Buffalo Bills "Barbershop Champs"

[@stevie2.040]

Genuinely my favorite barbershop quartet. The Bills are unmatched!

[@Elavator66]

same!

[@MayorMcCheeseStalker]

Just a guess, but I think this album was recorded in the Bills' pre-'Music Man' days, while Dick Grapes was still singing baritone with them. He dropped out when the quartet was hired to appear on Broadway in Meredith Willson's smash hit musical "The Music Man" --- because at that time, there was no guarantee the play WOULD be a smash hit (or even mildly successful). What if it had been a flop? Grapes had a family to support and couldn't afford to risk losing his regular job on such a venture. Shea, Reed, and Spangenberger were able to secure temporary (later permanent) leaves of absence from their jobs and, in 1957, enlisted non-Buffaloian Wayne "Scotty" Ward (from Steubenville, Ohio) to replace Grapes as the baritone --- not just for the Broadway show, but permanently.

[@flyboy712]

There's no quartet to equal The Buffalo Bills.

[@toddavis8603]

Nice vocalizing on Over the Rainbow!

[@mala3isity]

I grew up singing along with the Bills on Dad's album "Battle of the Bands: Buffalo Bills vs. The Confederates". Dad said don't bother with the flip side, I never did. LOL I was 10 I think when he heard me doing the slides in "Birth of the Blues", easy, right? He said he could never do them. I was astonished. They're easy Dad.

[@adelamedellin28]

Quite nnn