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The Buffalo Bills were a barbershop quartet formed in Buffalo, New York in 1947. [ 1] The quartet won the 1950 International Championship and is best known for appearing in the 1957 Broadway production The Music Man and its 1962 film version. The quartet was in existence for 20 years, until their last performance in New York City in 1967.
A barbershop quartet is a group of four singers who sing music in the barbershop style, characterized by four-part harmony without instrumental accompaniment, or a cappella. The four voices are: the lead, the vocal part which typically carries the melody; a bass, the part which provides the bass line to the melody; a tenor, the part which ...
The Mid-Atlantic District is one of 17 districts of the Barbershop Harmony Society [1] (formerly known as SPEBSQSA or the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America). The district, with three regional divisions, has approximately 90 chapters in the following states: VA, MD, PA, NJ, DE, DC, WV, NY.
Truefitt & Hill. Coordinates: 51.5058°N 0.1388°W. Logo of Truefitt & Hill. Truefitt & Hill is the oldest barbershop in the world, as certified by Guinness Book of World Records in April 2000. [ 1] Truefitt was established in 1805 by William Francis Truefitt, who styled himself as hairdresser to the British Royal Court and the firm received ...
Barbershop 2: Back in Business is a 2004 American comedy-drama film directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on February 6, 2004. A sequel to 2002's [4] Barbershop and the second film in the Barbershop film series, also from State Street producing team Robert Teitel and George Tillman Jr., Barbershop 2 deals with the impact of gentrification on the reputation and ...
The Dapper Dans are a barbershop quartet that performs at Disneyland in Anaheim, California (since 1959), [ 1] at the Magic Kingdom at the Walt Disney World Resort (since 1971), and at Hong Kong Disneyland in Lantau Island, Hong Kong (from 2005 to 2008). A quartet (from the UK) also performed at Disneyland Paris from the opening in 1992 until ...
The Barbershop franchise consists of American comedy installments including four theatrical movies, and a spin-off TV series.Based on an original story by Mark Brown, the plot centers around the social lives of and the events that employees of a barbershop on social life in a barbershop on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois encounter.
Barbershop vocal harmony, as codified during the barbershop revival era (1930s–present), is a style of a cappella close harmony, or unaccompanied vocal music, characterized by consonant four-part chords for every melody note in a primarily homorhythmic texture. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Each of the four parts has its own role: generally, the lead sings ...