Todd's father use to direct for my mom Sweet Adelines *( Harlen Wilson ) They use to be in West Palm Beach Fla. I was very very young and new all the numbers and all the songs and he wanted me to be in it. When I was about 8 or 9 The Acoustix sang Happy birthday to me... IT was AMAZING... I am now 28 yrs old and still LOVE Barbershop to this day... I would give anything in the world if my mom was here today to sing to me the Irish Lullaby... We will FOREVER miss you WONDERFUL voice...
I saw ALL the GREATS !!!! My Dad sang in the River City Barbershop Chorus out of Mason City Iowa for 40 years !!!! He won the International Newsletter Award when I was still in high school..... Barbershop influences my harmonies I do with my rock band !!! These are the people who made me who I am !!!! Much LOVE !!!!!
Max Q is just so evolved in so many ways, paving the future for barbershop. And its a future where the music isn't dying, like it was in the early 90's. The turn of the millenium and a change in barbershop saved it, and evolved it into something not better, not worse, but different. And amazing. You stick to the past, I'll ride the barbershop wave of success and the future.
I was lucky to see these guys in the St. Paul, Hotel, Minnesota (can't remember the year) having dinner, before they performed. I asked if they would sing Bye Bye Blues. They did! That number has the most wild chord progressions I've ever heard. Wild! Dave in MN.
I believe they paved the way for those groups because they we're well ahead of others in their time. The vocal quality of the singers really is what has changed through the years. Today's competitive barbershopper is in many ways a much better musician from days past. If anything has evolved its the much BETTER quality singers in quartets. Much like those in the older groups that were ahead of their time.
Hey guys....remember me? I engineered a couple albums for you at Criteria Recording Studios back in the late 60's. Chuck. And I thought I had good pitch.....
Gene and Iris coached our chorus Spirit of Harmony in UK 2006 - 2008 and helped us win our first BABS medals. A fantastical pair who brought fun and light into singing wherever they went.
Well HellHawk121 that just shows you have a brain and musical taste. Don't let your "friends" ever sway your heart. I was just like you when I was your age. I liked classical, big band, etc and my friends thought I was a dork. But I never cared.
If you like Barber shop quartets take a look at Les Jaaks... Not sure they have a video on youtube, but take a look at their Myspace, they are juste awesome!
@Purenicotine Barbershop? That ain't been popular since aught six, dagnab it. hehe. I have a great appreciation for this type of music. It was The Music Man that made me start to appreciate barbershop. Of course, I'm 28, so I may not be the "youth" you're referring to.
1 Bye Bye Blues, 2 Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor 3 If You Can't Tell The World She's A Good Little Girl 4 Battle Hymn Of The Republic 5 Emaline 6 Danny Boy 7 As Time Goes By 8 Hospitality 9 Jean 10 May Each Day
@JeevesReturns When I was 14, back in the 40s, my father walked in and found me listening to the Ink Spots....those were the first records I bought with my own money, that and Bing Crosby.....he hated 'modern music' thought anything other than opera was trash....
@HellHawk121 I'm only a few years older than you, and in exactly the same position! But at least I have a few friends who agree with me. How do you survive social events like dances and formals?
I'd like to know the name of the arranger for their version of "Give me your tired, your poor" (@0:41), and/or where I can find/purchase the score. Any clue would be greatly appreciated.
Just to point out something, I am in a college quartet, and as a young barbershopper I feel inclined to chime in. I don't understand why this "evolution" you speak of has killed barbershop. I'm a fan of the greats of the past like the Suntones, Oriole 4, Bluegrass Student Union. I am also a fan of today's quartets like O.C. Times, Max Q, Keepsake, Gas House Gang, Vocal Spectrum. I feel what has happened is because of groups like the ones from the past that I mentioned we have the groups now.
You can cling to the past, and demean the future if you want, but you'll only continue to kill the artform you love, or at least used to love. And in killing the future, you continue to kill the past, as it is directly related. :(
I dont think it is a biological difference but partly recording quality from then and also vocal training was different back then, closer to classical than it is now
Enjoy it and apparently a good smoke, Purenicotine. Why are the mebership numbers dropping so dramatically? Rhetorical question, no need for another response. I don't need another lesson about today's barbershop. A new level is right - it's just not barbershop, so don't call it that. Enjoy the wow factor and your fellow "schlums".
That is in NO way saying that barbershop today is worse. Or even better. Its just changed. The ring has changed, true, but why is that? From what my ear can tell, I intuitively believe that its just biological differences, between this quartet and quartets today. Not superiority, but a differences. It really doesn't sound like any of these guys could post Bb and high C voice posts for 20+ seconds. Of course thats something we can never know for sure, but its an accurate estimation.
Old barbershop, combined with the youth of today's distaste for the refined culture of the past, is the very reason barbershop today is waning. Its not the "style", these days. No one wants to be old men singing with striped shirts and straw hats, all that ideology is rather disgusting. Whereas new barbershop has brought a new energy and charisma to the artform, combined with contemporary barbershop compositions, creating something totally new, interesting, and scientifically fascinating.
Totally disagree. I think the barbershop future wave that started with Acoustix and Keepsake has taken the world by storm, and has made barbershop a lot more relatable to everybody, and has vocally taken it to a new level. This fact is simple: Barbershop is dying. Therefore it has naturally shifted to something with more wow factor, and something more relatable to the average shlum who knows nothing of this great music.
Meh, shouldn't have put it that way. Kind of set myself up there for the "Schlum" part. Lets face it, as for as timbre goes, the appeal for it is gone. People can't generally hear anymore whats so special about the barbershop ring. Brains are deteriorating as far as that goes. In this society we have risen technological monsters, and are interested in rapid growth, and power. This has changed everything in the world, including music.
As far as waning membership goes, you blame it on the "evolution" of barbershop. What you fail to mention is that for many years the arts, which include music, have been forced out of public schools. Oh yea, I can really see how a teenager who barely gets taught any sort of music would be turned off by today's barbershop. Before you peg me as a defender of the new style don't think I don't respect the older barbershop style. My quartet strives to do Irving Berlin charts as much as Sinatra 2.
This old barbershop, to me, just seems static in many ways. It is endlessly fascinating when it comes to tone quality, but that aside, it is old fashioned, slow moving to the point of detrimental musical direction, and just not appealing anymore. I can admit that I would eventually get bored of suntones. There just too much life lacking in too many places.
Todd's father use to direct for my mom Sweet Adelines *( Harlen Wilson ) They use to be in West Palm Beach Fla. I was very very young and new all the numbers and all the songs and he wanted me to be in it.
When I was about 8 or 9 The Acoustix sang Happy birthday to me... IT was AMAZING...
I am now 28 yrs old and still LOVE Barbershop to this day... I would give anything in the world if my mom was here today to sing to me the Irish Lullaby... We will FOREVER miss you WONDERFUL voice...
im glad to see an old quartet can get a little respect on youtube and post up some real view numbers.. This champion quartet deserves it.
I saw ALL the GREATS !!!! My Dad sang in the River City Barbershop Chorus out of Mason City Iowa for 40 years !!!! He won the International Newsletter Award when I was still in high school..... Barbershop influences my harmonies I do with my rock band !!! These are the people who made me who I am !!!! Much LOVE !!!!!
Max Q is just so evolved in so many ways, paving the future for barbershop. And its a future where the music isn't dying, like it was in the early 90's. The turn of the millenium and a change in barbershop saved it, and evolved it into something not better, not worse, but different. And amazing. You stick to the past, I'll ride the barbershop wave of success and the future.
I was lucky to see these guys in the St. Paul, Hotel, Minnesota (can't remember the year) having dinner, before they performed. I asked if they would sing Bye Bye Blues. They did! That number has the most wild chord progressions I've ever heard. Wild! Dave in MN.
Decades ago I wore out my album 'A Touch of Gold' because I listened to it so many times.
This is amazing, I always think its amazing how four or more guys can harmonize so well.
I listen to this all the time . Love it so
Man,I love this. I wish I could travel back in time and experience the world in that time.
One of the very best quartets ever! Thanks for sharing!
I believe they paved the way for those groups because they we're well ahead of others in their time. The vocal quality of the singers really is what has changed through the years. Today's competitive barbershopper is in many ways a much better musician from days past. If anything has evolved its the much BETTER quality singers in quartets. Much like those in the older groups that were ahead of their time.
Suntones are my favorite "old" quartet. They were really innovative and you can still see their mark on the society.
have entertained millions for what 50 yrs such talent and what arrangements thankx guys!
Hey guys....remember me? I engineered a couple albums for you at Criteria Recording Studios back in the late 60's. Chuck. And I thought I had good pitch.....
I can't help but notice how precise the timing sounds. Seems really on, especially w/o todays fancy recording technology and adjustments.
Wow! What an awesome quartet! Chills everywhere. wooooo
Gene and Iris coached our chorus Spirit of Harmony in UK 2006 - 2008 and helped us win our first BABS medals. A fantastical pair who brought fun and light into singing wherever they went.
i'm 18jears, and i just love it!
Have startet a onwne quartet to!
But it issent verry popular here in Belgium :p
wonderfull...just what i was looking for thnx
Well HellHawk121 that just shows you have a brain and musical taste. Don't let your "friends" ever sway your heart. I was just like you when I was your age. I liked classical, big band, etc and my friends thought I was a dork. But I never cared.
If you like Barber shop quartets take a look at Les Jaaks... Not sure they have a video on youtube, but take a look at their Myspace, they are juste awesome!
nahh, i was like that my whole life until age 16 now at 18 i'm going back to it.
@Purenicotine Barbershop? That ain't been popular since aught six, dagnab it.
hehe. I have a great appreciation for this type of music. It was The Music Man that made me start to appreciate barbershop. Of course, I'm 28, so I may not be the "youth" you're referring to.
Just THANK YOU.
1 Bye Bye Blues, 2 Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor 3 If You Can't Tell The World She's A Good Little Girl 4 Battle Hymn Of The Republic 5 Emaline 6 Danny Boy 7 As Time Goes By 8 Hospitality 9 Jean 10 May Each Day
The album cover for "Where Is Love" looks strikingly familiar. At 5m 30s, might that be the Society logo?
at 2:37. yup, that's jackie gleason. brilliant placement for the song that's playing at that point. hardy har herp a derp :D
Que belíssima coletânea!
I beleive that is a Gene Cokeroft arrangment. He was the tenor for the group. PM me for his email. He's my old coach and chorus director.
@JeevesReturns When I was 14, back in the 40s, my father walked in and found me listening to the Ink Spots....those were the first records I bought with my own money, that and Bing Crosby.....he hated 'modern music' thought anything other than opera was trash....
@HellHawk121 I'm only a few years older than you, and in exactly the same position! But at least I have a few friends who agree with me. How do you survive social events like dances and formals?
I'd like to know the name of the arranger for their version of "Give me your tired, your poor" (@0:41), and/or where I can find/purchase the score. Any clue would be greatly appreciated.
Superb!
@barenmoose found it (and bought) in BHS catalogue... tnx for the info
@HellHawk121 When I was 20 (back in the 80's) my father walked in and found me listening to The Ink Spots. THAT was music. Today... just noise.
great great wow thank u ifits not to much isthere any live clips aval
this rocks!!!
Fantastic blend! What's the name of the CD these recordings are from?
@HellHawk121 exactly kid. old barbershop is the best barbershop
Just to point out something, I am in a college quartet, and as a young barbershopper I feel inclined to chime in. I don't understand why this "evolution" you speak of has killed barbershop. I'm a fan of the greats of the past like the Suntones, Oriole 4, Bluegrass Student Union. I am also a fan of today's quartets like O.C. Times, Max Q, Keepsake, Gas House Gang, Vocal Spectrum. I feel what has happened is because of groups like the ones from the past that I mentioned we have the groups now.
WOW ,good listening
@HellHawk121 same here man 20's-80's and then punk.
Finally - some Suntones music! Do you have any full songs to post?
thats is some thing special :)
@bovyt JOIN A CHORUSS!
Somebody please help to find their version of Long Way to Tipperary. Please, I beg you. I'm almost sick of searching.
"The Battle Hymn Of The Republic"
Not that I disagree with you but fuck man I am going to try and bring back that old school bbs. Striped shirts and straw hats till I die.
You can cling to the past, and demean the future if you want, but you'll only continue to kill the artform you love, or at least used to love. And in killing the future, you continue to kill the past, as it is directly related. :(
@JeremyRodriguez06 Good Simpsons quote!
I dont think it is a biological difference but partly recording quality from then and also vocal training was different back then, closer to classical than it is now
@HellHawk121 Same here.
@HellHawk121 same here bro good on ya
Enjoy it and apparently a good smoke, Purenicotine. Why are the mebership numbers dropping so dramatically? Rhetorical question, no need for another response. I don't need another lesson about today's barbershop. A new level is right - it's just not barbershop, so don't call it that. Enjoy the wow factor and your fellow "schlums".
guys, it's a barbershop quartet. They're cool and all, but you guys are making a bit big of a deal about it
That is in NO way saying that barbershop today is worse. Or even better. Its just changed. The ring has changed, true, but why is that? From what my ear can tell, I intuitively believe that its just biological differences, between this quartet and quartets today. Not superiority, but a differences. It really doesn't sound like any of these guys could post Bb and high C voice posts for 20+ seconds. Of course thats something we can never know for sure, but its an accurate estimation.
@HellHawk121 haha same
@recquilt
Tnx man
Old barbershop, combined with the youth of today's distaste for the refined culture of the past, is the very reason barbershop today is waning. Its not the "style", these days. No one wants to be old men singing with striped shirts and straw hats, all that ideology is rather disgusting. Whereas new barbershop has brought a new energy and charisma to the artform, combined with contemporary barbershop compositions, creating something totally new, interesting, and scientifically fascinating.
Totally disagree. I think the barbershop future wave that started with Acoustix and Keepsake has taken the world by storm, and has made barbershop a lot more relatable to everybody, and has vocally taken it to a new level.
This fact is simple: Barbershop is dying. Therefore it has naturally shifted to something with more wow factor, and something more relatable to the average shlum who knows nothing of this great music.
Sigh... quartets nowadays just don't ring chords the same way... :)
Meh, shouldn't have put it that way. Kind of set myself up there for the "Schlum" part.
Lets face it, as for as timbre goes, the appeal for it is gone. People can't generally hear anymore whats so special about the barbershop ring. Brains are deteriorating as far as that goes. In this society we have risen technological monsters, and are interested in rapid growth, and power. This has changed everything in the world, including music.
As far as waning membership goes, you blame it on the "evolution" of barbershop. What you fail to mention is that for many years the arts, which include music, have been forced out of public schools. Oh yea, I can really see how a teenager who barely gets taught any sort of music would be turned off by today's barbershop. Before you peg me as a defender of the new style don't think I don't respect the older barbershop style. My quartet strives to do Irving Berlin charts as much as Sinatra 2.
This old barbershop, to me, just seems static in many ways. It is endlessly fascinating when it comes to tone quality, but that aside, it is old fashioned, slow moving to the point of detrimental musical direction, and just not appealing anymore. I can admit that I would eventually get bored of suntones. There just too much life lacking in too many places.
funny how religion and war are always tied together so closely
no, not really funny....