Singing of an American Tradition
Nov 22nd, 2008 by ccapodcast
The term “Barbershop Quartet” evokes Norman Rockwell’s famous 1936 painting that captured a barber, his patron and two others holding what must have been a lovely moment of four-part harmony. This enduring bit of Americana is as charming as it is incomplete. More problematic is that the image implies a deeply flawed understanding of the origins of barbershop singing.
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The music samples in this podcast were taken from the websites of the following barbershop groups. You will find their CDs and individual tracks for sale at these sites:
Barbershop Strut 
If There Never was an Ireland
You Must have Been A Beautiful Baby
Winter Wonderland
Start of Something
Two Tickets to Georgia
My Buddy
Host and Producer: Bill Troxler
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