The Earliest Negro Vocal Quartets (1894-1928)
In the Good Old Summertime

Vocal » Barbershop Quartet

So named in honor of the age-old custom of men in barbershops forming quartets for impromptu renditions of sentimental songs, Barbershop Quartet has come to define an entire style of unaccompanied group vocal, typified by the foursome's performances of popular songs in highly conventionalized close harmony.

Barbershop Quartet Album Highlights

The Earliest Negro Vocal Quartets (1894-1928)
Various Artists
The Earliest Negro Vocal ...
In the Good Old Summertime
American Quartet / Those ...
In the Good Old Summertime
The Hits of '22: Do It Again!
Various Artists
The Hits of '22: Do It ...

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Barbershop Quartet Song Highlights

Title/Composer Performer Stream
Pussy Cat Rag
For Me and My Gal
E. Ray Goetz / Edgar Leslie / George W. Meyer
The Chordettes
Shine on Harvest Moon
Nora Bayes / Jack Norworth
The Chordettes
Never on Sunday
Manos Hadjidakis / Billy Towne
The Chordettes
When You Wore a Tulip and I Wore a Big Red Rose
Jack Mahoney / Percy Wenrich
American Quartet
I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate
Armand Piron
Virginians
I've Been Here Before
Ernie Haase / Wayne Haun / Joel Lindsey
Ernie Haase & Signature Sound
My Mammy
Walter Donaldson / Sam M. Lewis / Joe Young
Peerless Quartet
My Lord's Writing All the Time
Let the Rest of the World Go By
Ernest R. Ball / Karen Brennan
Yesteryear

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