MARK

[bloke]

If there's a recording of your barbershop quartet that you are particularly proud of,
why not post ot here for us?

If it's not championship - in your judgment, we all like "good".

[bloke]

4 different quartets. nowhere near championship quality. The last video is at an actual contest and we came in 2nd to last. It's brutal out there

[bloke]

I'm going to go back and listen to them with something besides my phone, but I think I like the first one the best.

[LeMark]

if you want to hear what an actual amazing quartet sounds like, click below

[bloke]

When we were still in (poor redneck, no air conditioning, no toilet paper, all dust/no-grass, no foolin) high school, one of my other very talented and hard-working friends (yet another one who went straight out of high school into a military band (the band somewhere near Virginia Beach that was called the "Continental Army Band"), and (9th - 12th grades) worked at a dairy dip place after school every day for a dollar an hour to pay for lessons with an Eastman graduate/Remington student...(This friend's dad was a postman - a savant who knew the name and address of every single resident of Memphis Tennessee...c.500K - and his mother worked in the record department at Sears) My friend was probably browsing through the records at Sears waiting for his mother to get off work so he could take her home one day, and found an LP that featured the whatever national/international barber shop quartet winners from probably 10 or 15 years (the live recordings of their final round winning songs). He played that entire LP for me one time, which was my first real exposure to championship level barbershop quartets (though - back then - we heard a few pretty good ones on television from time to time). Another LP that he found probably in the Sears record department was an Urbie Green solo album. On that LP was a rendition of the Gounod "Ave Maria" - very beautiful and gentle - yet in the trombone scream register.

I remember him using some of that ice cream shop money to buy a brand new King 3B F attachment trombone for himself, and later a 6 or 7 years old Pontiac "Executive" automobile. Sadly, one of our band alumni (who got a job driving a truck delivering propane) crashed into the back of another truck in dense fog early one morning and was blown to smithereens (nothing found to bury). My friend bought a wonderful Elkhart Conn 88H from his widow, which my friend used in the Army.

KEEP DOING THIS !!!

[York-aholic]

4 different quartets. nowhere near championship quality. The last video is at an actual contest and we came in 2nd to last. It's brutal out there

I had a horse that had been on the track (standardbred, pulling the sulky behind her). She ran four races: last, last, 2nd to last, and DNF (they quit before finishing). Despite that, she was a damn good horse and a heck of a lot faster than I am.

Point being, I was still impressed with your quartets.

[LeMark]

One of my favorite groups

.they lean toward comedy based songs. Very entertaining!

[bloke]

I like the way they use not-barbershop sonorities, and then they dive into barbershop sonorities.