27 Steubenville, Ohio Charles L. Featherstone, 117+2 E. Sixth St., East Livel'v pool, Ohio. 11/28/49 Sterling, Colo. 29 Denver, Colo. Roy F. Walker, 532 Broadwa)', SterUng, Colorado. 11/30/49 Peterborough,Ont. 40 Toronto, Onto Ash Fife, 235 Princess St., Peterborough, Ontario, Gan. 12/1/49 Seymour, Ind. 73 Columbus, Ind. E. O. Stark, 412 \V. Second St., Seymour, Indiana. 12/1/49 Woodbury, N. J. 16 Bridgeton, N. J. Milo B. Urion, 215 Wanneman Ave., Swedesboro. N. J. 12/2/49 Niagara Falls, Ont. 20 Hamilton, Onto and Sheldon Sauer, 865 Armoury St., Niagara Falls, Ontario, Niagara Falls, N. Y. Canada. 12/2/49 Copper Country, Mich. 23 Marquette, :Mich. Wetley Williams. 85 School St., Abmeek, Keweemtw C'ty, Michigan. 12/5/49 Delano, Calif. 17 Bakersfield, CaL August L. Dusserre, 1318 Tenth Ave., Delano. Calif. 12/6/49 Presque Isle, .Maine 37 Portland, Maine Lawrence C. Crockett, 9 Cook St., Presque Isle, Maine. 12/10/49 Grand Island, Nebr. 48 Sioux City, Iowa Bob Burtle, 1509 \V. 3rd Street, Grand Island, Nebraska. 12/16/49 Bremerton, Wash. 22 Tacoma, Wash. F. Roy Buckley, 2000 Parkside Drive, Bremerton, Wash. 12/22/49 Worcester, Mass. 45 Boston, Mass. Bertil A. Lundberg, 15 Stockholm St., Worcester, Mass. 12/28/49 Salamanca, N. Y. 26 Gowanda and Olean, N. Y. Gerry Cummings, 15 Highland Ave., Salamanca, N. Y. 1/5/50 Parkersburg, W. Va. 23 Charleston, W. Va. R. Tracy Evans, 405 Thirteenth St., Parkersburg, W. Va. l/9/50 Beatrice, Nebr. 35 Lincoln, Nebr. Wilbur H. Oldfather, 819 Ella St., Beatrice, Nebraska. 1/11/50 Fulton, Mo. 28 Jefferson City, Mo. Sam Fleming, 108 West Tenth St., Fulton, Missouri. 1/17/50 Skokie, Ill. 32 Chicago, ·111. Martin Luther, 6900 Kenton Ave., Lincolnwood, Illinois. 1/18/50 Columbia, Mo. 22 Mexico, Mo. J. O. Creasy, 1611 East Broadway, Columbia, Missouri. l/27/50 New London, Conn. 16 Hartford, Conn. Joseph J ..Maiorana, 23 Union St. 1/30/50 Lincoln County, Kans. 42 Osborne County, Kans. Rev. Louis F. Meek, Lincoln, Kansas.

(4) Communit)' activity ... give « « STILL A "WINNAH" » » benefits for the poor; for good causes; by C. A. Ward, Int'} Comm. on Extension and Membership help in civic affairs. Be active always, but don't appear publicly unless you Yes, Siree! The good old SPEBSQSA because you don't ride 'em. be­ are prepared ... and always let the is still a winnerl We have more mem~ cause you let 'em become careless. public and the newspapers know what bel'S and mOre chapters this year than you are doing. Everybody likes a success. The popu­ we had a year ago. \Vherever men Do these things and your chapter congregate they sing. When they once lar gal, not the wallflower. gets all the will g-r-o-w in its importance to yOll hear about our Society, they start a dates. The big store gets bigger. The and to the community. Try it! Prove chapter. And why not? This is the busiest guy gets even more jobs to it to yourself! Ask the Membership greatest movement since "go west, do. Wby? Because the gal, the big and Extension Committee for more young man!" store, the busy guy GIVE. They are ideas ... and turn in your success­ successful because they plan it that ful ideas for the benefit of other chap­ Bul there is a sad part! Since last way. No success is ever an accident. ters. year We have lost some members. Yes, believe it or not, we have also lost A.nd so it goes with chapters. Your some chapters. How any man or group NEW ASSOCIATE SECRETARY chapter will be a success ... if you .-\.S of January first, Robert G. Hafer uf men, once they have learned the plan it, i.nsist upon it from your joys of barbel'shopping, can turn loose was appointed to the post of Associate officers, and help them put it over. Secretary of SPEBSQSA, lnc. Until of it is more than we can understand Check your chapter on these points, . but they do. last September, when he joined. the Int'} then bring them up at your next .Office, Bob was a resident of Canton, So our annual gain is even greater meeting. (1) Your meeting place ... Ohio. He is a Past than it seems because first we must are you proud of it? Does it attract President of Canton replace those lost chapters and mem· new members or must you apologize Chapter and sang bers. It's sort of like "two steps for­ for it? (2) Your meetings . . . can lead with the Mem­ ward and one step back". We gain, you bring a friend and always be or)' Laners quartet yes, bat look at the lost effort in sure he will have a good time? That as well as doing con­ mere replacement. means n planned program, even trad­ siderable solo work. ing talent with other chapters and Bob brings to the ""hose fault is it? It is yours. Mr. organizatiOlls. And a social half-hour Society a wide ex­ Member, and nobody else's but. You with "coffee and" will help "break perience in sales can't blame your officers, because you the ice". (3) Singing _ .. lots of it-­ and promotion work. put them into office. Once in office, a chorus, quartets ... with a commit­ ;.iO years of age, he is married and if they don't stay on the ball it's lee to help foursomes get together. has "five children. MARCH,19S0 10 The Harmonizer ---~----_._---- .

I'ublld:ted quclfterly by the International Offieen and the othflf' fMmben of the '"te'natioflal Ioo,d tf DJt'eders of the Soct.ty for the P,...rvatlon and Encouragement of &arb... Shop Quanet Singin9 In Am"'rka, Inc., fen di.ltribution to the _mbers of the Society. District Contests Pay Dividends VOLUME IX No.3 District Contests bring together quar­ MARCH, 1950 tets and individuals from all over SOc per Copy the entire District. Thus they serve to build District consciousness. Ex­ perience of several Districts in the past EDITORIAL AND PRODUCTION twelve months indicates the contests CARROLL P. ADAMS can also pay dividends in hard cash 20619 Fenke11 Ave., Detroit 23, Mich, to bolster the District treasury Phone: KEnwood 2-8300 as ,vell as that of the sponsoring chap­ J. F. KNIPE ter.

BUSINESS MANAGER One or two financial reports of Dis· triets that came to this desk attached CARROLL P. ADAMS to other things aroused curiosity. Let· tel's went to all fourteen Districts CONTRIBUTING EDITORS asking for brief information on the Jean Boardman O. H. King Cole ]. (;eorj;!e O'Brien results, financial that is, of the Dis­ George W. Campbell Deae

The 1~48449 fiscal year witnessed the 15 minutes, business . . . 45 in view to build interest and chapter g-reatest number of chapter failures minutes or so, well directed morale, If we know these things to be in the Society's history. When we, four·pal't singing, (c h 0 r us, necessary for successful operation of in the headquarters office, find out whether you dignify it by that a chapter, why don't we tell people that a chapter is in trouble we natur· name or not) ... numbers by and keep chapters from going un· ally do our best to discover what's organized quartets . . , inter· del'. The answer is that we do, to wrong and attempt to correct it. Some· mission and refreshments, if the best of our ability. When the times this can be done. At other times any . . . informal portion of Society was smaller, we were able to we are too late or perhaps, distance evening, impromptu quartets, give personal attention to the prob­ nullifies our effectiveness. Through stunts, etc. (Two people can lems of individual chapter officers. personal experience, through informa· have fun without planning, but Today, with 600 or more chapters, it's tion relayed by District officials, if a large group consistently a physical impossibility. Personal through contacts with chapter mem­ has fun without planning, it's contact can do more than six months bers, we have been able to put together an accident.) of correspondence. That is why the a very good picture of the funda­ District set-up is so important and will (3) Are you good neighbors? Do become increasingly so. An Area mental reasons why some chapters die. you visit nearby chapters and In every case we find that some or all Counselor, who is in close touch with invite them to visit you 1 It the chapters in his territory, can de· of the routines practised by success­ can be a banel of fun and it. ful chapters have been ignored or tect the first sign of weakness and go sharpens chapter esprit de into action immediately to correct ob. neglected. If you want to see how corps. YOU!' chapter rates against the experi­ vious faults and pass the word along ence chart of successful chapters, to the District officers to can cut the (4) Are you doing anything to en· rescue squad. check your operation against this list. courage formation of quartets ? Do you have­ This is a long·term proposition. uEncouragement" may take one Most important of all is the position (1) An active Executive Committee, or all of many forms-actual of the sponsoring chapter, Think back (or Boal·d of Directors), of halI training by competent mem­ to the flounderings of your own chap­ a dozen or more members? Do bers; furnishing of arrange­ ter in its earliest stages. The older they meet at least once a month ments; finding needed parts; your chapter is, the less you had to the yea,' 'round for a full offering of inducements, etc. work with, and the more you had to evening's discussion of the grope for a formula. A helping hand, chapter's problems and plans" (5) Is your chapter actively pro­ good advice tactfully given, concrete moting formation of new chap­ assistance in many forms from your Do you have­ ters in your area? ::Iponsors were, (or would have been), (2) Planned meetings'f Meetings most welcome and probably the one with variety, balance, and Ii (6) fs your chapter doing anything thing that would have helped more maximum of member participa~ for the community'? than anything else to get you started tion in some form'! The most on the right track. Sponsorship of a workable formula breaks down Projects Build Interest new chapter never ends. It just gets ~omething like this. , . 10 to 'There is nothing like a major projecl a little easier as you go al0l'!g,

LET HIM KNOW BY J. R. WILLIAMS "f am, SU1'e every amateur chin-us; director often wonde)'s just what r~e ganu" out in f~·onr. th';'YIh~.Cl of Iwrn ... This is lifted from a letter written by Frank Thorne, director of The Chi'· eago Chapter Chorus, part of a Uthank you" note fOl' a Christmas gift from the men of the chapter, accompanied by a very clever poem of apPl'ecia­ tion for his work, written by Chorus Member Victor AIm. it is·true that a director' very seldom gets an expression of opinion of his \vork from chorus members. It may he most men are too unsure of them· ~elves to offer criticism, constructive or otherwise, but a pat on the back never hurt anyone's feelings. It's easy to overlook the fact that, for the director, rehearsals must be the No, 1 dates of the month. Two tenors, three basses, and any number of baritones may skip, and probably do, and the show can go on, but the director must be there. If you don't Jjke your chorus director, take your beef to the proper chapter authorities. If you do like him, and/or, his work, tell him so, and may­ be once in a while, spring with some­ thing a little more concrete than words to convince him you mean it. MARCH 1950 - nt ._ High Note 12 The Harmoniz.er of any evening•

Clear as a bell, like yOUT own star tenoT Kingsbury, Aristocrat of Beer sounds the perfect: high note of en· joyment wherever good fellows gather No. 24 in friendly harmony. By Chas. M. Merrill, Imm. Past Int'l Pres. Ask fOT it next: time. You'll agree, The printer is either color-blind or 6. Ha, Ha, Ha! You and me! Little there's a full measure of pleasure in has deliberately loused up these quotes. .yeller jqg don't 1 love thee, Straighten them out. every golden drop. 7. My little white home in the west. 1. Pm dreaming of a gold Christ­ mas. 8. Always get that mood purple since 2. Round her neck she wore a red my baby went away. ribbon. 9. When the sunset turns the ocean's :3. By the light of the blue moon. gray to amber. 4. That little old green shawl m)' mother wore. 10. 0 beautiful for spacious skies, for silv'ry 'Naves of grain, for in­ 5. Flow gently, sweet Afton, amang digo mountain majesties above thy brown braes. the fruited plain. For answers, see page 77

CORRECTION "KEEP AMERICA SINGING" Elsewhere in the issue, Mishawaka, Ind., is mentioned as the Society's lal'gest chapter. This is incorrect. As Has all the answers about SPEBSQSA we go to press, Manhattan. (New (See page 62) York City), has 303 members, Mish­ awaka 302.

Yeah Man! O!lAW~ DY HAL REIJ'IllMIPl (;IWSSE ~U1mE MICH CtlAl"fER

Enameled in gold, Itts the.SPEBSQSA red ond blue LAPEL BUTTON Special Secretory Joe has 'em, or, if he doesn't, all you 10K gold for post chapter president have to do is dig up $1.50 and he'll get one or secretary. $6.00 for you from headquarters in Detroit.

KINGSBURY BREWERIES CO. Make check payable ro and miJiI to MANITOWOC & SHEBOYGAN, WIS. SPEBSQSA, 20619 Fenkell Ave., Detroit 23, Michigan .­ MA,CH, 1950 ~ THE WAY I SEE IT

by Deac Martin "1 disagree with what you say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it." Allribuftd to Voltairt, 1694-1778 ing a crucial two-year period, and as chairman five years later, of the His­ tory Committee. This was not due to immoderate modesty on Hal's part. UK. A. Singing" again, lithe rare abil­ ity of keeping one eye focused upon He liked credit as well as the next details as fine as petunia seed, while man. But, he had the good taste to focusing the other upon the adminis­ ask me to cut down on the Staabania • tration of the Society's over-all af­ in the history while still in the posi~ HAL STAAB PUT "FUN ON A fairs . , :'. He kept every scrap of tioD of History Chairman. BUSINESS BASIS" correspondence on Society matters, and more than once has confounded Hal was impatient of delay on meas­ The way I see itJ the work of Hal some of us, years later, by quoting, (Harold n.) Staab, Northampton, typically: "Th.is is what you said on ures which, to him, were important to Mass., furnishes a theme for a brief th.at matter on July 7, 1941". the Society. He had the persistence of review of the evolution from which a pile driver. Yet, the man had a ten. the Society has emerged into its pres­ When it was decided to publish the del', sensitive, even romantic side ent length, breadth, and solid sub­ Society's ten year history, Hal was which crops up in the lyrics of many stance. This is because Hal was such the natural choice for Historian and of his songs and also in the heart­ an important part of that evolution. Committee Chairman. Naturally, the string melodies of several of them. His starting from his election to the Na­ chairman and the writer were brought name will last as long as the So­ tional Board in January 1941, and into more intimate contact, if pos­ ciety merely as composer of two num­ cnding at a Rochester, N. Y. hospi­ sible, than during the years when we talon November 19th, '49. bers that are the apotheosis of four­ fought the battles of the Board to­ part a capella harmony, "Violets gether. In the beginnin.g were O. C. Cash, Sweet" and "Beautiful Isle of Make Rupert Hall, and the other harmony­ Believe", starved Tulsans. They gave birth to Could See Two Sides the Society with no thought at the Two reminiscences stand out: Hal Had Many Interests time of the proportions into which and I had never agreed as to the need the baby could grow. Naturally, an for his pet House of Delegates or his Some will recall Hal as a composer, enthusiastic h'ce-for-all period fol­ plans, which to me, seemed more in­ some as the adroit emcee, others as lowed. Anyone could start a chapter, volved than was necessary in an or­ the administrator, and still others as or what they ealled SPEBSQSA ganization such as ours. The House the driver for better district organi­ "chapters". Most of them died on the of Delegates plan had come up to zation (Carroll Adams was the original vine. This and the transition period the Board several times, therefore was proponent of districts), Many today are summed up in "Keep America a part of the Society's history, and Singing": "Incorporated in the State must be included. ] wrote it factually, may not connect him with his most of Oklahoma, the Society was oper­ and submitted that section to Hal evident monument among many others ating in various states of Utter Con­ with my fingers crossed. As chair­ less apparent within the Society. fusion", Then came the years of con­ man of the History committee he had In Hal's first presidential message solidation and O1'uanization, followed perfect right to ask me to re-write to the active chapters, 35 of them in by the u'reat g"owtlt pel'iod, prepara­ more favorably than as a straight July '42, he promised "a quarterly tory for today's adulthood. report. That section was returned to publication that all will want to read". me with a terse uGood job", We never The Harmonizer, published first as Fortunately for liS, Hal Staab came mentioned it afterward. Re-chordings, came out in September into the Society during the free-for­ of that year, largely written by all times. With his natural flair for The other incident furnished another organization and service-club experi­ Staab and produced under his super­ insight into Hal's character. Circum­ vision in Northampton. ence, he immediately started to aid stance had put him into the presi· President Adams (Canoll P. in case dency during a time when more im­ you can't recall our third president) portant actions and decisions were Among Hal's less apparent impresses in laying a concrete foundation. called for than during any other two­ upon the Society is one which affects Staabisms of that pCl'iod: "We should year period. For the history, 1 had much of the nation today. In stressing know where we are going before plans to record those Staab administration are worked out as to the method of the impodance of service he said in years factually and with judgment as early '42: "No organization such arriving-Continuation of past meth­ to values of what transpired, just as ods will result in high mortality of in writing all other administrations. as ours that is entirely selfish in its chapters and slow growth-Combine The result: in pages of manuscript purpose can endure long. , . if it is the fun motive with service, to use the Staab administration required not of some use to our communities". the singing ability of members for more space than any other, and I had And how he labored to get that thesis the benefit of local communities". a troublesom.e time with Hal. He put into effect! granted that everything written 'was Served Two Terms necessary to a historical record of the Those of us who came into the Society Society . . , "But," he'd say, "I'm As a two-term president, 1942-44, ahead of Hal must be grateful to him Staab became chief administrator at chairman of the Keep America Sing­ ing committee, and someb?dyJs going for major guidance in putting an the exact time when his talents were Oklahoma pleasantry on a sound busi­ needed most. I doubt that any who to criticize you for playmg up the knew the Society's status and prob­ Chairman," ness basis to furnish the good times lems at that stage "'ill question my it has given us since then; and those nomination of Hal Staab as the man It took a lot of convincing to get him who came in after Staab are entitled who contributed most to the Society's to see himself on the one hand as the to know just a little of what he did, sound organization. He had, to quote Society's super-active president dur­ the way I see it. MARCH,1950

> by Sigmund Spaeth

an up-tO-date arrangement, along with famous rubber company. The song· Waiting for the Robert E. Lee, Rau~ wl·iter's brother became superintend­ time Cowboy Joe and some other ent of the Goodrich plant in Akron. favorites. Play That Barber Shop One of his sons, the late Bertram G. Chord is already available through Work. became President of the B. F. Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., 1270 Sixth Goodrich Company and also wrote a Ave., New York. So many of Muir's book on the Songs 0/ Hen'ry Clay popular songs have been sung by our Work. Another son, Fred Work, was THE name of Lewis F. Muir has barbershoppers that it's about time we famous for the modern castle that appeared several times in this knew 8 little more about their com­ he built on the shore of Long Lake. column of late and as a result there poser, have been some requests for more It is rather unusual to find a family information concerning that composer, DURING a local New York broad­ thus represented in both business and whose songs al'C so much better cast called MU8ical Bookshelf, music. Henry C. Work was originally known than his name, Many people which reviewed this editor's H'istm'y a printer by trade, specializing in the are still unaware that such classics of Populwr Music in Ame1'-ica, Bing setting of musical type, and he is as Waiting for the Robert E. Lee, Crosby's recording of Irving Berlin's said to have composed some of his Play That Ba1·ber Sh01J Chot·d, Rag­ best song, Lazy, was played by way songs in this way, putting them into time Cowboy Joe. Take Me to That of illustration. (Never mind the argu­ type directly. without any preliminary Swanee Shore and Hitchy Koo all ments. That superlative represents manuscript He was an ardent abo­ owed their music to the same man, merly a personal opinion.) litionist and prohibitionist, besides Lewis F. Muir, not to speak of some boasting one of the most luxurious others like Marmny Jinny's Jubilee, The shocking discovery was made that beards of all time, Living through Here Comes My Daddy Now, etc. in Mr. Crosby's interpretation the the Civil War as a fiercely union­ song did not sound at all like what minded Connecticut Yankee, Work's Lewis F. Muir was born in New Mr. Berlin wrote. Crosby sang all most notorious song is probably York City in 1884 and lived most of around the tune. distorting the rather Marching Through Georgia, which is his short life in "Little Tim Sulli­ original melody line so as to make it still somehow unpopular in the South, van's District", on 7th St., between completely commonplace. He even although Princeton has made good Second and ThiI'd Avenues. He died changed the words at one point, What use of the rousing tune, with local there of tuberculosis in 1916, when had been created as a highly distinc· words. only 32 yeal's old. tive and attractive combination of text and music became just a routine Oscar Smith reports that a first edi­ He was a "natural" piano player, product of Tin Pan Alley. tion copy of Come Ho'm,e Father has and' his gift of improvisation led to been acquired for the archives of the plenty of jobs, particuJary after the Possibly Bing was unable to sing B. F. Goodrich Company from L. M. invention of motion pictures. Muir Lazy "straight" because of the accom­ Swicker's Old Book Store in Akron. was one of the first of the "ad lib" paniment of his brother Bob's orches­ It was published in 1864 by the Chi­ pianists to accompany the dancing tra, which has a reputation for being cago firm of Root & Cady, with whom shadows of the silent screen, and pretty jazzy in its arrangements, But \Vork was associated at that time, before that he was in demand as an there is reason to fear that this pre­ (The head of that firm was George accompanist to the singers who made posterous interpretation of a good old F. Root, Composer of T1'U1Jl.P, T''ramp, use of colored slides. song represents a style to which prac­ Tramp and Rally Rou.nd the Flag, tically aU the current singers and Boys). Incidentally the Galaxy Music In spite of spending his entire life band leaders are committed-some. Co. lists a fancy arrangement of Come in the big city, Muir was remarkably thing between "swing" and "bop", but Flome Fathm· for male voices, with successful in expl'essing the atmos­ definitely having little or nothing to sal'donic touches. phere of the South, as in the songs do with the way a tune was composed. about the famous Mississippi steamer, We heard Ella Fitzgerald murder the Robert E. Lee, and the "Swanee George. Gershwin's Lady, Be Good, at Shore". Both of these numbers were New York's Paramount Theatre, ac­ intI·oduced by Al Jolsol1, the first ap­ companied by Duke Ellington's orches­ pearing in his Winter Garden show of tra, There was nothing in her rapid­ 1912, with a revival in the epoch­ fire variations to suggest even faintly making "talkie". The Jazz Singer, in that Gershwin might have written n 1928, Bert Williams 'was the first to good melody. Even Ethel Waters, Who sing Play Thai Bat·be')' Shop Chord. can sing "straight" with the best in (It has only recently been made avail­ the business, now makes a shambles able in quartet style.) Harr}· Fox out of the indestructible St. Louis started Ragtime Cowboy Joe on its Blues. It's all wrong-if anyone way, and other famous interpreters cares. of the Muir songs included Blanche Ring, Nora Bayes, Sophie Tucker, SCAR SMITH of the Akron Bea­ Eddie Cantor, Bessie Clayton and o con Journal has recently come Lillian Lorraine. Most of Muir's lyrics out with an interesting piece about were written by L. Wolfe Gilbert, Hen.ry C. Work, the composer of King­ who is still active in Hollywood, but dom Coming (Year of Ju.bilo), Come he also had the collaboration of such Ro-me Father, Grandfather'S Clock writers as Lew Brown, Edgar Leslie, and other important songs of the Ballard Macdonald and William past century. It seems that \Vork Tracey, had a brother. Alanson, who was one of the leaders in founding the B. F, The last song written b~T Lewis F. Goodrich Company of Akron, Ohio. Muir was the Trail to Sun,set Valley, a natural for barber shop quartets. Alanson Work had invented a coupling It is good news that the Alfred Music system for fire hose and brought his Co.• 145 West 45th St., New York, idea to Dr. Benjamin F. Goodrich, will shortly publish thi. number in who was just starting the now world- II ••• Got No Time ... 1/ MARCH,1950 u 15

land, M1ch.. Regional Prelim. Contest; Mans· Oelober 6-;-5an Gabriel. Calif.. Parade. field, Ohio. Regional Prelim. Contest; Chat­ i-Walton-Downsville. N. Y.. Parade; Olean. ham, Ont.. Regional Prelim. Contest; Ama_ N. Y" Parade; Beaver Dam Wis.• Festival of 1'1110, Texas. Regional Prelim. Contest. Harmony; Northampton. Mass., Parade; Lan­ 6-1-Qlean. N. Y., Regional PrelIm. Contest: sing, Mich, Parade. LaSalle. Ill.. Regional Prelim. Contest; Lo­ 14-Madison. Wis., Parade: Gardner. Mass.. gansport, Ind.• Regional Prelim. Contest. Harvest of Harmony; Fond Du Lac:. Wis., Pa­ 7-AlJelltown, Pa.. Regional Prelim. Contest. rade; Jackson, Mich.. Parade; Binghamton­ 12-Warsaw. N, Y .. Harmony Show; Dallas, Johnson City. N. Y., Parade; Norwich. Conn.. Texas. Harmony Festival. Harvest of Harmony. 13-Marquette, Mich., Parade: Marlborough. .2l-Meriden, Conn.. Parade; Wisconsin Rap­ Mass., Parade: Middletown. Ohio, Parade; Ids. Wis.. Parade; Escanaba. 1'I11ch.. Parade: Dunkirk-Fredonia. N. Y .. Parndc. Indiana-Kentucky District. Ellmlnation Con­ [~1-14-Peorla. m., Barbershop Sing. tests; West Bend, Wis.. Parade. 2()-Holyoke, MilSS.. Parade: Iron Mountain. ~2-Monmouth, nt., Parade. Mich., Parade: Cortland, N. Y .. Parade; Ra· 23--Portage, Wis.. Parade; ~komo. Ind.. clne, Wis., Parade: Abilene, Texas, Parade; District Contest: Bloomsburg, Pa., Parade: Dubuque. Iowa, Parade. Naugatauck. Conn.. Parade. 2'2-Manistee, Mich.. Parade. June ~eJ"Sey City. N. J., Annual Dance and Novembn 4-Detrolt =tl. Mich.. Parade: Bal­ Quartei Roundup; Orinda, Calif.. Hannony timore :1. Md.. Parade; Paterson. N. J .. AS REPORTED TO THE INT'L. Night. Parade; Muncie, Ind.. Parade. OFFICE THROUGH FEB. 1st 7-U-Qmaha. Nebr., Int·} ConventIon and 4·5--Longrnont, Colo.• Parade. Quartet Conlest. Io--Bridgeton, N. J., Harvest of Hannony. 1950 24-Berkeley, Calii., Parade. IN--Hennann, Mo., Parade, September 1·2·'·.J--Charlevoix, Mich.. Jam· ~HartIord, Conn., Parade. February 24--PhUadelphia, Pa., Parade. boree. 25--Warren. Ohio, Parade: Oklahoma City. December 9--Enid. Okla., Parade. Okla., Parade; Phoenix. Ariz.• Parade; Find­ D-Mishawaka. Ind.• Parade. lay, Ohio, Parade; Joliet. m., Parade; Bay 26-Northwest Area (Detroit) Mich., Parade. 1951 City, Mich.. Pprade. 3~Dowagiac, Mich.. Parade; Derby. Conn.. February 3--Jersey City, N. J .. Parade. March I-Jamalca, N. Y., Parade. Parade: Gowanda, N, Y .• Parade. March 31-Aprll I_Kansas City. Mo.. Parade. S-HamBton, Ont., Parade; Flint, Mich., Fes­ tival of Harmony. A,OVERTISIt .... ItNT 4-Portland. Ore.. Parade, Sharon. Pa, Pa­ rade; Elyria, Ohio, Parade; Pontiac. Mich. Parade; Toronto. Ont.. Parade. 4-5--5t. Petersburg, Fla.. Parade. J;-Dwlght, m., Parade. JO-SOuth Town (Chicago) m., Parade; Rock­ ford, Ill.. Charter Night. ll-Pasadena. CallI.. Parade: Bartlesville. Okla.. Parade: Kenosha, Wis.. Parade; Charleston, W. V" Parade; Holly, Mich., Pa­ rade; Grosse Pointe, l\'l.ich .. Parade. l2-Canton, m., Parade; Jefferson City. Mo.. Parade. I7-Berkeley. Calif.. Variety Show. l3--Saginaw, :r.1ich.. Variety Show; Pitts· burgh. Pa.• Parade; Sttlrgeon Ba:).·. Wis.. Pa­ rade' Redford Area lDetroitl Mich.• Parade; Port'Angeles, Wash.. Parade; Addison. N. Y.. Parade. 18-10-Lubbock. Texas. Parade. I9--Galion. Ohio, Parade; Mexico. Me.. Pa­ rade. 23-Watertewn. Wis.. Charter Night. M_Woodbury. N. J .. Charter Night; Sala· manca. N. Y., Charter Night: Newark. N. J .. Parade: Holland. Mich.. Parade; Union. Mo.. Parade. ~5--Steubenvi1le. Ohio. Parade; Wichita, Kansas. Parade; Utica. N. Y .. Parade: Sal'· nia. Ont.• Parade; Lincoln. Nebr., Parade: New Haven. Conn.. Parade. 31_Manhattan. N. Y. C., Festh'al of Har­ mony; Dundee. 111.. Parade. April l-St. Louis-Clayton, Mo.. Parade; San Bernardino. Calif., Charter Night; Des Moines. Iowa. Parade; Reading. Mass.. Pa­ rade; Waupun, Wis., Parade: Huron Valley. Mich.. Charter Night: Canton. Ohio. Parade. 8-South Bend, Ind.. Parade; Winnipeg. Man .. Parade, 12-Vincennes, Ind., Purade. 14-Elgin, Ill.. Parade. 15--San Jose. Calif.. Parade: Sault Ste. Ma· rie. Weh.. Parade: Havana. m .• Parad~: Nor­ man Okla.. Parade; Columbus, OhIO, Pa­ rade'· Klamath Falls. Ore., Parade; Carlsbad. N. lo.1 .• Parade: Grand Rapids. Mich.. Great Lakes Invitational: Manitowoc. Wis.. Parade: Winston.Salem. N. C.. Parade; La CrQS8e. Wis., Parade; Fall River. Mass.. Paradc. 15-1G--Kansas City, Mo.. Parade. I6--Kokomo. Ind.. Parade; Fort Dodge. Iowa. Parade. 20-Pro.... idence. R. t .. Parade. 2I-Parkersburg, W. Va.. Charter Night; Springville. N. Y.. Par;Jde. 21-22-Lansing. Mich.. Variety Show. 22-New Bedford, Mass.. Parade; Rockvt11e, Conn.. Pal'ade; Jam~town. N. Y .• Parade: PBinesville. Ohio, Pal'ade: Dearborn County. Ind.. Paradc; Wauwatosa. Wis., Parade: Mar· inette. Wis.. Parade; Guclph, Ontario. Pa­ rade; Long Beach. Calif.. Regional Prclim. Contest: Passaic. N. J .• Parade. 23--Broadripple (Indianapolis) Ind.. District Chorus Contest; Rock Island. Ut.. Parade. ~6-Sparta. Wis.. Parade. 29-0wosso. Mich.. Parade: Newark, N. Y., Parade; Kcarney. Nebr.• Parade; Defiance. Ohio. Parade; BradIord. Pa.• Parade: Wau­ kegan. Ill.• Parade; Waukesha. Wis., Parade; Worcester. Mass., Charter Night: Houston. Texas. Parade: Portland. M3lne, Parade; Green Bay. Wis.. Parade; Memphis, Tenn.. Regional Prelim. Contest: Lima. Ohio. Par· ade. 3l)-Woodstock. m., Parade. 1I-Iay 5-6--San Diego, Calif.• Minstrel. 6-Manchester. N. H .. Charter Night: To· peka. K::msas. Regional Prelim. Contest; Ap­ pleton. Wis., Regional Prelim. Contest: Hart­ ford. Conn.. Regional Prelim. Contest: Mid­ MARCH,1950 The Harmonizer

• Bari Snook Neal, of the Buzz Saws, take the trouble to run over a song ertoire will be prerequisites to pro­ two-time Int'l Finalists from Colum­ or two before a mirror. That way motion, bus, Ohio, recently took on additional they can spot the words that distort 000 radio work and found it necessary to their features when singing and pick resign from the Ql.l31'tet. His successor, one or two words that require the [n the list of new chapters char­ Don Vorce, has brought further dis­ least facial contortion. A polite re­ tered in this issue is Budingen, the tinction to the quartet. All are mem­ quest of the photographer to wait for first in Germany, in fact the first in bers of Phi Gamma Delta. Tenor Staff a certain word will usually get co­ Europe in "peacetime". Largely in. Taylor, lead Bruce Lynn and bass operation", "" stl'umental in getting it started was George Chamblin are Ohio State 000 Captain H. E. Young of the Field grads. Vorce is from Wabash, Class of Artillery, formerly a member of Char­ Bill Schindler, bari of the Antlers, levoix, Mich., Chapter. 1925. Flint, Mich., passes on a suggestion 000 that is well worthy of consideration. 000 Carl D. Caldwell, his two brothers, It frequently happens that chapters in smaller communities with auditor­ Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Chap­ plus his three sons add up to six ter's "March of Harmony" has a sug­ Caldwells - all members of Osborn iums of limited capacity must pass up the chance to invite top ranking quar­ gestion for members planning on mak­ County Kansas Chapter. Sounds likl' ing the trek to Omaha for the Int'I a "record. No chapter has yet reported tets because they can't afford to pay long distance traveling expenses. Says Convention and Contest in June. three gene1·ations of the same fam.ily Writes Jim Inglis, Secretary, "If as 1ncmbfws. Are there any?-Eds. Bill, "If Parade committees would get together on dates well in advance it we-'re going, let's get our }'esel'vations 000 might be feasible to arrange a Friday in early. Set yourself a savings plan show in one town. a Saturday ap­ based on your needs. Divide this by the Infl First V. P. Jerry Beeler had a pearance in another 50 01' 100 miles number of pay days between now battle with pneumonia this past fall. away, and maybe even a Sunday af· and the end of May. Give this pay Convalescing in Florida, his interest ternoon spot somewhet·e within easy day amount to Jack McDowell (sic!) in the progress of Evansville's show commuting distance." Not all quar­ to keep for you, put it in the bank, or won out over even his wife's resist­ tets can control that much of their a special sock". ance so he flew to Evansville to watch tim.-e but if. cC'I'tainly would be worth a reheal'sal and flew back next day. a t?1/.-Eds. 000 000 000 Art Christian edits "Sharps and Flats", weekly bulletin of Magnolia Formel' Int'l B'd Member Joe Wolff, When the Elastic Four, Chica,e'o, 1942 Chapter, Jackson, Miss. Art skipped Detroit, attended the Building Offi­ Society Champs, arrived at National a chapter meeting in favor of a per­ cials Conference of America Conven­ Airport, Washington. D. C., for their formance of the opera I

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M"-RCH, 1950 Compil'd and Arranged for Mal' Voice, by ~ HUGO FREY DIXIE CENTRAL STATES Hotel Floridan, Tampa, was the 62 chapters with a membership of scene of the Dixie District Board 2,289, as of October 1949, were rep­ ~ meeting. A revised constitution, lal'ge­ resented at the District Meeting held ly in conformity with the proposed in Wichita, October 29th. Tnt'l Reg­ ~ Iot'l District Plan, was adopted. Con­ ional Prelims will be held in Topeka, siderable discussion about the tremen­ Kansas, May 7th. District Bulletins dous sizt:l of the area embraced by the will be distributed to all members in , District led to no particular solution. the District hereafter, instead of just to officers. New chapters in the mak­ Memphis, Tenn. is to sponsor the 1950 ing in 41 cities and towns in seven ~ Int'l Regional Preliminary. Int') First states were reported. V. P. Beelel·, Evansville, Ind., Int') Treasurer Knipe, Cleveland, and Jnt'} B'd Member Simner, St. Louis, at­ ~ 28-S0NGS-28 ~ tended the meeting. PACIFIC-NORTHWEST ~ ~ -.u ad "'U4k Associate Secretary Bob Hafer, of the THE GANG THAT SANG "HEART Of MY HEART" LAND O'LAKES lnt'l Office, attended the District l\Ie3t­ OH, WHAT A PAL WAS "WHOOZIS" ..IIIIl ing at Kirkland, Washington, Satur­ DOWN AMONG THE SHElTERING PALMS ~ Doubting Thomases in L-O-L need day, Nov. 19. Tentative invitations for I DON'T KNOW WHY only ask to see the record. Dr. Browne. the 1950 Int'l Regional Preliminaries TIlE CURSE Of AH ACHING HEART ..IIIIl of Minneapolis, took a complete tape were l'eceived from Tacoma and Se­ ~ ~ recording of the District Board meet­ attle, Washington, and Eugene, Ore­ ' HONEY gon. Roy J em;en, Tacoma, was ap­ ..IIIIl I'U SEE YOU IH MY DREAMS ~ ing, (four hours of it), Friday, No­ pointed by Pres. Tom Hansen to fill ~ DEAR OLD GIRL vember 4th, in Wisconsin Rapids, the unexpired term of the late Trea­ IRELAND MUST BE HEAVEN Appletoll, Wis. won the May 6th Reg­ surer Herb Molchior. Leo Barton, also ..IIIIl AT SUNDOWN ..IIIIl ional Prelim and LaCrosse, Wis., was of Tacoma, was appointed Area Su­ ~ I'M SITTING ON TOP Of THE WORLO ~ awarded the Annual Chorus Contest. pervisor of northern half of District, I CRIED fOR YOU ..IIIIl This will be held in the Fair Park ..IIIIl NOI NO! A THOUSAND TIMES NO!! ,. Grandstand on a Sunday afternoon in ~ WHEN YOU WORE A TULIP midsummer. Three Parades on the SERVING ON INT'L COMMITTEE WHEN fRAHCIS DANCES WITH ME ..IIIIl same night may now be scheduled pro­ In order to coordinate all Extension ..IIIIl M·O·T·H·E·R ~ vided llO two are within 100 miles and Membership activities in the So­ ~ THE DARKTOWN STRUTTERS' BALL ..IIIIl of each other. A handsome directory ciety, Int'l Pres. King Cole has ap­ of the District, showing officers, chap­ pomted the Chairmen of the 14 Dis­ 1I'L lilA JANE ~ , ters, (including when and where they trict Extension Committees and the MAYBE 14 District Membership Committees ROLL ALONG PRAIRIE MOON ..IIIIl meet). and quartets, was distributed. as Associate Members of the Int'! JEANNINE " Comnllttee on Extension and Mem­ ~ WHEN I DRUM Of OLD ERIH ~ bership. Here is the list of appoint­ K·K·K·KATY SOUTHWESTERN ees "''''lth lJistrict and Chapter desig­ ..IIIIl MY BLUE HEAVEH nation. ~ THAT'S HOW I HEED YOU ~ Meeting in the Edson Hotel, Beau­ DISTRICT EXTENSION MEMBERSHIP IH ALL MY DREAMS, I OREAM Of YOU mont, Texas, on the afternoon of No-­ Cerllral Ray Niblo Waller Munson Slales Des Momes Omana ...IIIIl SLEEPY TIME GAL vember 5th, Southwestern District C.W.N.Y. Charles Glover Warner Bullock " IF WE CAN'T BE THE SAME OLD SWEETHEARTS ~ signed up with Amarillo, Texas fo}' Jameslown Buffalo Dixie DeBlois Mdl- W. 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« « » By Deac Martin Let me hasten to beat critics to the not less than thirty minutes' worth. arrangement". At the crucial harmony punch by stating that the first head (The emcee was not chewing gum. points, the uninformed out-ai-town written for this was "Pity the Poor It was another aspirin-or the rug, quartets naturally followed the stand­ Emcee". But comment on the "poor" perhaps). ard phrasing and harmony version. master of ceremonies at a Society af­ But, for the emcee there was aile fair is quite another story which might Aid Backstage bright spot in the finale. Before the be headed "Choose Your Emcee with The emcee may not know all the quar­ Care". That subject has been touched tets appearing, but he seldom has on in the Harmonizer many times, assistance in lining them up back­ because the emcee carries a heavy stage ahead of their appearances, or responsibility for the success of an in holding them as a unit for a bow if SPEB show, and some of our emceeing he signals "bring 'em back". has been pretty bad, particularly when a non-member exhibitionist spends Frequently his orders are to hold all local fours to two numbers, or even the evening selling himself, rather one. That's fine, if they know the than our quartets, to the audience. show procedure in advance. If it's left show, he had procured a chair and a This survey, however, is concentrated to the emcee to tell them, some of the small table for his use backstage loeals are likely to claim discrimina· where he could studv his notes \",hile upon the woes of the typical emcee, tion, and blame the emcee. whether good or poor. resting his aching ·feet. Up to the time of the finale, both the chair and Timing Time Stealers table had been occupied continuouslv as seating for all members of the cast Too often the show committee has This is particularly galling to the except the emcee. During the final arranged a show that ,,,"QuId run 3 local boys if the guest-star quartets number he had his first opportunih hours if left to its own devices. But take more than allotted time by inter­ since dinner time to sit down. . the emcee is informed that the show jecting stories or making speeches can't possibly run more than 2% between numbers. Here is a case that Three weeks later, he received his hours. The audience must be out of would surprise members of a guest check tor what it had cost him to emcee in Blankville. In the meantime, the auditorium at a certain time, the culprit quartet, if they knew they were the guilty ones. The guest quar­ he could have used the $76.41 in sev­ Afterglow has been planned "prompt­ eral ways. "I'll never hold the bag ly at eleven, and it's nine blocks tet had been allotted twelve minutes again", he promised himself, I promptly on the hour advertised. But, because of the show committee's in­ the audience isn't in its seats. the sistance that certain celebrities "had" chorus is still milling around back. to be introduced, credit had to be ex­ stage, the chorus director had a flat tended to local advertisers, local mer· .tire, two out of town quartets were chants who had contributed stage delayed by fog over the valley. and props, committee members, (and a last the list of numbers the foursomes are minute suggestion) "wives who have to sing is in the chapter president's worked hard to make the Afterglow a other suit. Statistics prove that the huge success. We have a few morE' typical parade starts from ten to tickets, if anyone here would like to twenty minutes late. attend". (Invitation to a Mob Scene later). The chapter chorus opens the show, on risers. Theoretically, the emcee will The Finale have to hold the audience for two to three minutes while the risers are The finale of the main show took taken off and the shell pushed into fOUl' minutes to prepare and seven place behind the curtain. Emcees agree minutes on stage. It consisted of a that they've never seen it done under final appearance by the chapter six minutes. Sometimes it has taken chorus, assisted by all quartets which MILWAUKII!:II!: SJ;NTINlrL eleven by a reliable stop watcb. The had participated. All had been oblig-ed Far from their natural habitat, the Mountain Boys, of Racine, Wis., L. to show director may have planned to to wait around, backstage, in costume R.-Carl Ivenon. Hilton Hartffn, Edwin close 'with another chorus number, in order to be on hand to sing a final Hahn. and lohn Schull:, (Swedish and Yerman mountain boys yet), talk over again on risers. One case is on record numbel' into which the local director their appearance in the Milweukee Chap. where the chorus appeared foul' times, had put "something different ler show at the Emil B101% Temple of Musk late Ian Augusi. (Picture delayed. and the stage setting had to be shifted and better than the Society's stock but worth it. Eds.) The Harmonizer II ------"AVAILABLE ANY EVE_ BARBER SHOP ARRANGEMENT AFTER 6 P_ M_" OF-THE-MONTH CLUB WHAT IS IT? •. A quartet arrangement service offered exclusively to SPEBSQSA members. Brand new arrangements; program material unob­ tainable from any other source. WHO'S DOING IT? .. OZZIE WESTLEY-One of the country's foremost barber shop quartet arrangers-WLS Musical Director. At RlCE-Prominent barber shop quartet authority-Baritone of the "Maple City Four" for 23 years-Heard every Saturday night on [he famousWLS National Barn Dance. That's what Wichita's Coney Island Mal", Quartet $8YS of itself. Their record of WHAT YOU RECEIVE! ... 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SEE NEXT HARMONIZER ISSUE! anniversary celebration, Deac M.artin, founder of the chapter, and Jim Knipe, who joined a few months after the TEAR THIS OIlT AND MAIL IT RIGHT NOW. start, were asked to write a brief resume of the ten years for the chap­ TO: Al RICE 1230 Washington Blvd., CHICAGO 7, ILL. ter bulletin. The difficulties experi­ enced by these two expert "remem­ ONLY $12.00 PER YEAR berers" in arriving at agreement on such simple questions as, "Where did Enclosed find $12.00 for our Subscription (12 Mas.) we meet in 1943 and '44 ?" "Who was Secretary in 19451" llWhen to the BARBERSHOP ARRANGEMENT OF-THE-MONTH CLUB. did the _ ._. ..quartet win the Distl'ict cro\vn 1'J . . . etc., serve as Name Address _ fair warning to our older chapters to assign somebody to write the chapter ______Slate _ history and put it some place where City it won't get lost.

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MARCH, 1950 21 "ON KEY" PRESENTATION , E.FER./fER.­

By W. Welsh Pierce

Dear Carroll: If I tell you that the other night 1 got to thinking, naturally you'll say, "What with?", and as I won't have a ready answer I'm just going to skip such a statement and therefore your question is silly. r won't even answer it. To begin anew, as the poets say, after recooperatin' after my arduous labors in inventin' all those machines to make champeens out of every quartet, I got to recollectin' about other famous men who have been connected with our Society for a long time. Some have passed on, others are still with us and in addition there are others wbo blossomed at a given moment, did their good deed for the Society at a time when it was greatly needed, and then dropped out of sight. All this got me to wondering why we couldn't have something that would enable us to perpetuate the memory of guys who do a big job for the Society. 'Vhy couldn't we work up a Hall of Fame n""!tS-HItRALO STAFF _OTO like the baseball people did. We could The W3shington, D. C. Key. ant shown 8. they cave the "Key to Close Harmony" to have a lot of nominations for places Senator Smith of Maine, .inging lbe while "Kenruck(e)y Babe." Seated-Senator in the uHall" covering the years past Smith and cblllptet prexy John Cullen; standiog-L. to R.-Mickey Beall, tetlor; Vince and then when we have it up to date Gingerich. lead; Jesse NUMear, bari, and Ed Place, bass. we could have a Committee to receive nominations each year and these Good Joe's could get a little credit while the memory of their deeds was fresh. Perhaps along with a current nominee \"e could consider an oldy, say of Dixie Regional Preliminary Contest five years ago or more, and in that way constantly rake the memories of Everybody a Winner! We-all guaran~ee our Antique Relics and others for per­ haps isolated but nevertheless highly you-all a sparkling caper here-all. important deeds of the past. Along this line I'm not thinking so much of Society Officers, although they would by no means be excluded, Memphis Tennessee, April 29 but mainly of others who did not get around to holding such high office. Audi~orium Ticbe~s Maybe they couldn't afford to, or even Ellis 8 P.M. $1.20, $1.80 didn't have the ability to hold office, and $2.40 Tax Incl. Afterglow, Claridge Ho~el. but they did their bit and so we ought to remember them. Chapters have their achievement awards, quartets have all the fame and adulation ther can modestly entertain, but these Pre~iminary other guys, mostly Crows I'll wager. Dixie Regional Contest kept the wheels turning for the orioles and canaries while they sang. Our famous Sou~heTn Hospi~ality is awai~­ All the above may be the result of ing you-all. Come and see and hear-all! the festive season being celebrated while this is written. Perhaps next week I'll return to my usual status of damning all the Ucliques and glory­ seekers" who used our Society for Memphis Tennessee, April 29 their own selfish interests and kep' us poor dues-payers from having anr­ ticke~s, ho~el reseTVa~ions informa~ion thing to say about how things should For and be run. End quote. wri~e Sec'y Elford Lumpkin, 1601 Fos~er Ave. Happy New Year to you, too. 36-3017. Sing-cerely, Telephone Efar Ifer. MARCH, 1950 ) ) MEET ME IN ST. LOUIE ) ST. LOUIS and CLAYTON CHAPTERS Present SECOND ANNUAL ]PA]IQA ]10 ]IE llO]lf (~ lJA ]IQ 11[' ]IE 11[' s: Saturday, April I, 1950, 8:15 P. M. at

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MARCH, 19S0 24 Tbe HaNIJQ1l1'{tr • naB have defined the term "'popular". Attention. song leaders to the F & \V definition: "Suitable to the common people; easily comprehended". Sev­ enty-five percent of the people will sing eight of Sig's ten selections with­ out words 01' music before them. Ex~ ceptions, "Saint Louis Blues" and "Stat' Dust". Don't ask me about my percentage, J just feel it and hear it. 1 have sung these eight .!'oongs with thousands of high school people. and tens of thousand~ of soldiers during the war without the benefit of words 01' music 01' instrumental accompani­ ment. Songs that wel'e written beforE" some of their mothel's were horn. The~' knew them. but they never learned them-they didn't have to learn them -they gTew up \vith them. May J ask a question? What makes a song By George W. Campbell popular? Right off yOLi say, a song is popular when the people sing it. But what makes the people sing it? The people sing the songs that havp YOUNG STUFF COMING UP­ bodies in alSsembly singing. Many of something to say. Look at thE" words THE HOPE OF THE SOCIETY ... the music supervisors in these ~chools of any song in their poetic form. were featuring barbershop harmony What do they say? And the tune? The Chamberlain Brothers (17), The among the fellows. The old fallacy It must be singable. ::\fany ,rpopular" Pour Discords (16). The Freshmen that boys think it is sissy to sing is songs are written for stylists. 01' to (17), The Vaughnsville 4gers (21). being knocked into a cocked hat. Boys be used in productions. Most of these The Four Winds (22). The Little are just scared to death of music­ arc neither "easily comprehended" nor ~havers (13). The Bunting Tones in some schools-under certain musiC' "suitable to the common people" for (21). You've guesed it; seven quar­ teachers. Smart Illusic supervisors audience pal·ticipation, even though tetlS and the numbers represent the have found a new way to "",,~oo" the lhey have a great listening popularity average age. Chamberlain Brothel's. boys into music activities. I found and the tunes a dancing j)opularity. 1949 champs of the lnd.-Ky. district, many barbershop quartet folios in the The songs the people sing are the Mishawaka Chapter. The Four Dis­ music rooms. What is more, many songs that live. whether they come cords, Toledo, Ohio, Chapter nobly SUT­ music supervisors were using one of f"om that enormous volume of !'O~ vived the prelims and contested among the most recent publications of Dr. called popular songs~ or from the the top ten at the Ohio-SW. Penna. Harry R. Wilson, HMusic Americans hymnody of the chun'h 01' from the district contest. 'rhe Freshmen, Wells­ Sing", which contains several barber­ classics. 'To live, n song must meet burg. West Va. Chapter. The Vaughns­ shop harmony ansngements. Dr. Wi!. the test of usefulness. That is.. it ville 4ger5, Lima, Ohio Chapter, The son. one of America's outstanding must help us to "feel"; t('l expi'ess Four Winds (ha! get it? fore-winds) music educators, is Professor of Music through the singing our deepest emo­ Terre Haute, Ind. Chapter 'were ton­ Education at Teachers College, Co­ tions. When a song, popular 01' classi. testants in their respective districts. lumbia University, and a great song cal, does this for the participant, it The Little Shavt>rs, grade schoolers leader. is useful. and it is great. Leading of Huntington, Ind. are coached by singing is important business. Let's the Huntington Tones of the Hunting­ Just one of the inspiring experiences; be about it. ton, Ind. Chapter. T S3W the seven arrived at a high schOOl in a small quartets in actiOll. Five of them in city in nOI·thern Indiana at the noon And so, my song leading friends, Ipt contest and the latter two in the Tole hour. Everybody was out to lunch. your audiences sing the songs lhat will of entertainers. Ther contested 'with Wandering about the building 1 heard tickle theil' remembel'ings: places. poise and confidence, as most young­ male harmonizing going on and I fol­ scenes. experiences, people, family, sters do, and they entertained like lowed my ear to the music Toom. .I veterans. The Hope of the Society. home, love, country. work and fun. listened for. a few moments; no mis­ Whel·e to find the songs the people As you look toward the future of take about it, it was real barbershop know and love to sing? Well. in thp harmony. I slipped in-wow! Eighteen the Society can you think of anything popular class~l"e-read Sig's column:" boys and the music supervisol', a dy· more hopeful and inspiring than the in the June and December IP4~) above performances which I wit· namic little gal, were in a knock-down, drag-out rehearsal on "Good-bye. My 1·larmonizers. You will get sure·fhc nessed within a period of ten days in suggestions. Also fOI" your o\.... n per­ just two districts of the Society? No Coney Island Baby" and "After Dark". doubt this has been duplicated many She said, "I had a wonderful barber­ sonal pleasure get Dr. Barry R. Wil­ times throughout the domain of SPEB. shop quartet last year but graduation son's wonderful ;'Music Americans Canada has some wonderful youngster broke it up_ Two of them went off to Sing" from the SilveT Burdett Com­ 4'tets in chapters. Many eyebrowli college and have a quartet there". She pany, Ne'.... York. Chicago. Dallas. QI' are raised and much questioning is called foul' fellows out of the group to San Francisco, Be seeing you III voiced when one waxes enthusiastic sing a numbel' for me. She will soon OMAHA! (as I do) about teen-age quartets in have another good quartet as well as SPEBSQSA ('ircles. "They're too a fine chorus. Huntington's "Little young for us ... we're an adult or­ Shavers" will soon be in high school. I ganization .. it's courting trouble About 25 percent of all high school and creating problems.. we should graduates go to college and the not promote it". The fact of the mat~ chances al'e they will keep on barber­ tel' is that we are not promoting it. shopping; they will come back home. The beautiful thing about it is thal The Hope of the Societ.y! For cot/crete ell/deuce of it is contagious! It's catching on, you can't stop it. Amen! (so mote it be). Notes for the ~ong Leaders. C"pl"in Campbelt' J Orchids to my fellow columnist Sig­ Evidence ... mund Spaeth for his Honor Roll se­ theme, Jee piet/{re,r on This past fall among other profession. lection of the ten most popular songs. al engagements l visited more than Also a special orchid for his exposi­ tbe adjoining page. 75 high schools in Wisconsin, Indiana, tion of what we mean by the word Illinois and Ohio, leaning the student "popular". Messrs. Funk & Wag- MARCH, 1950 The Haf'flJotuzer 15 TEEN-AGE QUARTETS SPRING UP EVERYWHERE

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A Public Forum for Constructive Criticism as well as general Comment. Contributions [ welcome. Keep'em telegraphic.

OVERLOOKED OR member Hal's untiring efforts and en­ thusiasm in behalf of ow' Society ... LOOKED DOWN ON . Hal had a song in his heart, and I am Sandy Brown, of New York, former sure that his type of harmony both in lnt'l V. P., agrees with Int'l Pres. a musical and spiritual way will in King Cole that Society choruses and the future be an inspiration to us all." quartets should, "Stick Close to Close Harmony". Sandy says, "We 81:e pro­ 000 moting a type of American musIc that has been either overlooked or looked HARMONIZER SAVES down on by glee cl ubs, male cho.ruses "LITTLE JOE" ..• drive home the brotherhood of inter· and other musical entities, and If we "Little Joe" Juday, Sec'y Jnd.-Ky nationalism than anything else we start mixing some of their so-called District, injured his leg in late Novem­ could have done. I am sure every highbrow stuff with our barbershop ber and was confined to the house. barbershopper in Ontario ... yes, in we'll end up representative of "Two days of wobbling about on all Canada .. would want me to write nothing." crutches had me on the ropes," writes this." 000 Joe. "Then who should drive up but 000 the mailman with the Harmonizer. It MAN PRAISES JUDGES­ sure is a wow. I like the part that Fred Wehrley, Brighton, Ont., "... MAN BITES DOG ... pays tribute to our friends 'North of appreciate the thoughtfulness behind Words of praise for judges from other the Border.' I've met some of those the December Harmonizer . it's than first place winning qua~tets are boys and they are tops. I've read swell ..." sufficiently rare to rate mentIon. Don through it twice, but I guess I'll have 000 R. Bailey, V. P. Lake Charles, La. to give it up to the little lady for the Chapter was present with his "few­ present .. ." To prevent any feudin' Stan Meecham, Toronto Chapter V.P., some" at the S. W. District Contest an extra Harmonizer WQ8 forwarded. u ••• appreciate the recognition ... at Beaumont, Tex. Don writes, "Be­ Ed.,. will act as an added shot in the arm fOTe the contest we met with the 000 to all Canadians connected with the judges and asked them to give us the Society ...tt same treatment the other quartets SUGGESTS LIBRARY DISPLAY 000 would get. (We were not competing). James F. Talbot, Sec'y, Norwood The recent issue of the ··Harmonizer". sta~e After the contest they met us on (Chicago) Ill., writes, u ••• have just dedicated to the Chapters North of and gave U5 about 45 minutes of theIr finished 'Keep America Singing' ... the Bordel·, was superb. Congratula­ time. We learned more than we long time since I've read anything as tions to the Harmonizer Commit­ thought possible in six months. Just interesting ... a must item for every tee~ Hal'old Deadman, Roger Cooper, wanted you to know what a swell job new member. Why can't chapters ask ana Chapter Secretaries who gave they did with the contest. The more local libraries to use their window dis­ Harold such a concise history of each contact we have with the higher-ups plays to show 'Keep America Singing,' chapter. I would also like to thank and brass of this fine organization, the Medalist record albums, pictures of Past International President Phil Em­ more we are impressed with the quali­ quartets and other pertinent material." bury for harmonizing our Canadian ty of the fellows who have a deep and National song-"The Maple Leaf sincere interest in it." 000 Forever". 000 $8.49 EXPRESS COLLECT This issue will be treasured by mem· bel'S North of the Border, who in later AGREES WITH FOUNDER CASH R.M.P. Burnet, See'y. Carlsbad, N. M. years will consider themselves pio­ [n the last two issues of the Harmon­ Chapter, doesn't mail in his addressed neers in this great movement for In­ izer, Founder Cash has advocated that envelopes for the Harmonizer. His ternational Brotherhood. Harmony chapter choruses fill in occa~ionally chapter allotment came Express Col­ and Goodwill. for church choirs. Herman Hickman, lect with the astonishing charges of CHORD-ially yours, Pres. Jamaica, L. I. Chapter, seconds $8.49 thereon. It was a billing mistake Brother Cash ... l

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B'd Member Berney Simner Do wish the Harmonizer were a Here is a well organized and prac· 4. Host Chaptel' is responsible for monthly publication for we are being tical plan which can be quickly adapt· publicizing the meeling; 5. Host hard pressed in selecting material tor ed by any District Area Counselor to Chapter appoints its own committees publication, from the wealth of ICR use in his Area. Th~ Purpose?­ for program and refreshments which are paid for on a joint per c.apita information coming in from all sec· 1. To promote better Inter-Chapter tions of the country. Relations through the medium of or­ basis at a rate which eliminates profit Down in Texas where distance be­ ganized Inter-Chapter meetings; 2. or loss; 6. 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The ness of the plan and particularly to the Parade. R. M. Eichner, President of Plan?-1. ,1 oint meetings are Jleld once opportunity it presents for the novice CC accepted the Charter from Lloyd each month, preferably on the meet­ quartet to be seen and heard outside Yarbrough, VP of Houston and VP ing night of the Host Chapter; their own chapter. Certajnly Encour­ of Southwestern District. Our good 2. Each chapter in the Area acts as agement logically comes before Pre· friend Mel Campbell, that able show­ Host in turn; 3. All c.hapters guarall­ servation and here is the chance to man from Houston, was MC--and both tee a good attendance including all accomplish both. chapters are 1mbued with the fun in novice quartets at each joint meeting; When do you start·? IC Relations. From up in Wisconsin comes the answer to the prayers of the lCR HOUSTON Committee. Conceived in the mind of Al R. 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They have held two very CHORUSES successful meetings - Waupaca on ~xiniton and Frank­ October 14th, attended by 81 members fort, Kentucky. twen­ including 12 quartets from eight chap­ t)' miles apart. have ers-_ eenah-Menasha on November joint choruses under 8th, which brought out 121 members the direction of Wil· including 13

The ori&inal "Good Neiihbor QU8nettioi Club" at the Appleton, Wis_ mHting Jaouary 19th. MARCH,1950 ( ... OVf;RTISEMENT) 30 The Harmonizer

Memorial Day. 1939. Gathered for De­ important figure in the organization. troit's annual Memorial Day parade, Schwoppe, in the meantime, was pro­ on a Woodward Avenue corner, wel'e moting SPEBSQSA in various other several American Legion members. sections of the State and organized One group was enjoying a song when the Lansing Chapter as the second. attention ~as called to a newspaper By Spring of 1940, Flint and Grand story about a convention and con­ Rapids boasted chapters and from test of the newly-organized Society Grand Rapids came the idea of a for the Preservation and Encourage­ State-wide quartet contest. Invitations ment of Barbershop Quartet Singing were sent to quartets whether their in America, to be held in Tulsa be­ city had a chapter or not. Entries ginning June 2nd. All had Tead about were received from Detroit, Grand the formation of the new organization Rapids, Flint, Jackson, Birmingham, and several were interested in get­ Muskegon, Lansing and Saginaw. ting morc information about the So­ ciety. E1i Schwoppe, (now active in First State COntest Mt. Clemens Chapter) I of the Michi. The event, which is now recognized as gan State Highway Department, mem­ the first Michigan Quartet Contest, ber of a quartet known as the "State was held in the ballroom of the Pant­ Highway Four", said he'd "go down lind Hotel, Grand Rapids, on March there and investigate". 9, 1940. Eighteen quartets competed. Winners were the "Saw Dust Four" Schwoppe made the trip to Tulsa with of Muskegon. Raymond Johnson, Len Harold Gibbs, then of Traverse City, Horton, Bill Griffith and George Han­ now secretary of Bay City Chapter. sen comprised the quartet. "Detroit At the meeting held in Hotel Tulsa Elks Four" was second; "State High­ on June 2, 1939, a national organiza­ \vay Four" was third, "Variety Four" tion was created with Rupert Hall, of of Birmingham was fourth. Vern Tulsa, as president. A vice-president Hale and Roscoe Bennett were co­ was named from every state repre· chairmen of the contest which was sented, to be Urn charge of develop­ sponsored by the Schubert Club of ment". Ed Schwoppe was named as Gl'and Rapids. the vice-president from Michigan, In April, 1940, the fast-growing De­ On Sunday, July 30, 1939, a group of troit Chapter took the initiative and twenty men met in the cottage of issued a call to the officers of Michi­ William Barry at Lake Orion_ The gan's four chartered chapters to meet story of SPEBSQSA and the conven­ in Detroit on June 8th and organize tion doings was related to them. At a Michigan Association of Chapters. that meeting Detroit Chapter was or­ In connection therewith the Detroit ganized and a charter was applied Chapter announced it was staging a for, the first in Michigan. Elected as "Parade of Quartets" at the Book· officers were Joseph Wolff, President: Cadillac Hotel, probably the first ever Ho'ward Tubbs, Vice-president; Will­ held. iam Barry, Master of Ceremonies; and Glenn Shields, Secretary and First State Association Treasurer. Delegates from three of the four chapters were present at the Book­ Considerable publicity was given the Cadillac Hotel for the June 8th meet­ group by the press throughout the ing. Ed Schwoppe presided. A State State and a membership drive was in· Constitution was adopted and the stituted. One of the first recruits was Michigan Association of Chapters was Carroll Adams, who was to become an born. Carroll Adams of Detroit was

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eleeted President; Ed Schwoppe of St. Louis, July 3-5, 1941. [\fjchigan Lansing, Vice-president; Guy Stop­ really came into its own. The dele­ LAPEER pert of Flint, Secretary; and Roscoe gates awarded the 1942 Convention to Bennett of Grand Rapids, Treasurer. Grand Rapids. Carroll Adams was LOWELL With the formation of the State As­ eJected National President. Roscoe sociation and the untiring efforts of Bennett, Ed Schwoppe and Joe Wolff its officers, Michigan started moving were eleeted to the National Board of LUDINGTON fast to a place of leadership in Directors. SPEBSQSA. Notwilhstanding the fact that World MANISTEE The second ational Convention was War II came upon the country, the held in ew York on July 26, 1940, Society continued its growth in Mich­ in conjunction with the World's Fair. igan during the year 1941-42, and MARCElLUS At the meeting only three national Jackson, Caro, Oakland County, vice-presidents were chosen, no longer Battle Creek, Traverse City, Midland, one from each state. These were Al Kalamazoo and Owosso were in the MIDLAND Smith of New York, George Hillyer fold by the time of the 1942 National of Topeka, and Carroll Adams of De­ Convention at Grand Rapids. troit. Joe Wolff was elected to the MONROE National Board of Directors. The story of that convention is fully On September 28, 1940 a fall meet­ reported in the Society book, HKe(!p MT. CLEMENS ing of the State Association was held America Singing". Grand Rapids at the Olds Hotel. Lansing. All four Chapter did itself proud in the way of the existing chapters were repre­ that the event was handled. Roscoe MT. PLEASANT sented. At the meeting, Muskegon Bennett, the chairman, issued the first was accepted into the Association as Society publication, "The Swipe", Chapter No.5. Saginaw also was publicizing the convention. MUSKEGON represented and assigned No.6. Rep­ resentatives were present also from The Michigan quartet contest was Jackson and Kalamazoo to obtain in­ skipped in 1942 because of the forth­ NILES formation. coming National Contest. The State delegates did, however, hold a meet­ The second State Quartet Contest was ing at Grand Rapids, and Joe Wolff NORTHVILLE held at the Pantlind Hotel, Grand was elected State President, with Rapids, on March 8, 1941. Muskegon's John R. Buitendorp, of Muskegon, as "Saw Dust Four" repeated in carry­ Secretary. NORTHWEST AREA ing off top honors. Second place was won by the 'tTurners Four" of De­ By the time of the annual meeting (DETROIT) troit; the IILegion Four" of Detroit at Kalamazoo, May 8, 1943. Michigan was third; the "Big Four" of Detroit boasted nineteen chapters. Frank OAKLAND COUNTY was fourth; and tne "Songmasters" of Morse, of Muskegon, was elected Lansing took fifth place. President for the fol'lowing year with Gordon Grant, Saginaw, as Secretary. ORTONVILLE Michigan's fast growth and efficient The International had in the meantime organization were r e cog n i zed elected Carroll Adams as Secretary throughout the budding Society, and and set up its headquarters in De­ OWOSSO everyone was looking to the Wolver­ troit. Michigan was inde(!d the hub ine State for leadership in 1941. The of the barbershop world. State Association at a meeting held in PONTIAC Lansing, June 7, 1941, re-elected all of It 'was on November 6, 1943, that the its officers to carryon for another Oakland County Chapter staged a year. Parade of Quartets in Detroit's Ma­ PORTLAND Michigan Begins to Roll sonic Temple. This event was well At the National Convention held at (C.minll,d on pall 32) REDFORD AREA (DETROIT) THE MICHIGAN DISTRICT SAGINAW

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20" by 2611 Made of Cast Aluminum, nnished with the Authentic Barbershop Colors in Enamel. Eyebolts for hanging are attacbed Priced at $25.00 Each, With Reflecting Emblem $30.00 The Clef Dwellers of Oakland County, as seen by Beaudin M.nufltc!ured by MICHIGAN CHAPTER No. 56 (unrim"tl) national Convention at Detroit in patronized and laid the foundation June, 1944. Thr~e Rinrs, Michigan for future events in this :mammoth The State Association was expanding auditorium. its operations and the work of the For- further information Detroit was awarded the 1944 Mid­ officers gained commendation. Gor­ W,;I. LEON V. RIGGS winter meeting of the Int'l B'd., and don Grant's splendid work as Sec­ Box 185A-R, R. No, 2-3 Rivers the Michigan chapters also voted to retary was recognized and he was the invite the Society to hold its Inter- unanimous choice of all delegates at .w.~~~""'s.Wl the 1944 annual meeting for the presi­ dency. Harold Wright of Detroit was elected secretary, Congratulations MIDLAND MICHIGAN E First International Cham pion TO THE LEADER --CHAPTER-­ The 1944 International Convention was awarded to Detroit and was held MICHIGAN s. P. E. B. S. Q. S. A., Inc. June 15th·17th, The climax came AND ITS 62 CHAPTERS Home of when the judges proclaimed the "Harmony Halls", Ed Gaikema, Bob ...... THE INTERLUDES Hazenberg, Ray Hall and Gordon 19U-~ MICHIGAN DISTt'lICT CH,o,MPIONS Hall, of Grand Rapids, as Interna­ Invites you to the tional Champions, They were the cur· rent Michigan champions, In Chicago, the year before, they had won fifth "IT is GOOD OLD WINTER TIME" MICHIGAN REGIONAL CONTEST place, thereby becoming Michigan's Saturday, May 6th, 19S0 first medalist quartet. in Charlevoix, the beautiful The splendid cooperation displayed by but we're planning that MIDLAND HIGH SCHOOL Michigan resulted in the International AUDITORIUM Boal'd voting the 1945 convention and Eighth Annual 8:00 P. M. contest to Detroit. In this contest, the "Continentals", of Muskegon, Contesl Tickeh $1.20 (Continued 0" pill,' 34) : : : CONTINENTALS JAMBOREE "The Society's olJlJr lind The HOTTEST Regional Contest in OF MUSKEGON the Nation} with last year's second, grtarur SlIm11Ur nMnr" third and fourth place winners plus a September I, 2, 3 & 4 Inumber of other HOT Ouartets all Four days of good fellowship, fun, (rolic anxious to go to Omaha. aDd nne harmony in this City on Three n Lakes, . ' low pollen eount. : : : The best harbor on the Grelt.t Lakes. Sportiest goU coul'lIe in the north. And after the contest an Shuffleboard lind tennis tournaments. AFTERGLOW City beached-lake cru~-fi8hing. Plan to sJ}(!nd your vacation with us­ you won't want to] miss particularly over Labor Day weekend.

:: : DU('f'iprh,t literaflJ" from For tickets or rooms write Board of Commer~ or WARREN ABBOn JERRY F. SCUDDER Winners, third place, 1945 Int'} Contest Secretary, Charlevoix Chapter No, 19 1027 Balfour St., Midland, Mich. at Detroit. L. to R.-Bob Freye, teoor; Charlevoix, Miebigan John Bishop le~d; Rex Weaver, bari; ~~~~ Charles Petenon, bass. MARCH, 1950 .....

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(Confilll",d) DON'T MISS!! scored again for Michigan by win­ ning third place.

O\lrosso'S The State association continued it~ growth under the energetic direction of Gordon Grant, and the calibre of = Second Annual = the quartets also was rising. The 1944-45 District championship FESTIVAL of was won by the "Gardennil'es" of Rosedale Gardens Chapter with How­ ard Tubbs, one of Michigan's original BARBERSHOP barbershoppers, singing bass. The other three were George Danic, tenor: HARMONY Earl Rubert, lead; Lou Burke, bari. The State meeting held at Lansing on July 14, 1945, was one of the most BURNETT J. ABBOTT fruitful in Michigan's history. Gordon (Albion) Good Quartets Grant was re-elected President and lot'J B'd '43-45 Robert Walker, from Grand Rapids. Good Chorus hard-working and able, was named Good Entertainment Secretary. Horace Conklin, president of the Security National Bank of Battle Creek and later president of owosso HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM the Michigan Bankers Association, Owono, Michigan was elected Treasurer. He has held the post ever since. H~rold Stark of Saturday, April 29, 1950 Oakland County was chosen Vice­ ;' President. A new and stronger consti· , 8:15 P.M. tution was drafted. The State was divided and each officer given certain -- chapters to visit. Michigan was on a Ticket Chairman finn foundation. By the end of 1945. HAROLD K. ALLEN Michigan boasted 41 chapters. 112 So. Ball Street Phone 115 At the 1945 District Contest, thf' H Qf home phone 1885 Green Acoustical Persecutin' Four", of Jackson, were crowned champions. Francis Hodgeboom, tenor; Bob Breit­ ~~~~ mayer, lead; Forrest Comstock, bari; CARROLL P. ADAMS Fred Foster, bass, then comprised the (Oakland County) 0"--' ---..--.-.,-.-..----..-0 Nat'l V.P. '40-41 quartet. Dilt. Pres. '40-42 Nat't Pres. '41-42 ( ) ~. REDFORD Robert Walker, of Grand Rapids, who Int·t '42 on ) performed so excellently as Secretary ( STILL tne biggest little Chapter during the previous· year, became ( in Michigan ) President in 1946. Howard Heath of Saginaw was t.he new Secretary. Ex­ ( prfJents itJ ) tension work in Michigan and On­ ) tario was the outstanding achieve­ ( THIRD ANNUAL ment of the year. Dr. M. J. Kenne­ ( ) beck of Muskegon was named br Walker to head a committee for En­ ( Quartet Show ) tertainment of Veterans in Hospi­ REDFORD UNION HJGH SCHOOL tals. This group arranged for a state­ ( ) wide plan for participation by ehap­ ( 26440 Purit..an ) tel's. March 18, 1950 at 8:00 P.M. At the 1947 annual meeting held at ) Grand Rapids, Walker was re-elected ~ ) President and Dr. Kennebeck was named Secretary. It was during this ( '·'eaturing ) year that the International Board created the Michigan District, con­ ( THE FOUR CHORDERS ) ROSCOE BENNETT sisting of the Lower Peninsula and the (Grand Rapids) 1948-49 Champions of Ontario ) eastern part of the Upper. N"at'l B'd '41-43 ~ and the ) The quality of Michigan's quartet::; METROPOLITAN continued to be the best and several ( DETROIT CHORUS ) new foursomes were edging into the limelight to join the old ones. and many ) ) The "Barons of Harmony", of Sag· ~ Outstanding Quartets inaw, Chuck Sarle, Howard Heath. ( AFTERGLOW ) Bill Oursler and Jarv Albro, won the ) 1947 District Championship and th(> ( Of Antlers", of Flint, Harry Morton. ) tenor; Byron Brooks, lead; Bill For lurther information write Schindler, ban j and "Hap" AugsbuT)·. ~ ) bass, won the 1948 championship. FRANK LEWIS 9733 Dundee :: Detroit 4. Mich. ) Many new problems faced the 1948 0 ______Phontl Webster 4-8603 ) Michigan annual meeting at Flint, ~ May 1st. Additional revenue was O (CmJinutJ 1m pa~, 36)

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(COl1filUlld) needed to carryon the work of the District Secretary's office. The new officers were instructed to study this matter. It was decided to hold the Distl'ict Quartet contest in the Fall of each year instead of February. The list of officers for 1948·49 was headed b,Y Edwin S. Smith,of Wayne,lntcrna· tionaI Vice·president of SPEBSQSA, chosen as District President; Roy Harvey of Muskegon, a member of the International Board of Directors, as Vice-president; Louis R. Harring­ ton of the Hamtramck Chapter was elected Secretary. Horace Conklin con­ tinued as Treasurer. G. MARVIN BROWER Three lnlernational Finalisls CLARENCE EDDY (Gra1ld R"pids) (Flint) Int'l B'd '45-48 At t.he 1948 International quartet con­ Nat'l B'd '42-44 test the UAntlers", "Clef Dwellers" and "GardenaiTes" weTe in the final 15. The "Clef Dwellers", of Oakland County, Dick Wiseheart, tenor; Dun­ can Hannah, lead; Bill Johnston, bad; Hal Bauer, bass, placed third and became Michigan's third International medalists. They then won the District <:hampionship at the contest held in Grand Rapids in December. Under Ed Smith's leadership, the Dis­ trict Executive Board on August 7, 1948, reorganized the District and subdivided it into area!:S, each headed by an Area Governor. A second vice­ presidency was cxeated, and Leonard Field, of Jackson, a member of the In· ternational Board of Directors. \Vas elected to the office. This followed closely a plan formulated sometime JOHN R. BUITENDQRP prior in the Detroit area when several LEONARD H. FrELD (Muskegon) (JaCk50n) Dist. Sec. '42-43 chapters banded together and formed Int"! B'd '48-51 Illl'l B'd '43-46 the Metropolitan Detroit Associatioll of Chapters. The 1948 fall District meet.ing was held in conjunction with the Dist!'iet quartet contest at Grand Rapids, The Furniture City Chapter again proved themselves sterling ·hosts. 'Vithout a doubt, the meeting and contest were the best staged in Michigan's history. Nothing was left undone to provide a warm and cordial reception for the contestants, delegates. visitors, and their ladies. The 1949 annual District meeting was held May 1, 1949 in Detroit's Book­ Cadillac Hotel with thirteen chapters, comprising the Metropolitan Detl'oit Association of Chapters, as hosts. At this conclave, a SOc per capita tax was voted, effective July 1, 1949. The GORDON L. GRANT R. RAY CAMPAU District's share in the proceeds of fu­ (Saginaw) (Saginaw) ture District contests was waived. Di!>t. Sec. '43-'44 '1!t'l B'd '43·46 Dist. Pre". '44-46 The officers selected for 1949-50 were headed by C, W, Coye of Gl'and Rap­ ids, a past International Vice-Presi· dent, as the new District President. Three International Medalists Michigan quartets really went to town in the 1949 International contest at Buffalo, New York. The "Antlers", "Clef Dwellers", "Gardenaires". and "Songmasters" all reached the Finals, Then history was made when three of them reached the Medalist round, "Clef Dwellers" finishing second; "Antlers" third; and "Songmastenj" fourth. Selected at ,the District Conte!:St held in Ypsilanti in October 1949, the (uJI1filUled ~1I Pllgt 43)

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(C011finuIJ) SONGMASTERS OF LANSING "Interludes", of MidJand, Luman Bliss. tenor; Chet Payne, bass; Bill McIntu'e, lead; Ralph Hand, bsri, are the current !\Iichigan champions. The Chemical City Chapter has for years been onc of Michigan's most active, and the members are now preparing fOJ' the 1950 International Regional Preliminaries, which have been award­ ed to them, as well as the 1950 annual District meeting, being held in eon­ iunction with the contest.

As we enter 1950, the Michigan Dis­ trict proudly looks back at its past achievements. Bolstered by the per EDWARD D. SPERRY capita tax, Michigan's financial struc­ (Battle Creek) ture is sound. The "Michigan Trou­ Jnt'! B'd '44--46 badour", official District publication, was launched last October, 1t reaches every barbershopper in the District. All of the member chapters are con­ tributing to the promotion of harmony in their communities.

Michigan boasts a ten year tradition. The annual Parade of Quartets held WitlDerJ. fourth place, 1949 Int'j Con­ in Detroit always attracts capacity lesl al Buffalo. L. to R.-Howard crowds. The Grand Rapids Chapter's Hawlr.ins, lenor; Burdette Bottom, lead; annual Great Lakes Jnvitational pro­ Homer Winegardner, bad; Harold Mc:.At· vides the best in quartets and two teEt, ban, days of the finest of entertainment for visiting barbershoppel'S and their ladies, The Harmony Howl at Sag­ Redford, Wayne and Hamtramck inaw, an outdoor stag affair held each have acquired a reputation for their summer, is a function that promotes unusual Ladies Nights. good fellowship in that area and draws Summer outdoor family picnics staged visitors from the entire Dish'ict, Hol­ by Muskegon, G:rand Haven, Hol­ GUY L. STOPPERT land, Grand Haven, Grosse Pointe, (CoT/finned on pa!" 44) (Flint) Int" B'd '45·48

GROSSE POINTE CHAPTER POINT(E)S PROUDLY TO

Its sponsorship of other choplers

• Its membership of more thon 100 octive Borbershoppers.

Its hospital entertainment and charny record ROBERT H. WALKER (Grand Rapids) Dist. Sec. '45~'46 Dist. Pre•. '46·48 Its SIX organized quartets including the famous Frankenmuth Quartet

Its low membership turnover

Its Annual Ladles Night thot IS reolly 0 Ladies Night

Its Annual Parade of Quartets leaturlng the best In Barbershopplng like that great program of Morch 11, 1950

But most 01 all we are proud of our affiliation with the Michigan District, the Grandpappy of all Districts.

JOSEPH P. WOLFF (Detroit) Dist. Pres. '42·43 Nat') B'd '40-42 Nat'l V.P. '42.43 Nat'l B'd '43-44 44 The Ha-rt/Jti,~iz..,r

(Qmtimu:J) You are land, South Haven, Oakland County and others are popular events. Ludington stages an annual outdoo}' WELCOME Night of Harmony each summer. Sturgis, Pontiac, Owosso, Lansing, Dearborn, Jackson. Kalamazoo, Tl's­ to visit vel'se City and Flint are among the chapters who~e P8t'ades have herome traditional il.nnual affair:'\. CHAPTER 40 Bush League Contest MT. PL~ASANT Organized to prom.ote new quartets, Boyne City's Bush League contest is MICI-lIGAN now an annual affair. A l'eception for visiting bal'bershoppel's and a Sun­ ---e--­ day morning breakfast are added at­ tractions. It has now been held f01' ANY TIME OR ANY HOUR foul' years and is well attended by visitors. "WOODSHEDDING Charlevoix Jamboree Another event in that section of Mich· PROVIDED" i~an has become a mecca for bal'ber­ shoppers throughout the Midwest over .~. DIAL 22-732 the Labot' Day weekend each year. I t is the Chnl'1evoix Jamboree. It was Johnny Hacke" "PlEASANTAIRES" started in 1943 drawing a crowd of 165. \Vard of the affair spread .and JS[otet 11rarris DIAL 26-761 each year the attendance has grown. Bill Ke,in-"NOTABlE KNAVES" The hospitality is superb. It is a four­ day event, stading on Friday and concluding on Labor Day Monday. Kalamazoo, Mich. ---e--­ Very lew functions anywhel'e can compare with this one. Charlevoix MT. PL~ASANT County has only three towns-Char­ levoix, East Jordan, and Boyne City. THE TOWN YOU'll Each ha~ a chapter o.r SPEBSQSA. NEVER FORGET! Under the direction of Lotan Willson of Boyne City the Snow Belt Chonts was organized, including members of the three chapters. The thl'ee sister chapters have coopel'ated in placing their section among the leaders in Michigan. Choruses Developed As in other districts, many chapters METROPOLITAN DETROIT boast of excellent choruses. Grand ASSOCIATION OF CHAPTERS Rapids, Jackson, Holland and Gratiot County have fine aggtegations. The Metropolitan Detroit Chorus undel' Dearborn· Detroit· East Detmit • Grosse Pointe • Hamtramck Tom Needham is probably the larg­ est, having in its roster men from all Milford • Mt. Clemens • Northville Northwest-Detroit thirteen Metropolitan chapters. It has Oakland County Pontiac Redford Wayne appeared at several concerts since its organization in 1947. The Tri-County Il'EEKLr U':NCilEON ON TIlURSD.t 1'5. Pl£NO/~SCOT CLef;, Dl!.TR01T Il:/f Chorus (Lapeer, Ortonville, Holly and Flint) is prepal'ing fOl' its debut. SOCIETY'S FIRST ORGANIZED AREA Besides Willson and Needham, Fnl11­ cis Hodgeboom, Jackson, Arthur Far­ rand, Flint and Bill Diekema, Holland, SPONSORS OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT CHORUS are among the better known choral directors in Michigan, Ed Smith, Bill Diekema, Loton Will· son, H. O'Reilly Clint, Detroit, John Rill, Lansing and Len Field, Jackson, have gained considerable acclaim as al'l'angers and composers. Michigan is proud of its many men who have made valuable contributions to the progress of the Society, It is proud of its many excellent qU31'tets who have distingUished themselves in [nternational competition. It is proud of its growth from iour to fifty-seven chapters. Michigan looks forward with anticipa­ tion to greater things in the coming yeal·S. Michigan i:i eagerly awaiting the 1950 International contest confi­ dent that its quartets will be serious contenders for the International Chorus Rehc[l!"i.·oIs :-'.fonday Evellin~8. :\lusk lIall. Detroit, 8:00 p.m., Thomas P. N~dllaJII, nine/or Championship. MARCH,1950 45 S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A. USKEGON I "MOTHER OF 11 CHAPTERS"

CHAPTER ORGANIZED 1940 C 1941 Sawdust 4, Stote Champions and International Finalists. 1942 Sawdust 4, State Champions. Port City 4, International Finalists. One member on International Boord of Directors. One member, State Secretory. . Started Marathon Contest within our chopter. H 1943 .. , Unheard of 4, Stote Champions and International Finalists. Harmony Weavers, International Finalists. Two members on International Board of Directors. One member, State President. Achievement Award Winner, Mationally. I 1944 Created first quartet "SheW' ... Sponsored State Contest. Unheard of 4 and Continentals, International Finalists. One member on Internotional Board of Directors. Achievement Award Winner for second time.

1945 Membership closed 01 333. G Continentals, 3rd place winners in International Contest. One member on International Board. Achievement Award Winners for 3rd time. 1946 Flexible 4, in International Semi-Finals. Two members on International Boord. Sponsored project to send money. prizes and talent shows to Percy A Jones Hospital for Veterans. 1947 . Continentals, International Finalists. One member, International Vice President. One member, State Secretary. N One member on International Board. 1948 . Created Scholarship fund for High School's best male vocalists. One member on International Boord. Note-orioles, State Finalists. NO. 1949 . "Hush money" bank idea created _ Co-sponsored the Greater Muskegon Aquapades with the Junior Chamber of Commerce, a three-day water and music festival. Sponsored the Al Vredeveld memorial show, with all proceeds going to the estate ... all quartets active in inter-chapter relations. originated the "Mystery Four" quartet ideo. 5 1950 ... PLANNING FOR THE GREATEST YEAR EVER. "HARMONY R:I~~S IN MUSKEGON" MARCH,1950 46 MICHIGAN'S HALL OF FAME To Ed. Schwoppe, orchids for having more friends like the friends he now the original itch and the scratch to has and enjoys. No man ever deserved We've get to Tulsa and back ... to Joseph them more . . . to Marv Brower. P. Wolff, who wrote the Code of Ethic~ formerly a monument in Grand Rap­ the Society has lived by for 9 years. ids, and Emcee without peer in a hun~ Returned to 10 Easy Lessons on How to Sing Bass, dred cities, now a dilettante of the (just as though he needed them) West Coast, a little snow in his back yard. , . to Shad Coye. who introduced the To Carroll Parker Adams. a gold barbershopping to Southern Ohio and time clock to check the hours he has has done his stoutest to "improve the put in on barhershopping, for Michi­ breed" in Michigan, a reducing diet Hotel Hayes! gan, and for the world ., to Roscoe .. for Guy Stoppert, of Flint, the BenneU, promoter without peer, one thing above all, top spot on the crowinest crow in the land, a hand~ billing for the Antlers . to Ed • samely tinted cameo of the Grand Smith. of Wayne (Smith-Michigan), Rapids Civic Auditorium whose mort­ singer, arranger, officer and gentle­ We invite you gage Roscoe has so nobly tried to man, one scarcely used copy of "Piano to join us on lift ... to Frank C. Morse. of Mus­ by Ear" from one of Ed's worst fail­ the second and kegon, the all-time, best looking ures as a pupil ... for Ray Hall, he's V. P. the Society ever had, the best. had it all, champion of champions. last Fridays of \\rishes of his many friends ... to quiet weekends at home now and each month in Johnnie Buitendorp, blessings to over­ then ... for Harvey Jacobs, of Fern­ cOlne all the black curses typesetters. dale, the best . _ . to B. F. Marsden. an evening of and proof readers have certainly Monty, to you-twice elected to the Harmony and heaped on him all these years for rnt'l Board; (what's he got the rest Fellowsh i p. keeping a name like that in the news haven't got't), a red, red rose ...... to Ray Campau, who doesn't need for Roy Harvey, former Muskegonite, it, a gallon can of Sherwin-Williams lots of posies, each one for a job • best .paint. . to Burnie Abbott a well done . , . to W. L. (I'm from, highly embossed chisel, to help him Mia, Michigan) Otto, the bookkeeper continue his good work on the indus­ who never lost a book, the bas~ There's tries of Albion, (how man).-' free din~ singer who never lost a quartet. a ners have you gotten those barber­ road map of Michigan ... for Luman shoppers) ... to Clarence Eddy, of Bliss of Midland, many more "inter­ Never Flint, who lead many a good song. ludes" ... for Bill Diekema, composer, in the early days, a featherweight arranger, many inspirations . . . to a Dull baton ... to 'v. Carleton (Scotty for Leonard Field, of Jackson, an apple short) Scott, a contest judge, a tireless. a day . . . to all these men and tenor, a flyer of note, as well as a others, who have served barber­ Moment singer of notes, a permit to land any­ shopping by devoting their time and time in any cornfield he can hit, talents, in song ... in hard work to Ed Sperry, of Battle Creek, a at home and away on the governing at a sanitarium with or without breakfast body of the Society appreciation Jackson cereal ... to Thurlo G. (Red) Masters. and applause. Chapter Meeting • A PIONEER CHAPTER WHICH HAS CONSTANTLY DEVOTED fTSELF TO THE WEALS AND PRINCIPLES NECESSARY TO REMAfN HIGH IN PUBLIC ESTEEM. JACI(SON

MICHIGAN No. 7 The 1944 INT'L CHAMPION HARMONY HALLS of Grand Rapids (As seen by Beaudin) MARCH. 1950 1­ 47 OAKLAND' COUNTY CHAPTER Michigan No. 9 Chartered November 1941

TWENTY·FOUR REASONS WHY WE ARE PROUD HOME OF THE lITTlE WORLD SERIES FOR 'SO 1. CLEF DWElLERS. Oakland Caunty Chapter is the birthplace of the Clef Dwellers. They were born in 1945 (Internatianal Finalists in 1946 and 1947; 3rd Place Medalists 1948; 2nd Place Medalists , 949; District Champs 1949). 2. NOTEBLENDERS. Oakland Caunty Chapter is the birthplace of the NoteBlenders-current District Novice Champs. Other home originated quartets, the Four Counts who were 1948 International Semi-Finalists; the Variety Four; The Four Clubmen, Harmony Shov­ ers, the Borber Sharps and other well-known foursomes.

REASONS WITH INTERNATIONAL IMPORT 3. First Michigan chapter to present an International championship quartet on a Porade program. (Elastic Four, May, 1943). 4. Presented O. C. Cosh Medallions to the top five quartets in the International contest for three consecutive years, 1944, 1945, 1946 until project was token over by the Society in 1947. The mosl perfect setting for any SPEBSQSA Chapter in America. This little theatre was built by tne Ridgedale 5. Co-sponsored (with Detroit Chapter) Mid·winter Ployers on Ten Mile Rood, just west of Woodward Ave· nue in the Detroit Area and has everything that anybody meeting of the International Boord, Detroit, in could want for good barbershopping. 1944. 6_ Co-sponsored (with Detroit Chapter) two consecu­ VISITORS ALWAYS WElCOME tive International Conventions in Detroit, June, for torrespondence write: D. Thibault, 27 W. Grand Ave.. 1944 and June, 1945. Highland Park 3, Michigan. 10wensend 7-0499. We are proud that four of our oldtime members appeared 7. Furnished severol men to the Society as members os special Guest Impromptu Quartet on the Truth or Con­ of the International Boord and as International 1equence program. and District Officers. OAKLAND COUNTY CHAPTER MEETING DATE 8. Re(:eived' International Achievement Award for We meet on the (irst Friday Evening of each month, year outstanding service to the Society for two consecu­ ',ound, at 8:30. The Executive Committee meets during the tive years. third week of each month, year 'round.

FLAG FLIES HIGH BECAUSE OF THESE LOCAL ACHIEVEMENTS

9. First Michigan Chapter to pass 300 mark in membership. J9. Throughout the war the Chapter kept in close touch, by moil, with its 21 members who were in the Service, sending the"" 10. First Michigan Chopte. ta become the lorges' Chapter in the regularly each issue of the Harmonixer and the monthly Chapter Society. Bulletins, waived their dues and paid their per copito talC 11. One of two Michigan (hapten to ever have over 300 memben from the Chapter treasury. (Muskegon the other). 20. Fint Michigan Chapter to send a bus-load contoining all of ih 12. Fi,st Michigan Chapter to pre.sent its own Chapter Chorus 01" 1:1 quarteh, 6 in number, to give a full afternoon and evening Parade program (November, 1943). program of Ward entertainment at the Percy Jones Hospital 13. Ha.s sponsored more new Chapten than any other Michigan in 8allle Creek, Michigan. Chapten except Muskegon and Grand Rapids. 21. First Michigan Chapter to hold a marathon tonIest for quartets 14. Fint Detrait A,ea Chapter to sponsor a Parade in Masoni( within the Chapter,

THE INTERNATIONAL SPIRIT OF CLOSE HARMONY WOULD NOT Hayes and is out for more membersJ bearing jn mind of course that the next ten years are going to be profit­ BE WHAT IT IS TODAY. THE GREAT MICHIGAN DISTRICT COULD able also. Jerry F. ScudderJ secretary of the Charlevoix Chapter, is one of NOT HAVE GROWN SO SUCCESSFULLY AND HARMONIOUSLY. the busiest in the nation. He includes not only his own chapter in his list­ ings but takes in most of the north country. Especially proud is Scudder of the fact that all Charlevoix county is in SPEBSQSA, officially and for WITH YOU keeps. Scudder .is one of the men be­ hind the throne in the annual Charle­ MA Y WE STAND ... TOGETHER ... AND SALUTE A voix LaboT Dar Jamboree which reached new heights in it.s 194-9 pro­ duction. Scudder says the Harmonizer MARKED FORCE IN OUR BELOVED SOCIETY ... THE from now on will always have Charle­ voix ads. The big thing in the mind of Frank C. Tritle of the Dearborn Chapter is the School of Barbershop MICHIGAN DISTRICT Harmony, which is functioning 100 per cent. It teaches the boys how to make 'em. Through the activities of the Dearborn bunch the Ford Motor Co. has taken recognition of chords as men make 'em ... Boyne City's Bush League contest, always a Michigan feat.ure, was a high mark of the last "THE MIGHTIEST UTILE CHAPTER IN MICHIGAN" quarter of the last tenth of the last tenth of a cent.ury.Two of the qllartet~ drove more than 300 miles to com­ WAYNE, MICHIGAN CHAPTER pete. H. C. Hasse of the Owosso group tells of its chorus and a new SPEBSOSA, INC. choral director and appends thereto official clippings from the local news­ Ie ()f/titllltd 1)/1 page 501 MARCH,1950 Th, Harmonizer 49 "fY,1;--~Ji~~+, :f4~~~("'~ ~~~~. DOWAGIAC MICHIGAN CHAPTER @)'q, NUMBER SEVENTY======, , ... ~

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MARCH,1950 50 The Harmonizer

CROW'S-EYE-VIEW THE SNOW BelT CHORUS (MICHIGAN) (Continued) paper-all to the glory of the past and the hopes of the future. Edward O. Bluem of the Saginaw Chapter just cannot keep his history on one page. It takes two and it is single spaced and typewritten. Among meaty things disclosed as happening in Saginaw is the fact that 127 barbershoppers -not guesls that is-attended a Sag­ inaw Guest Night and Ray Campau and Gordon Grant, two originals, were program chairmen. The Whilehall­ Montague Chapter is being revived and is going along great, with the hopes of continuing uninterrupte~ly in the next 10. Redford, Bay City, Alma. Gratiot County, and Lapeer's Combined c:horuses of Boyne City, Etlst Jordan, and Charlevoix, led by Loton Willson, secretaries all turned in accounts also make up the Snow Belt Chorus. to preserve the Michigan tradition. D. A. Konkle of the Grand Rapids Chapter reports that right now noth­ ing in the next half-century counts as much as the Great Lakes Invita­ tional coming up in April. Gentlemen of S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A. DETROIT DOES IT AGAIN We of Northville have an idea. We think it's Detroit Chapter, Michigan No.1 again a terrific idea - one that will benefit not only takes the lead in Community Service the Barbershoppers themselves, but the good will closely tied in with SPEBSQSA. The it would create for our American way of life is Chapter recently bought 75 copies incalculable. of "Keep America Singing", (see page 62, if you don't know what that Simply - it's this. We all know of the is). One copy is to go to each of the Don Cossack Chorus, the Sistine Choir. the 24 public libraries in Detroit and one Vienna Choir Boys. the Welsh Singers, and other to each of the 51 hospitals in the musical groups that have visited the United Greater Detroit Area. More about States. They gave us entertainment of a high this in June issue. order - and left us with a broader knowledge and a better understanding of how the other BOND YOUR TREASURER folks live. lt is good business to have the man, or men, who handle chapter funds Let's reverse this! Let's do this for the bonded. It's inexpensive. One of our folks over there. Let's pick a team of ten top chapters recently lost nearly $1000 quartets, train them also for chorus numbers, and through defalcation and would have send them on tour. England. France, Ireland, been in a bad spot financially had /lot Sweden, Denmark. South Africa, Mexico, Italy, the man been bonded. Absconders South America - every country we could get into are invariably men of good position would be a field for our American singing, our in the community, else they would Ambassadors of the American Way. not be in a position to abscond with Details can be worked out! We believ~ the anything. They are always, "The last State Department at Washington would be only too person in the world you'd expect to glad to help in any way possible. We believe do anything like that". Be safe. that air transportation would be donated as a While on the subject of financial re­ goodwill gesture. We believe any company em­ sponsibility, if show ticket selling is ploying a man who can sing well enough to make done by individual members, it's high­ the team, a man qualified to be a representative ly essential to keep accurate records, of the United States. would be very happy to observe strict deadlines for returns give that man not only a leave of absence, but a and keep after the dilatory. leave of absence with full pay. APPOINTED TO INn COMMITTEE Gentlemen, here is a project! It is a Int'l Pres. King Cole recently ap­ project that every barbershopper in the world pointed Harold W. Deadman, Lon­ can be mighty proud of. And every barbershopper don. Ontario Chap­ can get into the act - can be part of this great ter to serve on the idea. I nt'l Public Rela­ tions Committee. Do you like it? Harold is with the London Free Press. Then let's hear from you before we turn it over to the International Board to carryon. Among his other SPEBSQSA activi­ Write to ties, he has lettered Robert G. Yerkes, 500 Chapter Char4 Box 186, Deadman tel'S and gets quite a kick out of the fact that his art­ Northville, Michigan work can be witnessed in all parts of> the world, even if it is anonymous. Of himself, he says, "I'm 30. Joined AND COME TO OUR 2nd ANNUAL* PARADE, MA Y 20th SPEB in '44-sang in the first Can­ adian quartet ever to sing on an American stage ... and was 1 scared ... and were we awful. Sang in the * Canadianaires when they won the first NORTHVILLE, MICHIGAN Ontario District championship. Have attended 850/0 of all SPEB affairs in the Province ... and love it ..." MARCH, 1950 51 : . *------,.. MARINETTE ( ) WISCONSIN ~\ltoronto~ "I :tl¢or :Am¢rico ( CHAPTER ) .singing" PARADE (( wishes to t..",·preSJ i!s appreciation ) THIRD IN OUR SERIES oj the thottght behind the dedica- ) ( tio11 of Dte~mber Harmottizer to ) the "CatJadiall Cousins" ) » * ( A. Ted Bo}'d, Presidellt Saturday, April 22 w. GEORGE W. CAMPBELL ~ ---3528 Pape Avenue--­ A. O. WINGENDER* f TORONTO* MEETS ) CINCINNATI 8, OHIO ( 1st and 3rd Tuesday 8th month 1328 Elizabeth Ave. ( Friendship Hall . , .. 502 Bathurst St. ) ~ . ¥-'-"------* WARSAW N. Y. STATE'S CHAPTER NUMBER 1 We specialize in

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We are sorry a11d you should 3lb£al @fft~ be sorry, if you. missed our AMATEUR from otte BSQ Sittger 10 Attolher! COLORFUL Stoo-pendous SONG BARBER POLES MINSTREL 'ADE '8Inche. $4 50 hi~h • Ask the man who saw it WRITERS 12 Inche. high $2 • 25 and you will not miss uur ----8hlpplnl Prepaid- next show. Thanks to all We are NOT music publishers -­ co-operating barbershoppers. but send us your new manu­ scripts and we will print them for you at reasonable prices. We EVANSVILLE CHAPTER will reproduce your manuscripts exactly as we print the music for S. P. E. B. S. Q. S. A. CLEVELANp CHAPTER meets every '\ other Friday Please selld * your malluscript with )'our request Pt11thouu lor immediate qllotatiott. 1I0TGL HUR.TON .. The G HIT Ideal girts for Chapter officers, STOP AND quartets. rriends. Perfed for SEE US Printing Company meetings, dens. III So. E.,.,;o .. T.,.,Ioo" 2-1441 Mile ..... 'f ....llt••' ,.,dl'l. "' ••111, 5PEaSQ5A Earl C

ilarity ended for the Smith and Bow­ their arranging, commenting on our man song continues ... ;'kindly come recent blast against the modern trend out and shine. Do Mister Moon Moon toward trick arrangements that we come out soon, my home I cannot claim are taking the bal'bershop out find". of barbershopping has this to say_ "After all, I think that in barber­ Believe it or not here were two num­ shop we are trying to harmonize a bers with almost identical titles Wl'it­ t.une. 1£ that is lost, so are we . . . ten by reputdble songwriters and pub­ The air is the thing to my way of Two ... Too i.l'lany Moons. When lished \vithin two years of each other. thinking. The harmony is fine but Longfellow wrote his poem about "the But the Cohan song, which is the one changing the tune to get some out­ Eridge" the lucky guy only had one we sing, inasmuch as it was published landish swipes ruins everything. moon. 1£ someone hadn't put it to Ihst, may well have influenced the Would like to see in your column what music he'd still probably have only other. The correct title is Oh Mister others think". How about it 1 one. Then came the Parody age and Moon and it is now in the Jerry Vogel it was inevitable that some wag catalog. Yes, with two moons we're Closing the book for 1949 we can should eventually find himself all "the nothing short of ;;mooll-happy" but "point with pardonable pride" to some bridge". That's when the second moon at least we've pinned down another of the following. We fixed up Fred entered the picture. "I stood on the "toughie" in a search that's taken al­ Danberger of Kitchener, Ontario, with bridge at midnight", he parodied. most a year. Doodle Doo Doo, Put On Your Slip­ "drunker'n a son of a gUll. TWO pers And Fill Up Your Pipe, Sun­ MOONS rose over the city, an' there Afte1' reading t.he aboi'e do you won­ bonnet Sue, and Garland Of Old Fash­ shouldn't have been but one". der why we get chills when someone ioned Roses. Found Down In Melody writes and gives us a title and then Lane for J. H. Young of Inglewood, Like Longfellow, Here's YOU?"' Olde Ed says: "I'm not quite sure whether Cal., thanks to Bill DOWDS who wrote with two moons and neither has any­ this is right, .."? Can you imagine the lyrics. Straightened Em.'l Kuhn­ thing to do with the morning aftel' what might happen when we're not heim out on a song called Mine. Told New Year's eve. For some time we've even sure the title is correct 1 Or Nel Frye where to get Mammy's Lit­ been tl'ying to trace the ancestry of worse still when they write , .. as tle Elack Rose and got two swell our old SPEB favorite ;;011 Mister Deac Madin did lately .. "Can you numbers from him (we hope)' In­ Moon, Moon, Bl'igllt and Silvery tell me anything about an early auto­ diana and Don't Leave Me Mammy Moon" without success. Now all of a motive song, something about Mollie for the library. Located When the sudden we've got more moons than we and me going out in our motor car 1" Old Wedding Ring Was New for H. kl10W what to do with. No, Deac, we can't and we've checked O. Stl'ickland of Los Angeles, You some pTetty reliable sources around Tell Her For I Stutter for Woodrow Perhaps, like After Dark and Coney the country and they can't either. Un­ Brown of EI Cajon and maybe found Island Baby we'd have gone on for­ less someone who reads this ... re­ Southbound Train for Ernie Vennard, ever singing Mister Moon without members ... you're sunk. How about thanks to Ken Way of Centralia, Mo. even wondering whe:re it came from if it, can anyone give us a clue? Acknowledged a swell bunch of titles Pete Anderson, Historian of the Mil­ for this month's old song list from waukee Chapter, hadn't asked for jt The Tillie Tootie Contest is over Bill Gaspar of Gary and found I ... but fOl'tunately, he did. Then and some swell tunes submitted by Love the Whole United States for followed a search that took us all Nate Eel'thoff, Albert Teachman, Jr., Mollie Reagan and the Pittsburghers. over the country but to no avail. William Eourgas, G. 1\1. Uppstrom, Now if they will send me the copy­ Everyone knew the song, but no one F. H. Tucker and Harry Denni have right date and the name of the pub­ knew where it came from. Jerry gone to the Song Arrangements Com­ lisher of I Wish That I Could Hide Vogel, Who now owns the copyright, mittee to pick a winner. Do we have Inside This Letter we'll call it even. didn't even know he had it. a genius in our midst 1 Soon we'll know ... or will we? Jim Emsley writes about a book of It was Russ Cole who finaUy gave oldies published in 1898 which he re­ us the clue that led to victory. Rus:; If you don't think song Tesearch is a cently contributed to the library and seemed to remember a Cohan show sC'rewy business listen to this. 'Wbo mentions one ... He's Not As Black called "The Governor's Son" and a would ever suspect that a grand pub­ As He's Painted which bears a copy­ song about the moon ... and sure lication like Keep Amel'ica Singing right date two years prior to She's enough, there was our problem child would be responsible for keeping the More To Be Pitied Than CensOl'ed. ... George M. Cohan, 1901. YNEWDU Dept. in a tizzy for nearly Jim says: ';.. , and if the latter isn't a year 1 It all started very harmlessly a downright steal I've never heard But don't go awa.y ... there's more. last March in a letter from Olin Ris­ one". Yes Jim, there probably were Before the echoes of our thunderous ley stating that he'd been reading pirates in those days too. cheers had died out along comes a where the Bal'tlesville Barflies won letter from Chet Howard, of Dallas, Which brings to mind a book (also the 1939 championship with a song on file in our library) published in Texas, stating that he had a copy of called M:y Own Cabin Home In the Mister Moon in his song collection Hills and where could he get a copy? about 1880 which contains thDee dif­ and that it was written in 1903 by ferent songs credited to three dif­ Smith and Eowman (who also wrote There followed '1'ea'nts of correspond­ ferent authors to the old tune Down Good Morning Carrie) and pUblished ence back and forth across the coun· In Alabam which we know better as by Walter Jacobs of Boston. try until we finally found that the cor­ the Old Grey Mare. In the same book rect title was Far Away In the South is a song called Oh Dem Ruby Slip­ Now he1'e 1-Qas a p1'edica.ment indeed. . .. and who do you think found it '! pers supposedly written by one Will­ Smith and Bowman were reputable , .. Olin Risley. Now a copy of this iam E. Hines, as well as J ameg songwriters and certainly George M, elusive little rascal reposes in our Bland's Oh Dem Golden Slippers and Cohan was no novice, but how come? own song library. thanks to Olin, and the only difference ill the two is the Suddenly we had too many moons and another old song mystery reads . . . substitution of the word "ruby" for something had to be done. So we finis. ;;golden" ... Confusing isn't it? wrote Chet Howard and he sent along How do you like yow' harmony? Your Olde Edit.or is truly grateful his copy. Eelieve it or not there it for the many many lovely Christmas was . . . "Oh Mister Moon, Moon Charlie Porter of Bay City, who baris silvery moon. "but hel'e the sim· with the Aetnaires and does a lot of (CQntinued Il11 /"Iext pagel MARCH, 1950 53 Do You Remember? SONG ARRANGEMENTS AVAILABLE (ComifJIud from precedillg po!.,) SPEBSQSA ARRANGEMENTS; Ex­ X24 Juanita. tra copies of the following in X25 America (God Save the King). greetings tHat came from barbershop­ loose leaf form may be obtained from X26 God Made a Wonderful Mother. pel's all over the COlllltry to make his the Int'l Office. j>rice lOc each for X27 Don't Send Around Tomorrow. Christmas a real melTY one this year single copies; 6c each in lots of ten X28 Keep America Singing-Diekema. and l'egreLs that he doesn't have or more of anyone song. Order by X29 How Can I Leave Thee. enough space to acknowledge each symbol number. All 35 in a blnder­ X30 The Old Songs. and everyone individually, Many of $2.00-01' $1.50 in lots of 10 or more. X3l Give Me the Right to Love You. the original curds are too clever for X32 Sweetheart of Sigma Nu. description ana it ::Ul'e warms the Extra copies of "Songs fo·r Men No. 1"-1948 Edition, and "Songs for X33 In Walked an Angel. ,:ockles of this old heart to know that X34 Dreaming of the Olle in Love so many of you.. remember. Men No. 2"-1949 Edition, which all paid-up members have received, can with You. X 35 Melancholy Lou. rom' Grwulpappy l'ocleled Angels &180 be had from the Int'l. Office at i\'1eel Me at the Cross Roads which $1.00 each, 50c ea. in lotS of 10 01 was written in 1875 by Will S. Hays mOre. the chorus of which went:" Angels DAVID SILVERMAN meet me at de cross roads, meet me, Xl After Dark. Music Librarian Angels meet me at de CI'OSS roads, meet X2 In the Evening by the Moonlight. me, Angels meet me at de cross X3 Sailing on a Moonbeam. W JR, The Good Will Station, Inc. ,'oads, meet me, Don't charge a sinner X4 Love is Like a Dream. Detroit any toll:' Do you remember? X5 I'd Love to Live in Loveland. @l XG Silent Night. X7 Hymn for the Home Front. JdJi rbt !fJI/6wh,1. .J611g.s a,.t m P"b"~ CHOIRS X8 It Came Upon the Midnight D01lJai" a"d you mal· 'I.J' rhtm What choir call beat a good barber­ Clear. 1I11Jwhlrl, a'l)r;";,, a")·ruay. shop chorus? What church quartet can X9 Cantique Dt! Noel (0 Holy Night) . Any Rag,; 80wery, The; 8ring Ihe do a better job than one of our bar­ X10 Beautiful Isle of Make Believe. Wogan Home, John: Clementine; bershop quartets? Churches seem to Xl1 You Tell Me Your Dream. Climbing Up De Goldell Stain; Come be discovering this fact of life-here X12 I Want a Date at a Quarter Past Bock to Erill; Darling Nellie Gray; are some chapters who have sung in Eight. Down ""enl McGinty; Flow Gently cllllfches lately: Cleveland Heights. X13 0 Come A·II Ye Faithful. Sweel Afton; I'd like 10 Hear That OUllkirk·Fredonia. Jamestown, Mol'. X14 Colleen My Own. SOllg Again: Mollie Dmling; Mother Is the BIHt Friend After All; My Maggie: rison, Penn Van, South Haven, Staten X15 Won't You Please Come Back to Island, West. Palm Beach, Winnetka. My Old Kentucky Homo; Porcloll Come Me. Too lote, The; Prodigal Son, The; Rock X16 Sing Brother Sing, A Bye Baby; Rocked in the Crodle of Xl7 Keep America Singing-Thorne, HIGH SCHOOLS The Deep; Sing Again that Sweel Re. X18 When the Man in the Moon Says fro in; Soldier's Farewell; Way Down Omaha sparked the idea some time Hello. Upon' the Swanee River; We Never ago of a high school quartet contest. Xl9 Daisy-Annie Rooney Medley. Speak As We Pan By; When the Others arc experimenting: Dayton, Ft. X20 Honey Gal. Robins Nest Again; With All Her Foulh Wayne, and Winter Haven, Florida. X21 SPEBSQSA, Incorporated. I Love Her Still; Yellow Rose of TexCls. Sounds like a good idea ... get the X22 That Old Quartet. The. youngsters started right! X23 Gentle One. INFORMATION YOU WANT Each i.ssue carries Information on 25 songs. To lighten the load 01 the Old Soni' Committee. member!! are urged to rder to bacl~ numbers of the Harmoail.f!T bf!fore askine the Committee for aid. TITLE. YE.\R COMPOSl-:R PUBLISHER :\h"'ays Takr ~IOther's .-\dvice 181H Jennie Linds'I\' Edw. B. Marks MII~i4; Co. COlser Jones 1909 Seibert & ~ewtoll Shapiro. Herl\stein Co. Cast Aside 1895 Charles K. Harri~ l'harles K. 1-l:Irri~ Chicago 1922 Fred Fischer Fred Fbdu:'r DOOdle Doo Doo 1924 Kassel & Stit:ze; Leo feilot. Inc. Down Beside the Meadow Brook 1906 Ro~e $: Snyder F. :\. i\lill, (I'll \Vait for You) Down In Melody Lane 1911 Sie\'ers .& Down~ Harold Rossiter Music Cf' Down On Thoity Thoid and Thoid 1926 Ben Ryan Jerome H. Remick Drifting . Ino Lamb & Polla C. C. Church & Co. Far Away In lhe SOUlh 1911 Carrie B. Adam~ Lorenz Publishing Cu. (My Own Cabin Home In the Hills) Forty Fiye Minutes From Broadway 1905 Ceorge i\1. Cohan Jerry Vogel Music Co. 1 Lo\'e the \Vhole United Stales 1913 Lewis .& Erdman Tell Taylor I Mi~ht Be YOUTS Once In :\while 1919 Smilh & Herbert T. B. j'I:lrnh, f'r:lllct:". D::t~ &: Hunler Ju~t A Memory 192i De S\'I\'a & HrowlI Harm~, IllC. JIISt Behind lhe Times 1896 Charles K. Harri" Charles K. I-larri ... Meet Me Sweet K::trhleen In Hone~'suckle Time 1906 Roden $,: Helf Helf & "(ager Mine 191 J McGee. Benedek & Solman Joe Morris Mliloic MiSter Moon (Kindly Come Out And Shine) 1903 Smilh &. Ro\vman Walter Jacobs Oceana Roll, The 1911 Lewis & Denni Jerome II. Remick Oh Mister Moon 190J George M. Cohan .Jerry Vogel Mll!;ic Co. Over lhe Billowy Sea 1911 Nowling .& Smith Tell Taylor P:1ck Of Cards, A J~IO Henry Reilly Fr. Harding PUI 011 Your Slippers Alld Fill Up Your Pipe 1916 Moran S: Heelan Broadway Music Corp. To Have, To Hold, To Love 1913 Mac Boyle & Ball M, \Vitrnark "" Sons When the Old Wedding Ring \Vas New 1935 McCarthy, Solieri & Douglas Mills Mu~jc Co. NOTE: The publishers listed may not be present publisher, as llongs can change owners several times over a period of yean. The listing, however, will enable your dealer to locate the number for you. DISTRICT DIRECTORY Districts Officers Territory CENTRAL STATES Pres.: Floyd D. Strong Missouri, Nebraska, Kan­ 230 New England Bldg. sas, Iowa, So. Dakota, Wy~ Topeka, Kansas oming and Eastern Colo­ Sec. : Russ Gentzler rado. 1117 Grand Ave., Kansas City, Mo. CENTRAL Pres.: Alex Crabhol'n Central- Western New WESTERN Ericl

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MARCH, 1950 56 S.P.E.B.S.O.S.A. Community Service by lnt') V. P. AHTHun A. i\:lERRILL. Chairman Int'l Committee on Community Servicf'

Community Service hits page one! Johnson Cit)" Buena Vista, Colum­ Second honors in our records lor the Jim Knipe has sent your editor clip­ bus, Ind., York, Pa, and Auburn. past three months go to Abilene, Tex­ pings from scores of newspapers. r~or N. Y.; hundreds of kids benefited as: $1700 for the Cerebral Palsy Fund. the last three months, the total logs from athletic equipment from Mid­ Third is Jackson, Miss,: $1500 for in at 1604 column inches of publicity dlt>lown, Ren~selaer, Ind., Rushville, the Polio Fund. Can you top 'em'? [or SPEBSQSA chapter::;-over 13~ feet of newspaper publicity in three Ind" :;pringfield, Mass. and \Vichita Soulh Bend i!i sparking a fund for months. And, as you will note when Falls, Texas; Middletown. O. is con­ purchase of an Iron Lung. They have you miss credit fOl' your own chap­ tributing to a sight saving project; donated $100, and collected $1100 to· ter, the clippings are far from COlll­ La Salle, Ind. donates to the Big wa}'d the goal of $2200. Mishawaka plete. Hearts. These donations aren't five and Elkhart are also working on Iron dollar donations either ... when our Lung projects. flow much would that publicity have Parades go to work, the benefit is in The March of Dimes and Polio .Punds cost if we had paid for it? You figure hundreds of d01lar8­ it out. When your chapter goes on a are benefiting from the eamings of Community Service project- tell your Parades by Jackson. Miss. (mentioned Year in, year out Hartford, Conll. above). Muskegon, Northampton, San­ Ilewspaper-for it's NEWS! When the takes our Community Service Prize. Marion, Indiana Chapter put on a dusky, San Antonio, Dayton and Lock­ Look at this record, furnished by Doc port. Tri Citr, Texas has alread)' parade for the benefit of the Commun­ Anderson: ity Chest, they received a full page kicked off the 1950 campaign with h ~ 800 donation. spread on page oue-hl two colors. Nov. 1946, $ :1200-Shrine Hospit;ll, Springfield. Hospitals are being helped by the BENEFIT-BENEFIT-BENEFIT earnings of Burlin&'1.on, Boston. Chi­ Nov. 1947: aftOO-Shrine Hospital, Spr.--;BSQSA chapters are certainly do­ cago, Montpelier and Norwich. The ing a lot of good fa!" our fine country Springfield. Cancer Fund has had help from Can­ -and for some of our more unfor­ Nov, 1948: fi200-St. Francis Ho:-;­ ton. COllllllunity health has had at­ lunate countrymen. Here are some pital, Hartford. tention in the swimming -pool funds examples: promoted by Ansonia, Conn., Derby. !\'1ay 1949: 2000-Cerebral PalsY and Hom;alonic Chapters. Mon4!)' fo!" Milk from Music-Mem­ Fund. . In addition to cash donations, Oak phis Chapter earned $542 for the :-.ro\". 1949: 4000-Trinity College Cynthea Milk Fund - that's 3000 S(:holarship Fund. Park has donated song books to the quarts of milk for the underprivileged Veterans Hospitals, and Pittsbuq{h babies of Memphis. has dOlHlted record libraries. $1900Q.----earned by Hart­ The family or AI Vredeveld was bene­ ford in' f 0 U J" The Community Chest drives have fited by some $800 earned by .Mus­ years! (Comilllitl/01l lUX! fag") kegon Chapter. _ . At was a member of Muskegon Chapter, who died after ~ome staggering doctor bills Ten Northern Californian quartets, under sponsorship of Orinda Chapter, "HOWLING blended their voices in song in an SUCCESS" endeavor to save the life of a little Sarnilt, OlltltriO'~ Chrisunas Party for San Pablo girl, Linda McHargue ., 40 ullderprivileg~d who is fighting a rare lung disease. youngsters W:lS terrific The Oakland Tribune says "The fort)' according to all n,· ports and. as this men won't l)e singing mainl)' for their London Fret! Press audience - they'll be singing foJ' photo proves. the Linda". "howlin&" was C01l­ IfOI1t!d. Another similar case - Pit t~burgh Chapter donated to the Donnie New­ man fund, and sent the Keystonaires to the hospital to sing to Donnie and deliver the check. Milt. Edgar: ·'It sure is rough giving out with your "RAGTIME be:;l harmonies with .1 lump in your LADIES" throat the size of an apple". Schelltictad)"s Mo­ hawk Cli,lpeu .sang Is singing worth while? Here are carols to the residents of the Old Ladieo; some more children who have benefited Home. Thll1Y liked the recently: Quincy Chapler - fluoride carols fine but when treatment was made possible for mUll)' it came 10 r(.'quests, thll'y wanted Ra'lime as the result of the Quincy Parade. Cowboy J~. Aurora, 111.: donated to the Tom-A­ Hawk club of 1600 teen-agel's. Down­ ers Grove donated $200 toward l'e­ building of a girl scout cabin; She­ boygan helped the Kiddies' Campi Santa )lonica the Boys Club; Michi­ "DEEP IN THE gan Cily and Bloomsburg helped the HEART OF ..." Scouts: Child welfare received earn· Not just a figure of ings from Culver Cit.y, Paterson, .i\lob­ speech is the famed erl)!; Children'S hospit..1.ls }'eceived T{-x:ls song to these grants from Broekton, Hutchinson, memoors of Wichit~ Falls Chapte~ who car_ New nritain and Topeka; Crippled olt'd at four hospita!5. Children "eceived aid from Washing­ ton, Pa. and We~tl}Ort. Conn.; School bands were aided by Ringhamton· MARCH,1950 The Harmoniz.er 57

COMMUNITY SERVICE (which they had bought from previous sing with a Tha\ving-Out party; while parades); Portage, Wis. is sparking Canton, {(ansas City, and Washington (Continued) a fund for a bandshell; Sacramento ra. went on the air for thirty minute had help from our chapters. Some has donated earnings to the RepeTtor:r broadcasts. Minneapolis was televised. have donated enthusiasm to pep ral­ Theatre building fund. Some others who traveled to hospitals: lies. No. 'Tonawanda, Quine)'. Wash­ And so our earnings are helping the Anadarka, Antigo, Beaver Dam, Can­ ington, D. C., Waukegan, Asheville, community. I{awbawgam, Michigan is ton, Carlsbad, Columbus, Corpus and Providence have donated priceless Christi, Danville. Conneaut, Decatur. sell ding thl'ee skie.rs to Lake Placid.; Galves~ chords; Sam Holland of Washington, Whiteside County has bought a movie Dubuque. Dundee, Fairmont, D. C. donated a song-the Red Feather projector for the PTA; Carlsbad, New ton, Green Bay, Highland Park, Hol­ Song, which the D. C. Keys plugged Mexico held a benefit for a melllbel' yoke, Housatonic, Jackson. Jamestown. all over Washington to good effect. who lost his home and business by Jefferson Cit)', La Salle, Lockport, Other chapters have donated gener­ Are; Galesburg, 111., Meriden and PU!'la­ :\'lanchester, Marion, Madboro, Mid­ ously from their Parade proceeds: dena are donating to many charities dleburgh, l\'liddletown. N. Tonawanda. Marion, Indiana, Denver, Louisville, .. and . , . and _ Olean. Oshkosh, Paterson. Peninsula, Peoria, Phoenix, Reading, Redwood }Ian Jose, Muucie, Ind.. Oceanside, Chords Can Contribute ... Calif, and Pawtucket have dug deep City, Rock Island. Saginaw, San An­ and donated. lonio, Schenectady, Sparta, Warren, CHRISTMAS Washington, Pa., 'Vaterbury, Winne­ Music Scholarships are growing more Through the holiday season SPEB­ hagoland, Wisconsin Rapids. Wichita popular as a fitting aim for chapter SQSA chapters spread harmony to Falls, Woodstock. earnings. AmherlStberg. Ont.. , Canton, unfortunates. Holland, Michigan :re­ Jamestown has organized a carol sing m., Gard.uer, Mass., Longview, Texas. ports on their trip to the Army Hos­ fOf' the community, with slides of the New Bedford, Ridgewood, N. J., pital in Battle Creek: "One man face carols thrown on a big screen..Marl­ Schenectady, and \Visconsin Rapid:-; down on a wheel stretcher followed boro and Middleburgh have discovered are making music training possible to us all over one floor by pushing hjm­ that some churches have speakers in many young .people. self and the stretcher along by using the belfry instead of bells-an ideal A Iso in the music line, Enid, Oklahoma two canes. Another kept close to our way to broadcast close harmony and has purchased a sound system and heel!': in his wheel chair". Mish.twaka ('arols to the city. Eau Claire worked donated sound baffling to the Enjd gave a party for the children of the with the Garden Club in sponsoring auditorhlJn. Springfield, Mass. has Children's Aid, complete with Santa a competition of outdoor Christmas helped a church choir robe fund, and Claus, presents, movies and refresh­ decorations. Wichita Valls. Texas has donated 3 ments. Louisville held a Parade of Some chapters are picking up Roch­ parlor grand piano to the YMCA. Toys-Each barbershopper brought a ester Genesee's idea-singing behind This chapt€r ha~ Rh:;o helped the a toy, which was given to an orphanage. Salvation Army kettles. Manchester, capella choir of the hjgh school. Some chapters are moving onto trUCks, Norwalk and Peoria are three who with PA systems. Middletown, Canton.. tried it. Building funds haven't been neglected. Columbus and Kansas City covered a Monmouth is helping the municipal lot of territory, but perhaps missed ORCHIDS DEPARTMENT auditorium; Muncie, Ind. has supplied some of the fun of watching the audi­ Scores of chapters deserve 'em. Here lighting for a demountable stage ence. Danville, Ill. followed their carol are a couple: Phoenix, Arizona makes trips to the Veterans Hospita.l. So do many other chapters. But Phoenix has se't up a NEWSIES WEEKLY schedule. Everv week thev BENEFIT send out either a quartet or the cham's Old newsboys ben,,· to entertain the vets. Good going. fitted as Columbus. Phoenix. Ohio's 44-man chorus tourod downtown Co· Norwich, Conn. is a young chapter. lumbus caroling from a truck. They organized last year. Here are a few of their activities in the first six months; Entertained numerous clubs, churches, Norwich State Hospital, Cohen-Bokoff post of Je\vish War Vet­ eraJ1S, PTA, Norwich Players, the Grange, the opening of the new ele­ HOSPITAL mentary school at Ledyard. Is that a VISITORS recol'd to shoot for? San Antonio, after a hospital trip. A Knoxville. Tenn. was Singing ill the lobby of the hotel. reporter caught th;s picture by chance as .-\ bystandet:' requested that they sing the Carol-Aires of Oak -Mule Tram! He was frozen with a Ridge Chapter toured look, and \vent quietly away. four Knoxville hosp;­ ubi. FOR DOODLERS ONLY K(m Cotton, Tri Cit)·, (Cal.) Chap­ ter, has found good use for his col­ lection of sheet music. Onr-ainy days he ~vrites stories w~ing practically nothing but song titles. It's been done before in the old vaudeville days and "BABY, IT'S over the air, but with all the mil­ COLD OUTSIDE" lions of song titles, the possibilitie~ for doodlers are unlimited. Here's a It was! But that didn't short bit from one of Ken's opuse" s top the Kingm:m. to give you the idea ,," While Kansas ChapteT from we were eating, we overheard a con­ carrying out its third versation between Steamboat Bill and annual caroling tour. Casey Jones. Casey said, 'While I Looks like straw they're sitting on, hayl was Wo,ithtg fM' the Robert E. Lee, Leader-Courier photo. Somebody Stole My Gal and now 1 know The OU'rse of mt Ach1:ng HCQJrf'

MARCH, 1950 18 ARMY FINDS TENOR TROUBLE TOO - BUT IN REVERSE "Too many tenors curdle Army plans for training barbershop quartets". THE ARMY COMES TO SPEBSQSA say! a newspaper story from Ft. Dix, N. J., focal point of the Army's Office of Special Services, Music Section. Tncredible as it may seem to Society members where the problem has al­ ways been a dearth of tenors, the Army has actually run into a shortage of baritones and basses. The extreme youth of today's Army-average age less than 19 - is held responsible. Ample proof that it hasn't been an insurmountable obstacle is given by the reproduction of the poster used to c.ptain H, H, Copeland, (Center), and a group of men and women from the Army promote the contest held in Tokyo in Recreation Directors School at Ft. DIll, as they appeered lit Philadelphia Chapter December. Quartets were flown in OleetiDl· from various points in the Pacific. in­ PTRST ARMY ENTERTAINMEJ'rw"T cluding the Philippines. Okinawa. IT'S FUN TO SING! TRAINING PROJECT Guam and Korea. By Capt. H, H. Copeland Presen~ (A column for Army Special Services THE ENTIRE STUDENT BODY office,'s and Service Club directors) In. The first Soldier-Singing Festival Was 80LDlER·9INGING FESTIVAL held at Fort Dix, New Jersey, on 9 No­ 9 November 19'9 vember, 1949. This all-singing show, Service Club No.2 - Fort Dix, New Jersey put on by the student body of the Captain H. H. Copeland, Conductor First Army Entertainment Training project, presented a 75-voice. chorus I. "March AJong" and three quartets from the project ~~~e: orr~~Sitg~u~ ~cf&m:~g:~ as well as a guest quartet from Fort each side aisle to the stage. Monmouth. The auditorium was filled 2. "The Old Songs" lind "I Had a Dream" to capacity for the entire show, and 3. "Tell Me Why" 4. "Sweet Sixteen" the applause indicated that the audi· Note: At conclusion of "Sweet Six­ ence had thoroughly enjoyed the ef· teen", group marches off stage. singing forts of the Army, Air Force, and "March Along"_ ' Marine uBarbershoppers". We were ~. The Three Spokes and a Whee.] (2 num­ ben) glad to have pre"sent Dean Snydel', Cpl. Bernardi Sgt. Schulz. Pvt. John~ Chairman of the Army-SPEB Com· son, and Cp, Moorman, mittee and member of the Washinf,­ 6. The Flying I's (2 numbers) Vislting quartet from I Company, Sia­ ton Chapter; J. Bailey ("Oats') nal Training Regiment. Fort Mon­ Harvey, Conductor of the Manhattan mouth, New Jersey Chapter j and Fred Rosenthal, Secre­ 1. The Three Beeps and a Bop (2 num­ ben) tary of the Philadelphia Chapter. Master Sgt, Pressley, PIc. Wade. Cpl \ \-', Maj, Gen. John M. Devine (Fort Dix), Jones, and Cpl. Lewis. , \ ' Col. C. M. Virtue and Lt. Col. W. A. 8. Community Sing • 10 D~C~Mg~R Bishop (Office, Chief of Special Serv· Led by Mr. J. Balley (Oats) Harvey. Conductor, Manhattan Chapter of ices, Washington) ; Col. Roger W. SPEBSQSA. Posts Here Active Too Goldsmith and Lt. Col. J. G. Doyle 9. "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" (Special Services School, Fort Mon­ Note: Community Sing concludes with Posts in the U. S. aren't falling be­ this number, during which gTOUp goes mouth); and Lt. Col. F. W, Kendall back on stage, then sings verse and hind either. 10th Infantry Division (First Army) were among the many repeats chorus, at Ft. Riley, Kansas repol·tedly has Army officers present for the occa­ 10. "After Dark" several quartets of which the "Bully sion. The Editors have kindly con· Note: At conclusion of "After Dark". Boys" are one. Better versed in four group goes off stege, singing "Side­ sented to print the entire pro~arn walks of New York" in march time. part harmony than in the art of tuck­ of this event in this issue of 'The II. The Blue Streeters (2 numbers) ing a barber's towel, this quartet Hannonizer", so that it may be used Pic, Lennon, Pic. Manos, Sgt. Palermo, packed the Service Club for several and Pfc. Hull. as a guide in the planning of future Note: Quartet enters stage ri,ht. using nights running, in early JanuarYl Soldier-Singing events. a waltz step and singing "Sidewalks of according to Club Director Mrs. Owen New York" In waltz time. Chorus is Sherman. L. to R, they are, Gene S. S, CHIEF PLEASED repeated. and Plc. Manos does a soft~ shoe dance during second number. Jones, Allan Tilton, Floyd Hutchin­ Major General Herren. Chief of Spe~ 12. The Flying 1'5 (2 numbers) son. and Bruce Bublitz. cial Serviee8.L U. S. Army recently 13, The Three Beeps and a Bop (2 num· wrote Int'l .t"res. King Cole as fol~ ben) lows: "During the six months of the I~. "Coney Wand Baby" Note: All Quartets are called back on­ Army Quartet and Chorus-Singing stage for a final bow and remain lined Project, I feel that many worthwhile up a.:s quartets at front of stage. "Coney Island Baby" is sung by all quartets plans bave been made, and that there as chorus marches back onstage and are accomplishments worthy of men­ joins in the singing. tion ..." 15. "Auld Lang Syne" WINNERS - FAR EAST COMMAND CONTEST

The U, S. Army Sonl­ matters, from Tac:bi· kawa Air Force Base, Japan. S/Sct- William Stuht, Sgt. Walter Kalthof, Sgt. Louis Nadeau; and Sgt. Roger M31kelt.

MARCH, 1950 -~------~-----~------Who's MAD? You Will Be Unless You Go TO

For the INTERNATIONAL REGIONAL PRELIMINARY CONTEST OF QUARTETS MAY 6th, 1950 Nex,t co the International at Omaha, this will be the: big event of the year. Topeka's beautiful new air conditioned Municipal Auditorinm will be packed. (3800 good sears) BUT order your tickets early! Treat Yourself to the "BEST IN THE WEST" in BARBERSHOP HARMONY "TOPEKA KAN ... TOPEKA WILL" assure you a wonderful time

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....--~---~--_._~-_._---~---~_._._~------MARCH, 1950 1~H94 show mane)' to "rehabilitate the local aided the PTA, entertained at the 1ttu."u Girl Scout Cahin". Nothing was said Home for Aged and loaned a quartet By W. Welsh Pierce about the girls. D.G. also invented to a local church . , . }'rom LaSalle "an oversized octet". This is where the word is that their two quartets The grapevine has it that in the ra~. 1l1J~ vau take ten men and sing over :3 al"e ahvays kept busy at clubs, meet­ race for Society population the rnike for the Am. Legion. Maybe this ings, etc, For their Christmas stint !lois area was in the lead at the last was the nfter effect of singing for the Chapter went to t\VO hospitals, quarter end. All of which is .a s~urce Mr_ L. Fablinger, age 103, the only Peoples and St. Mary's. At the latter of pride but would mean nothmg If all sUf\riving civil war veteran in Illinois. hospital the nurses came back at ~h~m that was done in Illinois \\.'3S to chase On Christmas the boys clambered with a Nurses Quartette (femmme around garnering new members. To aboard a hayrack and were drawn by spelling, you know), Sounded good, show the contrary let's take a tractor all over town. Must have all we are told, even though the)' did look at what else went on. Up Bar­ been good fellows as they traveled use a thermometer for a pitch-pipe rington way they were quite active up and down roads plainly marked . , . Lombard provided the entire pro­ inter-chapterwise, also did the usual by signs which said" ro lugs permit­ gram for a PTA meeting and also ,vis­ civic stints and came up with a new ted" ... The Bucka-roos of Dundee ited the Lutheran Deaconess HOSPItal. quartet-the Kleftomaniacs. Must Chapter claim they sang from one Their Christmas Party wouldn't rate have stolen that one. . And in pnd of the county to the other and jf a mention except that Int'} B'd Beardstown the American Legion and we had a map we'd show you . . . Member Mat Hannon (Chicago No.1), the Methodist Church were made hap­ Elgin was busy, what with a. lot ?I was guest of honor, That certainly pier by contributions of. talent ... stuff including a PTA meet1l1g m takes it out of the run-of-mine, and Bloomington rates orchids for tl~c Bartlett, Ill. and a full evening's besides Mat is bigger than] am .. _ great job it does annually at the TIIl­ entertainment for the boys at Hines Macomb traveled to Bushnell to enter­ nois State Fair while the Melody ('rEmeraJ Hospital . , _ Out in Home­ tain the patients at the TB Sana­ Mixers made their umptieth visit to wood they really took the Christmas torium and along about the middle Chanute Field Air Base ... Belvidere. spirit to heart. The Chapter Santa of December they took over the Sal­ was modest about it all. Simply said Claus-ed several needy families and, vation Army kettles for the second "we made many public appearances besides, squeezed $25.00 out of their straight year, When you drag 5300 at P.T.A. Groups, Granges, Clubs, steel-hearted Treasurer as a donation out of busy shoppers )'OU are reall)' Hospitals, Old Peoples Homes and. In­ to the organ fund of the Hazelhurst kettling .. , The Morrison boys cro~sed stitutions-plus visiting three neigh­ Community Church. Song-wise they (e(m/mlaJ on pll!,' 621 bbring chapters. Now T ask you!!! ... Tn Champaign-Urbana they have fun, chum. The chorus was in just about every civic affair held in the area and the quartets are listed as visiting Vets hospitals at Danville and C~anu~c Field as well as the T. B. Hospital 1Il Urbana ... Charleston gave the en· tire proceeds of a show held in No­ komis to the local polio fund and then gave the same show again in Wind­ sor for the benefit of the Boy Scouts. Christmas Eve found them caroling at (our rest homes in their own city ... Swipes regrets to learn of the death of Fred G. Sahlender, fanner lead of the Harmony Kings of Springfield. Fred ancl the rest of his quartet were known and beloved by thousands, eg­ peeially dming the early d~ys of ~hf' Society ... Decatur was active dUl'lllg' the Christmas season, having vis­ ited all the local hO!'lpitals, the Eastern Star Home and the Salva­ ti(J" ArlllY. Decatur also has won over a local radio station where they appear regularly. , . Dixun has come lip with a new foursome called the Rythmntics, and not to break the tempo of good deeds these boys held forth at the Dixon State HospItal and ··Photo-Courte...,- HerMld-American" also the Orphans Home. Dixon put The 1945 International Champions--"The Misfits" rec;entl~' sang for M~ry Garden former Metropolitan Opera star who was making a lecture to!Jr of the Umted Sla.l~. on a 90 minute radio program for When. during her brief stay in Chicago. she expressed. 0 WISh to ht;ar $n old-tm"" the American Legion's plea for barbershop quartet it seemed logical to coli on The MISfits. That thiS was a happy "Gifts For Yanks", Also coughed up choic'" is evidenced' by the pleased expressions on their faces.in the photo shown .her~. lt Charlie Jessup of Oft to riltht-"Cy·· Perkins. Joe Murrin. Art BIelan, Pete Buckle)', ami MISS Downers Grove ga,'e $200 out of their G;m1cn.

MARCH, 1950 The HarmonJ~e,

Lead: Terrific bass runs and five The Quartet Selects a New Song cents will get you a cup of coffee if the price of coffee A play, in one act, by Stirling Wilson, doesn't go up. Washington, D. C. Chapter. Scene: Bari: Well, we gotta agree on some­ an office. Time: 1950. Cast: The thing. What ahout "Dream mentbe)'s of "most any quartet. River" ? Lead: No, that's too populal'. Every­ Lead: Now, boys, we gotta learn a Look, hays, wc'l'e not getting body's singing "Dream Rive}'''. new song. What we need is II anywhore. We need a new Teno?' : Not the way we sing it. number that is a rhythm song for the show and we Lead: That's the trouble. See what song, with a comic twist and only have three months to I mean? with a lot of sweet harmony, learn it. What about learn­ 1 gottn go, boys. :My wife is and a spot for a couple of ing the "Goofus Song" again? waiting for me in the 'Villard chime chords. 8u)'i: No, my wife doesn't like that. Lobby. BU1'i: What you want is a combina­ She says every time we sing it Lead: I thought we ~vere going to tion of HOh, Joe", "My Moth­ at my house the baby wakes practice for an hOUT. er's Rosary" and "Who Threw up and starts to cry, 8ass: I have to pay my gas bill be-' the Overalls in Mrs. MUl'phy'i' Dead: Well, after all, we can't learn fore the office closes. Chowder", songs just to put your baby Let's be thinking about a new to sleep. You can get another Teno)': That ought to be easy. Now. number till we meet again baby easier than this quartet and settle on something and Jean Boardman says .. ~ can leaI'll a new song. stick to it till we learn it. Bass: r heard one just like that yes­ I got it. I heard that guy on BU)'i: And after that we'll re-write terday on the Moon Calf Houl'. the Soapsuds Houl' sing it the the United Nations Charterl rt went "Boom, boom. boom. other day. It's a pip, 1 forget and find Ol,.lt what happened to boom-a, boom~a, boom", with the name of it, but the tenor Charlie Ross and Judge the bass singing ... sings the melody and the other Crater. Lead: You're thinking of "Darkness three hum an obbligato. Lead: You guys are sure hard to get on the Levee" where the l>arj~ Buss: That's no good, you just along with. tone. , , haven't got a solo voice. BaSil: You're only saying that be­ Tenor: No, no, I know what he Te1W1': What's wrong with my voice? cause you mean it. means-the Four Pallbearers Bari: So youlve been wondering, too. Te-1W1': I got an idea. Let's sing "Dear sang it at the parade in No~ eh? Well, there's nothing Old Gil'!" and "Coney Island :-;rnoking, Wisconsin in 1938. wrong with it for calling pets Baby". They're always good. that understand falsetto, like Some title like "When Grand­ Bari: Sure. What're we beating OUI' ma Dunks Her Crumpet in the "Kitty, kitty, here, kitty". But brains out for. Those two wilJ for singing, frankly, no. Old Ear Trumpet". do it. Tenor: O.I( You suggest something. Bass :Whnt a state, that Wiscon­ All; sin. A parade a day. Bass: What about "Asleep in the Can anybody give me a lift Deep?" That has a terrific downtown? My car's in the Bwri: What's wrong with Michigan? shop. Out in Michigan they .. , bass run. r~ead: Wait a minute. We're picking Hear the MID-STATES CLEF DWELLERS ANTLERS out a song. not a lesson in geography. SONGMASTERS ... VARSITY FOUR TelLoI': What's that song the Four Goons sang at the Feather AT THEIR BEST!! Merchants' Convention in Dogear City? Jt went "da-de­ da-de-dum." There is a high baritone to accent the dis­ The 1949·50 sonance, and the tenor alter­ Medal Winners nates with the lead on a B in the Annual natural, while the bass hums "Boo-Boo-Boo-Boo-Boo" and International Contest lead ... Leo.d: How can he hum and say • HBoo-Boo Boo" at the same 3-record album time, Te1t01': That's his lookout. I'm just. • telling you. I didn't sing the Finest, high fidelity song. Lead: No, we gottn get something records new and funny. Bctri: What's the mattel' with • "Moonlight and Roses"? Processed on That's a honey for harmony. Lead: I said something new, vinylile Russ: It'll be new the way we sing it. Even the author wonlt • know it. Absolute minimum Tenor: That song was new when of surface noise Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown. Bm'i: So what. The new gene1'ation doesn't remember those songs you old guys sang. Tenor: Whaddye mean old guys. I heard you humming "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hail'" Make check payable to and mail to just yesterday. Columbus heard the Indians sing that 5 p E B 5 Q 5 A., Inc. one. 20619 Fonkell Avenue Detroit 23, Michigan MARCH, 1950 62 Tb, HannDnit:.I'

the old Missip river to visit the Schick No. 478692 singing lead; No. 378654 Hospital in Clinton, Iowa, and among singing tenor, etc., etc.... Down in a d.ozen or more jobs of entertaining Tuscola the boys did their good WES GUNTZ at local affairs they entertained the deeds at the Methodist Church, Odd 'Society's Greatest Listener" patients at Dixon State Hospital ... Fellows Lodge and a quartet called Caf~-Chic.go !\It Vernon reports that the chorus the Feudin' Four showed up at the Ship', made two and their one quartet made local PTA. Ought to be a gag there seven public appearances. Nice and but we can't find it ... Winnetka short. That's what we like ... Park roused the neighborhood by sparking j I j Ridge successfully piloted the Nor­ the local Community Drive and from wood Chapter to a successful charter there carried their good deeds to U. S. night and gets credit from the Ex­ Naval Hospital. Along about the end pita!. Besides which the boys gave out tension Committee, while Norwood of the year they gave a uHoliday at church and civic functions, Veter· • itself was like June. It busted out all Sing" that their Secretary described an's Hospital, Old People's Home and over with visits around town and by saying that "the chords 'swiped' for shut-ins ... What a gang, what succeeded in making a name for it­ the Christmas tree, 'lit' the candles a gang. But that's IlJinois for you. self, but quick, in Norwood. When and started the bells 'ringing'/' ... Quarterly activities reports were also it comes to Oak Park we aTe always And over in "\Voodstocll:, a compara­ received from the Jerseyville, 'Vheat· stumped. They list 42 appearances tively new chapter, gave a show on·Glen Ellen, Washburn and Havana and to write about them all would that netted $2000.00 for the local hos- Chapters. take more space than is allotted to the entire hlklings. Next time it will be even worse as they just inducted two fully organized quartets into the The Complete Story of SPEBSQSA chapter-the Four Tonics and the Four Sharp Flats. The latter is a Itost ludd high school quartet. lmagine a High $2.50 School quartet when the most of us can't even make the "grade" . . . The boys from Palos started out on some children at Hallowe'en, worked * up to a PTA meeting and the'Jl gave a Turkey Jamboree on Thanksgiving. 143 Which makes it apropos to say that sandwiched in between were visits EASY from Q-Suburban and Park Ridge READING Chapters ... Peoria's Secretary sure PAGES spoke the truth when he said "Peoria has been spreading a lot of harmony this past quarter". Whereupon he lists a page and a half (single space) of events and appearances. Modest, as always, he \'"inds up with "This is * about all I have to report" . . . PROFUSELY Pioneer's "Know your member con­ ILLUSTRATED test" \vas won by Carl Listug and with Cartoons· Ray Hesselbarth who tied in knowing Pictures of 75 members by name. Paging Jim Farley! J The boys from Pioneer were Quartets. etc. honored to be asked back for the third time to entertain the Kelvin Park Mason's Past Masters Night, and also felt puffed that a squad from Pioneer won out over some Sweet Adelines * 011 a radio quiz program. Big night AjrtrYfJu·lIIrrtld 1/, of the semester was a clambake you·it JUiOW fiJi thrown in honor of The Mid-States. All JIetropolitan Chicago Chapters, about SPEBSQSA including 14 quartets, went. all out to honor the Champions ... Here's about all one can do with the re­ port from Q-Suburban. Activities for benefit of the Community-14 * listings. Activities for benefit of A book you'll be SPEIlSQSA - 12 listings. Activ­ ities for benefit of Chapter-two )leW proud to show quartets organized; Chapter Magazine your family and initiated; Ladies Night; Christmas friends who" .. party j Annual Parade. For your want to know scribe-2 boxes aspirin ... In Hock what barber­ Island they settled for a Legion visit in Davenport and a visit by the Sinis· shop is ..... sippians Quartet to the Schick Vets Hospital. When you say that "Sin. issippians" and "Schick" all in one breath you get accused of doing things * that barbershoppers are not supposed Beautifully to do . . . Southtown (Chicago) waded through their Christmas carol· Prinud a'ld ing this year instead of by sled, but Boltud rain or no rain the boys did a swell job and everywhere they went were invited back. Southtown also inducted an organized quartet into the chapter l\1ake Check Payable to and mail to but failed to give us their name. Am SPEBSQSA, 20619 F'enkell Ave., Detroit 23, Michigan quite certain it won't turn out to be - MARCH, 1950 63

The Two "-Villes"-"Louis" and "Evans" Put On Spectacular Shows

Scene from Act Two of the Louisville show. Phoenix Hill was a popular summer garden outside Louisville many years ago. Time-Fourth of July. Act One, in 9 setting just as elaborate, presented a typical Kentucky Barn Dance.

EVll.nsville's Minstrel-Ade was a three-performance stand. All the taleol came from within the chapter, except the Int'l Champ Mid-States. no mean accomplishment.

1-edia.ea- 'i<::C4et«C~'f to raise money for the polio fund in Brothers, have made more than 40 the near future. Versailles, Kentucky engagements since· winning the Dis­ By Carl A. Jones Chapter chorus sang three times from trict crown Oct. 15. Nine of these Indianapolis Chapter chol'us presented the back of a truck for various shut­ appearances have been for church or a program of Christmas Carols on ins in the community. Lexington, Ken­ civic affairs. Louisville Chapter on the steps of Monument Circle on Dec. tucky donated $100 to the Lexington Feb. 17 will stage two benefit shows 19. The Kendalkords quartet were Civic Music Committee which buys for the Louisville Fund which main­ musical instruments for under-privi. tains such groups as the Philharmonic extremely busy during the past quar­ leged children. Edwardsport, Ind. Orchestra, the Arts Club, etc. The ter singing for shut-ins and various boasts a new quartet in the Four quartets to appear on this parade in­ charitable organizations in and around Blenders who have come along fast. clude the Mid-States Four and Chi­ Kendallville. The Lafayette Chapter The meeting place of the Broad Rip­ cagoans of Chicago, the Clef-Dwell­ did most of its work in preparing for ple Chapter burned to the ground and ers of Detroit, the Cardinals of Madi­ and staging the Indiana-Kentucky dis­ the chapter is now in the midst of son, the Minor Chords of Terre Haute trict quartet contest. On Oct. 27, trying to find a new one. Undoubtedly and the Kentucky Troubadours of the Marion Chapter, assisted by Wa­ some quartet unleashed a few "hot Louisville. Connorsville chorus and bash and Kokomo Chapters, presented chords" that kindled the blaze. Mish­ quartets made seven appearances for a benefit show for the Community awaka, Ind., a city of 33,000 now charity during the past quarter. boasts a chapter membership of 301 Chest. The net proceeds amounted to Goshen, Ind. is attempting to form a including the mayor and entire city chapter chorus. Quarterly reports also $325. The Muncie Chapter chorus and official family. The membership drive were received from Michigan City, quartets staged a show to raise money is still on even though Mishawaka SulJivan, I{okomo, Huntington, Frank­ to aid in the building of a new Chris­ is now the Society's largest chapter. fort. Franklin. Brazil, Ind. and Frank· tian Church in nearby Sulphur Its ace quartet, the Chamberlain fort, Ky. Springs, Ind. Tone Poets of South Bend are one of the society's leading foursomes when it comes to donating MARION HELPS their efforts towards charity. During CHEST the past quarter they appeared on With an auist from eig>ht shows for charity. South Bend Wabash and Kokomo, Marion. Ind. raised Chapter now has reached the halfway $325 for the Com­ mark in its drive to collect $2200 for munity Chest by stag· ing a show to which an Iron Lung for the South Bend all Chest workers community. The Elkhart and Misha­ were admitted free. waka Chapters plan a benefit show MARCH,1950 The Harmonizer

"refined"), been applied. Says the RISS RHYTHMAIRES OF Memphis Press-Scimitar, "These in­ KANSAS CITY, MO. ter-city events such as will take place in Memphis, in which visiting quartets vie with the best the host community has to offer, are bringing improvement in this form of singing to the point of subtlety. We think this form of sing­ ing should be encouraged. , ." • • • THANKS FOR THE KIND WORDS San Gabriel, Cal. Sun minced no wOl'ds in its editorial comment on the Parade held there in October .. , u, .• Over­ whelming success of the Barbershop NOT SUCH A SURPRISE •.• Quartet Parade-again points up the In a column headed, "Surprise," "Bal'. potential of the Mission Playhouse. bershoPl>ers (Top Ones) Sing Just Like The Parade played to a full house both Anybody Else," the Alton (Ill,) Tele­ nights, and is indicative of what can graph reporter P, S. Cousley told of be done with our Playhouse ... To his first experience at a Society Quar­ their everlasting credit, the Barber­ tet Parade, Wrote Cousley in part, shoppers are amateurs in a limited ", .. with all that has been said about sense of the word, and consistently whiskey tenors, and bar-room bari­ outshine the professional productions tones, bal'bershop singing comes right that are presented here." down to the same principles (and may­ • • • be the boys won't like this) that hold Burlington. Vt. News gave exc-ellent for opera, concert, or choral singing coverage to a meeting of the St, Al­ Was it a birdie or did Hedy Lamarr in the more formal fields ... (They) hans Chapter, . , u. , . Males tend to walk by on the left? No birdie evt-r demonstrated these bas~!i for singing: brought out four smiles like these, L. to gather in packs of four and then, R .• standing-James Kaut, lead; Joe good breath control, close attention to arms ... over ... shoulders, mouths Fehrt-Dbach. bass; seated-Ray (Curloy) phrasing, avoidance of oversinging, a-gape and glassy eyed, bray loueUy Ryan, tenor; Cecil Manewal, bad, excellent pitch, harmony that sounds in an art form known as quartet sing­ like harmony (whether they read from ing. ' .. The SPEBSQSA is the most notes or do it by ear), suiting of at­ elaborate scheme for getting a night ALWAYS tacks, releases, and dynamics to the out that man has invented since he material at hand and the effect discovered the nobility of the Moose look in the Chapter Reference Manuol sought/' No su1'pnse the1'e jor '1nC1n­ and the Elk, and then honored those FIRST beTS who've paid any attention to beasts by building wench-proof re­ Society Contest Cl7ld Judging IIIfand­ treats in their name." al·ds. Eds. • • • • • • San Diego, Coil. Union has analyzed MORE AND BETTER. barbershop repertoires as demonstl'at­ Unquestionably, the Society is getting Wi,e" ill cllicayo ed in the Far Western District Con­ better, biggel', mOl'C accurate ne'Ws­ • test. Says the Union, "FavOl'ite sub­ pape'" coverage. Cli1)pings 1'cceived visit jects of barbershop poets are romantic trom 'many hund?'eds of cities and • love, moonlight, summer, roses, hon­ towns in. 1)?'ae-tically e'very state and ti,e eysuckle, and girls named Lindy Lou, Canadian provilwe p·.,-ove this. Wide­ • Most popular part of the country is spl'ead use of "Keep A'ne'rican Sin-g­ the South.. in demand are the Mis­ SI,ore SIssippi and the Swanee. Carolina got ing" as a source of 'inj01"mation jo" • news stories is euide1l(;ed by the 1'e­ the most attention. . No one sang LIlII.e IJeated (f,ppewrancc of entil'e sections • about the New England States Or way lifted {rom the 1>ages of that excellent back home in Kansas." book. This is a p'ractice 'much to be • cocktail • • • desired and is highly ?·ccomm.endee! by In l'eviewing the fifth annual Buffalo the Harmonizer staff as well a.s the lounge Chapter show, the Courier-Express lnt'l. Public Relations C01mnittee. • described barbel'shopping about ail Eels. It is unfortunate that space well as it has been done ... "Take limitations prevent quoting from the four men in accord, give them a melo­ huge batches of clippings l'eceived dy, some close harmonyI and a few from the Society's clipping service. creative 'swipes' and you have music Some standout articles must at least of the people, by the people, and for be mentioned. , . Muncie, Ind. Evening the people." Press made capital in a half page • • • spread of bal'bel'shoppers' occupations Commenting on the formation of a lo­ . , . "... (they) also straighten forks cal chapter of SPEBSQSA, the Antigo, and sell birdseed ..." St. Petersburg, Wis. Journal said, "... Organization Fla. Times printed an excellent fea­ of an Antigo Chapter is evidence that ture, by Lillian B1ackstolle, titled. the urge to assemble for the produc­ IlThey1re Nuts About Singing," (thi~ tion of harmony cannot be suppressed one in two colors). Kitehener-Water­ even by unlimited privileges of listen­ 100 (Ont.) Record and The Free Press...... g{cy~.Y,I,I ing to music. The urge never died, nor of London (Ont.) crashed through its expression, or there would have with profusely illustrated news stories been nothing to 'presel've'." of quartet shows. Nearly a full page. ~tooeU,t~ (again in two colors), in the Marion, • •• Ind, Chronicle·Tribune, hailed the lo­ _proprietor_ ··SUBTLE"-NEW WORD FOR IT cal chapter's Community Fund Bene­ Many words have been used to de­ fit Show. The Hudson. Mich. Post­ 7048 South Shore Drive scribe barbershop quartet singing, Gazette used a 3 inch head on page BUTTERFIELD 9340 some sacred, some profane. Seldom I, (that's usually reserved fol' a has the word "subtle", (defined by "Pearl Harbor" or an atomic bomb), Opposite Soulb Shore Comllry Cluh Webster as meaning "rare", "dplicate", to announce the local Society show. The Harmollizer

WHAT COPYRIGHTS DO "SLUGII! - "JUG"? • "PLUG"! WHAT COPYRIGHTS DON'T DO Lakewood, Ohio Chap­ In December '49 issue appeared a :re­ ter circulated metal print of an article by Barlowe Hoyt. discs as reminders of their show. Slot ma­ of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, in chine operators alcrte(l which Hoyt sharply took to task vari­ police. Chapter officers ous ((phonies" who have lifted old songs stayed out of the "jug" and got a "plug" and republished them in their own in the Cleveland Plain names, claiming copyright. Hoyt men­ Dealer with this pic­ tioned for example a gentleman named ture of Jack Welb, third (rom left, flanked Bradley Kinkaid who, as uThe Ken­ by •.. L. to R.­ tucky Mountain Boy", published a George Evanson, Prell. Glenn Branch, and book of mountain ballads in 193'7. $ee'y. Howard Han· Among the numbers of which he sen. "coming clean." claimed authorship and copyright ,vas "Whispering Hope". Hoyt correctly pointed out that this song was \\'Tit­ of possibility. I gather that he has in ten by Septimus Winner, (using the mind that a copyright should be is­ cepb; portrayed in words, symbols, pseudonym Alice Hawthorne). and sued in the same manner as a patent diagrams. and pictures, much less ex­ was published and copyrighted in 1868. for an invention. However, the prin­ . amine them and certify that they are just 82 years ago. (Deac Ma'rtin., of ciples of science and mechanics are all original." Clevelancl, has a copy. Eds.) Hoyt capable of exact classification and "By now you are asking, lWhat the listed a dozen other songs Kinkaid are, relatively speaking, few in Dum­ hell good then is all this copyright claimed as his own with the correct bel'. Hence it is possible, after e.,,­ husiness?' It is just this. lf you ob­ authorship and date of publication. tensive research by experts, to say tain a copyright on a song or other Mr. Hoyt, properly incensed, wondered that some new invention or principle item, it is stamped and filed as of a why the U. S. Copyright Office not is patentable, ie., it is not in the pub­ certain date with identifying numbers only allowed these "artists" to get lic domain and does not infringe on and symbols in the Library of Con­ away with it but stamped it with the any patent previously issued." gress. That's all. If 1 come along the approval of copyright as well. "However, when we get into the realm next year and steal your work and lnt'l V.P. Jean Boardman, Washing­ of copyrights it is utterly impossible apply for copyright, it will be re­ ton, D. C., read the Hoyt article with to ~rnploy any f,uch techniques as are ceived, stamped, and filed just the interest and wJ'ote the Harmonizer a employed in the Patent Office. The same way. Then when you catch me three-page letter explaining the U. S. copyright law covers anything that is publishing YOUI' work which 1 have Copyright Office function. Says Jean capable of being printed: books, maga­ stolen and put my name to, you can in part. "His (Hoyt's) point, as I read zines. newspapers, advertisements, sue me for violating your copyright. it, is that the copyright laws ought 'Sears Roebuck catalogs, pictures, car­ You prQduce your original copyright­ to be strengthened so as to preclude toons, photographs, jokes, handbills, ed copy with the date of filing, etc., the possibility of anybody's copyTight­ poems, speeches, etc., etc., etc. No blas­ and my late]' copyright stamp won't ing a song which he has appropl'iated phemy 15 meant when I say that only do me a bit of good. That's all the out of the public domain. This would God Almighty could classify all these copyright law can do, 01' pretends be fine but it is llot within the realm millions upon millions of thought con­ to do." &fa p~ ~NUUiJ'if&un BARBER SHOP BALLADS 175 {c71~&t $c/J- _.1.' .- OZZIE WESTLEY ~ 4-or 13arberSlt-op .F $<' ,/ ~. SUCH NUMBERS AS • Mexicali Rose • Marcheta • You Tell Me Your Dreo.ms and 172 others GREATEST VALUE EVER OFFERED! ~t4k. PREPAID '8iMf. a:t o-Wt. . . . 7/(~8~~! M.M. COLE PUBLISHING CO., 823 S.WABASfi AVE., CHICAGO 5, ILL.

MARCH,1950 --­ ~- 66 The HaNnoniZIr PASADENA CHAPTER 9-. '1f)~ Sult4M..e presents By Dick Schenck THffin ANNUAL With the passing of Archie Clapp, baritone of the "oldest known all brothers quartet" The Clapp Bros., a chapter in Barbershop Annals has been closed. This brothers quartet HARMONY has been singing for over 50 years and this last spring made a tour of the Mother Lode of California and FESTIVAL sang in places they entertained in as boys. Al Clapp, pres. of Santa Rosa ...... ------"".. is a mem ber of this quartet. Phoenix, Ariz. had five quartets in Dist. con­ PASADENA test, quartets and chorus busy enter­ taining in hospitals during Christ­ CIVIC mas season. Hollywood made three AUDITORIUM inter-chapter visitations and have two BARBARY COASTERS JAILED chapters in process of organization. Not for serious, or they wouldn't feel so (;lll------~Q·· Salt Lake City forming Quartet Pro­ gay. L. to R.-A! Boatwright, tenor; Ed .. Davis, lead lmd Pres. San Francisco motion Comm. and developing more Chapter: Stan Vooe, bari; Jack Morris, quartets, secretary includes music les­ bass. S. F. Chapter will issue written Saturday, March 11 guarantee to all visitors to lot'\ Boflrd son in bulletin which explains the Mid-Winter Meeting in 1951 that Alea· mechanics of reading music. Chandler, traz will be closed for the duratioll. Ariz. quartets very active in com­ munity affairs. Colton, Calif. having pooled their efforts and put on a bene­ charter night Feb. 11, getting lots fit show for a little girl suffering WEST'S 10 BEST of publicity in the area. La Canada from a lung disease. 52,700.00 was QUARTETS has new meeting place donated to raised through the show and contribu­ them by local resident. Long Beach tions to send her to New York for quartets have appeared on 11 pro­ treatment. Orinda organizing chapters 60 MAN CHORUS grams at hospitals and six shows for in Martinez and Oakland. The Bay under direction or charity drives and a total of 34 ap­ Area is going strong. Santa Monica PAUL McFATRIDGE pearances at other civic affairs. Have held Christmas party and everyone a new quartet "The Four Family brought gifts to be given to under­ Flats" and a new bulletin uThe Re­ privileged children. Tri-City (Bell, Art Baker - M. C. Chorcler". Newhall sponsored Com­ Maywood, Huntington Park) still the munity Xmas program in their city. visiting chapter, has an enviable rec­ Tickets Sl.20· Sl.80 - S2".40 Sacramento very active publicizing the ord in inter-chapter relations. Bakers­ Society, had float in Armistice day field sponsol'ed a new chapter in Parade, had SPEBSQSA day at State Delano, Calif. Orinda, Calif. sang on Fair and to mention all their good show for Crippled Children benefit. work would take all my space. San San Jose endeavoring to establish Bernardino had Float in Pioneer Days chapter at Fort Ord, chapter made Parade, one quartet made several ap­ a caroling tour through all hospitals pearances at hospitals, made two vis­ -about ten stops. Glendale, Calif. very itations and gave party for two other active in inter-chapter visitations. chapters. They promise to be one of San Gabriel staged Xmas show for SAN DIEGO CHAPTER the Far West's best chapters. San community and entertained at old Diego held Dist. Contest which en­ folks homes, Four Shortys and Off SPEBSQSA riched Dist. treasury with $481. Put Key Four, two new quartets. Penin­ on show for Crippled Children benefit, sula (San Carlos) chorus and quartets will present its and entertained at Naval Hospital. had extra busy holiday season making San Francisco. Berkeley and Orinda all hospitals and community events. Second Annual OLD TIME »ll1l1N11l'll'Rl!.1L TOURNAMENT II lull IE A It. ml E n SlIlI <0 lP OF ROSES QUARTET CO CilU1T Crown City Four, wearing neck mikes. gave the million and at the II half viewen of this ,yellr'. Tournameot of ~ Rose$ Parade a good •• c)o RUSS AUDITORIUM ... idea of what barber­ shop harmony is and on plugged SPEBSQSA and Pasadena Chapter SATURDAY, MAY 6 between songs.

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The chapter chorus and visiting ANOTHER quartets will be featured. FLOAT More Chapters seem to have sung from the + + + top of floats snd hay .....agons than stages in recent months. Here's San Bernardioo, Cal's. For Information Write entry in the "Covered Wagon Days Parade." C. W. FORREST. Chapter President L. to R.-Jerry Kemp, 1854 front Street local Pres. and bass; Lou Neese, bad; John San Diego, California Allsopp. lead; Jess Banta. tenor; scated, See'y Neil Mote.

MARCH,1950 ... ­ The Ham1()11i'{er

g D«t4«te4teJ:.. 'fJ(d(/«et WHAT DO YOU BET They have set up their ticket sales THEY'RE SINGING! and program chairmen for their show By Dr. W. Calvin Jones in February. One-half of the profits from the show will be donated to the Enid, Oklahoma Chapter installed Crippled Children's Home in Okla­ sound equipment and acoustically ren­ homa City. December 12, that Chapter ovated Convention Hall, which has put on a show for the business men since 1927 been usable only for stock in Capitol Hill. This was on a regular sho\vs, circuses, etc., because of its meeting night. There were 65 barber­ poor acoustics. Total money spent on shoppers present, and a packed house project as a result of barbershoppers' listened to the show. November 20, effort-$4,500.00. Pampa instituted the Roswell, New Mexico Chapter a new feature in connection with their held its Charter Presentation pro­ Parade, which they hope to continue Is there a member of SPEBSQSA who gram with a real turn-out by the peo· has not sung "Sweet, Sweet, Roses of each year. That is a contest among Morn?" If there is, he'll be the only ple of Roswell. The Lubbock and high school students for musical abil­ one not interested in the gentleman at Carlsbad Chapters, sponsors, did the ity and the winners are decided upon the right, Oscar Jones, co-composer of the honors and the program was a com­ song. Oscar sings bari with the Polka the night of the Parade. There are Dot Four, Dallas, TeX8s;-frorn the plete success. The Corpus Christi three winners. The Pampa Chapter will left-Clarence H. Giesen, tenor; Joseph Chapter's first Parade of Quartets pay for their tuition and traveling ex· E. Lewis. lead; Lee Myers, bass. and Charter Night were presented on penses to 'Vestern State College of October 8 before an audience of Colorado, located at Gunnison, Colo· j j j around 500 in the Wynn Seale Junior rado for their Music Camp of bvo High School auditorium. Through the weeks, August 6 to August 19, 1950. helpful cooperation of the sponsoring There are three divisions in this con­ the foyer to an outdoor court at the chapter, Houston, the Chapter's first test, one for voice, one for piano, and rear of the hospital proper. It was show was received enthusiastically. the third for any other musical instru­ noticeable that as they passed into The chapter participated in a Christ­ ment. The winner of the third division the darkness of the court, silence was mas show for patients of the U. S. played a flute. Members of the automatic and immediate. Before Naval Hospital at Corpus Christi on SPEBSQSA Chapter Chorus, 'Vichita them, across the court, windows of the December 19. Christmas carols and Falls, 60 strong, reached the Bethania softly illuminated chapel silhouetted barbershop harmonies were presented Hospital, December 9, at the end the kneeling figures of the Sisters to the ambulatory patients in the of their annual caroling tour for all -at prayer. "0 Holy Night" and Hospital auditorium, after which mem­ hospitals at Sheppard Air Force Base "Adeste FidelislJ rose softly from the bers made the rounds of the wards in Wichita Falls. As was done last darkness toward the stars, with a where f;ongs Were presented for the year, they elected to sing first for new note of tenderness. The Okla­ confined patients. The EI Reno Chorus the Sisters of The Holy Family of homa City Chapter installed the Chap­ presented a full program for the Union Nazareth, who operate the hospital. ter at Sulphur during this quarter. City High School, Union City, Okla­ Directed by Father George Strassner, Two bus loads of members went to homa. All revenue went to the high the singers went by a corridor from Sulphur along with three quartets. school for the junior class.

The Houston Chapter SPEBSQSA, Inc. presents HOUSTON'S FIRST

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LIST OF SECRETARIES AND JUDGES Chairman: Harold Bosworth, Okla­ Indiana·Iientucky Elimination, homa City, Okla.; Richard V. Means, Columbus, Ind., Oct. 8 OF THE 14 DISTRICT CONTESTS Bartlesville, Okla.; J. Frank Rice, Herman Struble, Chicago, Ill.-Chair· Illinois Dist.rict, Peoria, Ill., Oct. 8-9 Wichita, Kansas; Secl:etary: Ken man; Col. M. C. Newman, Sturgis, Carl C. Jones, Terre Haute, Ind.­ Way, Centralia, Mo. Mich.; Edw..J. Hackett, Louisville, Chairman; Ted E. Haberkorn, ST., Land O'Lakes District, Ky.; Paul F. Marshall, Decatur, TIl.; Fort Wayne, Ind.; Joseph E. Wodicka, Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., Nov. 5 Secretary: Fred N. Gregory, Brazil, Ind. St. Louis, Mo.; Berney Simner, St. Arvid L. Anderson, Chicago, Ill.­ Louis, Mo.; Secretary: Mathew L. Chairman; T. Alvin Strahle, Geneva, Indiana-Kentucky Elimination, Hannon. Oak Park, Ill. Ill.; R. M. Haeger, Chicago, Ill.; Paul Kokomo, I nd., Oct. 9 Ohio·Southwestern Penna. District, R Marshall, Decatur, Ill.; Secretary: Richard F. Svanoe, Chicago, Ill.­ Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 8 John Z. Means, Manitowoc, Wis. Chairman; Col. M. C. Newman, Stur­ gis, Mich.; M. H. Bolds, West La­ James F. Knipe, Cleveland, Ohio­ Southwestern District, Beaumont, Texas, Nov. 5 fayette, Ind.; W. Carleton Scott, Chairman; Go l' don K. Douglass, Birmingham, Mich.; Secretary: Glen Painesville, Ohio; Charles W. Dickin­ Dean Palmer, Wichita, Kansas Reid, Logansport, Ind. son, Cleveland, Ohio; Edwin S. Smith, Chairman; Harold Bosworth, Okla­ Wayne, Mich.; Secretary: James H. homa City, Okla.; Richard V. Means, Indiana·Kentucky Elimination, Emsley, Canton, Ohio. Bartlesville, Okla.; Geo. C. N aden, Vincennes, Jnd., Oct. 9 Herman Struble, Chicago, Ill.-Chair­ Northeastern District, Oklahoma City, Okla.; Secretary: Edw. G. Fahnestock, Wichita, Kansas. man; Robert T. Ising, Louisville, Ky.; Waterbury, Conn., Oct. 8. Paul F. Marshall, Decatur, Ill.; Edw. Maurice E. Reagan, Pittsburgh, Pa.­ Pacific Northwest District, J. Hackett, Louisville, Ky.; Secretary: Chairman; Arthur Merrill, Schenecta­ Kirkland, Wash., Nov. H) Fred N. Gregory, Brazil, Ind. dy, N. Y.; Wm. W. Holcombe, Pater­ Bennett A. Loftsgaard, Klamath Falls, son, N. J.; Leonard J. Linnehan, Cam­ Ore.-Chairmau; Hatch Graham, Los bridge, Mass.; Secretary: Harold B. Angeles, Calif.; J. H. Leabo, Creswell, SPEBSQSA PITCH PIPES Staab, Northampton. Mass. Ore.; Jerry Nyhan, San Francisco, The International office announces the Calif.; Secretary: H. Sanford Saari, availability of the popular Kratt Indiana-Kentucky District. Olympia, Wash. Chromatic HMaster Key" P.itch Pipe, Lafayette, Ind.. Oct. 15 Dixie District, Tampa, Fla.• also an official Society emblem in Col. Mh C. Newman, StUl·gis, Mich.­ Nov. 26 metal suitable for attachment to this Chairman; Ted E. Haberkorn, Sr., Ft. Maurice E. Reagan, Pittsburgh, Pa.­ lype of Pitch Pipe. The Pipe, with Wayne, Ind.; Paul F. Marshall, De­ Chairman; Berney Simner, St. Louis, emblem attached, is priced at $3.50, or catur, Ill.; R. M. Haeger, Chicago 4, Mo.; W. Carleton Scott, Birmingham, the emblem alone for attachment to Tll.; Secretary: Marion Fast, Nash­ Mich.; J. D. Beeler, Evansville, Ind.; YOUT own Pitch Pipe may be had at ville, Ind. Secretary: James F. Knipe, Cleveland, $1.00 each. Pitch Pipe only, $2.50. Michigan District, Ypsilanti, Mich., Ohio. Make check payable to and mail to Oct. 15 Indiana·Kentucky Elimination, SPEBSQSA, 20619 Fenkell Ave., De­ James F. Knipe, Cleveland, Ohio­ Goshen, Ind., Oct. 9 troit 23, Michigan and shipment will Chairman; Geo. V. Cripps, Cleveland, Edwin S. Smith, Wayne, Mich.-Chair­ be made promptly, postage prepaid. Ohio; Mark P. Roberts, Detroit, Mich.; man; John M. Hill, Lansing, Mich.; Thc availability of the emblem alone Charles W. Dickinson, Cleveland, Matthew J. Wilson, Holland, Mich.; makes it possible for present owners Ohio; Secretary: B. F. Mal'sden, De­ Lester Davis, East Lansing, Mich.; of this type of instrument to l'cally troit, Mich. Secretary: Joe Juday, Grabill, Ind. 'Ishow their colors on Key". Mi

Glover, Jamesto\\Tfl, N. Y. LLOYO S. JONES Central States District, The Bell-Chords present a touching scene in Youngstown, Ohio's Parade as the "cop". (Spitz Renner, bass), and "two of the boys", (Phil Hickey, lead; and Joe Reardon. Wichita, Kansas, Oct. 29 tenor, right). try to get "father", (Frank Conroy, bari) , to come home. Otherwise in Edwin S. Smith, Wayne, Mic.higan, perfect charElcter. Frank'~ forgotten $250 wrist watch gives the act away. -MARCH, 1950 The Harmonizer 69

tevr.ttJ ~ the Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate and help swell the contributions to the tJ.. If Auditorium. The Amherstburg Chap­ Christmas Cheer Pots. Following By R. \V. Deadman ter held its First Annual Scholarship this, a 15 minute program of Christ­ The death of Charles E. B. (Charlie) Award Contest on October 21 in the mas Carols was made fo:- radio station Payne brought great sorrow to the Amherst Auditorium. A capacity audi­ CKSO, and following the broadcast the heal·ts of hundreds of Canadian and ence cheered the decision of Int'l Secy, hard-working chorus members were American Barbershoppers who had Carroll Adams and the rest of the rewarded with a pleasant "After learned to love and respect him. Chal'­ judges when they acclaimed William Glow" and an hour of tape recording. lie worked tirelessly in the interest Nattress, a tenor, the winner of the with each member participating. of our Society and its development One Hundred Dollar Voice Training Scholarship Award. On December 11 in Canada, and a considerable share of .~dvl!r.be'n"'lt Canadian progress can be attributed the Amherstburg Chapter held its to -his ceaseless and enthusiastic ef­ Third Annual Christmas Communit)' forts. Not professing to be a singer, Sing at the Liberty Theatre. Pro­ his greatest pleasure was in creating ceeds by voluntary contributions were hannony wherever he happened to divided among the Amherstburg be. Charlie served as Secretary of the church choirs, and members of the lo­ Ontario District, Founder and Presi­ cal clergy were on hand to offer words dent of the Sarnia Chapter, and of timely import, The Oshawa Chap­ Founder and President of the Cal· ter, although not officially chartered gary Chapter. The fWleral servicfl into the Society can already boast of held in Sarnia was attended by some some wonderful achievements. Three forty members of the Sarnia Chapter of its four organized quartets are chorus who sang two of Charlie's fav­ currently engaged in singing with the orite numbers from the choir loft, 3nd churches and at service club entertain­ when the body arrived for burial in ments. On October 22 Oshawa was London, several of the London Chap· host to the Ontario District Contest, tel' members joined the mourners. and the Contest Committees are de­ serving of the highest compliments THOMAS F. NEEDHAM on the spleJldid fashion in which they 7274 Burnette Avenue • conducted a most successful and in­ Detroit to. Michi,:!an The "Torontones" led by Stan Meech· spiring activity. Oll the sixteenth TYler 5-1351 am, tenored by Hank McGowan, barl· of November the Brantford Chapter N(J"JI Alfailable A) toned by Ted Boyd and de-bassed br held a mixed meeting and the wives l. Community Solie Leader. 2. Master or Ceromonies.. Jeff Pritchard are doing a magnifi· and sweethearts of the Chapter mem­ S. Chorus Clio ic Dire

P~~t ANOTHER BROTHER FOURSOME 7)~e ?Ie- By L. H. Stone Ultimate in hospitality and entertain­ ment of visitors furnished by Brook­ ings, before and after their Charter program. Package of liJy bulbs pre­ sented to each of 150 guests. Boats and fishing tackle provided for all who wanted to try their luck at snar­ ing salmon and some guests did very well. After Charter program, favorite beverages served nearby. Then, * mile distant, an excellent buffet of won­ drous proportions, sans alcohol, at the Grange hall and here singing con­ tinued till the wee hours. Everything free. Chorus and 3 new quartets ac­ tive in civic events. l\H. Rainier quar­ t.ets and chorus spreading the bar­ bershop gospel, entertaining in hos­ pitals and for the Armed Forces. Con­ test for 8 quartets within Chapter judged by panel from neighboring Chapters. Tacoma's Evergreen quar­ tet sang for 4 civic projects. Tacoma and Seattle got new Bremerton Chap­ l'"£RE8EE_KESSLER Tbe House BrotheNl, Klamath Falls, Oregoo-L. to R.-Tom, Bill, Dan, aod Dave. ter off to a good start. Port Angeles are another of the all-brother quartets that may some day have a cootest of their own. chartered a plane so 25 chorus mem­ That would be worth listening to ... the Cow1rni9, Toronto; Chamberlin!, Mishawaka, bers could fly to Seattle Charter pro­ Ind.: Frenches, Lansing, Carpenters, Gary; Lytles, Sharon, P.a.-and bow many others? gram and be back in time for Com­ munity Sing-fest. Calgary members Tulelake, Alturas and Bonanza. Ren­ tet and two fancy ones. Eugene ar­ saddened by sudden death of their be­ dition of Christmas carols well re­ ranging dates in surrounding towns loved Founder and President Charles ceived by populace. Lake Washington for miniature Parades for benefit of Payne. Chapter is carrying on with en­ handled District Contest in a very polio funds. Roseburg expected to thusiasm which Charlie inspired. Their creditable manner. In entertaining Join in this commendable undertak­ Chartel' Night was on Nov. 26. Kla­ visiting quartets, nothing was over­ mg. No activity reports from som", .math Falls quartets sang for civics in looked. Portland has one comedy qual'· active Chapters.

IN ONE FASCINATING VOLUME The complete history of America's popular songs by SIGMUND SPAEIH

A treasure chest of information for everyone interested in the development of popular music in America, packed with wonderful stories about our popular songs, the events that in­ spired them, the people who sang them, and the men who wrote them: Stephen Foster, Victor Herbert, Jerome Kern, George Gersbwin, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Oscar Ham­ merstein, Cole Porter, IrVing Berlin, and all the rest. [n addition, there is the most complete listing of popular music ever assembled in print; a chronological index of songs from 1770 to 1948; an index of songs arranged by titles and Everything you want to know '\., about America's popular mu,#c: also by composers; a comprehensive bibliography. It's a "must" "~ ... Chronological listing of songs hom for everyone wbo wants a completely authoritative, up-to­ [770 to 1948 date, concise history of popular music in America. And it's .... Complete alphabetical index of absorbing, exciting reading. "Easily the best book on this songs and composers engrOSSing subject."-Franklin P. Adnms, N. Y. POST. .... Authoritative bibliography ... Delightful stories and anecdotes A HISTORY OF ... Absorbing infonnation about back­ ground and inspiration POPULAR MUSIC IN AMERICA 729 pages, 55.00 M,ke .lIuks "".1. t. u •••11 It by SIGMUND SPAETH SPEBSQSA. ,••, 21111 F..kell Ave., Dttr.ft Ii. Mith. ... ­MARCH. 1950 The HQNlJOni'{er 71 Cortland Chapter 110. 100 ~_1fIe4te-u< busy, including Mt. Morris sanitarium s. P. E. n. s. Q. S. A.• I"co. songfest ... Painted Post tried "dry" afterglow after Charter nite, no one will present its '7t- ~,,~ g ""9 e'-au was noisy, others said they'd try it By A. M. Learned ... Chorus sang at Corning hospital Fourth Annual and in streets of three towns, with "Neither snow, nor rain, nor sleet special attention to shut-ins ..• Com­ of shall halt," etc.-the letter carriers' PARADE QUARTETS press-aires sang at all local churches ., CENTR"L HIGH SCHOOL motto--seems now adopted by many during holiday season ... Fulton (sec­ barbershoppers. At least 14 ch~pt~rs retary said) "got diapers off at Char­ Cortland, N. Y. spread Christmas cheer smgmg ter Night after 2% years of groping saturday Eveninc :: May 20 It &.:00 PM around Salvation Army kettles in about ... If everyone would get this snow and rain. And OJean, in three singing bug like I've got it, they'd trips, drove through three raging forget all about atomic warfare". Feattlrillg snowstorms. They bus-ed 90 miles Chapter now has four quartets, Has THE GARDEN STATE QUARTET to Bath Vets hospital, 30 IJ'liles t.o Beens, Anonymous Four, Manor Men 1946 Int.mallona! Champions county home, five to nearby sam­ and Fultones ... Little Falls gave Jersey City, N. J. tarium. Chapter also voted $300 an· piano to YMCA, helped at community nual musical scholarship for local Halloween and Yule parties ... West­ THE FOUR CHORDERS high school senior ... New chapters field had joint meeting with James­ Ch,mpions of Can,d. formed included Salamanca, co-spon­ town at Lakewood. Its first baby sored by Gowanda and Olean; Pain~­ quartet, Con·Chords, started aiding lo­ AND ed Post received charter from AddI­ cal affairs ... New Hammondsport 8-0THER-8 son; Sidney from 'Valton-Downsville; Dad-Lads quartet aided hospital bene­ Clifton Springs and Auburn both fit show, Champagne Four did several CENTRAL WESTERN from co~sponsors Geneva and Newark; benefits ... Hornell joined Steuben QUARTETS-INCLUDING Fulton fl'om Rochester-Genesee and county chorus in benefit for Corning DISTRICT CHAMPIONS Hammondsport from Bath ... lnfant hospital ... Quarterly activities re­ Past and Present West Senet::a joined Kenmore, Tona­ ports also received from Niagara wanda, Niagara Falls and Lockport Falls and Endicott. PLUS THE for inter-chapter sessions. E~st ~u­ Cortland Barbershop Chorus rora joined with host SpflngvlUe, Gowanda and Hamburg in similar Big "OHM LUTHER. Director Little Four go-round ... Chr~stll:las kettle or village Yule tree smgIng AFTERGLOW choruses included Auburn, Hamburg, "KEEP AMERICA SINGING" American Legion Hall Dunkirk-Fredonia, Geneva, Gowanda, Has all the answers about SPEBSQSA Lockport, Bradford, Pa., Newar.k, Parade Tickets • $1.20 Painted Post, Penn Yan, Randolph and (See pClge 62) WestfieJd .. .Gowanda set up $100 Afterglow Tickets • S1.OO tor high school male senior showing most voice improvement, gave $50 to library, $30 to [ndian school fund; $15 to Community Chest ... Ken­ more Leftovers, Synchromanincs and Humdingers brightened numerous THE JAMESTOWN CHAPTER charity affairs; chorus sang at h~s­ pital, old folks home, and for crIp­ pled children and orphanage. At lat­ presents its ter two, gave candy to kiddies, do· t!f\') Dated funds to underprivileged and , crippled children's drives ... Bing­ FOURTH ANNUAL hamton Chapter chorus, 3 quartets, gave concert at state hospital :rule party ditto at county TB hospital, donat~d $50 each to Central High band Quartet Parade and Chest ... Clifton Spa's chorus Bang at Sanitarium's Christmas tree Saturday, April 22, 1950 8:15 p.m. party' new Offnotes and Cliftonians fours~mes formed, aided nearby at). H. S. AUDITORIUM towns . . . Auburn's street corner carols in the rain for Salvation Army ketUes were tape recorded; members dashed home; heard selves over local Featuring* radio station later that night . . . Chapter lost its first secretary, char~ ANTLERS BUZZ SAWS ter member, Phil Lower, by death ... Seneca Falls' new Legion-aires quar­ NOTE CRACKERS • BUFFALO RILLS tet aided Chest drive ... Geneva sang 1949 Distri<:t Champs 194.8 Distri<:l Champs at county home at New Year's . . . DEANS of HARMONY. CLARK ANGLES Lockport chorus, Melochords, Stew­ ards of Harmony, and pickup quartet Other District and Local Quartets plus sang for county sa!1itariuJ!l' m~de other charity appearances, Including JAMESTOWN'S OWN 50 MAN CHORUS LO.O.F. home patients, Batavia vets hospital i now has 3 new quartets being formed. Sidney sang carols at TICKETS RESERVATIONS local hospital and recreation center ... Bradford, Pa., woodshed quartet caroled through hospital wards, F.'0ur Parade Afterglow E:. J. MUZZY Bills and Penn Grade Four 8lded $2.10 & $1.50 142 Prospect. many civic causes ... Newark chorus $1.50 JameatOWll, N. Y. of 30 gave program for Wayne county home at Yuletide ... 'Varsaw con­ For Hotel Reservations write HOTEL JAMESTOWN tinued quartet marathon, saw new quartet, 'IO_At_Kins". formed. kept

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eelt~a( Statu DENVER'S FOUR STATES FOUR By Ken Way Hats off to Laramie, \Vyoming ... one of the most isolated chapters in our Society, it is carrying on the ambitions of our Society in a manner that many larger chapters could well f01l0\v. On December 12, twent~. mem­ bers without outside help or talent, put on a two hour show that thrilled an audience of 1500 ... we're proud of you Laramie. When the Community Chest drive bogged down short of its goal, the Denver, Colorado, Chapter gave it new life with )JUblic ap­ pearances of its quartets advertising the driyc-and topped it off with a Parade. The proceeds were donated to the chest. Congrats to the Mountain­ aires, Denver's newest quartet which already has made several charitable appearances. The chorus sang for the Federal Correctional rnstitution the home for the blind-and several' hos­ pitals. Longmont, Colorado, proudly presented Boulder with its charter on Nov. 12 and has exchanged chorus and quartet visits with Denver. Ster­ No one state could possibly hold ~~ suits even if the OIXupants kept sfl~~~t::n;:E:l. ling, Colorado, chorus sang Christmas the name. Here they are shown Singing fo~ downtown ~nver, pluleing: the Chapter carols in various churches. Colorado Parade of Quartets. half the proceeds of which went to the ~nver Community Chest. L. to R.-Harry !-By, ~a"; George Hellbom, bari; Ralph Tate lead; Ed Pearce. tenor' Springs, Colorado, chorus and quar­ Date Morgan, (With mike). of KFEL. ' , tets sang around Salvation Army Ket­ tles during the holidays ... The Cine 4 and the Pikes Peakers have been of Keep America Singing in the Mem­ souri, chorus has made several appear· orial Library. DeR Moines, "Iowa ances at Hospitals and at civic and busy singing for civic and charitable Saving~ affairs. Lexington, Kearney and Grand helped to spark the Bond church functions. l{ansas City, Mo. Island, Nebraska, had a grand inter­ Celebration. Also appearing in minor sponsored an Inter-chapter night with chapter conclave at I{earney. The roles 011 the same program were the members from Independence, Kansas cartoonists of such strips as "Steve City, Kansas, and Topeka attending Lexington chorus sang for the Old Com~ Peoples Home. Omaha, Nebraska, Canyon", HDebbie", "The Gumps" $500.00 was contributed to the "Kerry Drake", "Jack Armstrong': Quartets n~ade a total of 35 appear­ munity Chest. 50 members and all ances dUrIng the quarter. Wichita. and uScarlet O'Neil". Rube Goldberg organized quartets journeyed to Wind­ Kansas, were grand hosts to our Dis­ acted as M.C. 4500 people attended. ~or to help them raise funds for a trict Contest and Convention. The The chorus and quartets put on an worthy cause. Joe Stern's song HKan_ chapter made visits to Kiowa, Salina hour program at the Vets Hospital sas City My Home Town" was pre· and Hutchinson, Kansas and to Enid and later the same evening appeared sented to the city council by a chorus and Cherokee, Oklahoma Chapters. at The Home for the Aged. Burling­ of 75 and is being seriously consid· Kansas City, Kansas, chorus made 5 ton, lowa, quartets are being kept ered f01' official adoption for their 1950 appearances-their quartets donated busy at civic, church and charitable Centennial celebration. 40 members their services for worthwhile causes. events. .Mexico, Mober!)' and Jefferson equipped with sound truck made the Dodge City, Kansas, chorus sang City, Missouri, Chapters had an inter­ ;'kick-off" of the city's courtesy cam­ carols at two hospitals and the con­ chapter meeting at Columbia, Mo. to paign. Jefferson City, Missouri, chorus valescent home. Rice County (Lyons) stimulate interest in starting' a chap. appeared at St. Mary's Hospital and Kansa5-

MAKH,1950 The Hunnonizer 7J

MORE flYING CORNHUSKER CHAPTER BARBER­ CESSNA SHOPPERS The Cessnaircs, L_ (0 LINCOLN R.-Virgil Chambers. lenor, WichiUl; Wil. E B R ASK A lard Hamilton. lead. Wichita; Glenn Epper­ Second Annual ley, bari, Stillwater. Okla.: Tom Graham, bass. Kiowa, Kans.. have been singing to­ gether since 1943. The PARADE "thing" in the back· ground is a Cf,s$na ;'195" in which thOi' March 25, ) 950 quartet has made a number of trips to UNIVERSITY OF_ NEnRASKA Parades. ",tc.. when time or other condi. COLISEUM tions made it impos· ~ible (0 Iln'ive other­ wise. THE KENTUCKY* TROUBADORS

Central States (Continued) THE KEYNOTERS new chapter in Fulton, Missouri. * Three new quartets have been organ­ By Ed Place ized in the St. Louis, Missouri, Chap­ THE GAY NINETIES* QUARTET ter this quarter. The officers of the Allentown-Bethlehem will miss Comdr. chapter set a fine example by forming WHiiam Ruhe, V.S.N'r organizer, THE FOUR* TONES a quartet of their own called the only President and first chorus direc­ "Chordinators"-mighty smooth too. Jim Brown and Joe Wodicka have tor of Chapter, who was transferred THE KEYMASTERS* been conducting a Quartet school for to San Francisco to take command of )'oung men, the result to-date, the a troop transport. He departed Dec. 26 THE CORNHUSKER CHAPTER ll * "Synchronaires and OlHardway 4"­ with a gift from the Chapter. V. P, CHORUS more in the making. Clayton, l\fifi. Donald Fehr moved up. Holiday sea­ souri, sponsored an Inter-chapter Re­ son highlighted by visit to Hamburg ---ALL SEATS RESERVED--­ lations night with members from St. State Tuberculosis Sanitorium by $2040 - $ 1.80 - $ 1.20 Louis, Centralia, Moberly, Mexico, chorus, Keystone Four, Globetrotters, Head~uarter$ Missouri, Belleville and Granite City, Parade and Afterglow Franklin Clippers and Queen City LINCOLN HOTEL IlIinois, in attendance. Members from Four, In other holiday events, Allen­ St, Louis and Clayton joined forces Tickets and Information ill visiting Koch Hospital. Reports tones and Tunetimers also participated . . , Alexandria bal'bershoppers opened LLOYD LEDjiRER, Seer. were also recEived from Union and c/o Gas Company, Box 73 Centralia, Missouri, Fort Dodge, Iowa. Community Chest Drive, also aided Lincoln, Nebraska and Manhattan, Kansas. (Omti>llud /In 1U!l:t pflg(1)

hear the foremost quartets. and the country's outstanding chorus

Parade of Champions'-'April ] Des Moines. Iowa K R N T Radio Theatre

Tickets-Ivan Sedrel Hotel Reservations 4315 Ingersoll Ave. Scotty Anderson Des Moines, Iowa Hotel Fort Des Moines 74 The HarmQtJiZtr

Mid Atlantic, (Continued) FAKING THE "FAKERS" Christmas Seal Sale, Civic and Fra. ternal Groups, Little Theatre and ~oys' Club. : . Baltimore No.1 sing­ 109 for soldIers at Camp Holabird, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Ft. Meade and Edgewood Chemical Center. Chorus won gold cup in city's first annual Mardi-Gras Parade. Four Hits on TV Show, "I Believe in America" ... Bridgeton, N. J., sponsored new chapter at Woodbury. N. J, and at­ tended Penns Grove Ladies' Night. Uncertain Four in debut. Harmonv Four and Hi-Lo Four busy ... Bronx, Look" like a quartet really pouring it on, doe!lI1't it? But look at the picture alongside. N. Y. \velcomed Throggs Neck, Oct. NeedinJ a picture to illustrate tbe excellent artide about SPEBSQSA in Shreveport 7, pl'o~uced 7th annual Variety Sho\'\ (La.) Magazine, Doug Pert'Y. Chief Photograpber of the Shreveport Journal, took AI at Wmter Garden Nov. 26, visited Panzera'~ beaut~ful shot of Shreveport Sports' playen: airing their views to the umpire, dubbed 10 Shenff J. Howell Flournoy and Leon GTosjean, first president Shreveport Manhattan Chapter Dec. 6. Harmonv Chapter. Pap Dean also gets an assist for artwork. Flatfoots (N. Y. C. Police) sang at several veterans' hospitals ... Easton, Pa. Chorus won 2nd prize in Wil· mond State) represented by Wildela last year is bouncing back in fine son Boro Civic Association Parade' 4 in 7 public appearances ... 'Vilming­ shape. They have practically an en­ appeared with Chordblenders at ton (No.1) presented old-time min­ tirely new chorus and one new un­ Easton Hospital Auxiliaries Fair; strel Jan. 20 ... 'Vashington, D. C. named quartet. The chapter has two made two broadcasts over WEST. host to International Board's mid­ out of town benefit dates pending-. Chapter Charter Night staged on winter meeting Jan. 20·22. Presented The Harpoon Harmonizers (New Bed­ Nov. 19 ... Harrisburg, Pa., host for 120·man chorus and 13 chapter quar· ford, Mass. Chapter) have done just Mid-Atlantic States District Contest tets in home-talent I'Harmony Gala" about everything in the book, with Oct. 16. Chorus sang Christmas carols that packed Constitution Hall as usual regard to activities plus some that at Keystone. Polyclinic and Harris­ ... Woodbury, N. J. preparing for aren't. A new quartet, the Gems of burg Hospitals and Dauphin County Charter Night March 24 ... Wood­ Harmony has organized. The ground­ Home ... Jersey City, N. J.'s Garden Ridge, N. J. issued its first monthly work has been laid for an annual per­ State Quartet in series of appearances Chapter bulletin in December. Am­ formance which will feature quartets including Grand 'Mere, Quebec, but bassadors of Harmony active . . . of boys of high school age, the pro­ forced to make first Parade cancel­ York, Pa. sponsored its 6th Chapter ceeds of which, it is proposed to put lation in four years at Westfield due at Lancaster, Dec. 9. Fourth annual in a scholarship fund. Another activ­ to illness of Jack Briody; 1-2-3 Four Christmas Pilgrimage to tile York ity that is working well is planned and Blasting Four also active . . . County Heme held Dec. 15. quartet visits from chapters out of Lancaster, Pa. chorus organized un­ town on meeting night. Figuring that der direction of Charles Kinport. ?t-duuu- 'Di4t-ua they didn't have a good enough col­ Corkers Quartet on radio and TV to lection of "mugs" on their member­ publicize Charter Night Dec. 9 .•. By R. H. f'ReC" Rogers ship, the Harpooners sponsored a Lebanon, Pa.'s Men About Tone and The new Gloves City Chapter (Johns. shaving mug contest and now have Pitchblenders on radio shows. Chorus town-Gloversville, N. Y.) is starting around sixty mugs of all ages, de­ entertained at Moose Home and sev­ out with a bang. They have a good scriptions, and shapes in a special mug eral Christmas programs. , . Pater­ chorus already plus two quartets, "The cabinet on display in their meeting son, N. J. chorus and 6 quartets in Chord Combers" and the "Woods­ room. The New Britain, Conn. Chap­ programs at eleven hospitals and in­ men". Since October 10th, there have ter did a wonderful money raising and stitutions, also in a round of Christ­ been very few nights that the chorus donating job. [n one show they raised mas parties, featured by civic songfest and quartets have not been active in one thousand dollars and donated $500 on City Han steps ... Thousands of community service. The Hartford, to the Children's Home and $500 fo the Society members, saddened by death Conn. Chapter made two bus trips. The IC8nlim18d 8n IUXI page) of George Small, baritone of Pater· first trip was to Northampton, l\1ass. son's veteran Withered Four. George to pay their respects to the late Hal WOWI was Under·Sheriff of Passaic Count)' Staab and the second trip was to at­ ... Philadelphia chorus performed for tend the organization meeting at New Coatesville Veterans Hospital and London, Conn. During the Christmas Presbyterian Home for Aged. Chap­ season the Manchester, N. H. Chapter ter had booth at World Hobby Ex­ chorus and quartets sang for the Hills­ position. Chapter host to 80 service­ boro County Home, the Mercy home men and women at Bellevue Stratford for Girls and the Mt. Carmel Home Hotel, and guests of the Army later for Aged. This is a first class example at Fort Dix . . . Plainfield, N. J. of making the less fortunate happy formation meeting sponsored by with our singing. In line with the Westfield Chapter, on Oct. 5 and Society's Army Collaboration Pro. Charter Night program and After­ gram and at the invitation of the Spe­ glow Jan. 13 ... Reading, Pa. chorus cial Service. Officers, 17 members of and quartets sang at St. Joseph's the Marlborough, Mass. Chapter and Hospital for patients and later for three quartets went to Ft. Devens. Nurses Alumni Association ... Ridge­ Mass. and put on a show for the En­ wood, N. J. in benefit testimonial listed Men's Service Club, in an initial dinner to Tommy Henrich. Un­ move to establish interest in our type called For filled 9 dates and Com· of music at that post. This chapter modores 4 ... Roanoke, Va.'s 3 organ· made two other trips. One trip to ized quartets, the Dokkies, Hal' City Worcester, Mass. for an or$'anization Four and Lucky Four, have made meeting and the other, an mterchap­ 14 public appearances ... '''inston. ter visit to Reading, Mass. The Silver Salem, N. C. Chapter sponsored open· City Chapter at Meriden, Conn., spon­ ing night Dec. 10 ... Teaneck, N. J. sored a joint meeting with the Water­ Provid~nae (R.I.) Sunday Journal set membership drive goal at. 75. Little bury Chapter during November. The Providence, Rhode Island really must Shavers and Harmonists active . . . Silvertones Quartet has been very have heard that one. The boys giving Throggs Neck (Bronx) N. Y. sang busy at benefits. The Middleburgh, are the Capitol Chords-Bill Amold. Joe Lopez, Bill Cummings, and Al Christmas carols length and breadth N. Y. Chapter which was having Maino, all officers of tbe Providence of Silver Beach ... Wilmington (Dia. tough sledding the earlier part of Cbapt~r. MARCH, 1950 T_h_,_H_a_rm_on_iz.'-'_' ~ 7)

Northeastern (Continuea) funds for free fluorine dental treat­ this last quarter due to the preoc­ ments for all Quincy grade school cupation of the entire chapter \vith PoUgh Orphanage. The New Baven, students. The Reading. Mass. Chapter the district contest held November Conn. Chapter helped the Community has made four chapter visitations. 5th.. From what we learn of Chest Drive with a local radio pro­ Their necktie committee has collected the efficient and hospitable way in gram. They also entertained the per­ and distributed to Veterans Hospitals which this was conducted. we say sonnel and patients of the Yale psy­ 1600 ties. Their quartets "The Ear no apologies need be made. Also chiatric Clinic. The Northampton, Benders", "The Bum Chords", and announced by the chapter is an an­ l\-'Iass. Chapter, has done a wonderful "The Aberjona Moaners" have made nual $100.00 scholarship fund to job of community service. This is the many appearances. The Chapter at nnance college level vocal training fifth year in succession that they Salem, Mass. made a chapter visitation for some high school senior each year. have raised one thousand dollars or to Reading, Mass. and are preparing Proceeds of the Fall parade will float more for the Infantile Paralysis Fund. a Minstrel Show for visits to six this project. If the "Mounties" don't They have also donated to the Red nearby towns for charity organizations. get their men in Manitoba, the 'Vin­ Cross, Reart Fund, Cancer Fund, The Schenectady, N. Y. Chapter spon~ nipeg boys will! You never saw such Community Chest, and many other sored the Gloves City Chapter and a bunch for expansion as these Can. worthy causes the sum of $200. The helped them on their Charler Night. adians are. Winnipeg's closely typed Portland, Me. Chapter did an unusual They also visited the Saratoga Vet­ single space, jam-packed QR-ly rep't job. They sponsored the Presque Isle erans Hospital. One new quartet, mentions NINE other communities Chapter. Because of the distance the "The Dutchmen" has been organized. in which they-"have already organ­ two chapters are apart (approx. the Quarterly reports were received from ized, or are about to organize, or hear same distance as from Portland, Me. Conway, Mass., Enfield, Conn., Leom­ that the prospects are good" for or­ to New York City) the Portland inster, Mass., Presque Isle, Me., ganizing chapters. Their letterhead Chapter made a wire recording of Springfield, Mass.. and Terryville. should read: liS. p. E. b. s. q. s. A_" some chorus numbers. quartet num­ Conn. West Bend·Barton, Wis., submits a bers and greetings. Their Secretary l-sentence report this last quarter. took the recording to the new chap­ .L~ which would be discouraging if we ter. This project went over very well ,4-.( O'.Ldu hadn't seen copies of their excellent and now both chapters are planning to By Bill Ohde, Jr. bi-weekly "Bend 0 Grams" and there­ use this way of getting together Strongly doubt that you hundreds of fore know that the chapter is any­ in the future. The Providence, R. 1. thousands of loyal and avid readers thing but inactive. Waupaca, Wis. Chapter put on a show for the Rhode have ever noticed that this Log is combined caroling with pleasurable [sland State Hospital for mental dis­ compiled in careful alphabetical or­ business on December 20th when the)' eases. Two quartets from the Quincy, der each quarter. Anyhow, to even visited the Veterans Home at King, Mass. Chapter, "The Beachcombers" the score, this time the last shall 'Vis. to sing and also to explore pos­ and "The Yankee Clippers" have been be first. This means that the mem­ sibility of a chapter of vets there. making weekly appearances at local bers of Wisconsin Rapids Chapter can Virginia, Minn. admits to having lost P.T.A. meetings to further interest stop reading at the end of this a few members, but is now actively in barbershopping and to help them in paragraph if they darn feel like it. engaged in bringing 'em back alive. their forthcoming parade which will Their scribe apologizes for the paucity Happens to all chapters now and then, be held jointly with P.T.A. to raise of quartet and chorus appearances (ColltilllJ4J (Jfl lUX! page)

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Land 0 ' Lakes, Continued SOCIETY'S EMBLEM NOW ALOFT but the good ones survive, and often Saturday, May 20, 1950 are stronger for it. Every knock is a Racine, Wisconsin Chapler No. I boost, as they say in the Ethyl gas business. The Sparta, Wis.• chorus ap­ S.P,E.B,S.Q.S.A .. Tnc. parently worked up such a head of Fifth Annual steam singing Christmas carols this year that they ran out of places to HARMONY JUBILEE sing them indoors (hospitals, old peo­ ples bomes. etc.), ended up singing featuring on the streets of Sparta as well. Come TIll:: CLEF DWELLERS to think of it, just about every chap­ ter repol't we read this last quarter TIrE ATOMIC BUMS mentions caroling as one of the major December activities. Come to think -JQUATENNfALS further of it-who can handle carols and many of-hers better than the Society? On No­ Bill Giffin. presideot nf Charleston, lJI.• Chapler gelS around quite a bit in his vember 15th a Community Chest Jam­ Globe S..... ift crui$er. He 5llyS, "Nearly For Informatiol:l Write boree was spearheaded by the Sault every lime I land, a bunch of barber­ ED. PFEIFFER, Show Chairman Marie~ 5hoppers springs up, ready lind ..... illing Ste. Mich., Chapter, who there­ to sing," Rt. 3 Box 488. Racine. Wisoonsin by netted 8125 for the fund, $0.00 for the chapter. Those figures bat· No globaloney was the international anee, men, don't ever forget it. Prov. relationship fostered in Oshkosh meeting nights are often eml))oyed ing ground lor the argument that (Winnebagoland), Wis. by the visit in Marinette, Wis.• for chorus 3)}pear­ barbershopping has it all over straight to that city this fall of Secretary ances at hospitals, asylums, and so on, glee club stuff may be our new chap· Bob Ryder of the Honolulu Chapter. which evidently pays ofT both in at· tel' at Rochester, Minn. Their chorus A get-together with a few Appleton, tendance (high) and good will (bounte­ is largely comprised, we g-ather, of Wis. fellows was arranged by Osh­ ous). As their sec'y remarks, the kosh members in Bob's honor, and expressions on the faces of the old, the reactivated Rochester Male Chor· the suffering, the lame, the halt and us, and their public appearances since some good ideas were traded about. Some quote worthwhile plugs un­ the blind preclude the necessity of applying for a charter have featured verbal thanks. Manitowoc, Wis., notes the songs with which they were al· quote were plugged for SPEBSQSA on a recent television sho\v by the the return as director of Milt Detjen, ready familiar. What joy will (if director of the Minneapolis chorus, who was with the chapter when it you'll pardon the expression) bust and he must have put his point across;, was founded, lost to it for a couple loose when these fine singers get. 'cause the chorus was again televised of years because his work (he plays their teeth int.o some real chords shortly thereafter at a show they and the py-amla, too) took hjm elsewhere. -and learn what the right kind of the chapter quartets did for the Min· 'S a pleasure to read so many sen· swij}es will do for a dull phrase! neapolis Veterans Hospital. Regular (Continued on Itext pago) FOR ITS SIXTH ANNUAL... PRESENTATION APPLETON, WISCONSIN AS HOST CHAPTER INVITES YOU TO ATTEND THE LAND O'LAKES DISTRICT REGIONAL PRELIMINARIES HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM MAY 6th 1950 at 8:00 P.M. TICKETS $1.50-.. (Including Tax) A WEEKEND OF HARMONY MAY 5 - 6 - 7 INCLUDING DISTRICT MEETING. CONTEST. AFTERGLOW. SUNDAY BREAKFAST For Reservations and Tickets write A. H. "AU' FALK, 219 W. Commercial Street, Appleton, Wisconsin

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ALL WOOL AND A YARD WIDE FROM WORCESTER

PRINTERS OF THE HARMONIZER • Programs Broadsides General Advertising ...... Commercial Printing . . . Publications . . . Telegram-Gazette Officers of the Worcester. Mass. Chapter-L. to R.-Melker Thryden, treas.; Berti! A. G. Lundberg, secretary; Kenneth S. Sundholm, president; Dr. Carlton T. Smith, House Organs . . . Catalogs vice president. ------Land OJ Lakes, (Continued) C. Adams won't have to (if you'll • quar~ pardon the expression) strip a\vay too tences in the Madison, Wis., much of what we've endeavored to We are specialists in the print­ terly tally that start out "The en­ condense thus far. tire chapter journeyed to ..." and ing of tracing papers and cloths. then follow with a summary of some besides our standard commer­ inter~chapter doings. If that doesn't cial, advertising, catalog and bespeak a praiseworthy attitude, then Answers to Barbershop Bafllers this writer is a doddering old crow. (See Page 12) publication work. (Comment on this last is NOT in­ 1. White. vited.) Hopeful that gas rationing will 2. Yellel'. never come back, thirteen Kawbaw­ 3. Silv'ry. gam (Marquette County), Mich. Chap­ 4. Red. • ter members were on hand to give an 5. Green. Your Inquiry is Invited assist at the organizational llie€ting 6. Brown. THE MARTIN PRINTING CO. of COPller Country Chapter in Han­ 7. Gray. cock, Mich. The trip involved a mere 8. Indigo. 640 Callton Bldg. Cleveland 15, Ohio 200 miles. Does your chorus have a 9. Blue, Gold. JAMES F. KNIPE, President regular attendance check, and does 10. Amber, Purple. anyone do anything about absentees? Iron Mountain, Mich. employs one man in each section to call everyone else in that section a day before each meeting. Works well, Try it. Nuff said. NOW READY!!! Green Bay, Wis., you may be kind enough to remember from our last ··TI,e .'Illsic YOIl lVflllt"' Log, recently put on an all-out mem­ bership drive, and we promised to Here they are ... just what you've been looking for ... report the results: the secretary's file (if you'll pardon the expression) Hill drawers now contain twenty new 10 fresh new nll11lbers by George names, and a number of other pros­ packed with the kind of chords that will curl your hair. pects are attending meetings, will be sandbagged at a later date, no doubt. Arrangements are by Frank Thorne, Walter Ingram, Any of you chapters want to com­ Dick Svanoe and Bob Haeger and everyone is sol id pete with that record? Though a contest for the best lighted and decor­ barbershop from the first note to the last. ated home at Christmas time may seem a far cry from barbel'shopping, the Eau Claire, Wis., boys organized LOOK AT THESE TITLES!! this one in December, and consequent­ ly must be thought of as among those No.1 Hello to Ev'ryone No.7 When There's No One Around "dear hearts and gentle people" by No.2 Cotton Balin' Time in Dixielond but the Moon their fellow townsmen, who have No.3 I'm Going Back to Maryland No.8 What's Become of the Good urged them to repeat the idea next Old Days? year. When did they get in the sing­ No.4 Dream Girl No.5 Gone No.9 In the Heart of the Blue ing? Why, 'twas on a tour of the Ridge Mountains city to present the awards to the No.6 Dreaming and Dreams of winners_ ]n sub-zero weather, too! Yesterday No. 10 Down in the Old Barbershop. Beaver (if you'll pardon the eA1nes* sion) Dam, 'Vis., continues the fine Nrc record of charity appearances on the These pri1/ted in octavo form, priced at .20c per copy. part of their chorus and sundry quar­ Try all eleven (10 folders) for $2.00 post/Mid, 011 a tets, also gave $100 to the folio fund this year. Additional chapter activities SATISFACTION OR MONEY BACK BASIS reports were received from St. Paul, Minn., Copper Countr)' and Escanaba, Mich., and Sheboygan, Seymour­ • Black Creek, La Crosse, Kenosha, Fond du Lac, Dale and Berlin, Wis. OAUMONT MUSIC PUBLISHERS, Ltd. Space being limited, we still have to I'The .J1.1usic You H1ant-by Gaum.ont" stick to those rules, you know, about 111 West Washington Slreet Chicago 2, Illinois what we can rehash for you here, and what we have to leave out. Just hope MARCH,1950 ------1....-"",-----,--..... 78 The Harmoniz.." COLUMBUS CHAPTER the direction of Connie Piero, and its s. P. E. 8. S. Q. S. A., Inc. own Nonchalants and Vikingaires in presents its By James H. Emsley singing to a capacit)r crowd. North A kron's new chorus director is Enzo Olmsted initiated and sponsored a FIFTH ANNUAL "Jim" Carano. Berea's show featured community sing around the commun­ a facsimile of a barbershop in the ity Xmas tree where high school stu­ style of the Gay Nineties. Canton's dents sang carols in their foreign chorus under black light, effectively tongues. The Chord Climbers is its PARADE presented a concert for the benefit first foursome. Painesville now has ~ MEMORIAL HALL of the Cancer Fund. Carrollton aided 3 quartets, The :Maple Blenders, The in staging a minstrel for the benefit Elm City 4 and The Fo'Mentors. of crippled children. Charleston, 'V. Parma's visitors and visitations have Apr;;'~ M~ Va., manned the Salvation Army ket~ put new life in the chapter. Pitts­ ;', 950 2~ i tles during a hour downpour. burgh, Penna. aided the Old News­ Cleveland instituted a chapter quar­ boys Fund and the Children's Hos­ tet contest and entertained 4 \'isiting pital and its Westinghouse 4 sparked chapters. Columbus' chorus aided the the Community Fund drive. Port Charity Newsies Fund by caroling Clinton's foursome is aptly named 1ANTLERS • :;:,:,i°ivNCHRONIZERS from a truck platform at the city's Harbor Lights, and they have gener~ ollsly contributed their talents for the . MINOR CHORDS • SONG MASTERS busiest corners. Conneaut caroled for the shut-ins, the needy children and Polio Fund. Sandusky chorus and ClOSEAIRE$ • FOUR (HQRDERS at the local hospital. Dayton has quartets aided the March of Dimes BUZZ SAWS sponsored a high~school barbershop and the Polio Fund, as did its new­ I ~ BUCKEYE SONG BUSTERS Quartet contest, and its High Timers, comers, The Chordinators. Shenango plus Home Towners, Six Footers and Ram­ Valle)' (Sharon, Penna.) benefited the other outstanding quartets end blin' Rogues have been plugging the Kiwanis Youth Welfare Fund to the Society in I

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For Reservations Write Warren Selinsky, Secretary 1208 Ellwood Ave., S. W. CANTON 10, OIDO With three Chapter quart~t~, chorus, and a female four, Canton has made a number of appearances U1 commumtles near Canton for good causes. Director Les Green is in center. Quartets, L. to R.-Kniihts of Note, Song Pe-ddlers, Cantones. MARCH,1950 ------~