BARBERSHOP QUARTET SUNTONES

[pwnrdie]

Can sombody please post a video of bye bye blues please? :) please tell me if you do !

[pwnrdie]

what is the first song

[ILoveYourMumAndChips]

Appreciation of this amazing skill is not a matter of opinion, this is brilliant.

[ElsabyAntunes]

Que belíssima coletânea!

[xcolonelxturtle]

What song is at 0:44, 3:28, and 7:50?

[bradypaul]

@xcolonelxturtle 0:44 is The Statue of Liberty.

3:28 is Emaline.

7:50 is Jean.

[Tohruuu]

Where can I get this music?

[SchrodingerHatedCats]

Love that barbershop (and for the ladies, "beautyshop") sound! My aunt sang with the Sweet Adelines for years.

Great version of Danny Boy, but so sorry that it was cut off at the end.

[savageblackboi13]

this is just...beautiful. i dont think anything has made my ears happier.

[Chowda1043]

first song is "Bye Bye Blues"

[rapolass1]

thats is some thing special :)

[meatgristle]

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

[cumsicle1]

i get the chills:P

[VaughnPearson]

@cumsicle1

I thought I were the only 1 :)

[ItsGambitFromBklyn]

Can anyone send me the MP3's...

[washbuda]

My dream would be to sing in a barbershop quartet and wear the goofy clothes. I know in this era of crap like LadyGaga nobody is too keen on listening to real music. My friends hate riding in my car because I play music like this.

[gazzaiam]

were are preston barbershop harmony club ?

[srbinsiti]

I LOVE IT!

[mrfats8acookie]

WOW. :0

[bealtespip123]

Man,I love this. I wish I could travel back in time and experience the world in that time.

[KatsMama07]

I have dixcovered my dad use to sing Barbershop after he had passed away. So, I began to listen to it every now and then. I miss him very much, and listening to this type of music brings me closer to him. I love it :-)

[mmermaidss]

i think harmonizing especially barbershop singing is highly psychedelic and is somehow a precursor to psychedelic music.. just a theory

[BBoyz4life100]

dude they r amazing. i hape us BBoyz r as good as that soon!

[96MattMad]

@BBoyz4life100 BBoys suck dick right now

[g3pho]

Superb!

[deity00799]

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...

[critchley3819]

WOW ,good listening

[fifthoctave]

Wow! What an awesome quartet! Chills everywhere. wooooo

[20bladerunner94]

this rocks!!!

[ChltMusic]

I have no idea who is who around here, but I will tell you from experience with this type of singing. You will NEVER be at a disadvantage singing with ANY group if you can sing Barbershop. The chords created by the harmonies really open the ear. The Suntones really set the bar for everybody else in 1961. If you want to learn, these guys are the masters

[killer73195]

whatis at 2:19

[recquilt]

"The Battle Hymn Of The Republic"

[Ruttie2]

i'm 15, i like barbershop, most people find it outdated and stuff, but i always liked barbershop quartet since i was 6 years old (when i first had my concious) luckely i can sing, according to friends and family though -.-

[bob100077]

hey the quartets are awesome such vocal harmony

[jetson888]

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.

[BarbershopHero]

Suntones are my favorite "old" quartet. They were really innovative and you can still see their mark on the society.

[sgmannes]

Just THANK YOU.

[NahGirrek]

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.

[badman620]

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.

[barenmoose]

Close to 80% of the Suntones arrangements, especially the medleys, were arranged by Walter Latzko now passed. who also arranged for The Buffalo Bills, Chordette's and Bluegrass Student Union. Walter was married to the bari of the Chordettes of " Mr Sandman' fame.

[barenmoose]

This was a published arrangement many years a go. Look up the Intl headquarters in Nashville "Barbershop Society" in a search engine should get you the website. The also have an unpublished library Harmony Foundation. Most singer can learn music via rechording. Sometimes you have to make one speaker loader than the other so their part is more predominate

[NahGirrek]

@barenmoose found it (and bought) in BHS catalogue... tnx for the info

[JeeprzCreepers56]

This is amazing, I always think its amazing how four or more guys can harmonize so well.

[uindyitwas]

I am 23 and I like! These are real voices.

[Merecocross]

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!

[themusicman2k10]

Fantastic blend! What's the name of the CD these recordings are from?

[barenmoose]

Contact Accoustics, you see them on here. They have remastered the rechordings. Todd Wilson Tenor of Accoustics is the son of Harlen Wilson Bari of the Suntones. Accoustics can also be found by thier barbershop chorus The Vocal Majority in Dallas TX

[nicofitz]

"Kids prefer rock and pop and rap over barbershop...it's "too old" and "too square."" I'd have to disagree with this. I've recently set up a quartet doing original accapella material and though we're just starting out, I've heard nothing but enthusiasm and interest for it.

I think with the economic recession, people are looking for something novelty, fun, wholesome and escapist. I see a niche in the music scene for a big barbershop quartet.

[88forlive]

i'm 18jears, and i just love it!

Have startet a onwne quartet to!

But it issent verry popular here in Belgium :p

[HellHawk121]

I'm 14, I agree with you. My friends think it's kind of weird i only like old music from 50s, 60's and 70's, haha music today just isn't like what it used to be.

[SotR59]

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.

[poznolia]

nahh, i was like that my whole life until age 16 now at 18 i'm going back to it.

[chopstickdivas]

@HellHawk121 Ah! I'm the same age, and I feel the same! This kind of music is just great. This is great like The Chordettes~

[blingblingelora]

@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?

[CohenTheWhiteRabbit]

@HellHawk121 Almost with you there, though you have to go a little further back for me, 30's 40's 50's and to an extent the 60's.

[wyattb995]

@HellHawk121 same here man 20's-80's and then punk.

[MUTEGIO36]

@HellHawk121 exactly kid. old barbershop is the best barbershop

[angelsbeatlesfan]

@HellHawk121 Same here.

[Latvietis96]

@HellHawk121 same shit to me

[JeevesReturns]

@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.

[Goggerator]

@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....

[crazyromanian1]

@Goggerator You rebel!!!!! Great story.

[holyurgay8]

@HellHawk121 same here bro good on ya

[ProFishingGuys]

@HellHawk121 haha same

[matrix86]

Actually KTbug62, the new style has nothing to do with the decline in membership. It's not a "wave of success" simply because today's generation is growing up with crap we have out today. Kids prefer rock and pop and rap over barbershop...it's "too old" and "too square." I can honestly say that it was the new style that brought me to barbershop. It was actually Acoustix's "Stars and Stripes Forever" that brought me to barbershop. I do value the old style, though. Just too boring sometimes, lol.

[barenmoose]

You do realize that tenor Todd Wilson of Accoustics is the son of Baritone Harlen Wilson of the Suntones. You also must realize that the spectum of ages singing the style are vast. You will find that newer arrangements attracting younger guys prviding the song is worthy or adaptable to barbershop will still grab the singer and keep them interested Take an old performance of a "square arrangement" and see if you can put a younger perspective to it

[doublealufwaffe]

Man, i want a hair cut

[oliverburke]

I can't help but notice how precise the timing sounds. Seems really on, especially w/o todays fancy recording technology and adjustments.

[grannyweatherwax2007]

I have just been browsing the'Barbershop singing until I came across this one. I am fascnated! This is the epitome of true Barbershop music!

I love this sound.

Thanks Guys.

[grandplans]

that was pretty awesome. I had heard of the suntones but never listened to them. I believe I need to own all of their cd's. LOL!

[Gabbytone]

Gabbytone (1 hour)

The Grand Canyon is only a hole, big deal! Mt. Everast is only a hill, big deal! John Wayne was only a cowboy, Big Deal! Sinatra, Crosby, Nat Cole, Peggy Lee, Lena Horn, were only singers, big deal! Miller, Dorsey, James, Goodman, Armstrong were only, horn blowers, big deal! And yet they are all

ledgends, as are the Suntones. They will allways be Hall Of Fame Barbershoppers who still can teac us something about good barbershopping

[jonch070]

i think music should be looked at as something that should always be new, and changing, cutting edge. but many people confuse this with dismissing the past. instead the past should be used as a reference and encyclopedia in which to combine many different sounds to create one thats new.

thats why you cant dwell how times have changed

[MasterKoga]

guys, it's a barbershop quartet. They're cool and all, but you guys are making a bit big of a deal about it

[Purenicotine]

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.

[Purenicotine]

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.

[barenmoose]

Barberhop quartets have been stereotyped as dressing in stripes but more likely tuxes. I sang for also 30 years in intl ranked quartets and several of them wore western casual and sang songs of many different styles. It is important for a quartet to have a song for every occasion. We were singing table to table as entertainers at an Italian restaurant in KC The bass picked the table and I picked the song "Ramona' Its from the 20's The table's occasion was Ramona's Birthday we got $100 tip

[bovyt]

@Purenicotine im 15 and I LOVE THIS STUFF so musically pure with close harmonys i LOVES IT! :D

[PippenFTS]

@bovyt JOIN A CHORUSS!

[JeremyRodriguez06]

@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.

[Purenicotine]

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. :(

[badman620]

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.

[badman620]

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.

[badman620]

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.

[Purenicotine]

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.

[lardmonk]

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

[vanceperry]

One of the very best quartets ever! Thanks for sharing!

[Ben10r]

The album cover for "Where Is Love" looks strikingly familiar. At 5m 30s, might that be the Society logo?

[littlenightlady]

their voices are priceless

[pwbpub]

wonderfull...just what i was looking for thnx

[phaseblade]

Sigh... quartets nowadays just don't ring chords the same way...  :)

[Spaguy62]

Simply, but well put. The Suntones are the last of the greats in my book. I'll take the Nighthawks from Ontario, The Buffalo Bills, The Confederates, The Clef Dwellers from Detroit, quartets that sang the damn song without the faggy-ness of today. Our artform is completely gone. I don't care how they try to explain to me how it's better. It isn't. It's so far gone, they don't even know how to really ring chords.

[Purenicotine]

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.

[Spaguy62]

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".

[Purenicotine]

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.

[Purenicotine]

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.

[largefella]

Faggy-ness? Can you hold a post for 34 seconds? That's manly bro. I love the Suntones AND the likes of Vocal Spectrum. What I don't like is kibbers like you that can't get a F@#$%n' grip! It's all good!

[garrickworboys29]

Thankyou guys...I styled my quartet on you guys  and we worked at Dreamworld Gold Coast Queensland Australia.

we sang to over 7.000.000 people over a 10 year span Look at the Dreamworld 4 barbershop quartet...or garrickworboys29..i hope you enjoy our stuff too...

[ROCKSTARCRANE]

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.....

[galenag65]

SinginSquaw Love the Suntones always have this is great!

[timeshavechanged]

great great wow thank u ifits not to much isthere any live clips aval

[hugleberthumperdink]

does anyone know what the song is at the start? quality barber

[recquilt]

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

[hugleberthumperdink]

cheers

[MrZiva82]

@recquilt

Tnx man

[DLand129]

Finally - some Suntones music! Do you have any full songs to post?