I love barbershop quartet music. Right now I’m listening to the Barbershop Harmony Society’s Live365 (click link to go listen) internet radio station. There were just playing Power Play singing “Love at Home.” Yes, the very same “Love at Home” in your ancient church hymnal. Done very nicely too, a tasteful barbershop arrangement that you’d most likely appreciate even if you didn’t like barbershop.
Power Play is a unique quartet. They’re a dad, two sons, and a nephew. They competed in the barbershop contest system for years and years, qualifying for internationals many times. They finally won the whole thing and took home the gold in ’03. Good quartet.
Anyway, speaking of this barbershop Live365 station, it’s a great one. A good mix of older stuff and newer stuff, mostly quartets but they play a few choruses too. A lot of old Bluegrass Student Union music too! Very cool. And if someone wants to buy me BSU’s “Legacy,” I surely would appreciate it.
And now we have Michigan Jake, ’01 champions, with their “Bill Bailey” montage! Doing it as ’60’s style to ’80’s rap, then back to Bach. Great song! It’s off their latest CD, “How Rhythm Was Born,” which I’d also love to have. Maybe I need to start a wish list on ITF.
I think I might start doing some barbershop themed posts. I’ve got a story or two I could tell. I wonder if I’m allowed to tell them though!
Speaking of which, here is the last barbershop quartet I was in, Razorburn.
Razorburn forever.
11 Responses
March 31st, 2005 at 3:09 pm
Maybe you could start with a story of how you came up with the name Razorburn. It sounds… well… ouchy! Please tell me you weren’t referring to sensations experienced by your listeners! ;)
April 1st, 2005 at 10:02 am
Tom, I’m not to be fooled!! That picture looks fishy…
April 1st, 2005 at 11:34 am
Fishy or not, Vernon, I don’t know; but I really like their clothes!! That’s beautiful! Very nicely done!
–Naomi
April 1st, 2005 at 12:36 pm
Not sure what you mean Vern, it’s a scanned analog pic, does that quiet your suspicions?
I’ll be posting more pics in the future.
April 1st, 2005 at 3:05 pm
check out the good-looking guy the second from the right. ooh, tom! ;]
April 3rd, 2005 at 8:38 pm
So what you have to have goatee’s to sing barbershop?
Ag
April 3rd, 2005 at 9:53 pm
No you don’t Ag, but you must admit it’s kinda cool huh! That was just coincidence.
April 3rd, 2005 at 10:02 pm
Well at least you all did instead of three having and one not. That would have bothered me like the quartet where three had silver belt buckles and one had gold.
You got sound clips?
Ag
April 8th, 2005 at 4:20 pm
I still don’t know Tom. The website for Razorburn has three blurry people and only one is clearly distinguishable. And that one is you…
April 8th, 2005 at 9:38 pm
Don’t know what you mean Vern. There is no website for Razorburn! There was for a very short time, but it was taken down when we broke up (when I moved).
Man you are a skeptic!
May 25th, 2006 at 6:22 pm
Tom… you are the man! RAZORBURN forever!! How you been? You gonna make the treck down to Indy for International this summer? I’d love to see you… and ring a few chords!
If you want a “fishy” quartet picture, I’ve got the one that Coby photoshopped before we met for the first rehearsal! :)
C-ya’!